Term 3 Weeks 5 & 6 Certificates

We missed last week's assembly so we got two certificates today:

FMS Sport

On Wednesday we went to the hall to do FMS Sport. We learned how to do an overhand throw. You put your hand straight and your feet have to face the wall. Then you can throw it.  See how we do it:

We played a game after that. You had to throw the bean bag to the floor. Everybody has to get it back in the square. We have to run and get some points when they are getting the bean bags. Have a look:

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

Retelling and More Retelling

This week we have been practicing retelling our reading stories. We took some videos of the them. Have a look at what some of us have been doing:

Pasifika

This week in Pasifika, Mr Siilata and the older children taught us some new dances. The boys learned a  Samoan Faitaupati (a slap dance) and the girls learned a Samoan Siva (please, if this is wrong, correct me). Have a look at the older children teaching the younger children. Remember this is their first try at doing this.

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:

Discovery Time! Build the Tallest Tower

Today in Discovery Time, Mr Davidson gave us a challenge to build the tallest tower we could. We used lots of different things. Walter and Izaya made the tallest one. Have a look at what we did:

Happy Day

Today was Happy Day. We went to our morning tea shed and drew some happy day pictures of us. Have a look at what we did and watch the video!

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                                                 

Pasifika

Last Friday we went to our cultural groups again. Mr Davidson is in the Pasifika group and he took some videos of the song and the sasa we're learning. Have a look at how good we've become. We have a guitar and a drum playing with us!

Pasifika Cultural Group

Today the Busy Bees and The Fledglings started cultural groups. Some of us, including Mr Davidson, went to the Pasifika group, run by Mr Siilata. Have a look at what we did:

Here are some videos of the Sasa that the older children were teaching us:

Discovery

Today the Magnificent Monkeys and the Brave Bears did Discovery on the Teddy Bear's Picnic. We had a picnic outside, made some bear masks, built a bear house and dance to The Teddy Bear's Picnic. Here is a Comic Life of what we did:

Jackson is our Friend

During Discovery today, we got to hold Jackson, our class pet. We listened to Mr Davidson. We had to hold him on the tail near his bum and be very careful. He was not too scared of us. See the pictures of us holding him:

Quality Writing

By Izaya

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:

Flower Power Wednesday

Last week Tuakana was given the flower for his kindness so this week he made the selection. He chose Izaya. Izaya had accidentally kicked someone in the class and after he did that he did the responsible thing and apologized to the student. Well done Izaya! It's great to see so many kind things going on in our classroom!

Retell of our Story

The Baboons have once again retold their book from reading today. Have a look:

Robot Discovery

In the morning we went to go to room 6 then we went to make some robots and robot houses with blocks, lego, cardboard, and metal parts. We also made armour and dressed up as a robot. We used Stopping and Thinking when we were making our things. We thought about what we were making before we made it. We also used Creating and Innovating because we created stuff that are new and cool.  Here are some pictures of what we did:

Retell of our Story

Today the Baboons read Caterpillar, Caterpillar. Here is a retell of the story: