Poetic Writing

For our creative writing lessons, we have been learning how to use our describing words to express our responses to the things we have been learning about during the course of our integrated studies. 

What is extra special about this heartfelt poem written by Lyric, is that she has written at home, in her own time, and because she wanted to share her thoughts and feelings about these brave men in a poem she could share with the rest of us at school!

Our poems were written at the beginning of Term 2, when our whole school had been learning all about the ANZAC soldiers in the lead up to the 100 year commemorations of Gallipoli this ANZAC Day. 

In E1, we had been developing our own understanding of what life may have been like for our fallen soldiers, and how they made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. 

Lyric's poem is a great example of how her own response to what she had learned around this topic allowed her to create an extremely thoughtful piece using poetic writing. 

Well done, Lyric!

Our Online Research for Our Flight and Innovation Topic Studies

In Whanakitanga Tahi, we have been learning about Matariki over the past fortnight. We found out that, as part of the celebrations for this, people may choose to make and fly kites!

So, this morning, we used the PCs in Amua Whare ICT, and we went on to Google to find some "How To" answers about this for our upcoming Innovation Day activities. 

As part of our latest ICT lesson around "Learn, Create, Share" activities, we were learning how to create an Email to share our selected websites (i.e.: by copying and pasting the website address hyperlink into the body of the Email). We then Emailed our chosen answer websites to our classroom teacher, so that we could use these to inform our technology activities.

We had two questions to ask - the first one was "How do you make a kite?" and the second question was "How do you make a parachute?". Here are some of the websites we chose to share by Email when looking for our answers to these online:

Shelby shared 
Why Make Your Own Kite?

Detroit shared 
How To Make A Kite

Shania shared 
How To Make A Diamond Kite

Krystal, Fatu and Nevaeh shared 
How To Build Kites To Suit YOU

Denzel and Lahrenzo shared 
Make Your Own Kite!

Athens shared 
How To Build A Plastic Parachute

E1 are looking forward to using their findings to co-construct instructions together using what we have found out to write an explanation, once we have had the chance to create our own kites (and maybe even parachutes!) in Whanakitanga Whare during wider Innovation Day activities tomorrow!

Youthtown "Game Sense"

As part of our PE 'Game Sense' skills sessions, Whanakitanga Whare have been participating in fortnightly team sport activities facilitated by the energetic Youthtown team.

Here are some digital photo's of some of the activities we enjoyed doing already this year!