Term two - lockdown and back to school

 During term two, we chose our own topic to look into.  This made sure that the children were engaged and interested in their learning.   Here are some of the amazing creative pieces of learning that these children have done.

Noah S had some incredible research about Greek Mythology

 

 Kinae worked on her science experiment:  

 Leevy learnt some sign language:  

 Meesha create an awesome model of a Maori Pa:  

 Syrhys made a pick a path story:

The Popcorn challenge...

We had a popcorn challenge in our class. 
 This was our activity:

Design brief: Create a new exciting flavour of popcorn and suitable packaging for our class movie afternoon. The packaging must look good and be easy to access. The popcorn needs to be crisp (not soggy) and delicious! Important: the flavour of your group’s popcorn must take into account the things that certain members of your team cannot eat.


Stage 1:  Planning for practice:  This is where you plan what you need and what you intend to do.  It is important to make sure you read the design brief to make sure that your ideas will create an outcome that meets the brief.


 Stage 2: Brief development: This is where you create your new flavour - I think you will need to try things, test things, taste things, and change things before you come out with an outcome that fits the design brief. You will also need to try to develop your packaging and test it to make sure it holds the popcorn and is easy to get the popcorn out of. 

 Stage 3: Outcome development and evaluation: This is where you have other people (stakeholders) try your product and then you all evaluate to see if it meets the design brief - is it fit for purpose? We had a planning day, a practice day and a competition day, and then we finished with an evaluation afternoon. 

 Everyone worked really well together and we create some amazing popcorn. Here are four of our groups:

Capernaum's visit to Techspace

We had a great morning today when we walked down to the Techspace and were introduced to some amazing things.
We used a touchscreen TV which had a touchscreen overlay on it and played a game called Bowman. We tried some Leap action games and played with the makey makey. We saw some great 360 videos of places on the West Coast and played with tinkercad designing things that could be printed on a 3D printer. The 3D printer printed a stretchy bracelet. It also made a nut and bolt that actually worked.
Everybody had a great morning.