Rainbowfish Friendship learning

In Class we have been working on a shared book called Rainbow fish.  This is a story that many of us knew but one that has lots of messages, and a lot of these relate to friendships, learning how to work with others, share and resolving issues proactively.  We did lots of talking about these messages and about friends themselves and we will create a class treaty based on many of these ideas.  This is alway a great way to start back at school when were have new people in our class and we are all learning how to work with each other again after a long Christmas break.

Below are a few videos that students created based around Rainbow Fish and some of the learning they were doing.

Project Island Song

Last term some of us were lucky enough to go to Otehei Bay with Project Island Song. We had a great day learning about how they trap pests to protect the native birds on the islands around the Bay of Islands (Ipipiri). Here are a couple of movies the children made after the trip.

Imovie (made by Piata)

Stop Motion made by Buster, Cameron and Taylor using the traps we made on the island. 

Stop Motion made by Piata, Heidi and Hayley using Lego, showing a few things we did on the day.

Screencastify of a Google slide animation made by Tanner. Tanner worked very hard on this at school and at home. Well done Tanner.

 

ROBOTS

In Team Awa we have been working with Robots. We have used Dash, Beebot, Sphero, Bloxels, Osmo and Scratch to learn about coding and programming robots.

We also made animations of our own robots on an adventure in a maze. Here are some of our finished animations.