Term 3 Week 9

Discovery this week involved the Year 1-6 students, as the Yr 7-8 were out participating in another William Pike Challenge.

We focused on the Key Competency 'Managing Self'.

Blossom Trees
Created by blowing through a straw, and using a plastic bottle as a stencil.

Spring Flowers
Collage

Klikko Creations

Tomato Relish

Well done to the team who made the Tomato Relish ... yum, yum Tomato Relish on PhotoPeach

Discovery Term 4, Week 1

Key Competency

Language, Symbols and Text

·         Communication (Adelle)

·         Talking to each other (Zoe)

·         Listening to each other (Tara)

·         Writing to someone like a letter (Nathan & Jack)

·         Gaining confidence in a range of presenting

Theme:  Classrooms of the Future

·         Kaiden shared his ideas when he was building with Lego

·         Tim and Thomas M listened to Kaiden’s ideas

·         Alicia, Bonnie, Te Korowai and Grace made a plate of food symbolising the food of the future.

·         Zoe and Indy used text on their pictures

Huatahi and June joined us to share their talents in flax flower making ...

Flax flowers on PhotoPeach

The rest of our discovery time was based on classrooms of the future. Check out our creations and thinking. 
Discovery Term 4, Week 1 on PhotoPeach

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Reflections

Next time I will remember to …

Bronson will remember to make something with writing on it (Adelle)

Tara will remember to make more things like furniture with the playdough (Hannah)

Zoe is going to remember to do more activities

Sam is going to remember to pack up the Lego (Zoe)

I discovered …

Zac said, “Te Korowai learnt how to make cow poo in the future.”

Kristen said, “Harri discovered that he could make a wooden classroom.”

Tim said, “Kimberley discovered that when she put a piece of wood on the table it kept on moving.”

Thomas M said, “Jordan learnt how to make flax flowers.”

Its cool how …

Te Korowai said, “Jonathan thought it was cool how you could make flowers out of flax.”

Bronson said, “It’s cool how Thomas F made a flying car.”

William said, “Grace thought it was cool making flowers out of flax.”

Legend said, “Ben said it was cool how you pulled the cars back and then they go forward.” 

Discovery Week 8, Term 3

Discovery Week 8, Term 3

Managing Self

Liam says that when someone is being pain don’t do it back, just walk away. Role model

Adelle said doing the right thing at the right time. Choices

Ben said, no punching. Hands to yourself

Alicia said no hitting. Hands to yourself

Kristen said that you need to be ready for learning. Responsibility

Olly said that if there is a big line you need to wait patiently. Patience

Hannah said you need to worry about what you are doing, and not the person next to you. Distraction

Discovery Week 8, Term 3 on PhotoPeach

Reflection

What was the hardest thing for you to do today?

Tim and Ben found it hard to make the bay blades because they kept on breaking.

Kristen had to manage herself while trying to get the paint into the corners.

Lucy found it hard to be patient while waiting for her turn to do the painting.

Jack found it hard to keep the water in the trough.

Zachary found it hard to try and made a car out of Klikko.

Paige had to manage herself at the trough so that she didn’t get other people wet.

Bronson had to manage himself by finding the right pieces to make a dragon.

I am proud of myself today because I …

… didn’t get anyone dirty with the paint – Hannah

… finished my wood block well – William

… didn’t get anybody covered in paint – Jessie

… had a good try at the paint activity – Zoe

… made a pyramid with Mr Williams – Bradley

… made a cheese cutter – Sam

… joined in to make a play – Lucy

… made a hover hut out of Klikko with Thomas H – Jack

… made a gate out of Klikko – Alicia

Discovery Term 3, Week 5

Today in discovery we did painting with our feet, painting like Michaelangelo (painting under the tables), ice chalk painting and photography.

Discovery Term 3, Week 3

Discovery Term 2, Week 3 on PhotoPeach

Reflections

Now I Know…

Poppies are the same colour as roses Alicia

How to build a wooden 22 Harrison

How to paint a poppy Bronson

How to put a warratah in the ground Jonathan

How to make a stretcher Paige

I want to know more about …..

Where people slept during war James

How to make bigger  hospital bases Liam

About ww1 TF

What it was like in the mud Kaiden

Building stuff Aramona

What else the nurses did other than bandaging? Tara

I wonder……

How comfortable it would be to sleep in trenches Marc

If we can paint boxes and put wheels on them Ryan

Did the nurse get tired of running around Adelle

How many people the nurse treated in WW1 Kim

How long did they have to wait for a shower Denise

How did they dig the trenches so deep Zac

Kumeroa-Hopelands School Science Fair 2014

Take a moment to look over all of our fabulous entries.

Science Fair presentations on PhotoPeach
And the winners are ...

Category: Year 3/4

Most Original Question - Zac (absent)

Best Presentation - Hannah

Thoroughness of testing - William

Depth of thinking in conclusion - Adelle

Student Choice ... goes to Hannah!

Category: Year 5/6

Most Original Question - Thomas F

Best Presentation - George

Thoroughness of testing - Jade

Depth of thinking in conclusion - Jack

Student Choice ... goes to Jade!

Category: Year 7/8

Most Original Question - Legend

Best Presentation - Kristen

Thoroughness of testing - Thomas H

Depth of thinking in conclusion - Jessie

Student Choice ... goes to Kristen!

Overall Winner

Jade!!

Congratulations to you all for the effort and enthusiasm you put into your science projects.

Let's celebrate!

Week 9, Term 2

Relating to Others

Joining in

Kind words         à thinking about our words

Being helpful        à making suggestions

                           à showing

Role model

Being respectful

Pajama Day to raise money for Canteen

Discovery Week 9, Term 2 on PhotoPeach
 The dance performance!

Reflection

Today I discovered …

Aramona – Jack discovered how to use music on YouTube

Ryan – Marc discovered how to make a cinema

Kimberley – Akaisha discovered that when everyone is shouting it isn’t successful

Cohen – Kaiden discovered not to throw the ball so hard

Trin – George discovered building things

Zoe – Paige discovered some new dance moves

The most difficult thing was …

Alicia – Thomas H found catching and throwing the ball from the third line difficult

George – Liam’s difficult thing was putting a play together. People weren’t sharing the space and resources

Liam W – Jessie had made a square of blocks and then had to work out how to put blocks in the middle

Today I was successful because …

Sam – Jonathan was successful that he made progress on his list

Olly – Ryan was successful using the rebound net, especially catching

Bradley – Alicia was successful in the dance by learning new moves

Bronson – Cohen was successful by helping Marc with the play

Maybe we should have thought more about sharing when creating plays. Is it harder to share when we need to share space?

Discovery Term 2, Week 8

Key Competency - Thinking

Using kind words.  Before you speak, you think – Akaisha

Thinking about whether it is a bad choice or not – Bradley

Thinking about others – Marc

Thinking about your actions – Jack

Thinking About your attitude and how it might affect others – Paige

Am I being helpful or not – Zoe

Thinking about your ideas – William

Before you start, think about what you’re going to do – Tara

Discovery Term 2, Week 8 on PhotoPeach
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Reflections

What did you learn today?

Adelle learnt that some leaves are made up out of tiny bits

Zac learnt how to do the art things –

 Trin learnt jump jam, he had to do lots of thinking about dancing.

Lots of people found it hard to think about using their feet and hands at the same time.

Tara – Jade learnt that you could made big trees out of little branches.

Thomas H – Ryan learned not to hurt his fingers with the hammer

Thomas H learned that if you change the light by flicking the switch the thing looked quite differently

Jonathan found that the bigger the cone, that louder the noise was.

Jack learnt through the clip that we human ears can listen between 20 – 20,00 hurtz

Kimberley learned that if you put a third cone on the string it still works

Who helped you today? And how did they help?

George - Zac helped Thomas with some wood to put something together.

Nobody helped George today.

Bradley – Jack helped me make a bike ramp, by nailing the nails in because every time I did it, I hit my fingers.

Alicia had lots of girls helping you with jump jam. Paige said the man on the DVD helped too.

William - Ms Edmond helped me bang in a nail on my army tank

Jessie had a lot of people helping her test her balance board.  It started off as a seesaw but it was made too close to the ground. People tried to get even balances, how many people, matching weights to keep it even by adding on different people. Aramona found that he was heavier than Legend.

What the hardest thing for you to do today?

Nathan – Ben found it hard trapping his spiders on his piece of paper. Nathan found making his wooden chair done because people were rushing him.

Kristen – Jack found jump jam was the hardest

Kristen found the hiphop hard

Zoe – Lucy’s hardest thing was figuring out what to make out in the woodwork area. Zoe found jump jam hard, especially the moves.

William found banging in nails hard to do.

Discovery Term 2, Week 4

This week the Key Compentency we are focusing on is ...

Managing Self

• Taking care of resources
• You are able to do something without asking someone else to do it for you
• Making sure everything is set up
• If you think you are doing something wrong, don’t do it
• Mind your own business
• Say ‘no’ when it is not a good choice
• Clean up after yourself
• Have a goal
• Making sure things stay where they belong

Discovery Term 2, Week 4 on PhotoPeach

Reflections

What was your goal today?

Zac’s goal was to get the ball into the cup 20 times.

Thomas’s goal was to make a turtle.

Cohen’s goal was not be scared in the Virtual Reality.

Lucy’s goal was to stay at one activity and use different accents for characters.

Did you achieve your goal? Why/why not?

Kristen did meet her goal. She stayed at one station and made a mouse. She had to be patient when things got difficult. Kristen felt like giving up, but stuck to what she started because it was quieter.

Jack didn’t achieve his goal because he didn’t want to get ‘in’ while playing the ball game. He needs to practice dodging skills.

Legend didn’t achieve his goal of making up a PE game. It wasn’t fun, so he left and gave up.

Thomas H didn’t achieve his goal to make a turtle. It looked more like a pig, so he modified his goal to still complete the activity.

How will you improve your managing-self next week?

Liam would work harder on making a new game rather than playing a game that we already know.

Legend needs to think about the other people around him.

Liam B would like to do more science and learn more.

Adelle learnt not to run in high heels.

Jack wants to work on staying in one place and sticking with it.

How did you react/cope with the exciting activity?

Akaisha coped by asking if she could join in.

Bradley said it was so noisy because they were excited and having so much fun. Paige added that we could be a bit quieter. Liam suggested we need to think about our voice level (inside voices).

Tara said that people were running inside. People need to stop and think.

What was difficult?

Thomas F found that waiting for the paint to dry on the egg cartons was difficult.

Marc found it difficult to find the right clothes for his character.

Liam found it difficult to do the leaf rubbing.

Zachary found it difficult to wait for a go with the Virtual Reality (because he was last).

Discovery Week 3, Term 2

We started the day by touching base our Key Competency. This is what we remembered ...

Participating …

Paige said, including other people.

Lucy suggested helping people if they are stuck on something.

Kristen said it would look like working with other people. You may help by organising.

Thomas H said that he could help by giving suggestions. Giving them ideas on what they could use.

Bronson said this would look like being friendly by making sure you don’t hurt them.

Akaisha talked about using our forgiveness.

Kimberley suggested you could ask if someone needs help.

… and Contributing

Bradley said it would look like helping others. Giving them encouragement or a suggestion.

Bronson said helping them by reminding them about being safe.

This is how we demonstrated this ...

Discovery Term 2 Week 3 on PhotoPeach

Reflection

Something I am proud of

Woodwork

Bronson: Me and mum made a chair.

Marc made a spaceship.

Jack made a ‘T’ but he got bored.

Liam made a landing thing for planes on the sea. Nathan helped.

Deconstruction/Reconstruction

Akaisha and William made a radio station.

Zac and Olly made a city scape which Spiderman has been around.

Ryan made a shed and car. Thomas F helped.

Kaiden made a thing with stuff on it.

Cohen made a city.

Thomas H made his name using computer parts.

Kristen made a picture frame.

Bronson made a BIG robot. Mum helped

Something I noticed others doing while participating and contributing. What did they do?

Akaisha said William helped her with construction and woodwork.

Marc – Thomas saw Olly give Bronson a turn with the hot glue gun.

Bronson – Zac was being a good friend to me. He was sitting next to me and we shared colours.

Lucy – I saw Kimberley organising the group when some were being a bit disruption.

Zac – I saw Marc and Liam measuring wood together. They were building separate things, but helping each other.

Something I would like to improve on next week

Kimberley would like to include other people in their play to make it more challenging.

Akaisha would like to plan in her head, before creating.

Lima B would like to finish his woodwork and not move around everywhere. Complete work in first half then move into deconstruction, because he hasn’t done that yet.

Jack needs to improve staying on one set thing because he doesn’t complete anything.

Marc could challenge himself by going to a different activity.

Zac - being more protective when doing woodwork and trying not to hurt himself.

Also as part of Discovery this week some children wrote their own plays. These were performed to the school on Monday morning. The challenge that they were faced was adapting their scripts to include others which joined in later. Well done to you all, you certainly demonstrated participating and contributing.

WALT ... participate and contribute

Participating
Getting involved Doing stuff with others Looks like …
• Working as part of a team
• Work with someone else

 Contributing
How is it different to participating?
 If you are in a team you are doing your part to help
Doing your share
Part of the team
 Helping each other
Making decisions as a group Looks like …
 • Looking at each other
 • Listening to each other
 • Sharing ideas and equipment
 • Joining in
 Older students can organise activities to support other people

Discovery Term 2, Week 1 on PhotoPeach

Reflection

What did you discover today?

Zoe discovered that there were lots of screws in the computers.

Adelle discovered that there are lots of different kinds of wires in computers.

Olly discovered there’s lots of strange stuff inside a computer.

Who did you share your ideas with?

Jack shared ideas with Sam. Jack shared ideas on how to build stuff. Then Sam made some things that could help build things for hearing far away.  He unscrewed bolts, but it was hard when he had to get some bits onto wires. Sam had to concentrate.

What was an interesting idea someone shared with you?

Hannah shared that she could do background music.

William agreed that crossing over in the hoops was very tricky.