Cook Island Cultural Performance

At the end of Cook Islands Language Week, all the classes that completed the four video challenges were invited to come to a performance. Four of our students were part of the performance: Essence, Izaya, Preses and Solomon. Can you see them in the videos below?

Cook Islands Language Week Challenge 3

Brain Time!

Last week we made a lot of Pic Collages showing what we did during Brain Time. Here are a few of the ones we made:

Term 2 Week 6 Certificate

This week was also the Kapa Haka assembly. Some of our students were performing. Can you find them in the video?

Listening

This week we had a challenge from Barry the Brainy Bee (http://barrybrainybee.blogspot.co.nz/). He asked us to make a blog post showing our learning with he Habit of Mind Listening.  This is what we made:

Shapes!

Mr Davidson told us to make pictures with shapes. We could use triangles, rectangles, circles, hexagons, ovals and squares. Have a look at the videos we took talking about our pictures:

Enviro Day Pledge

Today is Environment Day. We watched a video about rubbish and how it is can kill the fish and other sea creatures. Here is a pledge we made:

FMS Sport

We had some coaches come in to do sports with us yesterday. Here is a Pic Collage Mr Davidson made and a video of us having fun. We were hopping on one leg and singing the abc song on the abc line (Robbie). We were playing fruit salad and when the coach said the fruit we had to go find a fruit to stand on (Essence). We ran to the tree and we ran back to the coaches (Valerie).

Term 2 Week 3 Certificate

Road Safety Week

On Tuesday, we made signs for Road Safety week. We made our own signs first and then we made the classroom sign. We made the classroom sign by painting but we drew some pictures and words before that. Have a look at our sign:

In assembly today, we took all of our signs to the hall so that we could share it with all of the other children. The other classes made their own and brought them too.  Here is a video of all of the posters:

Bridges of Sand

Next time we're going to do it better by making the hills the same size (Jenysis). That is making it right. We will try this next week.

Strike Percussion

On Friday last week, we went to the hall to watch a drum band called Strike Percussion. Their names were: Biscuits, Mufasa and Tim the Tool Man Taylor. They played the drums.

Then they tried to make it rain.  They played a song using the marimba.

Next Mrs Tollestrup and Miss Taylor went up on the stage and did some mean songs. It was amazing.

After that, Sini went up on the stage and played a song on the Cook Island drums. Can you see him?

They got tired and they were thirsty so they made music with the drink cans.

Finally they made music with fire.

My favourite part was the fire (Nari). My favourite part was Biscuits playing the marimba (Essence). My favourite part was when they were playing with the drinks (Vaueli).

Puppet Discovery

Today we made puppets in Discovery Time. The puppets were funny so we were using our Habit of Mind, That's Funny! We also used Stop and Think because stopped and thought about what we wanted to make before we started. Have a look and read about what some of us did during Discovery below:

Patterns!

Today, Mr Davidson asked us to make a pattern using anything we could find in the classroom.  We used Lego, puzzles, lids, rocks and shells, numicon shapes and Bee Bots. Can you make a pattern yourself?

Have a look at the patterns we made. Can you figure out what the pattern is?

Walter                                                 

Maths Work Today!

Today we did lots of fun activities in Maths. The Parrots had to make numbers using sticks. They had to read the words, not the numbers.  Here is what Preses and Vaueli did:

The Finches were learning how to count to 100. Here are videos of Essence and Clover practicing:

Quality Writing

By Sharath

Mouse Discovery

Today we had a Discovery all about mice. We got to hold Jackson, make a collage of a mouse, make up a song for Jackson, and make some toys for him.  Here are some pictures of our collages:

Corrina                                         Clover

Leanna

Detroit                                         Clover

Valerie                                                       Essence

Brain Time and Sand Pit

In Brain Time today, some of us made houses out of cards. It was cool and some were very tall. Look at what some of us did:

First we looked at the pictures of sand sculptures. We saw sharks, dolphins, turtles and alligators. Then we went to the sandpit and made some sculptures. The sand wasn't wet so it wouldn't stick together. We put water on the sand. See what we did here:

Quality Writing

By Essence

Quality Writing

by Essence