Literacy Week begins!

The first 2 days:

As part of our activities we made big bookmarks using origami - they are really creative and fun!

At our Poetry Festival today Courtney said her poem to the whole Koru Whanau and learnt it off by heart - awesome!

 

Maddie said her poem too and added her own gestures as well. Excellent performance Maddie!

Stefanie read in a beautiful clear voice and used plenty of expression!

All the Year 3 finalist received a certificate for their efforts!

Now you have seen our art we can share how we made it!

Choosing tiny beads to thread onto craft wire to make the central part of our hibiscus flowers - this required a lot of fine motor control and perseverance!

Twisting pipe cleaners and bending them through the clear plastic dragonfly wings took a bit of fiddling around and at times a buddy to hold the pieces still. 

After the dye was dry we had to lay out all the pieces and think about how to layer the composition together - no one art work was the same as anyone else's design. Split pins and glue guns held it all together.

Reflecting on the Inquiry into Turangawaewae - what does it mean to us now? Student Voices

Jayrett and Courtney say what learning about each other and our cultures has taught us to do so far. What will we do with our learning?

Mandarin using 'magic' ink paper and water to write our characters!

We just didn't want to stop - how did learning a new language become so fun and interactive?!!

GET NZ Writing wings its way to Wellington.

Do you know where Khandallah is in New Zealand? Can you find it on a map?

Here are Maddie and Courtney delivering the Courier bag to the office. It is full of our Sticky Word Poems written on postcards and a huge class poster all about us. This will be picked up by the Courier and sent to Wellington to Khandallah School. We hope they enjoy reading our poetry!

Waiata and Te Reo at the Marae

And we are all online - Hooray!

Our subject was a Tree Hut design based on the story The Tree Hut Treaty. Mrs Trembath has been teaching us how to login to our Google Drive and this is our first activity to practice our ICT skills. Mrs Trembath is really impressed with how we persevered and believed we could do it without her help. Ka pai tamariki! You have really shown your Mana this time!

This is our first try at using Google Draw. We have played around with the tools of the app and look what we have created all by ourselves.

Playing stuck in the mud with the sprinkler! And water relays!

Our hats were getting wet so we took them off for 5 minutes and let the water rain down! Mrs Cammell got wet too. Thanks to all the Year 3 Team for setting up such a fun afternoon - and Mr Lesley for lending us the hoses.