Getting Reading for Camp

Yesterday, Room 22 and half of Room 18 worked together to complete our Getting Ready for Camp infographic.  We discussed each area and recorded our personal responses to each section.

Found Poetry - Pepeha

As part of our concept Turangawaewae we have been learning our pepeha.  We have used the text Toku Pepeha from a Junior Journal 53 to create a found poem.  It is going to take ages for all of us to get them finished so we will update this post as they are completed.  This is a two part process, with the first being to 'find' the poem within the text and the other is a different way of publishing the poem.  Here is one part of Grace's work.

To create this, Grace found an image of a marae, she then added her found poem.  Next, she took a photo of herself against a green screen and removed the background using the alpha feature in Pages.  She was then able to overlay her photo onto the page.  Grace is still working on her text, which she is decorating with Maori art and symbols.  

Preparing our camp speeches

One of our Camp Kawau traditions is the speech competition.  Everyone has to write and present a speech and the classroom winners present their speech again at camp.  We have been learning what types of speeches we could write and how to best deliver them.

We have talked about using the hamburger model and that writing a speech is like any other piece of writing.  It needs an introduction, a sequence of events or ideas and a conclusion.  We have to decide what our topic is and whether we are going to inform, persuade or entertain our audience.

Tabloid Sports - pre Gala

On the Friday before the gala day, the whanau leaders and deputy leaders organised a tabloid sports afternoon for the whole school.  This happened so any rooms that were needed the next day for the gala could be set up.

Lolly Leis - Gala

We made lolly leis with Rooms 1 and 15 to sell at the gala.  We made the leis with harakeke (flax) which is actually quite hard to do.   Mrs Adams from the gala committee showed us what to do and we had a production line going.   We made just under 300 leis in two afternoons.

Self Portraits

We learned to how to use pastels more effectively with Mrs Smith when we create our Picasso inspired self-portraits.

Swimming Goals

Each of us identified a goal that we need to work towards during our swimming lessons.  We recorded our goals on a PADLET.  At the end of our lessons, we will assess whether we achieved our goals or not.

Found Poetry

We have been creating poems out of an existing text.  It is not as easy as it looks.

Here are some examples of poems we have 'found from a chapter of the book The Switch by Anthony Horowitz.

Nightingale Square

A full moon

empty shadows raced ahead

a few minutes after midnight

the black night sky

had once brought tad discomfort.

Danica

Katherine’s Found Poem

Nightingale Square - taken from The Switch by Anthony Horowitz

There was a full moon.

As Finn and Tad crossed the empty square,

Their shadows raced ahead.

Everything was pale and grey.

Buildings like paper cut-outs

Against the black night sky.

Tad glanced at the house,

It was tall with classical

white pillars,

Three windows and a balcony.

Tad crossed another world

Everything was square

Tad had in mind

Number twenty nine

My lucky number

Tad glanced

It was tall and wide

Steps leading up to the front door

Next to it

At the black

Thick ivy followed

Past a balcony.

by Manny

 There was a full moon that night

The empty shadows

Searching

Somewhere to hide

A few minutes after midnight

The church bells toll

They seemed far away

Almost in another world

Everything was pale

Like paper cut outs against

The black night sky

In areas of London

Number twenty nine

That’s my lucky number, Bobby- boy

Tad glanced at the house

Narrow, white pillars

On the corner of the square.

By Matthew

Macey’s Nightingale Square Poem       

There was a full moon,

Empty square,

Shadows raced searching for somewhere to hide,

A few minutes after midnight,

The church bells toll the hour

They seemed far away,

in another world.

Everything was pale,

Buildings like paper cut-outs against the black night sky,

One of the smartest areas in London.

Once brought with growing discomfort.

Metal railing,

White pillars,

On the corner of the square,

Thick ivy grew past the windows.

Turangawaewae Art

We used pastels to create our Turangawaewae art which depicts our maunga (mountain) and our awa (river) or moana (sea) and represents the places that we each belong to.

The Game of Awesome

The Game of Awesome is a game that we can play to help us be more creative writers.  So far we have only played the game so check in later on as we publish some of our writing.

Ash Wednesday

The season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday.  We went to Mass and were signed with ashes by the teachers.  In class, we reflected on what Lent means to us and wrote our lenten promises.

Swimming Sports @ Pompallier

Every year all the Senior School and a few Year Four students go up to Pompallier Catholic College to compete in the St. Francis Xavier Catholic School swimming champs.  Some of us were swimming to be selected to represent the school at the Whangarei champs and some of us just had a go.  It was a great day.

Rimu Whanau trip to Waitangi

On 21 February, Rimu Whanau went by bus to Waitangi to learn more about our history and the Treaty of Waitangi.

Some waka that were used on Waitangi day.

School Library Dashboard

Mrs Lewis has worked really hard to create our School Library Dashboard.  Take a look via this link or visit via our school website.  There are also links to both the library and the school website down the side of this blog.

Whanau Leader Speeches

Every year, each whanau elect two whanau leaders and two deputy leaders.  This year, Rimu Whanau had eight fantastic applicants who had to deliver a speech telling the rest of us what attributes they have that would make them a good leader.  Well, the speeches were fantastic and it was a really difficult job to make the appointments.  The results are as follows;

Rimu Whanau Leaders for 2017 - Kate and Nahuel
Rimu Deputy Leaders for 2017 -  Macey and Quin
Rimu Whanau Committee for 2017 - Hayley, Ella, Angel and Daniel