Category: Toreto

Te ika a Māui Retold By Room 9

We have been learning how to compare versions of Pūrakau and retell the story with all the main points.

First, we read one version of the Māori Creation Story. We then re-ordered pictures of the six main events of the story and glued one on each page of our writing book. The next day we labeled the pictures with who was in the picture and what they were doing. On the third day we started to write our story using the labels to help us remember what was happening. On the fourth day, we read a different version of the story and then filled in this Venn diagram together to compare what was the same and what was different. This gave us a chance to check we have all the important information that was the same in each story.

On the fifth day, we drew a picture to publish our stories and made it into a book for our class library. We then decided to share them here.

What do you think? Did we include all the main points of the story?

We are thinking of trying this again with a different story. Do you have a favourite story that might have different versions of them?

Garden to Table!

We have officially had our first two sessions of Garden to Table and it is amazing, fantastic, 10/10, awesome!!!

We always have half the class in the garden and half the class in the kitchen and then the next week we swap.

Here are some of the things we have learned so far:

“How to cut and do all the things to make corn fritters,” says Mason.

“How to use sharp tools safely,” says Capri.

“We can make sauces by mixing ingredients,” says Anastasia.

“I learned fractions when I was measuring the ingredients. We did one at a time with the flour, baking powder, baking soda,” said Ataahua.

“How to colour in pictures of vegetables,” says Kymani.

“How the plants grow. There are many ingredients and worm poo is good!” says Ezsak.

“Some plants need to be cut at the top and some need to be pulled out whole when we are harvesting,” says Clara.

“I can make sauce from the garden now!” says Taizayah.

“I learned how to cut fruit and vegetables,” says Toreto.

“Snails are not good for our vegetables, because they will eat them!” says Audrina.

AND THERE IS MORE LEARNING TO COME!

Hāngī time!!

We had a school hāngī to celebrate Puanga with our whānau. We loved the hāngī and wanted to share about it with everyone!

We each decided our purpose for writing:

  1. Persuade – Change your mind
  2. Inform – Teach you something
  3. Entertain – Have fun

(You can learn more about this on our post Can we persuade you?)

We then looked through the Google Drive folder full of photos from the hāngī to tell our story.

We added these photos to Book Creator and either typed or voice-recorded our stories.

Check them out below:

Lights, camera, action!

We have been learning how to use iMovie to share our learning.

We had to work together to direct and act in each other’s movies. We thought about all the ways you can show MANA and directed our friends to act it out in each clip.

We then learned how to mute our video clips and voice-over how they showed MANA. and of course we had to add a title!

Our favourite part of making movies was playing and acting. We liked showing MANA.

We found the acting could be tricky because it took a lot of time. We had to learn how to use all the buttons properly and some of us found that challenging.

After our movie’s were finished, we reviewed the movies to make sure that we were representing our school with MANA and that we were only sharing personal information, not private! Check out our previous learning about what to share online: To share, or not to share and Are our books cybersmart?

What do you think of our directorial debuts?

Where are we?

We are learning to describe our location. We know that location words are called prepositions.

We read Hairy Maclary Scattercat and listened closely to find the prepositions.

We worked in pairs to act out the story, moving our bodies around like the cats in the story!

The next day we each drew a picture from the story and talked about the prepositions of the animals in the story.

On the third day, we used Explain Everything to make an animation and say the prepositions as we moved our characters around.

Check out all our awesome work below!

Day One:

Day Two:

Day Three:

We are authors!

We have been learning about how the writing process. We focused our writing on the awesome science experiments we have done over the past few weeks. We came back to the same piece of writing each day to add more to it and to take the next step in the writing process.

Day One: Plan our writing – draw a picture plan and write a word we were feeling.

Day Two: Write our first draft – include our thoughts and feelings in our writing.

Day Three: Reread our writing and check it makes sense – add or take words away if we need to.

Day Four: Check our spelling – underline words that we are not sure are spelled right with a red pen and use our word card to write the proper spelling above it.

Day Five: Publish our writing – use the Book Creator app to publish our story. Create a front cover with a title, picture, and author. Copy our writing from the book with one sentence on each page and then illustrate our book.

Our Assembly!

Last week it was our turn to host the school assembly and we rocked it! Some of our tamariki spoke on stage with a microphone for the first time! We chose to share one of our favourite songs, the Affirmation Song by Snoop Dogg.

Check it out! What’s your favourite affirmation?

 

Is this a big problem or a little problem?

We have been learning what is a big problem and a little problem. When we know what kind of problem it is, then we know what strategies to use to solve them.

A big problem is unsafe or illegal, and we need to get a trusted adult immediately!

A little problem is something we can deal with on our own. Sometimes it is a problem that we need to use our three strategies. We also know that sometimes little problems are things that upset us that are not anyone’s fault and we need to manage our own emotions and calm ourselves down.

We know that if the same little problem happens a lot, or if using our strategies doesn’t work then it is actually a big problem and we need to get an adult.

Here are our drawings of some of the big and little problems we might face at school.

Do you agree with the problems we have chosen? Can you think of other big or little problems?

 

Repeat after me!

We have been learning about making patterns. We can make patterns using our iPads.

We know a pattern can be:

  • translations (a pattern that repeats to make a pattern) 

or

  • rotations (a pattern that repeats around in a circle). 

We know that we can find patterns anywhere. Where do you see a pattern in your every day life?

ATTRIBUTES

We have been learning about sorting shapes by their different attributes.

We love this video that taught us all about attributes and how to sort shapes.

We made attribute books and sorted our blocks by attributes such as their colour, shape, size, thickness, number of sides, and materials.

Check out some of our awesome books!

What other ways can we sort shapes?