Mrs G and Baby Avery Visit

Mrs G surprised us all with a visit a few weeks ago. It was wonderful to see her again and for us to get the chance to meet Baby Avery, what a handsome wee chap. We also got to enjoy an ice block and some game time outside.

Term 4 Physical Education Assessment: Athletics and the art of running, jumping and throwing

Term 4 Maths Assessment: Position and Orientation

Learning Intention: Locate positions on a treasure map using the major compass directions.

Maori and ICT Assessment - Pepeha using Videolicious App - Term 4

Bryson talking about his koromatua

Learning Intention: 

Identify all 6 Ngati Whakaue Koromatua and share background information on one chosen Koromatua. Pronounce Māori names and words correctly.

Term 3 Physical Education Assessment- Jump Jam

Learning Intention: We are learning to participate in regular physical activity to improve our fitness levels.

Term 3 Art Assessment: Pastel Jigsaw inspired by Warren Pohatu

Learning Intention: To create a piece of visual art that depicts Aotearoa’s native flora and fauna

Success Criteria:

• Replicate and enlarge a small image to become a large image.
• Reproduce similar colors, shades and tones, using pastels.
• Recreate the original artwork.

This is what the student's of A5 completed

This is the original

Term 3 Maths Assessment: Measurement (Time)

Learning Intention: We are learning to tell time using both analogue and digital time.

Bryson is working at Level 2

Tapa Cloth Maths

Learning Intention: We ave been learning to demonstrate geometrical translations in the form of a tapa cloth.

Success Criteria: 

- Show an example of reflection, rotation, translation and tessellation

- Use traditional island designs

- Use traditional colours of a tapa cloth

Te Reo Assessment

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand and use some familiar food vocabulary and recognise and use some sentences often used about food.

Success Criteria:

- I can understand some familiar words about food when I hear them

- I can say some familiar words about food

- I can write some familiar words about food.

SOLO Cause and Effect Map- Bryson and Niwa

Learning Intention: We are learning to use a cause and effect map to analyse an environmental issue causing harm to a habitat.

Te Puia IMovie- Brodie, Niwa, Kenai and Bryson

Learning Intention: We are learning to use the IMovie Ipad app to demonstrate a learning experience we have had

Bryson Cross Country

Cross Country

Learning Intention: Participate in and describe how our body responds to regular and vigorous physical activity in a range of environments.

The Great Debate . . . Red vs. Blue!

As part of our persuasive writing unit this term, we have been working hard to create persuasive debate arguments for our given colour.  In this debate, one team had to persuade us that red was better, where the other team was persuading us of blue.

Learning Intention:

We are learning to write a persuasive text

Success Criteria:

1. Have at least 3 strong arguments with back up explanations.
2. Use paragraphs to order our arguments
3. Use emotive language

Maori Assessment Term 1- School Haka

Learning Intention- We are learning to perform the school Haka with mana.

Success Criteria- We will know we have met the learning intention when. . . 

• we use distinct actions
• we use correct pronunciation
• we perform with passion and flare

Term 1 SOLO Taxonomy Topic- Living Things

Our focus in term 1 has been on living things. Part of this was looking at the life processes of living things and why these are so important. We focused our time looking at the Tuatara, investigating the living processes that enable them to live their life here in Aotearoa. To do this, we used the MRS GREN acronym: M-ovement, R-eproduction, S-ensitivity, G-rowth, R-espiration, E-xtretion and N-utrition.

SOLO Level	Comment- Bryson
Multistructural	Bryson, I have placed your information as multistructural because you have been able to come up with a number of ideas and facts about the life processes of the Tuatara. Next Step: To reach relational, you need to explain why these things affect the life of the Tuatara, using ‘because’ statements.

Camp!

Analysing Data- The Flash Math Group

Check out The Flash analysing and discussing their census data!

That's So Gross

That's so gross! By Mitchell Symons This books about gross things like blood snoring stink toes and like people hurting them self with a toothpick and when you sneeze your heart stops for one second and every year 100 people choke to death on ball point pens Of 20 -a-day smokers inhaled a weeks worth of nicotine at once they would die instantly and if your tooth gets rooted then you really need to brush your teeth some people are hairy like a yeti some people even get food in there moustache some people even spit in the pool some spiders are hairy like humans some people pee on the toilet on the seat some people don't have showers I chose this book because I thought it would be funny Marvels and Mysteries-Monsters by Paul Mason I chose this book because it's about vampires and other scary things that interested me.

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