What a day for our annual speech finals! We’re so proud of Kato, Jamie-Lee, and Aryna, who all represented LS1 with amazing speeches full of great arguments and information. And a huge round of applause for Kato, who took home the win in the Year 4/5/6 category! What a brilliant effort from everyone involved.
We’re enjoying the arrival of spring, with its sunny days and blossoming flowers. The warmer weather has brought out the bees and a sense of renewal.
Happy spring, everyone.
Today, we focused on practising our commenting skills. We learnt that our comments need to start with a greeting, introduction and either a thoughtful or helpful comment too. We know that we don’t have to all of the elements to make a great comment. A helpful hint is to draft the comment before you post them.
Today, we focused identify elements of a quality comment. These elements include a Greeting, an introduction, a positive and specific reply to the Authors blog. Adding a thoughtful or helpful comment can add to our reply. We may not have all of the elements in our comment. One skill we used was to take a screen shot and rotate the annotated labels into place.
Today, we have been creating a comment card for our Families to leave a comment on our blogs. Two skills we learnt today, creating a QR code and inserting a blog link. Helpful tip, start with a specific and positive comment.
Creating a Solar System Infographic
info+graphic = infographic
Infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge, intended to present information quickly and clearly.
LSI had to create an infographic showing the following information they have researched about a specific planet. This infographic needs to be on a different celestial body than the one they chose to do a flowchart on. This way, they learn about different planets in a different, yet exciting way.
The following information needed to be presented in their infographics:
Credit to the following students for sharing their infographics: Angelo, Kawsar/Aryah, Micaela and Azalea
This term, LS1 is “Rocketing Through the Solar System” as part of our STEAM learning. Week 2 / 3 , we used our smart searching skills to find information to create a Planet Profile Flowchart with anyone of the planets that we have researched. We had to add the following information to our flowchart:
Here are just some of the wonderful flowcharts that had been created by Angelo/Peter/Carlo, Rayne, Aryah, Micaela and Amarley
Great work you guys!
We have been learning to make a digital life in google video.
My favourite tool in google videos is transition it makes the slides look more captivating and it has different types of transitions you could use.
when creating a Google video I recommend you use the music audio that you can find in stock and web because it can make your slides more interesting.
Our class demonstrated their creative skills by designing Matariki themed window art. We had to do a “stained glass effect” using cellophane.
We started off by designing our picture on google draw. We printed, laminated and then starting to cut out the pieces we wanted to fill with cellophane. All hands came together to make this project a success.
End result – beautifully decorated windows and door. Great work and effort LS1!
Ki-o-rahi is a collective term for an ancient ball game.
The game of Ki o Rahi stems from the legend of Rahitutakahina and the rescue of his wife Tiarakurapakewai. The rules are as followed: Played for 4 quarters or 2 halves of a set time, teams alternate roles of Kīoma and Taniwha at half or quarter time. Kīoma score by touching Pou/s with the Kī (for potential points) then running the Kī through Te Roto and placing it down in Pawero to convert pou touches into points. Kīoma stop the other team, Taniwha.
It was great fun learning about an ancient ball game as well as learning new vocabulary such as “Teroto” – River, ‘Po” teeth, “Tupu”Rock, “Ki” eggs (balls were used) and “Paweru” which means Island.
