Nicola, Sarah and Leila: You Rock!

We had a great time with our special student teachers. 

Nicola, Sarah and Leila have been in our class for seven weeks.

 Ka mau te wehi !

 All the best with your studies, Leila, Sarah and Nicola. 
We are looking forward to having you back in our school soon.

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Maori Rotations - Designing our own Mokos

Moko making from Matariki on Vimeo.

Designing our own Mokos 

Today in Maori, one group designed their own Mokos. We learnt that a Moko is a traditional Maori Tattoo that contains ancestral/ tribal messages specific to the wearer.

Maori Rotations

Today in Maori we had a choice of 4 different classes:

• Making Maori inspired stained "glass" windows
• Creating a Haka
• Contemporary Maori Dance
• Making Poi 

During these classes we focused on how Maori art, dance and language can inspire our learning. 

We all had lots of fun! 

Maori rotations from Matariki on Vimeo.

Inquiry

Inquiry:

Today in inquiry we looked at provocations and began coming up with our own.  We tuned in by watching an interesting video about balloons moving through water. 

Listen to some of our questions asked today:



Some questions we had today during inquiry from Matariki on Vimeo.

Inquiry - Invention and Innovation

Yesterday in inquiry we explored different inventions and innovations. We were able to touch and play with different objects while we asked questions like "when was this invented?" and "why would you need this?"

Today we followed this up by asking "Are these inventions useful?"  

Inquiry - invention and innovation from Matariki on Vimeo.

Jolly Hockeysticks! Practising for Eastern Zones Hockey Tournament

Today we practiced the key skills of hockey to train us for the Eastern Zones tournament. We rounded off with an exciting game of 'King of the Ring'. What fun!

We are Family

Notice about the arts celebration:
Dear parents and caregivers,
The whole school will be at Scots from 9.30am - 2.30pm on Monday 1st September to practise for the arts celebration. If you need to pick up your child early please come to Scots and check in with their base group teacher (we will be in the hall).
Please drop your children off as normal at Worser bay school before 8.55am on Monday 1st September and we will travel by bus to Scots.
If you have not returned your child's permission slip with the payment of $5 to the office please do so by Monday morning.
thanks again,
Chrissy

We are Family from Matariki on Vimeo.

Message from the office: We are very happy for you to order your tickets for the Arts Celebration by email and pay for them on line.  You will still need to collect your tickets from us at the office but it will save you waiting in a queue!!

If you decide to use this option, please email:

cbrett@worserbay.school.nz

Don't forget the ticket payments go into the general school account:

ASB 123478 0039493 00

Arts Celebration

Art Celebration on PhotoPeach

Illustrated Haikus: The beauty of words and illustration, John's Literacy Group

Today some of us in John's literacy group wrote our own haiku (a traditional Japanese poem with three lines- one 5 syllable, next 7 Syllable and last 5 syllables). Then we created exquisite illustrations to put alongside these- integrating what we have learned about the beauty of form in poetry and the skills we have learned in visual art. Beautiful work all round!

Johns Literacy Group - Found Poetry

John’s Literacy Group - Found poetry

Found poetry is created from other texts we might stumble across, writing on a wall, timetables, a chapter from a novel, a letter. This text inspires us in some way to refashion the text and form the words into a poem. It is an original poem, created out of parts of ‘stolen’ text. Our texts varied from a fact book about snow leopards (Olivia), a poison arrow frog (Jack), a shoe factory (Anna) and a recipe to make brownies (Gretel) , a book on rainbows (Alexa and Nea) and more!

We got ‘stealing’ on Monday and Tuesday- stealing words from the walls around the room and from books lying around - and here are the poems we came up with! 

Rainbow: A Found poem

A rainbow,

a spectrum of light,

Takes form,

multi coloured ark

Caused by sunlight,

always appear,

opposite to the sun,

Can be full circles,

Illuminated above the ground

red on top

violet inside,

Caused by light refracted,

Entering a droplet of water,

then reflected,

inside on the back,

refracted again,

leaving it,

Double rainbow,

Second arc,

seen outside,

the order of its colours,

reversed,

red facing red,

both rainbows.

By Alexa

Schumann the Shoeman

The fancy handy work,

all very organised.

Marvellous inventions,

unusual friends,

slithery, tickly spark clean shoes.

The sensible paint,

crafts into place.

Your heart beams upon the marsh.

The breeze swipes past your face, just like a python.

                                        By Anna

Grey Shoe

The gray shoe walked to the door

Wondered, “how was I hoodwinked?”

That shoeman made me in a grey factory

Gray shoe thought, no wonder his pantry

is full of gray belts and gray

laces.

By Rowan

Snow leopards

The endangered trust,

With the mystical dust,

And maybye not easy to tame.

The mountain chill,

They all know the drill,

All of their cubs they must claim.

Olivia C

                      

 lost by found

First few to none saw it

      no people happened ask

              thing knew nothing

                      lost by found

Information inspected

Hear story

   remember interesting

             unconsciously found

                     usual ordinary beach ago

                                rather particular look

much tirelessly i worked on collection

   reason stopped working

        

what is started it while

   sad sort, seemed weird, out of place

beach stuff continued,

 but wasn't right, something.  

seemed no notice

      was most  sure

         

Insulated with hair,

They must all take good care,

And “snow” always fits in their name

Dramatic decline,

With such little time,

And some have been poached on a flame.

Rare beautiful ,

Oh why they would kill,

Such an endangered small range.

Louise M

Poison arrow

frog 

The poison arrow frog.

The native people are even

afraid to go near it.

One of the poison arrow frogs

has enough poison in one

frog to kill thousands.

 so watch out!

By Jack K

 

Brownie

Thick, Chocolate

Hot, tasty serve,

Serve with pleasure,

Eggs and Flour,

Mix with power,

Turn the heat on to 180,

get a 20x30 tray,

and butter,

Icing sugar make the touch!

                                                                          By Gretel

                                                                           Tuesday

My vintage rose

chillin in the silver lake sun

maroon lips eating

pancakes the flavour of tacos

No Big Deal

feelin lazy and hazy

in my bright blue maserati

My neon ping pong ball

looking as fresh as a daisy

baby chicks walkin past singing

Karaoke

Kids park their cardboard car and it’s

TUESDAY

By Ally

Experts are learning the Charleston

The expert group learning the Charleston at morning tea today from Matariki on Vimeo.

A group of "experts" are learning a new dance. This is going to be performed at the Arts Celebration.

Welcome to Leila, Sarah and Nicola: Our teaching students