We have used our creativity, bravery and perseverance to create our poems, plays and songs. We have practiced, practiced, practiced! We are looking forward to sharing everything we have done with you all very soon... Watch this space!
Thursday, 20 August 2020
Thursday, 13 August 2020
Historical Collage Murals
We have begun working on large collage murals which tell the stories of our past from Tane te Wananga through to Maui, Whatonga, Tara and Te Whiti. We will also include the arrival of our school on the site. It is a really abstract piece! We looked at the work of the New York artist Conrad Marca-Relli for inspiration. Our Artists in residence, Cloe and Teuila have been directing the project and everyone will be having a go at tearing uo paper and other materials to contribute to this amazing project.
Below is a work by Marca-Relli.
The mural will be going up on the walls of Mahutonga Matariki next week. Come and have a good look at them and see if you can identify the story they set out to tell.
Publishing Our Writing
In Māhutonga Matariki, our students have been publishing pieces of writing that they are proud of. This is the final stage of the "writing process." Students have been publishing these pieces to share with you as part of the Arts Celebration.
It is really important that students have an authentic audience for their writing. This engages writers and gives them a purpose to write. When students have an audience, they learn that their ideas and opinions are interesting and meaningful to others. This is engaging and develops enthusiastic writers who want to edit and improve their work.
We are learning to see ourselves as writers with something interesting to say!
Sunday, 9 August 2020
Wild Things Disco 14th August
By Pyrenees and Jasmine
Theme - Wild animals/ jungle animals
Miramar & Maupuia Community Centre
Come dressed in your wildest animal costume!
Prices $7.50 - Please pay via Online Payments by 2pm on Friday 14 August.
Please note: Online sales only. No cash will be accepted on the night.
There will be no food at the Disco this year, so please bring your child fed and watered. You can bring a drink bottle too - for those dancers needing a refreshment!
For every ticket, your ticket holders will receive a lemonade ice block and a small bag of lollies.
Collaborative Poetry- Tuakana Teina
Last week, our Social Positive Purpose Group worked collaboratively with the Year 3 students to create some poetry. The aim was to teach the juniors about the poetic devices that the seniors have been using in their poetry. It was great to collaborate and learn from each other!
When I feel excited
I bounce off the walls
When I feel excited
I explode excitement
When I feel sad
I burst into tears
When I feel sad
I read a book
When I feel sad
I slam the door
When I feel nervous
I freeze into a ball
When I feel nervous
I shiver with scaredness
When I feel hangry
I screamed angrily
When I feel loved
I get happy and my heart bursts
Hearing tui waking me up in the morning
Hearing the teacher talking to my class
Hearing kids and me playing at playtime
Eating toast in the morning
Eating orange for lunch at school
Eating pizza for lunch
Drinking water in the afternoon
Drinking orange juice
Drinking fizzy drinks at home
Smelling pizzas cooking in the oven at lunch
Childhood Tracks by Ethan Gigi and Oli
Anger by Oscar & Charlie
Anger
It flies through our head
like a bullet
Causing happiness to scramble away
Making everyone grumpy
Smelling delicious flowers
Smelling pollen in the flowers
Hearing tui sing loudly
Hearing beautiful getting pollinated by bees
Eating delicious KFC
Eating the burning pizza
Feeling water on your face
Feeling the fresh breeze on my face
Love By Charlotte and Cara
The soul
Love is form of relationship
Flying through the air
as its formed
Love is a red hot heart
Burning through The soul
Hearing my Dad screaming
Hearing my little brother throwing dishes on the ground
Hearing seagulls stomping on the roof
Seeing my neighbours jumping on the trampoline
Seeing seagulls flying past the window
Seeing harakeke bending in the wind
Eating chocolate caramel goody-goody-gumdrop ice-cream
Eating pancakes with chocolate and raspberries
Eating tacos with guacamole and black beans
Saturday, 8 August 2020
Visiting Tuatara Kids- Social Positive Purpose Group
As part of our Social Positive Purpose Group, we are planning action! We want to give back to our school and community. 7 of our students planned a trip to help out at Tuatara Kids.
Mae: It was fun playing with the little kids and teaching them new things. It was cool learning the songs they sing, also it was fun reading to the kids and drawing with them. It was also interesting when we were doing the dances at the end of the session, and it was pretty cool walking all the way down the hill and up again. We drew an evil-Sabine-witch and an amazing princess-fairy-Sabine. I hope we visit again soon because they cried when we left...
Friday, 7 August 2020
Forest Protectors- Our Trip to Centennial Bush Reserve
This week we learnt all about being kaitiaki of our environment during our visit to Centennial Bush with Te Motu Kairangi.
Some of our Social Positive Purpose Group made a movie about the day:
On the walk we did a lot of activities. I will let you know what we learnt.
On the walk we did a lot of activities. I will let you know what we learnt. At the kereru nest one, we learnt that kererus can in fact get drunk on the berries they eat and that is when they are most vulnerable and when its predators attack them and that is why they were endangered.
In the second one with Nicola, we sketched the living plants and things. I did a thing with the leaves where you put them under the page and rub your pencil over it to make a kind of leaf skeleton.
In the one with Nik, we did a thing were we tried to estimate how many living things were in a square metre. On my square metre there were about 20-30 living bugs and someone actually found a massive spider that if you make a circle with your thumb and index finger it would be as big as the hole in between.
We also did a thing on a walk to the higher bushes and we talked about birds and adaptation and how some birds adapt to a new habitat and some don't. Also birds get killed by mammals because they stay still but the mammals don't hunt by sight, they hunt by scent. They die because birds hunt by sight so the birds aren't used to mammals.
By Sammy
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