Week 1: Google Sites

Wow, it's term 4 already!  This week we learned how to create our own Google Site based on this terms topic: Renewable Energy.  A massive thank you to Mr Hopkins for creating the site template and getting us started.

We learned so many skills, how to create a site, rename it, edit a page, insert an image URL, and  embed a youtube video!  You will be able to see these sites in progress when we blog about them in Week 3.

Here is a sneek peek of our site template...

Describing a moment in time

Please listen to these pheneomenal descriptions by Kanishka and Clarice.

We would appreciate it if you could leave a comment to tell us how we could improve our descriptions.

Click on the Movenote symbol to hear our movenotes.

Te reo Maori - Conversation

We are learning to introduce ourselves and hold a brief conversation in Maori.  This is a recording made by Joseph and Janine.  If you have any tips for them, please leave a comment telling them your tips.

Can you guess how they are feeling?

Joseph and Janine's Movenote

Fakakaloa Aotearoa 'aki 'a e faiva 'a e Tonga – Enriching Aotearoa with Tongan arts.

Last week we celebrated Tongan Language week.  We made our own Tapa cloth. 

1. We scrunched up plain A4 paper until it was soft.  
2. Then we used a sketching pencil to draw on our patterns (we only chose 2 patterns).  
3. When we were ready, we used a cotton bud to trace over our patterns with brown Indian ink.
4. To finish our Tapa, we used a cloth to wipe brown dye across them.  

Touch Rugby

This week we learned how to pass the ball backwards and catch the touch rugby ball without dropping it.

Here is a short video of our touch rugby drills.

O'Neill Class Touch Rugby

PB4L Assembly

Congratulations to all of our phenomenal PB4L prize winners!

Dragonflies

We have been reading a book called 'The Pebble in my pocket'.  We took a page about dragonflies and sketched our own.  Then Miss Fortes put our dragonflies together and we had to write a sentence to describe what we see.

Next we got into groups of four and moved around our sentences until we had made a poem.