Week 6 Whakatauki (Maaori proverb)

This is our whakatauki for the week.  Click on the MP3 link to hear how it should sound.  Leave a comment to explain what you think it means to our learning.

Whaowhia te kete mātauranga.mp3

Fill the basket of knowledge.

Hoplite War

On Friday, the Athenian Goddesses (Allana and Elaine!) declared war on the Hoplite Army.  The Athenians had the advantage of modern weapons (Nerf Guns) but the Hoplites knew how to work as a team.  They overlapped their shields and moved together to protect the whole group rather than just themselves.  The designs on their shields represented the Greek Values they most identified with.  Thanks to Stu for his help with these.

This challenge reminded us of what the Ancient Greeks have taught us.  They showed us that team work is very important.  We can see this also in Māori Values or Kotahitanga and in the Springston A+ Characteristics.  We will tell you more about what we have learned next week.

Snake Fractions

Tasty Fractions

Fluent Reading - Jojo

Fluent Reading

Fractions

Olympics Facts - Did you know?

These are the interesting facts that Chloe found about the Olympics.

Greek Helmets

Check out our home learning challenge - to make an Ancient Greek helmet!  They will go with the shields we are making.  We will have to work together in formation to protect ourselves from Allana and Elaine shooting the Nerf Guns at us on Friday!

The Three Bears - Reader's Theatre

This was our first attempt at doing Reader's Theatre but you can hear us working hard on our expression.  We worked well as a team to produce the story and practiced until we got it right.  

This was also our first try at doing the video ourselves.  What do you think we could do to improve for our next video?  Write us a comment with some advice so we can get better.

Lachie teaches the class!

Elaine was really excited when she learned how to make a movie on the iPad.  See - learning can happen anywhere, any time or any place!  We hope you are doing some learning right now!

Tena Koutou

Check out our song.  We can use this video when there is no ukulele to sing by.  Remember this is an echo song.  Think about how to pronounce the words.