SELF PORTRAIT: Ko Wai Au? Who Am I?

This term Room 2 created multimedia self-portraits. We used a combination of photographs, collage and painting to share with each other some of the things that make us unique and special.

First, each student created a two lists: 1) things they enjoy doing and 2) adjectives that describe their key personality traits.

The whole class worked really hard to complete their artwork  in time for our first Parent-Teacher interviews for the year.

Check out the movie below to see how Room 2's self-portraits turned out!

Blog of the Week: Visual Mihi - Lennox

The first DLO (Digital Learning Object) task for all Team 5 students in 2020 has been to create a visual mihi.

Each student has had 4 weeks to complete an original piece of work that included a self-portrait, and four  images that represented things (people, places, objects) that were important to them. The real challenge was to 'free draw' using Hyperstudio - no tracing allowed except for the face!

Lennox is the first one to finish his visual mihi - see if you can figure out four things that are important to him.

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?

First Day Back for 2020!

TENA KOUTOU KATOA!

2020 is a special year - not just because it's the start of a new decade but we get to experience a leap year with 29 days in February instead of the usual 28! Today, we got to welcome a new group of Year 7s to join the Year 8s in Team 5. 

This photo is of our Room 2 whanau for 2020 and we are looking forward to an exciting year ahead. Please watch out for highlights of our learning journey throughout the year here on our class blog. 

Feel free to leave comments. Ka kite ano!