Daphne's Dilemma

Our film is about friendship. We made costumes out of paper and cardboard using lots of colourful paint. It’s very helpful to have a friend that helps you when your stuck and gives you a hand. We hope you enjoy our film.

Our Manaiakalani Film Festival Teaser

Room 6 has been working hard on our film for the Manaiakalani Film Festival in Term 4.

Our film will be shared on our blog on the day of the film festival, Wednesday the 13th of November.

Until then our film is a secret. However if you are curious, here is a little teaser for you.

We are having lots of fun filming and are excited to see ourselves on the big screen at Hoyts.

You can ask some questions about our film in the comments... but we can't share too much!

What will we share on our blogs?

We have been finding out what other learners are sharing on their blogs.  

We noticed bloggers share information about their learning. 

We have been creating blog profiles to share on our own blogs.

What information are bloggers sharing?

We have been exploring blogs of other learners at Ruapotaka School and our Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu buddy class 






We have been noticing what information they are sharing on their blogs about themselves.

We have been creating blog profiles to share on our blogs.

New bloggers in Room 6

Today the first of our new bloggers shared their blog profiles on their blogs.  

We will be publishing new blog posts every week. 

You can find links to our learners' blogs in the sidebar of this blog. Please visit our blogs, read about what we are learning and leave a comment. 

Here are Mikayla,  Patrick and Alilia posting to their blog for the first time. 

Monkeys by Patrick

Elephants by Mary Grace

Rhinoceros by Alilia

Matthew giraffes

Lions by Jerome

Samoan Week

We learned some Samoan songs. We learned the alphabet song. Samoans have 14 letters in their alphabet Here is another song.

Friday Samoan costume day

Mrs Foli our Samoan learning assistant worked with the junior classes to share her language and culture through songs and stories. To finish the week children with Samoan connections were able to wear clothes that showed their heritage.

Mary Grace Learns to Record her Reading

We have been using our iPads to read and record. We have been reading and recording from our reading books and also our own writing.  We are learning to read quickly, and make it sound like talking.

Alilia's KieKie

Room 6 started a One Minute Sharing Session last Friday. We are presenting topics that are important to us and also learning how to record our presentations with video.

This is Alilia presenting for the first time. We watched the video and looked for what we were proud of and thought about what we will do better next time.

Here are our ideas:
Alilia was proud of her confidence and knowledge about her  uncle's Kiekie that she is wearing.
Next time we will record closer to the presenter or use a microphone so the volume is louder. Also the presenter needs to stay still on one spot. Patrick was behind the camera and thought he needed to keep the iPad steady. We will borrow Mrs Grant's tripod next time.

Here is Alilia sharing about wearing her uncle's Kiekie on Fakame. We are very proud of Alilia especially as this was her first time presenting. Also we are proud of Patrick for creating a video of this presentation, when Mrs Mitchell had just said, "take a picture". We are so glad he used his initiative.

Blue Whale by Alilia

Blue whales are interesting.

Killer Whale by Patrick

We have been learning to record our voice using the information we learned about whales.

Creating my Whale Picture by Mikayla

Today I learnt how to use the drawing tools in Explain Everything. I enjoyed trying to make the different colours with the colour palette. I used the lasso to crop a photo to help me.

Takutai Class

Today we read a comment from our buddy bloggers Takutai Class, at Paroa School. They suggested we find their school on Google Earth and their Maunga, Mt Cook.  Their school is very close to the beach. We were wondering if they swim at the beach.

Pattern of People

Planned with jovi crayons each person was to be unique. They could overlap but each was to have a different hair style and clothes using texture and pattern done with crayon. Faces were added to different skin tones then a contrasting colour was painted on flat to form the background after each colour difference was defined with black pastel.

It was a long process done in stages with a lot of observation and discussion but the result is worth it.

Better than Before.

Kia ora,  Talofa lava, we are Room 6 at Ruapotaka School in Glen Innes, Auckland. We are Year 3 and 4 learners working with Mrs Tidswell our teacher. We are kind and helpful. We like reading about animals, doing maths  and  swimming. It was a beautiful day when we took this picture in our playground. You might be able to see our maunga in the background. It is Mount Wellington or Maungarei. We are becoming 'Better than Before' which is our school motto.