Art Alive! - Alberto Giacometti - Swiss Sculptor - VALESSA

This term we will learn about 6 different artists and their style of work. In Room 2, Ms. Tapuke is teaching us about a famous Swiss sculptor called Alberto Giacometti. He developed a unique style to convey his feelings about the human experience of World War II. 

Check out the poster that VALESSA made below with key information about Giacometti and his most famous works. Feel free to leave a comment on her blog.

Myths and Legends - An Aboriginal Story of Creation - JARREKA

 Find out more about a creation story from Aboriginal people of Australia from Jarreka

Today for Inquiry our main focus is all about an Australian myth based on a Blue-tongued lizard named Lungkata and his creation Uluru.

Inquiry - Myths and Legends - DEEJAY

All the students in Team 5 had the chance to learn about 6 different stories from around the world. DeeJay has created a poster to share his learning with a key to identify all the elements in each story. Leave a comment on his blog

Using the key, find out which myths/legends feature:

a) animals

b) death

c) Gods or Goddesses

d) landforms

e) magic

This is all the key thing that where in all of the myths and legends.

INQUIRY - Watcher of the South - Xhosa Legend (South Africa) - Oali'i, Zamera, Pauline

Students in Team 5 have been learning across our block traditional stories from different cultures. In Room 2, Ms. Tapuke shared a story from the Xhosa people of South Africa about how the famous landmark, Table Mountain in Cape Town was formed.

Check out the recording from Oali'i, Zamera and Pauline of their retelling of the myth and their awesome pronunciation of isiXhosa words!

Watch this video and practise three different clicking sounds for words in isiXhosa  with the letters c, q and x  - have fun!

Inquiry - Biosphere 2 - Kauri

Kia ora! Today Kauri share's his learning about Biosphere 2 - an interesting experiment that started in 1987. Check out Kauri's slideshow below:

Inquiry: MADISON - Hydrosphere

This week check out Madison's summary about the hydrosphere,  all the parts of Earth that are  made up from water in solid (ice), liquid (e.g. oceans, lakes, rivers) or gas (vapour) states.

Task description: For this task I learnt about hydrosphere. I had to write what I know about hydrosphere, and what I learned.

Blogger of the Week: KAHURANGI Te Taha Tinana (Physical Wellbeing)

This term for our inquiry we are looking at Te Whare Tapa Wha. This concept compares our bodies to a whare (house) with tapa wha (four walls or sides). Each wall or side represents an aspect of our health that we need to look after so that we are strong and healthy.

In our class, we worked together to find out more about TE TAHA TINANA or our physical wellbeing. First they drew a gingerbread person and covered it with different ways their friends and family could use to look after their bodies.

Simon and Kahurangi

Then they had to create three targets for the next week that would help them to improve their physical wellbeing.

Kahurangi's personal goals were:

Do/Movement

My first goal is to join more sport groups. Also i want do more running activities.

Eat/Drink

One of my goals for physical well being is to improve my eating just like getting better at deciding whether i want healthy food.

Hygiene

Last i want to get better at brushing my teeth more often and have showers 2 times a day not once.

What three goals could you set yourself to have better physical health?

Blog of the Week: LENNOX: Zebrafish - Genomics 2019

We learned about Zebrafish and how they have 70% of our DNA they use zebrafish for testing sometimes to see if they can heal humans because they have 70% of our genes so they use them to test if something can cure the human. and they have different stripes and they grow really really fast and there eggs are transparent too.They eat zooplankton, phytoplankton, insects insect larvae worms.

Self-Portraits using Micrography - Ko Wai Au? Who Am I?

Kia ora koutou!

Room 2's movie today for PENN, our school's TV news, was inspired by our inquiry learning topic. In Team 5 this term, the theme is Ko Wai Au? Who Am I? 

We each created self-portraits using a special style of graphic art called micrography. The word can be broken down into two parts: micro = small and graphy = letters.

Our teacher took our photo and printed them out onto  A3 sheets of paper. First, we traced the outline of our head, hair and face in pencil and then we replaced all of the lines with words and sentences about ourselves.

Take a look at our art work in this movie and see if you can spot:

a) which student walks to school?

b) which student loves reading and maths?

c) which student likes telling funny jokes all the time?

d) which student's favourite colour is yellow?
e) which student loves to dance?

Blog of the Week: LEONE- Self Portrait using micrography

Our inquiry topic in Team 5 this term is Ko Wai Au? Who am I? Students in Room 2 used a style of graphic design called micrography. The meaning is from two words:  micro = small, graphy = writing.

Leone explains in his blog post how he created a super cool picture of himself using words. Give it a try and let us know how your own self-portrait turned out!

Blog of the Week: Ta'ani I Wonder Animation

Blog of the week this time comes from Ta'ani - he has created a colourful animation for his 'I Wonder' question for our inquiry topic this term on Guardians of the Galaxy (Space). Check it out below.  For more of his learning, click here.


Today i made a movie on my opinion what i want to find out and to tell other people about where the sun goes so please watch my movie and hope you enjoy