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.

Robin's Speech

Robin's Speech

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 Puia IMovie- Jasmine, Rachel, Tupara and Robin

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

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- Robin and Andrew

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

Cross Country Interview

Cross Country

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

The Twits

The Great Debate . . . Green vs. Yellow!

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 yellow was better, where the other team was persuading us of green.

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

Robin'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 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- Robin
Multistructural	Robin, 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!

Swimming Success!

We have been working hard this term on our basic swimming skills and our freestyle and backstroke styles. We have been learning to skull and tread water just in case we are in deep water and need to survive until help comes. Our freestyle foci have been around our arms, breathing and kicking. With backstroke, we have been focusing on keeping our tummys up, chins up, arms close to our ears and going in a straight line. Check out our videos!

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