Buddy Class - Week 6

This week in buddy class, we started planning and crafting our own ISLANDS. On our islands, we had to make sure that we had the four different landforms that we have been learning about...

1. Mountains
2. Hills
3. Valleys
4. Plains

We used paper and pencils to 'plan' our island. When that was done, we used paper, card and corrugated cardboard to create our landforms on our island. Check them out.

Detailed writing

This week, we have been working on adding detail to our writing. 

We watched a short video about The Old Lady in the Junkyard and had to describe what she was doing. We had to make sure that each sentence told 3 pieces of information. We then had a sharing circle and had to share ONE of our sentences that has really good description. 

Here they are 

Old Lady in the Junkyard - Recount. 

Tiana

One average morning I was in my house that was in the junkyard. I went to the junkyard and searched high and low around the junkyard because I was looking for useful random, objects that I could use for my house. 

Miracle

I was looking through the junkyard and I saw a ring and decorated my house high and low. 

Jonay

When I got home I grabbed my stuff I found and I thought I made something. 

Jordan

Today I was planning to escape from the junkyard so I can have a good life and not die in the junkyard and starve to death. 

Liston

One day I was at the junkyard looking for stuff. I saw lots of cool objects and grabbed those materials to make an amazing invention. 

Lucky

One day when the sun was setting down I was picking up some stuff.

Demitrius

In the morning I was looking for stuff so I can make my house look like Christmas.

Tracey

I’m happy with who I am and what I can do. I have collected things that satisfy from me, Sherry.

Lesileli

I was poor but I was creative. 

Mone

I’ve been living in this place for several and I have created my own little world. 

Leeroy

I’ve been living in this junkyard for years and made my own little house. Everyone always judged me but I didn’t care. 

Zeta

For 15 years I’ve been living in a junkyard. I didn’t know who my parents were or my family. 

Tee

For 27 years I’ve lived in this junkyard and no one has ever visited me. 

Olive

One night I was at the junkyard and I found some JUNK!

Skyla

I went to an old rugged box and searched through it and found a yellow and orange spotted umbrella that I could use. 

Moni

For 30 years I lived in this junk yard and never ever knew who my parents were or my family and no one ever visited me. 

Lexi

I opened the old rusty box and found and old broken umbrella. It looked like doritos with cheese on it. 

Kahnye

Although I didn’t own much, I am happy and appreciate everything.  

Movie Making

Our films are in the works. We spent some time learning about storyboarding and why people use them. We also spent time learning about different camera angles and shots and what they show the person watching. 

We have completed our storyboarding and are now onto the  FILMING! 

Watch this space! 

Term 3 Powhiri

T e r m   3   P o w h i r i 

Today, we had a powhiri. This was a very special powhiri because not only did we get to welcome new whanau and students to GT, but we got to say thank you to the very generous people who donated to our school and made the amazing kapa haka uniforms, korowai and poi. 

At Glen Taylor, we know that we are very blessed to have such an amazing group of people supporting our vision and the things that we do. We also had a special performance from the Pasifika Pearls. 

Here are some photos from the powhiri. 

Printing with our buddy class

The third stage in our work with our buddy class.

Today, we got to PRINT! We used a special type of ink/paint, rollers and paper to create our prints. It was really cool to see the different textures the card gave as well as the different levels in our work. Everyone had a part to play - a roller (with paint), a presser and a roller (without paint).

Next week we will be adding to our current prints.

Maritime Museum

Today, we went on our trip to the Maritime Museum. We caught a bus to the city and had a fun activity to do in the Museum. We saw lots of amazing things! Lots of things about the water, sailing, coastline, Sir Blake and things from the past. Check out some of our photos from the trip. Be sure to look on the individual blogs for their own recounts on the trip.

Crazy for Kids Can

Today was 

GET CRAZY FOR KIDS CAN Mufti Day. We got to dress up in Mufti, get crazy with some funky hair styles, crazy socks & crazy dress ups!

We had so much fun dressing up, have a look at who dressed up this week...

Term 3 Buddy Class - Landforms & Printing

This term with our buddy class we are learning about landforms. We now know that there are 4 different landforms

1. Mountains
2. Hills
3. Valleys
4. Plains

After learning about these 4 landforms we had to draw these four landforms on a massive sheet of paper. This was in our first buddy session.

Our 2nd buddy session (this week) we used our sketches from last week to cut pieces of cardboard to create our cards for printing, ready for next week.

Check out what we're up to...

THE TRIAGRAPH DGE by Lucky

For phonics today we focused on the sound of the triagraph dge. We learnt that the rule for the dge are the vowels come before the dge. This is what makes the sound. Here are some example.

Book Character Mufti Day

Today, we had our Mufti Day. It was all about dressing up in our favourite book characters! 

Check out the amazing characters we had in our class today.