Pattern Search

As an immersion activity Mrs Pene took photos of patterns found within our school. Armed with a camera or ipod and with a selection of photos we had to find the object the pattern was a part of. We took a photo of the object as evidence and Mrs Wendt checked that we had correctly identified the objects. Some of the patterns were hard to find and we needed clues.

ipads in the classroom

We are lucky to have ipads to integrate into our classroom programme. We have had iplay sessions as part of an immersion rotation where we have been able to use any app and find our way around an ipad.
We will be using them within our maths and literacy programmes and looking at new creative ways to present our learning

Business Cards

As a culminating task for Our Story/ Our Culture we designed our own business cards. We have used QR codes to link people to our authors blog where you can read a little bit about our name, family and culture. You will have to scan the QR codes to see where the other code takes you!

Go on a hunt to see what other things use QR codes.

Cultural diversity

Using the photographs from the culture dress up day we used the alpha key to alpha out the background and put ourselves in a landscape that depicts our culture.

Culture Day

Today was our school cultural day. Some of our class dressed up in a cultural dress from another country. We had a school parade and all danced to the makarena. Can you guess what country we are from?

Te Ao Marama

On Friday we had the most wonderful experience at Te Ao Marama in Te Hana. We visited a pa based on one you would have found in the 17th century. Matua Ben and his team greeted us with a powhiri and we were also greeted in the village by a wero. (challenge)

I would highly recommend Te Ao Marama to any class, we learnt so much.

QR Codes

This is a QR code. If you have an iphone, ipod touch or ipad, you can download a QR scanner to read this code and take you to our link for our sfx13 Authors Blog. We are making business cards with these codes on so you can read what we have written about ourselves.

You can go to QR generator sites where you can imput urls (links for internet sites) and create a code that takes you straight to that site.

Swimming Lessons

These are some photos of our swimming lessons.

We think we have made great progress.

All About Me

We are making booklets about Our Story. These are our Comic Life stories

All About Me on PhotoPeach

Wordles

Using a programme called Wordle, we created a wordle using words to describe ourselves.

Outdoor Education

We had two brilliant days last week at Sandy bay surfing and at Adventure Forest, Glenbervie.

These activities give children the opportunity to face their fears and meet challenges. Here are some pictures of our experiences.

Who am I?

As part of book character day we made up Who am I? clues so hat we could guess the characters each person was dressed as.

We also had a go at using the alpha function and placing ourselves in a scene that made us look like we really were the book character

We had a book character day as one of our Immersion Activities for Imagine.

See if you can guess what book characters we are dressed as.

Wacky Wednesday Hair Day

As part of our immersion activities for Imagine, Kauri whanau organised a Wacky Wednesday Hair Day. This is Room 13 at their most wackiest!

Museum Visit

As part of our Taonga concept we went to the Whangarei Museum. We had a wonderful day, and were involved in a programme designed by Pippa. We learnt a lot about the history of museums, what a curator does, the taonga that our museum has, and we visited the Kiwi House.

Seascape Artwork

We read Tangaroa's Gift with Mrs Smith and discussed how the artist used intricate patterns to create the background, the colours she used and how she blended them to create a paua effect. We used korus as the main pattern which we dyed, and black vivid to create intricate patterns in the background.

Taonga Art

We created our own taonga design. We used crayon, and thought about using black shading to create a 3D effect. We were only allowed to use white, black and a cold colour. In the background we used warm colours.

Technology

We needed to design boxes for our prayer stones, we were not given a template we needed to create our own. Our design brief was that it must be able to hold our prayer stone and it must have a lid. It took some of us many attempts before we were successful. Each time we had to think about how we could modify our box so it fit the brief.