Cultures Day

We held a school Cultures day, where the children dressed up in clothes from another culture and Room 13 had a cultural feast. Children bought dishes from their own cultures or kiwiana food.

Zahna Violin

Zahna is in a violin concert and is playing music by Handel and Bach. They are both composers from the baroque era. Zahna dressed in clothes from the baroque period and played the violin for us.

Please enjoy!

Maui Comic Strips

We looked at a Story Library book that had various Maui stories presented as comic strips. We decided to retell our favourite maui story as a comic strip. We created our comic strips first as a story board, then dropped our pictures into kidpix to colour them in. We then imported our kidpix pictures into comic life and added our text and speech bubbles. These are the comic strips that have been completed so far.

Tivaevae Art

As part of our culture unit and geometry, we looked at Tivaevae patterns. We talked about symmetry, repeating patterns and use of light and dark colours.

The Girls in the Kapa Haka

We read Girls in the kapahaka by Angie Belcher. We looked at the structure of the book (a bit like this is the house that Jack built) and added a new verse (sentence) of our own. We then created our page in kidpix and made a book.