Great to be back! Term 3, Week 1 reflection

It has been a very busy start back to school.
We have the Operetta this term and Year 5 & 6 have been auditioning for the lead parts. Congratulations to Elizabeth who is one of the lead characters in the show!

There is a Movie Making festival going on this term and we were motivated to 
get making after seeing a movie about moving to NZ from South Africa.

We are looking forward to making iMovies this term. We have already made one about
the Lost Property and how much money is sitting in the lost property box.

This week was Maori Language Week and we listened to
and love the new Stan Walker song "Aotearoa"

We have pegged up some new publishing this week.
We have all sorts of writing - procedures, recounts, explanations,
narratives and opinion writing. Come and have a read!

1. korowai
2. The korowai “is a particular type of kākahu (cloak). It is usually decorated with feathers and/or tassels and has a border along the bottom, although this can vary according to tribal custom.”

We made Korowai's or maori cloaks.
First we had to choose the colour from our native birds - Pukeko, Tui, Kea etc
Then we had to make a template for the feather and make lots of them!
Layering the feathers took time.

Last term we reflected on our Term 2 targets. 

Did we meet our goals?
What are our oral language goals?
What are our life goals after listening to Tim Hamiltion the CEO of Magic Netball
Next week we are going to be making our new targets with our Term 3 goals on them.

We will reflect on our targets/goals again at the end of the term
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A visit from a famous Mum

Last term we were lucky to have a NZ representative from the Black Ferms 

come and put us through our paces for fitness.

Lost Property Box Take II

Can you spot the difference from our last movie?

Lost Property Box Take I

Last term we presented our social action for our Financial Literacy inquiry learning
to the school at Positive Assembly and at the Parent Information Evening. 

We also recorded our script and made an imovie of our findings.

This is our first attempt at recording our findings. We watched it as a class and reflected on the quality of the movie. These are the things we thought we could do better next time

• hold the iPad still when filming by leaning on a table to keep it steady
• make sure we don't cut off the heads of people when they are talking
• make sure the people behind the iPad aren't giggling, talking or moving their hands on the iPad because it records all of those background sounds
• when you are speaking you are looking at the camera and make eye contact (we are going to try putting the words on the back of the iPad to read off so it looks  like you are looking straight at the camera)
• we think a song at the start would make it more interesting
• stand still when you are talking so you don't look nervous
• use a loud clear voice and/or a microphone (we need to ask Whaea Sheryl)