Week 9: Pest Monitors

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We have been learning about Native Birds this term. As part of our topic we learned about pest monitoring and decided to monitor our own bushwalk to see if we have any pests that could be threatening the native birds around our school.

We used the design thinking process to create a pest monitor. We used cardboard to construct the tracking tunnel of the pest monitor with sponges and food colouring at either end. This is our prototype. We will be putting them out this week over night. Hopefully they hold up and capture some footprints.

Watch this space!

Week 8: Tahitian Inspired 3D Flowers

Hi Bloggers Check out our art!

We created these using a basic leaf outline as a template that ends up being a petal. We created Tahitian inspired designs on two petals. Then we photocopied them and coloured them using dye and sponges. Once they were dry we cut them out and used a glue gun to glue arrange them to create an 'ocean wave or Moana' effect.

ps Miss Fortes got this idea from some artwork she saw in another post and we loved it.

Week 3: 'Student led' Ako Hiko Parent Workshop

Kia orana bloggers

Four of our very own students facilitated one of our Ako Hiko parent meetings today. They were Janine, JD, Nathaniel (all year five students) and Brooklyn (year four).

Their fabulous workshop gave parents the opportunity to upskill themselves in google docs, screencastify and develop their digital footprint.

Here are some photos of from today

 

Feel free to have a browse through the presentation below

Week 2: Kia toa performance

Today we were lucky enough to have Bernard Mangakahia perform for us. The title of his show was 'Kia Toa'.

He used powerful stories, interactive poetry and dance to take us on a journey of resilience. One thing that really stood out for us was that resilience isn't just something that you do on your own. You can be resilient together with others. For example, it's impossible to do a one handed clap on your own but if you work with someone else you can both be resilient and clap together.

Pohatu class highly recommend Bernard's Kia Toa show. Phenomenal learning!

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Week 7: STEM Challenges

This week our teachers introduced STEM challenges. STEM stands for Science, Technology, English and Maths.

We had two challenges that involved us working in teams. For some of us this was very difficult during the first challenge, but after reflecting on different ways to problem solve we found team work a lot easier during the second challenge.

Here are some questions we have for you.

1. If you have done a STEM challenge before what challenges did you come across?
2. How did you overcome those challenges?

Thank you for reading

From the STEM-tastic learners in Pohatu class

Week 9: Cultural Day by Bendeguz

I liked Culture day because people can see how your cultural dress or lava lava. It is good to wear your costumes on Culture day and show everyone that you are proud of your culture.

On Culture day me and my class made shadow puppets. We started them on week eight. First we started of with Miss Fortes giving us some paper with a shadow puppet template. Then we used a pencil and a ruler to make intricate designs. We drew patterns with the pencils. Then we made the line bold with a felt pen. After that we colored in the shadow puppet.  When we finsihed colouring we had to cut the puppets out and put in needles that we could bend so the piees could move.

After that we made a video about the culture of Hay Park School.  I realy enjoyed this because now I know how to make new patterns and I know about shadow puppets.

By Bendeguz

Week 8: Nathaniel @ Hay Park School: Our phenomenal assembly

Did you miss our assembly yesterday? Nathaniel has written a brief recount of what happened.

Nathaniel @ Hay Park School: Our phenomenal assembly: Hi bloggers, Yesterday setoga class presented a new assembly. It was very cool because we did something that was different to what the oth...

Week 7: Reading Together

A big 'thank you' to the families who attended our second Workshop. Workshop 3 will be held next Thursday 23rd June @ 9.00am in the school library. All families are welcome.

Jesse reading together with his mum

Seth and his mum having a blast reading together.

Week 2: Learning how to embed a document

Today we have had loads of fun learning how to embed a google drawing into our blogs.   This is uber exciting because 18 of us now have our own individual blog! 

Week 2: Dance

We have been learning about a range of cultures and how they differ from each other.  This afternoon we learned about four types of national dance.  Greece - Zorba, New Zealand - Haka, Scotland - Highland fling and Samoa - Sasa.  Each dance had a different beat, different tone and used different parts of your body.  

We asked Miss Fortes is we could try the highland fling.  This is a link to the YouTube tutorial we used which was uploaded by Highland Dance Practice. 

Watch us practice in the video below

Week 2: Tuhi mai, Tuhi atu

Kia orana, talofa lava, malo lelei, namaste, kia ora, üdvözöljük and welcome to our class blog!  We are super excited to be shairng our blogging journey with Ohaewai School, Sockburn School and Grey Main School.

This is a google presentation that we are currently working on.  It has a little bit of information about each of our phenomenal learners in Setoga class.  Enjoy

Week 1: Sports Profile

Welcome back to term 2!  This week we are celebrating the success of an already outstanding sportsman.