Term 2 Week 1 April 17 2020

Welcome back to Day Three!


Day Two Learning: Share and Shine

Where do I start?? So much learning and activity - thank you for sharing, Room 15.

Liam wrote about a big Ice Block scaring an old man - luckily the old man was clever enough to push the Ice Block into the water to try and melt it, jump out quickly and run home for a hot coffee to warm up! Great authorship, Liam.

Milana also put her hand to writing with a great little story about the Unicorn twins, Stardust and Pixie. They ran faster than a cheetah and managed to avoid being captured by the hunters who were looking for dinner! Lucky they got home and could enjoy their Unicorn Ice Cream Cake, the secret source of their speediness. I wish I could eat an ice cream cake that would make me fast!! 

Isaac and Alex produced great storyboards of 'The Legend of the Volcanoes of Tāmaki Makaurau'. They cleverly split the story up into their main parts and can now use this as a plan for their comic strip (graphic novel) if they wanted to. They can draw pictures of the characters and have speech or thought bubbles coming from them. I look forward to seeing some finished graphic novels.

Donnie and his catapult  Click on this link to see Donnie's engineering masterpiece! awesome job Donne - I see you have been perfecting the catapult's aim. Three pointer!!

Shreya has been doing a great research project on Viruses. She looked at three viruses: chickenpox, measles and the flu. Shreya outlined what they are, how do they spread, how to avoid being infected and included lots of interesting facts about viruses. I learnt a lot too - thank you, Shreya!

Many, many of you have been helping out in the kitchen - baking, cooking meals, etc. Keep that up so that you will be an amazing cook for your family and your future flatmates! Brandon, Isaac (see the picture below), Jessica, Madison to name just a few. I forgot to write all your names down...BUT it was a very common theme when I was talking to you all. So impressive.

James shared what his motivation was behind making a bow and arrow yesterday - it was from the sixth book of the Ranger's Apprentice books by John Flanagan called 'The Siege of Macindaw'. He likes the character, Will, because he can fire off 3 arrows before the first one hits the target! James also said his favourite part is when they siege a castle with only 40 men and one siege ladder - they used a cool strategy. (Sorry for the spoiler alert!) James is clearly showing his love of reading and still working towards his Reading Challenge cards. We'll sign those off back at school - write down your titles, everyone!

Isabella, Cimone and Matthew J designed and created Kahoots - unfortunately, I haven't been able to play or view them with the links you are sending in (or the game PIN). Make sure you play them with your family so that your good work can be shared. Thank you - I'll keep trying.

Olivia and her clever Dad helping the family build a Tree Hut

Olivia being creative

So many of you are also doing great things with your fitness and mindfulness. That is so good to hear how you are looking after your body and well being. Isabella designed and shared an obstacle course, Olivia can be seen in her photo doing exercises and Yi Fan told me how he is practising his basketball and tennis on the unfinished foundations of his pool! Lucky I rang Liam just before he started his mindfulness session - I would have hated to interrupt his family's calm and quiet moment!

The designers out there are also being amazingly creative with their projects - check out Olivia's tree hut created by the whole family! What a great place to take an apple, cushion and a rug to read in a quiet spot. Just fantastic. The best feature is the firemen's pole!!
Cimone's design of the senior playground has some familiar features mixed in with some new ideas. I love the level of detail you have gone to. You would have needed a lot of patience to build that - well done.

Keep sharing your wonderful projects, thinking and experiences. We are loving learning about your learning!!

Olivia looking after her well being - getting physical!

Isaac's yummy Anzac cookies - recipe on the Anzac Hyperdoc. So good he couldn't stop eating them!

Milana's colour butterfly full of her favourite things!

Cimone's fantastic playground design.