Hub Whenua's Manaiakalani Film Festival Entry

This year we explored our passion for handball as more learners explore how to play the game during break times.

Our movie is about two boys who want to play handball and two girls who wanted to join in. But the four of them didn’t know how to play so they collaborate to research and practice.

We chose the song ‘Thunder’ by Imagine Dragons as we felt the lyrics helped explain our journey.  See if you can make a connection!

Book Reviews - Clever Crazy Club and Party Pack Reading Groups

The last week we have been practicing our summarising and retelling skills with creating a book review for other learners to learn about the series that we are currently reading.

Take a look at our reviews and see what book you might like to pick up!  If you have any feedback for us, please leave us a comment!

More Leaves on our Vocabulary Tree

Great to see more people being determined and building their knowledge about the forest.

John Paul - fauna

Jack M - flora

Molly - pohutukawa

Ciara - understory

Ashaani - oak tree

Lucy - pollination

Benjamin - canopy

Finn - dark and birch tree

Yunni - floor

Haiku Poems with our Alliteration Identities

Last week we have been learning about haiku poems.

Traditional haiku are always the same, including the following features:

1. There are only three lines, totalling 17 syllables.
2. The first line is 5 syllabels.
3. The second line is 7 syllables.
4. The third line is 5 syllables like the first.
5. A haiku does not have to rhyme, in fact usually it does not rhyme at all.

Some haiku can include the repetition of words or sounds.  We made the connection that this is similar to our alliteration learning earlier in the term.

We also made the connection that learning about syllables is similar to the learning we have doing around building our knowledge about word attack.  We also wanted to write about our super hero or villains again.

The Way Back Home

WALHT write imaginative solutions for problems in a story.

We watched an animated video that was inspired by Oliver Jeffer's picture book called The Way Back Home. The video was paused after we were introduced to the problem of the story - the boy and the alien were both stuck on the moon because both the rocket and the spaceship were broken, oh no! Please read of our creative solutions to solve the very troubling problem. Enjoy!

Alliteration Superheros - Part One!

We decided to explore alliteration in reading this week when Mr Lewzey shared with us this book:

We decided that we wanted to become either super heroes or villains and use some alliteration to help describe our abilities and other information that we wanted to share with you.

Please leave us a comment and tell us what you think about our new identities!

Our Gifted Garden - Lucy and Molly

We read an article called 'Our Gifted Garden'.  To apply our understanding, we had to compare our school with another school - Raumati South School which we found out was an Environschool.  We chose to create a video to show some of the comparisons.

We hope you enjoy it!

Koalas by Ella and Lucy

We read a story called 'Bushfires in the Koala Reserve'.  To apply our understanding, we created a video where we hoped to build others knowledge about koalas as we felt that some of the characters in the text did not have a good understanding of koalas.  We used both our knowledge and some other texts on Get Epic to share some information about koalas.

We hope you enjoy it!

Moana Island Reading Group - The Ant and the Grasshopper

This week our group read 'The Ant and The Grasshopper'.  We were learning how to justify our opinion using evidence from the text.

One of our follow ups was to imagine that we were the grasshopper and we had met a new insect who was behaving in the same way as the grasshopper at the beginning of the text.  What advice would we give them based on what we now knew?

Here are some of our stories that we came up with:

Ella S:

Elle:

Gauri:

Lucy:

Molly:

Anzac Ted

Mr Lewzey read us the book 'Anzac Ted' this week - this is a story about a teddy bear who went to World War One and then returned home where he was passed through the family to the soldier's grandson who brought him to school to share at a Toy Show.

Here is a YouTube recording of the story if you want to listen to it:

As a follow up activity, we had to imagine that we were Anzac Ted and write a letter to the boy's class explaining our back story.  Here are some of letters:

ARLO:

JACK:

LUCY:

ELLE:

Greetings in Mandarin

We are practicing saying hello and what's your name in Mandarin, enjoy!