Te Hiku Manaiakalani Outreach Third Film Festival 2022

Our theme for the movies this year was “Northland History” The movies have been played on the big screen at the Te Ahu Cinema in Kaitaia on Wednesday 14 September 2022. This is one of the lucky movies to be chosen from our school. Congratulations to everyone involved in the production of this movie. Please click on the link to view other Manaiakalani Film Festival movies. Please enjoy and feel free to leave a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment below for the students.

 

Positive Relationships

 In kiwi can we have been learning about positive relationships. Here are some of the things we did to practise positive relationships. 
-Encourage others
-Be kind to others
-Smile at others 
-include others in our games

-Being honest

Positive relationships are important because they help us make good friendships. 

Matariki Inspired Animations

 We have been reading the story of "The Seven Fish of Matariki". We were retelling the story through creating an animation using Google Slides. Have a look at these amazing animations created by the tamariki of Kotare. 

 

Blake

 

Caleb

 

Charlie

 

Elize

 

Harry

 

Madeline

 

Sadie

More pop art!

 Because we loved learning about Romero Britto and his beautiful pop art, we thought we would learn how to make our very own digital pop art. Sticking to cats, the students in Kotare created these wonderful Digital Ca Pop Art.

Charlie

Aaron V.

Zuriah

Romero Britto Inspired Art

 We have been learning about Romero Britto. He is a famous artist, who is known for his bright, colourful pop art. 

Meet Romero Britto ~ Watch this video.

We talked about what makes his art work wonderful. Children shared ideas like, patterns, colourful, bright, shapes, etc. 

Here are some of our finished artworks:

Reading Learning Reflection

 WALT: make justified predictions - Margaret Mahy

I enjoyed reading the story lost because it was nice how Finn and the little monster became friends.

 I learnt to make predictions before reading, during reading and after reading. 

We found it difficult to make a prediction sometimes because we didn't want it to be wrong. 

WALT: use our prior knowledge as we read- Dr Suess  

We enjoyed reading the book called pigs because we learnt lots of facts about pigs.

We learnt how to brainstorm all our prior knowledge about a book before we read it. 

We found it difficult to read our text because some of the words had been cut off.

Who's the best?

This week we read a play called who's the best? It was a play about the planets, who decide to have meeting with the Sun.
It was a very funny play and we enjoyed film short clips. Mrs Hall helped us to put it all together onto iMovie. Here is is so we hope you enjoy it. 

Who's The best?

Train Maths problem

We had to notice what is the same and different about the two trains. One was pink, black, light green and dark green. The other one was all white there was 21 of them.  Black was 7, light green was 3, pink was 4, and dark green was 6. 

 We used our doubles maths knowledge to make our 20 train. We doubled 5+5=10 and 10+10=20.

                                                 We used our adding knowledge up to 20.

            We noticed the trains where all different sizes so we needed to start again and make sure they                                                were all the same size. They all had be all 20.

           We made up the trains and then drew them on the paper. One of us wrote the numbers.

                                           I used my doubles 5 knowledge to make my train.
       

                                                We worked together to solve the problem.

Azara we put them all together and added them up and then checked to see if there were 20.
                                            How would you have answered the question?

How to look after our chromebooks

                                      Hug hold the chrome book when walking around with it.

                                                           Hold it with 2 hands.

                                                          Pass it with 2 hands.

                                     Put it down on the table gently and away from the edge.

                                                         Don't put liquids by it.

                                                 Type on the keys gently. Close it carefully.

                                            Log out and turn it off before you put it away.

                               We are being cyber smart!

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.

Nau mai, haere mai ki tēnei taonga