Creating: Collaborative Narrative Writing Online (Holiday Project)

Here's an example that Dakota and Ms Osborne have started collaborating on together for this holidays... Dakota created the character and Ms Osborne has made a setting. What do you think we could add to our story? Add your narrative ideas to the comments below, and we'll take all positive feedback on board for our story board ideas! :-)

This is our writing homework for the school holidays... You can view it in more detail on our class website - feel free to join in and share your narrative ideas and suggestions, too!
(Add these via the comments section below...)

Creating: Community Art Project - Term 3 2016

Here is a video of our visual art, created on PhotoPeach.

Learning & Creating: Visual Art linked to Our Topic Inquiry

Learning: Our Wanderings About the Amazon Rain Forest in Brazil

This week, we had a KWL discussion about some of the non-human creatures we might find in the tropical rain forest around the 2016 Olympics city of Rio, Brazil...

Here is some of what we already know:
“It is in South America, in the same country as Rio, Brazil. There are anacondas - a huge snake - and piranhas in it. There are crocodiles, and poison frogs - they are blue and orange and red.” ~ Travis
“The proper name for a jungle is a rain forest.” ~ Sharlotte
“There is a type of big cat called a jaguar that lives in the Amazon.” ~ Aaliyah
“There is another cat called a puma that lives in South America.” `~ Ngatokoa

We look forward to sharing our independent research Google Slide efforts with you on our individual blogs later this term! :-)

Sharing: "Food For Thought" Health Topic

In Term 2, we did "Food For Thought" with Nicky from the Heart Foundation. 
This morning, we completed our own interactive Google Draw to show our understanding of healthy eating food groups... Here's an example modeled by the teacher, that we 'modified' and used to share our understanding on our own individual student blogs!

Sharing: Wai Care Planting Day at Keri Downs

Learning: Ripper Rugby Skills with Counties Manukau Sport

Learning: Gymsport Skills Session at Bruce Pulman Park

Whare Ako Whanakitanga had an awesome session at Bruce Pulman Park for Gymsport...

As you can see, we're learning how to balance, curl, roll, climb and even jump as high as the sky!

Creating and Sharing: "When I Grow Up"

Sharing personal information online

We are learning about what we share on blogs and what we keep private. Here is what we think.