Starwars Writing

The Starwars Concept group have been learning about change, looking at the weather, and experiments with ice. They all chose their favourite piece of writing and here they are;

Working Towards Goals

At writing time we choose what goals we need to work on and then we strive towards them. 

My House, My Castle

In writing we are using our study of homes to look back a few centuries at castles. Miss Eve showed us real castles she's been to such as Edinburgh Castle in Scotland and the Hohensalzburg fortress in Austria. Some of us have been to a real castle - Lanarch Castle in Dunedin. Hunter C went to a castle in Australia that had real jewels. We explored the parts of a castle, photos of real castles and even used a 'how to' video on YouTube to get ideas for how to draw our castles. We're going to use our castles to do some writing this week.

"Castles normally have rocks and wood. And also castles have flags, drawbridges and windows." - Tom

"A castle is a safe place where you can hide from people." - Felix

"My castle has a drawbridge, walls and a roof." - Benji

"Castles can have bricks and stones." - James

"Some castles have flags." - Lily

"They have walls and rooves." - Ashton

"Castles have really good hiding places. The enemies can fall into the moat." - Luka 

"Castles have canons and drawbridges. They pull them up and down for people to come and fight." - George 

"Castles have flags on the top of the roof." - Hunter C

Curious Collaborating Creations

We have been collaborating this afternoon. To make our collage we have been glueing pieces of fabric and finding blank spaces for them on our river art piece. It's very effective when you have different shades of blue. "It looks really pretty and I like that shiny shade of blue. It shines a lot and it will match in with the glitter." -Elsie, 5 

Kimi Akau Mahi Pai

  

We chose our Mahi Pai (good learning actions) for our Kimi Akau community. Our Tiki is looking out for people who are showing Mahi Pai.

He chose Chase to get the first Mahi Pai in Kimi Akau for good listening. 

Today Tiki was watching out for people who were working together, sharing and helping each other. Look at us sharing our equipment and colouring our own tiki.

We sang the Taniwha song with Ms. Eve. We are going to make our own Taniwha to protect our learning habitiat.