Te Hiku Manaiakalani Outreach 2 First Movie Festival

This year has been our first Te Hiku Movie Festival, the movies have been played on the big screen at the Te Ahu Cinema in Kaitaia on Thursday 7 November. This is one of the lucky movies to be chosen from our school. Congratulations to everyone involved in the production of this movie. Please enjoy and feel free to leave a comment below for the students.

Learning to Animate

Today in Kotare we are learning to use explain everything to make an animation. We chose a story that we had been reading to re-tell. The students had to lasso their character and then they also could look at different clip arts to add to the animation. Then the students re-told the story using their voice and sound effects. Today we even were able to use our new stylis pens on the Ipads.
We will share some of the finished animations later in the week. 

Seed Dispersal

We know how humans reproduce themselves, but we wondered how do plants reproduce themselves?

So we watched some videos on flowers and seed dispersal.  Dispersal means how something is spread around.
These are the videos we watched

BBC Bitesize - Seeds and Seed Dispersal from Arcus Studios on Vimeo.



We learnt that seeds can spread around in four ways. By the water, by the wind, through animals (on their fur and in their tummies) and by expulsion.

Expulsion means when a plant expels their seeds, either by pressure or triggers an explosion. Nelly says it looks like a bomb exploding.

We created diagrams to show these four ways of dispersing seeds.

We feel proud of our work because there is detail on the pictures, they are labelled, and we were precise with our explanations.

Sea Science...

This term in science we have been learning about what  makes something living.
We learnt about MRS GREN. Mrs Gren is NOT a person... it is an mneumonic (that means letters or words that help us remember something). MRSGREN helps us remember seven characteristics of living things):

We learnt that all living things:
- Move
- Respire (that means breathe)
- Sense the world (like through sight, hearing, tasting, touching and smelling)
- Grow
- Reproduce  themselvse
- Excrete (get rid of waste materials from your body...)
- Need nutrition

We created a fact file to show these characteristics in interesting sea Animals:
What do you think?

Art Works About Water

This is our Art work about sea creatures. We learnt to do blending with paint and doing lines that flow like water. We made our sea creature by sketching them with pencil. We learnt how to shade with pencil. You need to shade with pencil by using the side of the tip. We also added detail to our sea creature. I liked our blending I liked the smooth lines they feel calm. I like the light blends. Some of the art works kind of look like a galaxy because of the spiral shapes. Next time I would change my colours and creatures. Next time I would change my colours. I learnt how to draw koru's you need to spiral and then change direction and turn. I noticed by looking and seeing whats there and not relying on your memory. 

Charts and Graphs.

Treaty of Waitangi and Korowai

We learnt about what happened in the Treaty, we made a Korowai which is what the Maori wore. We also wrote our own class treaty.