Our Grinch

We are so lucky to have such a talented artist in our class! Aylah drew this Grinch on our door so we can fill him up with hearts. We'll get hearts for filling each other's buckets, being kind or helpful or looking after each other.  Hopefully when our Grinch is full of hearts he'll feel less 'grinchy'. We've agreed to have a shared lunch and a movie when our Grinch is full up.

Personal Passion Projects - Making Day

Today we started the fun part - creating and making our passion projects. Everyone had their heads down busily getting on with their creations. There was great collaboration, great discussion and great problem solving going on. 

Have a look at our finished products! Next week everyone will share their projects on their blogs so watch out for them......

South Africa is Judah's passion because he was born there.

Heidi and Arnika explored Shanghai because Arnika's parents had just been there. 

Jordan and Turuki have always loved Space and planets. 

Sophie and Courtney are really into animals. They found out the world's biggest and smallest animals.

Mackenzie and Taitania looove baking. They researched all about yummy cupcakes along with Renee. 

Porsche is passionate about elephants and has shared some very interesting information about them in her diorama. She's even put a QR Code so you can read more about elephants. 

Ephraim is into Combined Martial Arts so he researched some other types of martial arts. 

Thomas and Brock found out about the largest and smallest dinosaurs. 

Charlie and Mason love hunting so they found out great facts about air rifles and then made this great gun. 

Alyah loves dancing. She researched 3 famous ballet dancers and produced this awesome diorama. 

Personal Passion Projects - Part One

This week we have started Personal Passion Projects. The idea is that the kids choose something that they have wondered about, are passionate about or are fascinated by. They start with a 'fat' question - a question that is wide - eg 'what can I find out about planets in the solar system?' or "what's the story behind the Great Wall of China?"
Once everyone had their 'fat' question they wrote down what they already knew about the topic. After that the next step was to write some 'skinny' questions about what they wanted to find out. We talked about where they could find the information they needed and then it was research time.......

                              

When all the research has been done and the questions all answered it will be time to think of an interesting way of presenting their work. This could be in any form that suits the topic and the child from models to speeches to online presentations like a slide show or an imovie to posters - the list is endless.  Each child will present their findings to the rest of the class and hopefully we'll      all be inspired by each other's passions and learn some new things along the way.

I Wish I Was Day

Today we had 'I wish I was... ' day to raise money for Hawera Intermediate. We dressed up as rock stars, horse riders, fashion designers, vets, doctors, farmers, animals and lots more cool things. Don't we all look Fabulous!!!!!!