Duckling Palace

Green Bay School has a lot of ducks! Over the past few months we have watched a few duck families grow up around the school. They are always hanging around during lunchtime and they even peck us when we don't give them what they want. Today the Penguins reading group read a story called Duckling Palace. As a follow-up activity, they went outside to take some photos and videos of the duck families and used iMovie to make movies.

Melville Dewey

Sharon has a fantastic display up in the library about Melvil Dewey, the man who invented the Dewey Decimal System.


When we went to the library last week, Sharon showed us a great video about the Dewey Decimal System and here it is.

Camp Reflections

This week we have been reflecting on our camp experiences. One of our vocabulary building tasks was to think of any words that came to mind when thinking about camp. We then had to record each word or phrase onto a post it.

After that, we clustered the words and phrases that we thought went together and labeled each cluster. Some of the groups made Tagxedos with their words.

We have also been reflecting on our lowlights and highlights from camp. Jessley and Stephen have used Little Bird Tales on the iPad to record their thoughts.

More Highlights from Motu Moana

Some of the children in Room 5 took the camera with them to their activities. Here is a slideshow of what they experienced.

Motu Moana Day 1

What an exciting and tiring day we have had at Motu Moana Scout Camp. We have been orienteering, water sliding, team building, pioneering and much more! I was very busy doing team building all day, but here are a few photos.

More Futuristic Playgrounds on Minecraft

Future Playgrounds on Minecraft

As part of our Learning Pathways topic: Future Focus, we spent a big chunk of term 3 creating futuristic playgrounds on Minecraft.

We used our designs to create playgrounds on Minecraft, we then had to take screenshots of the most important features in our playgrounds and import them into iMovie. We then used iMovie to make movies about our playgrounds. 

Here are some of the movies.

Our cool minecreaft playground from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Term 3 Picnic

To celebrate our hard work throughout the term, we decided to have a picnic on the last day. We made bacon and egg pie and lolly cake and ate them in the Rongoa Garden. Here is a slideshow.