Learning: Literacy Lyrics

On the afternoon of 17th November, we found out about some really awesome songs that we can listen to and watch on YouTube that will help us to remember our spelling rules... So we thought we'd share them with you, too!

W.A.L.H.T. spell and use homophones...

W.A.L.H.T. spell the long vowel sound-letters correctly by using the'silent E'...

There's also this one that tells you some word phrases you can use to make your good writing EVEN BETTER by helping your reader to VISUALISE...

W.A.L. what good writers do...

Creating: Kiwiana Visual Art

This term, our Inquiry Learning topic is Kiwiana. In response, we are doing a Level 3-4 Visual Art unit as planned by Ms Osborne. We had modelled examples, where we all worked out together how to draw the lines by first breaking them up into shapes we could see, before adding the finer details:

We used the designs we had drawn to then create our own versions of the designs using oils pastels. Again, Ms Osborne modelled how to use these:

Our 'success criteria' were: using lightest to darkest colours and making sure we moved the paper to avoid smudging it or mixing the colours, to get the best result we could. We had a lot of fun creating our own images to share with others. Here are some of the images we have created in response to this 'so far':

Wearable Arts Fashion Show - 2015

The Wearable Arts Fashion show was held at school. The students showcased their creations of the Fabrics, Fibres and Fashion Inquiry. The students of Whanakitanga Whare researched, designed and created their own masks and outfits. All the materials used were recycled materials. They were only supported by the teachers, rest was done by the children, for the children. This is a very good example of LEARN CREATE SHARE!!!

Pohutukawa Group - Letter to Mrs Irvine - Persuasive Writing

Tuesday 8th September 2015

WALHT write a letter to persuade someone.

SC :

-Opinion

-Three reasons

-Conclusion

-Strong vocabulary

Dear Miss Irvine,

I strongly believe we should all have a chromebook each to ourselves.

My first reason is that if we have a chromebook we will not need to buy any pencils or stationary.This will save us lots of money that we can put towards buying the chromes. It will also save us precious time we waste on looking for pencils.  

We feel  that if we work on chromebooks, we will be able to work from home too. When we are sick we will be  able to catch up on our work  from home.This will help us to keep up with the classroom learning.

Mrs Irvine, if you agree to buy chromebooks for all us, we can help too.

We can help by fundraising for the chromebooks for our class.

We can organise a garage sale or a bake sale to help raise the money

Lastly we feel that we can use the chromebooks to do lots of research. We will be able to finish or work on time.At the moment we have to wait four our turn on to go on the computers or chromebooks. Do you agree with us, Mrs Irvine ? If you do , then please consider our request. We hope you will buy chromes for all of us soon.

FROM: POHUTUKAWA GROUP E2

Counties Manukau Sport - PE Skills Sessions

As part of our PE 'winter sports skills', Whanakitanga Whare have been enjoying participating in Ripper Rugby Skills sessions facilitated by the friendly staff from Counties Manukau Sport.

Here are some images of some of the activities we participated in during Term 3...

Creating: The Next Step in Our Term 3 Topic Inquiry

Earlier this week, we watched a video on "How to Make a Papier Mache Mask", which was shared with us by our teacher. It was selected in response to a couple of the Inquiry Questions our class came up with for our "Fabrics, Fibres and Fashion" topic this term. (You can watch the video here if you would like to see it, too). 

Ms Osborne suggested we could use a "reduce, re-use, recycle" approach to creating an item for our fashion show later this month - by using materials we have around us in our community, such as old newspapers, plastic milk containers and home made flour and water glue... 

...to make ourselves an African "Igbo Ijele" styled mask that we could then personalise to reflect the vibrant and exciting culture around us! Now that we have made our papier mache bases for our masks, we will use some of our design ideas that we made to paint these to match.

Our next step will be to ask ourselves: what reusable or recyclable materials do we have available around us? How could we use some of these to decorate our masks to reflect our own unique cultural 'fashion' ideas?

Learning: Our Term 3 Topic Inquiry 'Wanderings'

WALHT create our own 'wanderings' for our new topic.
Inquiry Topic: Fabric, Fibres and Fashion.
This afternoon in class, we brainstormed ideas together about our Term 3 Inquiry Learning topic. We asked ourselves: What do we want to know? And here are the 'wanderings' we came up with... 
What are our school uniforms made out of?  Nepia & Colsey
What are jackets made out of? What makes them waterproof? Denzel
How do we do a fashion show? Fatu
How do we find out about fashion show stuff? Onyx
How do we walk down the stage? Colsey
How do we print a t-shirt? Colsey
How does the t-shirt design process work? Lyric
Are police jackets and hats made out of denim? Colsey and Nepia
How do you make hats out of denim? Nepia
What kind of art do they use to make fashion designs? Nevaeh
How do you design and make:
- a mask? Athens & Onyx
- jewellery? Krystal & Jazarehus
- leather and denim jackets / chino pants? Fatu
- a dress and a mask (for a ball)? Shania & Shelby

...As you can tell from our ideas, we're ALL really looking forward to creating items for our upcoming whole school fashion show here at Red hill school later this term!

All About Me - Scorpio

All About Me - Mana

This is something that the children have done for the first time using Chrome Books and Google Drawings.

Maori Language Week - Special Guests

On Monday the 27th of July, our whole school was privileged to have the James Cook Kapa Haka 2015 group come and performed for us in the morning. It was an exciting experience for all of us - and we're writing some awesome recounts in response to such an awesome experience! Ka pai!