Kapa Haka legends

Lots of the A5 students represented Glenholme school at a Kapa Haka event recently. Months of lunchtime practices, meant a really polished and wonderful performance was put on my the Kapahaka Roopu.

Term 4 Maths Assessment: Position and Orientation

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

Term 3: Physical Education Asessment

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.

Poker's Speech

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- Jaden and Poker

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

A5 Tapa Cloths - Poker

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 Puia IMovie- Nevaeh, Neve, Jaden and Poker

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

Cross Country Reflection

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

Pokers Symmetry

Poker's Symmetry

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 porcesses 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- Poker and Mighty
Uni/Multistructural	I have put you boys between unistructural and multistructural because for many of your life processes you only have one idea, however others you have explained briefly why these occur. Next Step: To develop your thinking, I would like to see you come up with several ideas for each section and then try to explain why these occur.

Analysing Data

Batman analysing census NZ data

Camp!

Dogs- Poker Heke

Dogs

Did you know that there are more than 150 breeds of dogs in the world!

What Dogs Look Like
A dog has two eyes, four legs and sharp teeth. And they also have claws. They use their tail for showing how they feel, if their tail is wagging then it means they are happy and if their tail is between their legs then it means they are scared. Their noses are always wet because it is how they cool off because they can not sweat like humans do.

Uses for Dogs
Rescue dogs help people from the snow and from ice. Hunting dogs hunt for deer wild boar and wild pigs Farm dogs bark at sheep to tell them to hurry up and move. Guard dogs guard people's houses. Dogs are very playful sometimes but some dogs are not so playful and can bit you. Sniffer dogs can sniff bags to see if there are any drugs in them . You can pat dogs and hug dogs to show them that you love them. Dogs are warm blooded and they are type of mammals . Husky's pull sleds in snow.

 In conclusion dogs are the best pets because they can help their owner with things and they are cute.

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