Writing about our pets

Students wrote about why their pets are awesome.

Photo prompt - boy with head stuck in chair

Students used this photo as a prompt for their writing.

They had to tell the story from the point of view of one of the characters. The had to make up the back story (what happened before the photo), write about what they saw and and felt in the photo, then write about what happened after the photo.

Here is Calla's fantastic work.

Posters about 3-d shapes

Students worked by themselves or with a partner to research a 3-d shape. They had to find out: - how many vertices (corners), edges and faces it had - what the net or nets looked like to make it - what some real life examples were and then they had to make one. These videos are some students talking about their posters from their Seesaw accounts.

 

Mannequin challenge

We had a go at the mannequin challenge. We tried three different versions.

imovie trailers

Students had great fun one afternoon when they had made imovie trailers. They had to choose a theme, then work together to take videos or photos to put into imovie. Students had to make sure that they listened to ideas, shared the tasks and included others. We think they look fantastic.

Snapshot of challenges

Here is a bit of a snapshot of some of the challenges we've done over the last term and a half. Some were easier than others. Lots were fun. Students had to communicate their ideas with others, have an idea and give it a go, trial what they had made, and make modification. Sometimes all groups succeed, other times only some of the groups succeed. But students learnt plenty even when theirs didn't work. 

Build a raft out of straws and string to float 'people' for 20 seconds.

Create a free standing marble run that makes the marble go at least 3 meters from start to finish and hits the bottle. 

Create a stretcher out of newspaper, string and 10 meters of tape. Carry a 'patient' through a obstacle course with one person blindfolded.

Follow the directions on this blog https://www.teachstarter.com/easy-fun-origami-box-kids/ to create a colourful origami box.

Year 5's seed challenge

When the Year 6s went to Tawa Intermediate for a visit the Year 5s all got together in the hall.

They had to work in groups with one person from each class. Their challenge was to use only limited resources and create the slowest way to get a seed to the ground.

Thanks Mrs Gordon for videoing them and thanks Jack and Sean for putting it all together.


Yr 5 Seed challenge from Ginny Gordon on Vimeo.

Last badminton session - videos

For our last badminton session we were allowed to play. Some groups played king of the square, some played real badminton and others enjoying rallying the shuttle.

These videos show how our skills have improved.

Drawings of pirates

In the last week of Term 3 the school had some fun for 'Talk Like A Pirate Day'.

Some students dressed up, the whole school did pirate activities in their house group for an hour and a half and many people enjoyed sausages and loot bags at lunch time.

We used inspiration of others drawings to create our own pirates. They look fantastic. All different and unique.

Tawa Goes To Town Music Festival

After a term and a half of learning the songs, walking to the College most weeks for practice and learning the moves it was finally here. Performance time. We were very excited to be at the Michael Fowler Center. We thought it sounded and looked great from our seats above the stage.

Here is the link to the rushed edited version. See how many times you can find people you know.

 

Badminton

We have loved having our badminton sessions.

	What have you enjoyed about badminton?	What have you got better at?	Why have you been successful?
Mrs Wilson	Seeing people getting better, seeing people’s attitude improve	Serving and backhand	Because I can hit it to a partner 12 times now.
Amalia	When I hit the shuttle, seeing how to do things, having ashlee to help me learn.	Hitting the shuttle.hitting front hand.	Because i have been listening and doing it lots.
Amber	Relays, vs the other teams and learning from the other students (Ashlee)	Controlling the racket so I can hit the shuttle properly	Because I have been controlling the racket well and hitting the shuttles very high.
Angus	Playing king of the square with my friends.	Controlling the shuttle and hitting it over the net.	practising
Apaitu	Playing king of the square with my friends.	Backhands.	practising
Ashlee	Playing king of the court, seeing other people and myself improve.	Not hitting anyone with the shuttles or the racket.	Playing with other people and not waking anyone on the court.
Ava	Playing king of the court, playing with my friends and seeing how good Ashlee is.	Serving, hitting, and king of the court.	Playing king of the court and
Ben	I have enjoyed playing King of the square, doing races and passing to each other.	Passing, serving and all those other moves that are too many to name.	I am successful at controlling my racket even though i usually miss.
Benjamin	Playing king of the square with my friends and More.	Backhand serving smacking the shuttlecock.	Playing king of the square and being king.
Bonnie	that I can learn more of it and play it because it is so good.	versing my friends and having fun with them.	because have been trying my best and now I am really good at it.
Braden	Playing with my friends and learning new things.	Almost everything (serving, uuuu rallies).	Because I’ve playing fairly and nicely.
Calla	Playing shuttle tag, practicing hitting in goal post and bouncing the shuttle on my racket.	Serving, backhand, bouncing the shuttle on my racket (my high score is 20) and everything else.	Because I’ve let other people junior group and listening
Campbell
Celeste	learning how to use the shuttlecock and rackett	bouncing the shuttlecock on the racket	using the racket and bouncing he shuttlecock
Eddie	I like playing King of the square and learning lots of hits like backhand and forehand.	Doing King of the square and all of my hits.	Having fun and beating my friends in King of the square.
Eliot	doing rallies back and forth with Benjamin	i have gotten better at serving	I am successful at serving
Emma	I liked hitting because I can hit it really far.I also liked doing the races one time my group won!	I have got better at hitting the shuttlecock up with my racket my first high score was six but now it is nineteen.	I am successful at hitting the shuttlecock as far as I can because I won!
Hopoate	I like hitting shuttle because I can control it.	i’ve got better at doing little hits and focussing on what i’m doing	balancing the shuttle on the racquet
Hugh	King  of the square	serving	Because i had fun
Jeremy	King of the square and rallying	Focusing on the shuttle	Because I am one of the best in the class
Joshua	free for all and the races	back hand and forward hand	because I can hit the shuttlecock to another person
Jozef	Whacking it to each other, playing king of the square.	Front hand and back hand.	keeping it in the air.
Kiah
Luke	having fun with my friends.	forhand  and backhand	hitting it higher.
Miguel	Hit the shuttle with a partner	I have got better at serving and whacking the shuttle	Serving, Lunging to hit the Shuttle back and forth.
Tayler	I´ve really enjoyed playing king of the square with my friends.	I´ve gotten better at serving and backhand.	Practice and watching other people.
Toby	Playing king of the square.	Hitting the the shuttle exactly where i want it go	serving
Yash	I have enjoyed smashing the shuttlecock	I have got better at hitting the shuttle to someone lots of times	I have been successful because I have been watching and listening to the teacher