Rhythm Interactive's visit to PBS

This week Johnny from Rhythm Interactive visited us and taught the whole school how to drum. We listened and followed Johnny's beat, on African Djembe drums we used. Our theme for drumming was "together we can make a change". There were lots of different songs and beats Johnny taught us, like "I love chocolate cake and so do I". Johnny taught us a message which was "if you can say it, then you can drum it". LS2 helped the juniors with their drumming just in case they were stuck on the rhythms. I really enjoyed drumming, because it was an experience for trying drumming and learning rhythms and songs.
Link- Rhythm Interactive

Hiwi The Kiwi Visit | Fish For The Future

This week Hiwi The Kiwi (Mrs & Mr Mistral) visited the school to teach us about how we can have more fish for the future and why we should respect the sea. We also learnt the safety rules and lessons of fishing, which are always wear life jackets just in case of an incident, pick a fish with a wet towel, so the coating doesn't come off, bring salt ice to keep the fish cold and bring a ruler to measure the size of the fish. If it is 30 cm you can take it. To have more fish in the future we need to let the breeding fish go, so it can have baby fish and we also need to let the baby fish go, so it can grow and breed and to pick rubbish if you see it, because the fish and seabirds would think its small sea creatures. Mrs & Mr Mistral asked us questions. If we got question correct, we would get a poster and a sticker. Mr & Mrs Mistral sang us songs and taught us dance moved that were about why we should respect the sea. I enjoyed learning about why we need to respect the sea, so we can have more fish for the future.

Tech With Ms. Ferguson | Graphics

This week at tech with Ms. Ferguson, we started drawing 4 toy designs. We could use any board game we wanted and we could also change the shapes. The four designs I did was tic tac toe, connect 4, a puzzle and checkers. For the tic tac toe, instead of the x and o's I decided to do a kawaii pineapple and a avacado. For connect four instead of the counters, I did emojis. For the puzzle I decided to draw emojis and for the checkers I also did emojis. Once we drew and colored the designs, we chose one design to make next week.

Kiwi Can

This week in kiwi can our theme was integrity and our new topic was reliability. First we played the energizer. For this energizer one person from their pair was blindfolded, while the other partner was to tag other pairs and protect their partner from getting tagged. After we played the energizer we talked about reliability. Reliability is when you trust others to do something. An example of being reliable is keeping a secret if your friend tells you one, because they rely on you to not spread it out to others. Once we talked about reliability, we played the activity, which was about relying on your partner to be balanced, when doing movements that include balancing together. Lastly we moved on to GKQ/General Knowledge Questions. In a circle there was a master who went around the circle, while the teacher asked a question. The first one who answered the question was master.

Ballet With Chloe | Black Swan, White Swan

This week we did a very fun ballet session with a dance educator, Chloe from the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Chloe taught us the Black Swan, White Swan dance, which was the show happening at the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Black Swan, White Swan was established on a famous ballet dance called the Swan Lake. First we did ballet warm ups to get us ready for the ballet dance. Chloe taught us the ballet dance step by step, so we could improve on each ballet dance move. There was classical music by Tchaikovsky, for the Black Swan, White Swan dance. Chloe gave us a tip which was, if we wanted the ballet move to be the best, then we committed to the dance moves even though it looks hard. After we did the awesome ballet dance, ballet point shoes were passed around. I couldn't believe that I got the chance to feel the point shoes. A big thanks to Chloe for coming from all the way from Wellington to Auckland to teach us the ballet dance, Black Swan White Swan. Also another big thanks to Mrs. Jones for organizing our session with Chloe. I think that I really enjoyed ballet dancing to Black Swan, White Swan because I never knew I could do ballet dance moves and it was a experience learning from Chloe.

Waltzing Matilda

This week in reading we explored a famous Australian ballad poem called Waltzing Matilda, by a famous poet, Banjo Paterson. This poem was about a swagman who stole a sheep, but the police came to catch him. Instead of going to jail, the swagman jumped in the waterhole. To learn and understand more about the poem, we wrote a summary and the main idea of Waltzing Matilda. For the main ideas there were 3 reasons to back up the main idea. There were some old words in the poem, which were: waltzing (walking on foot), matilda (swag bag), swagman (seasonal worker), jumbuck (sheep), and billabong (waterhole).

Tech With Ms. Ferguson | Graphics

This week for tech, we did graphics with Ms. Ferguson. In partners we chose two games which we could play using paper. My partner was Miiana. In our partners we played the two games for a few minutes. Miiana and I decided to play tic tac toe and hangman. After we played a few rounds, we planned how to make the games into 3D, like the materials, the shapes of the materials and more. Once we finished the planning, we went on a site called tinkercad, where we could make 3D objects for the 3D printer.

Translations Of The Solar System In Maori

This week in inquiry, with Ms. Anderson, in partners, we created a DLO showing the translations of the solar system in Maori. My partner was Farzana. In our DLO we included attributed images of the planets, interesting facts and the translations in Maori. After we created the DLO we started to record it. Farzana and I struggled to say the Maori names and recorded a few times because we were struggling, but we finally finished it.

Tech With Ms. Ferguson | Graphics

This week for graphics with Ms. Ferguson we created a DLO of logic toys. The DLO included photos of the toys, the parts and how to play the game/toy. After that, we learnt about 3D. 3D stands for 3 dimension. We also learnt about tone, which means how hard or how soft you sketch. On a big piece of paper, we learnt how to draw a cube and tone. We first practiced, so we could get better at it. The three different tones we colored were light, medium and dark. After practicing, we colored in the cube we drew with any color we wanted. I decided to choose blue, because it was my favorite color. When we finished coloring, we also learnt how to write letters in cubism.

Literary Devices

Here Is The Link- Literary Devices DLO

This week in reading we learnt about poetry and literary devices. There are six literary devices which are: hyperbole (example- it will take me 100 years to climb the mountain), simile (example- she runs fast like flash) , metaphor ( example- Sara is a colorful parrot), personification (example- The shoes ran away), alliteration ( example- beautiful bears beat bees) and onomatopoeia ( example- Crash!).  We created a poster about the literary devices. Our challenge was to use a google docs instead of a google draw. If we created a table, then everything would have a nice layout and looked neat.