Mary said yes yes yes!

Completed by Kaelin Nguyen

Owning our class...

As we have our own furniture - we are able to decorate it as we see fit. Today this involved painting some table legs and sanding our dining table - ready to varnish next week. Well done to Tonyano who us in charge of our dining table and also other students who all took charge with various painting/sanding tasks!

Prayer today

Joan prepared a great thought provoking prayer this morning. It involved a game that taught us that we were all equal - Joan also prepared scripture and other quotes to share with us!

Animal Project - How is your Newspaper coming together??

Animal Newspaper Project

Your latest project is based in our Ngā Kararehe unit of work. You will be creating a two sided newspaper based on Animal News.

Key Details

DUE: Wednesday 2^nd July 2014 -9am

Medium: Handwritten or typed two sided A3 Newspaper

Requirements: Minimum of five articles, two advertisements and two hand drawn images.

Audience: You will be writing this newspaper for an imaginary Animal Kingdom – all of whom can read at a human adult level.

You will be given little time in class to complete your project, (if you complete all in class tasks then you can work on your project). You can use any paper from class you wish – please ask first. If you would like any thing printed out, please speak to Ms D or Mr T before Friday Week 8 (27^th June) (ie: nothing will be printed out in Week 9).

If you would like any help at all, please speak to one of your teachers a.s.a.p.

When we know you want/need help we can put plans in place to help you.  

Outline of each task:

Out of your five articles, you will need to include:

1.    At least one biography of one animal.

2.    At least one news article about a fictional event in the animal kingdom.

3.    At least one sports article about an upcoming interspecies boxing match.

Your two advertisements will need to include:

4.    One advertising body enhancement for a specific animal. (Think of it like a gym advert, making a human fitter and healthier. E.g.: What might a Panda need to develop? Jaw strength for chewing Bamboo or…?)

5.    One advertising a support group for several species that may have the same problem/issue.

Your two hand drawn images may be part of your articles or your advertisements.

Newspaper conventions (We will cover these in class in week 6)

You will need to include columns and :

RUBRIC Animal Newspaper               Name:___________________          Date handed in: ________

OVERALL PRESENTATION

1                                              5                                                          10

                  Lacks Care                                   Minimum Expectation                                 Above Expectation

	1		3		5
Biography	One of 5/5 list		Three of 5/5 list		Includes classification; life stats (age weight etc); food sources; predator/prey techniques; and, habitat
Fictional Event	Includes info about 1 Adaptation to environment that an animal has made		Includes info about 3 Adaptations to environment that an animal has made		Includes info about 5 or more Adaptations to environment that an animal has made
Sports Article	Includes 3 physiological characteristics		Includes 6 physiological characteristics		Includes 10 or more physiological characteristics
Body Enhancer Ad.	Fails to identify a decent weak characteristic in a species		Targets a weak characteristic in a species		Innovatively Targets a weak characteristic in a species with clarity
Support group Ad.	Identifies two different species of animal that share a common ‘problem’		Identifies a few different species of animal that share a common ‘problem’		Innovatively identifies several different species of animal that share a common ‘problem’
Hand drawn images	Rushed images		Good images		Quality images, care evident

Comment on Writing:

Strengths:

Work-ons:

Thanks Mrs Whalen, Anne and Mr Jago!

It was National Support Staff day on Wednesday - In Kākāpō we know that many people make our day at school better in a myriad of ways... Matthew, Cameron and Rachel put together these videos -
"A Day in the life of...." was our goal but we ran out of time and it was raining a bit too much to film Mr Jago doing all he does!

Brilliant Bookweek has Begun!!

We launched into Bookweek today by listening to Jen Boland ( from The Settler's Museum)- share some great stories with us. We especially enjoyed 'Press Here'!

This afternoon we spent some time in the Library- reading with our Buddy Class (Kereru) for 20mins. Then we looked at the Bookfair books, browsed through the  'ideas for book character' books & chose a book each to read in class this week (& maybe at home too?) 

Our Bookweek Homework = 60mins reading a day! Eg. 2x 30mins or 4x15mins. GET READING KAKAPO!!

Kakapo Class Learning how to set out a Newspaper

Kakapo class had fun today learning how to set out a Newspaper. Then show the whole class!

Samoan Language Week guest speaker....

Today we had Ati Olive come into our class to talk about the Samoan Culture and in particular his Pe'a - traditional Samoan tattoo. He shared his (painful!) story with us all, we loved learning with Ati!
Check out some of the photos and video!

Gentiane Lupi - Muay Thai kick boxer

Our Duffy role model Gentiane Lupi - Check out a couple of links - there are a couple of interesting videos here too:

http://www.3news.co.nz/Kiwi-mum-breaks-into-kickboxing-world/tabid/1771/articleID/323117/Default.aspx

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/sport/9766871/From-housewife-to-Muay-Thai-boxer

Tennis skills

A beautiful day for our final tennis session- first to hone their skills were Te Ika a Maui... 

Maths time....

Wakatipu group (all of our Maths groups are NZ lakes) working hard on add/sub strategies

Team C5, aka "The Early Risers"

Where's everyone?