Reading: Kōwhiringa - The Ants and the Grasshopper

During Week 2 of Term 3 some of our Kōwhiringa readers in Kōtuku read the story of The Ants and the Grasshopper. Miss Skinner set the challenge to take their learning and retell it as a movie to share with the rest of Kōtuku. This group of students have done such an amazing job, and we can't wait to see what they come up with next. Well done everyone!

Uru Mānuka: Explain Everything

This week during Uru Mānuka the children were set a challenge of creating a video around what they know about Explain Everything. They only had 25 minutes to create these.

Take a look

Vitolio & Codi-Jae

Ollie & Sadie

Naomi & Daisy

Dylan & Jaden

Cameron & Nicole

Izaak & Sean

Reading: Kōwhiringa - Think of a Name

This week some of the learners in Kōwhiringa have chosen to learn about Puppies.

First they read the story Think of a Name - Which is about a boy who cannot decide what to call his dog.

The children then talked about the things needed when you get a puppy. The looked at other texts.

Finally they had to decide how to share their learning back to the rest of the group.

Matthew decided to create a quiz - This has been done on Explain Everything and then turned into a movie.

Take a look

Reading: The Story of Rona

During Week 7 some learners in Kōtuku decided to learn about a Māori legend of Rona and the Moon. Miss Skinner set the challenge to take their learning and create a movie retelling the legend to share with the rest of Kōtuku. This group of students have done such an amazing job, and we can't wait to see the next one. Keep up the good work!

Reading: Road Safety

During Week 5 some learners in Kōtuku decided to learn about Road Safety. Mr Gibson set the challenge that they needed to take their learning and share it with Ruru.

This caused some challenges especially as some quickly remembered that they just couldn't give them pages and pages to read as that was boring.

Special thanks to the Ruru children for letting us share. We are looking forward to the next time we get to do this.

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BeFunky

We have enjoyed working with Miss Morgan as part of Uru Mānuka.

Over the past couple of weeks we have been learning about how to be SMART when sharing information online. We learned about a cool app called BeFunky that can change photos.

While Miss Morgan was away Mr Gibson challenged the learners in Kōtuku to create an Explain Everything Slide (static) that had a disguised classroom object on it. We also had to give a clue of what it is.

Check them out below.

 

Our Walk to Wigram

As you know Kōtuku walked down into Wigram to visit the new site, the landing and a Rest home.
A huge Thank You to the parent helps and the businesses that could speak with the children on that day.

But why?

This term the students in Kōtuku are learning about our new Community and how we can leave a lasting impression on it. The students came up with lots of ideas of things they saw during their walk and have been doing lots of thinking around this.

Take a look at the slide show below of where we are up to.