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Cultural Lines in the Sand

This term we have been creating different New Zealand cultural icons and symbols using different mediums such as painting, clay sculptures, digital art and sand drawings inspired by the work of Peter Donnelly which you will see in the video below.

Here is a video showing the hard work that went into creating these masterpieces.

Digital Reading Contract Term 3 Week 11

WALT: to understand different cultural practices and traditions. 

 Watch the Festival of Colors video, then research and answer the following questions

 

 Which festival did they get the inspiration for this video from? 

Which culture does the festival of colors come from? 

 Choose two holidays or festivals from the list below (or choose another one that is not listed) and compare similarities and differences with Holi. 

 Christmas 

Halloween

 Guy Fawkes 

 Eid 

 Easter 

Thanksgiving

Computer Reading Rotation Term 3 Week 10

WALT: to understand different cultural practices and traditions. 

 Watch this video and make a list of similarities and differences between Maldives Islands and New Zealand and also what this video makes you wonder.


 Next watch Ice Castles how do you think the Ice Castles were made? Where do you think they are? Then write a story the next day about what you would do if you lived in an Ice Castle.


 

Reading Contract Term 3 Week 9

WALT: to understand different cultural practices and traditions. 

This week we watched two videos and made a list comparing the similatities and differences between New Zeland and Vancouver Island and then New Zealand and Kenya.

As you can see from our list we found many similarities between Vancouver Island and New Zealand.

Next we watched the Africa video

We found more differences than similarities after watching the African Kenya video.

Clay Carving

This term we have been learning about different New Zealand symbols and icons we created some of these by carving them out into clay.

Inkscape

This week we have been leaning about Inkscape. Inkscape is a free Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator and CorelDraw.

We started off by leaning about what Inkscape is, how to run it, and all the Inkscape essentials we needed to know to get started creating our own awesome artwork!

Max and Mitchell

Moko

Shaun

Thomas

On the second day we learnt how to create shapes, paths and how to use the pen tool - which are the building blocks we'll need to create more complex drawings. Here are some of our masterpieces. 

                              

Ishika

American Waffles

 This week the winning recipe was American Waffles that Elle found as part of her reading rotation activity.  We only had a 1/2 cup measuring cup and wanted to double the recipe so had to use a number of different maths strategies to work out the correct quantities.

 We took turns measuring, adding and mixing the ingredients. 

 Shaun waiting very patiently for the next round of waffles.

 They were so yummy that we licked our plates clean

 Can I have that bit?

Adventure Based Learning

 Magic Hand Shake

We silently selected a number between one and ten (inclusive). Then tried to find a

partner who has selected the same number as them, using only the left hand shake (no talking, no

miming or gesturing etc).

Gotcha

We started by forming a circle, facing inwards and standing side by side. Next we held our right hand out to our right side (about shoulder height) with our palms facing upwards. Next, we placed our index finger on our left hand onto the palm of the person’s hand to our left.

Everyone is now ready to start. On the command ‘go’, we  tried to catch the finger of the person on our right side. While also avoiding being caught by the person on our left. Next we tried again but this time with reversed hands.

Myth Excerpts

Aztec Warriors

Term 2 Inquiry Sample

Telescopic Texts

We have been learning how to add  improve our creative writing by using descriptive words. 

We started off by reading the I made a tea story by Joe Davis on telescopictext.org. The site allows you to take short bits of texts and expand them in different ways and is a great way to improve both grammar and creative writing skills. Next we wrote our own telescopic texts starting with I went outside.

Click on the names below to read some of our stories.

Blake

Imogen

Mitchell