Year 7 and 8's go to Wellington for a week!

Last week the year 7 and 8's went to Wellington for a week long camp.  we had so much fun.  It took 12 hours of travel to get to Silverstream Retreat - where we stayed.  On our first full day we went to Suzanne Aubert's House of Compassion and the Zoo.  After tea we went swimming.  On our second day, we visited Parliament, Capital E and St Paul's Cathedral.  After tea, we went swimming again and the we had our St Patrick's got Talent show. On our third day, we went to Te Papa and then on the Cable Car.  After tea we headed to Queesngate Mall for a couple of hours.  What a lot of fun!  That night we packed up all our gear ready for an early start, another long day of travel. 

CHECK OUR OUR PIX AND VIDS :)

You're the Expert!

Kia ora koutou.  Every Friday  in our class we have "You're the Expert".  Children have time to present to us and teach us all about something they are an expert in.  The children love teaching the rest of us.  This week we had Tom teaching us about his remote control racing cars and he brought them in for us to see.  We also had Lenard who had made a video about spiders (pungawerewere)  for us to watch and learn from.  Check out Lenard's video - we thought it was awesome.  Tell us what you think.

Te wiki o te reo Māori.

Kia ora koutou.  Ko te wiki o te reo Māori te wiki nei.  Kei te ako mātou he kupu hou Māori.

Hi everyone, it is the week of Māori language this week.  We are learning new Māori words in our class.  We are learning about location words and how to structure sentences in te reo.
This is a video that Alex S and Lenard created.  what do you think?

This is a video that Neve and Alyssa created.  They have great pronunciation!

Advertising - We are learning about making advertisements...

    WALT: to create an advertisement

SC: using language, symbols and texts through music, drama and digital and visual arts.

Things to consider:

• A name and logo for your robot.
• Writing an interesting script using: catchy phrases, interesting words, alliterations, onomatopoeia, etc.
• Your use of voice in your advertisement (make your voice interesting and exciting to listen to).
• The drama/acting in your ad.
• Make/use a jingle in your ad.
• Visual elements- screencasifying, props, etc.
• Location for filming
• Your audience- who are you selling to?

This is what Lenard, Taig and Alex S have come up with. We think it is pretty clever with a big dash of humour - what do you think?

Tongan Language Week

This week we are celebrating Tongan Language Week.  We are lucky enough to have three children with Tongan heritage in our Classroom.  We have been practising our Tongan by playing some online games.  We are getting very good at our Tongan language.  How about you?  Give the games a go!


http://www.digitaldialects.com/Tongan.htm

Making Robot Movies using Stop Motion

One of our activities this term involves using the robot or the art robot we have made and creating a stop motion movie and then speaking or adding sound over the top.  Check out Sophie's movie!