Learning about Pablo Picasso

This term we have looked at Pablo Picasso and his different art styles.  Did you know he had a period of four years where he only painted in shades of blue or green?  He has many different styles that he can paint.  We did our own research and then we created our own portrait using one of his styles of Art.  have a look at what Leevy, Alyssa and  Meesha created!

Te Karakia O Te Atua - The Lord's prayer in Māori...

Galilee has been learning to sing the Lord's prayer in Māori.  

We are starting to sound pretty good.  

Our next step is to know the song off by heart

so we don't all need to be looking at the T.V.

Then we can smile and show expression.

What do you think?

Term three begins...

Kia ora whanau and friends.

This term our theme is Robotics.  We have lots of exciting independent learning activities.  Check them out on our site.  One of our challenges is to create our own robot.  Then we will create an advertisement for our robot and make a short film featuring our robot.  Fun!  We are also concentrating on more coding, we are trying out different ways to code.

This term is very busy, we have many competitions and  tournaments taking place.  We have already all taken part in a first aid course.  We all know what to do when someone needs help.


This is our Create a Robot activity:

Creating games on Scratch - becoming coders!

As part of our Human Impact theme, we have been working on creating a game on Scratch.  We have been keeping track of the time we spend making our Scratch games.  We are finding it takes a lot of time and patience, but it is worth it.

Nicole made this game: Click on this link to play her game.


Here is a video of a classmate reviewing Nicole's game:

Here is Nicole's review and evaluation of the game she made:

Check out the individual blogs of our learners to see their games too!  Please leave us a comment about our learning.

The three PPP's

In our classroom we looked at the Treaty of Waitangi and we talked about how we can honour the Treaty in our classroom.    This is what the amazing learner's of Galilee came up with!

The Binary Code

WALT: Understand digital technologies.

In our class we have begun to learn about Binary code.  Here are some of DLOs giving a brief explanation of the binary code.

Click on this link  for Alyssa's presentation.

Pyper made a video:

Blake and Brian

This is Pyper's presentation:

Updating our visual mihi

We have been working on updating our visual mihi.  Have a look at what some of our amazing learners have done.  Here is Nicole's:

The Treaty of Waitangi

This week we have been learning and researching about the treaty of Waitangi.  Some of us have presented our learning in assembly and we are all putting our learning on our individual blogs. 

Libby made a slideshow telling us what she has learnt.







Here is a Treaty of Waitangi presentation from Ellis, Pyper and Sophie M:




Ella F and Kahlen: