Mythbusters in the classroom

Today for oral language we watched the Giant LEGO Ball video.




After a discussion in our groups we shared back some of our opinions. As you can see the class was divided nearly down the middle.

 

Finally we watched the Mythbusters video and found our answer.

 

Onesies

This week we had a Mufti day and a number of the girls wore Onsies a few of the photos even made it into the School Assembly Keynote.

Week on Tuning into Technology

This week we had a challenge to build the highest tower with nothing more than matchsticks and plasticine. We also started to learn about flashlights and had a bunch in the class to pull apart and see how they work. Next we created a list of parts needed and started sketching plans to build our own flashlights.

Chuck The Chicken

The Rules for Chuck the Chicken are:

Split your players into two teams. The goal of the game is to earn your team points. 

Team A starts off with possession of the rubber chicken. They form a line and pass the chicken from the back of their line to the front in the following manner - through the legs of the next person in line, then over the head of the next person, then through the legs of the next person, and so on. 

Team B starts off by having a player run around and around the outside of the group of Team B players. For each full circuit of the group, the team earns one point. When the chicken reaches the back of the line of Team A the person at the back of the line yells "CHUCK THE CHICKEN!" as loud as they can and throws the chicken as far away as possible. Then the person who 'chucked the chicken starts to run laps around the group, earning Team A points. Then the process repeats.

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.