THE ARTS - DRAMA

Thank you to the group of amazing children who acted out Little Red Riding Hood for us today.  Fantastic effort!

DRAMA - THE 3 BILLY GOATS GRUFF

Congratulations and thank you to Holly for creating a wonderful play for us today.  Take a look at these very COMPETENT actors from Piako Rua.  Well done!

MAKE IT MONDAY - RESCUING RAPUNZEL

You will NEVER guess what happened today!  We got a letter from Rapunzel asking us for help!

How could we say no to Rapunzel?  She needed our help!  We said YES, we would LOVE to help!

First we had to WONDER about all the things we needed to know before we could get started helping Rapunzel.  We came up with lots of questions like...

• How tall is a metre?
• How can we make our invention move slowly?
• What safety features can we add in to our invention?
• How could we make our invention creative?

After we had brainstormed all our ideas and questions, we went into Wonderland to EXPLORE.  There were lots of activities set up so we could find out about time, length and more about Rapunzel.

Some of us put on puppet shows of the story of Rapunzel,

We learnt how to tell the time and to decide if something was fast or slow. 

We practised drawing the hands on clocks.

Look how busy we are interacting with our friends and learning new things!

One of the activities we could do during EXPLORE was to design a Princess Dress.  

We loved this activity!

Mrs Lunn printed out a story of Rapunzel.  She was a bit cheeky and mixed all the pages up!  We had to read the pages and put it back in the right order.

The kids played a game where they had to draw the hands on clocks.  We are getting pretty good at remembering that when it is something o'clock, the long minute hand touches the number 12.

Once we thought we had learnt everything we needed, we check-pointed ourselves to see if we were ready to go ACT.

During the ACT stage we drew plans of what we thought we would make to rescue Rapunzel.  Then it was time to make (we actually love that part the best)

 There were all sorts of solutions to Rapunzel's problem.  We made escalators, elevators, slides,  stairs, tunnels, ramps and Royce even made a plane for the Prince to fly up and rescue Rapunzel!

Ryla made some lovely clothing options for Rapunzel.

The boys were so hard to create their invention.

Oliver H and his group decided to act out the story of Rapunzel, the one that they had put in the right order from EXPLORE.  Mrs Lunn helped Oliver made a lovely Rapunzel wig.

After Mika finished with his group, he helped Mrs Lunn make a 1 metre tall tower for Rapunzel.  We needed this to see if we met the success criteria during the REFLECT part of the process.

We each got a chance to share our inventions with the class.  We were able to shared what we had made, how we had made it and whether or not it had met the success criteria.

  Mika was very helpful checking if it was the right height.

The boys shared their play with us...

 Rapunzel told us that she would look on the blog to see our ideas.  We hope you find something useful Rapunzel!

Love from Piako Rua

MAKE IT MONDAY - MASK MAKING

Our wonderful DOLPHINS reading group read us "The Mask Parade" to HOOK us in.  

They had set a challenge for us to make our own Mask and then have a parade in the class.

 

We had to do some more investigating about symmetry to ensure we met the Success Criteria.

 

 

       

"Today me and Ava T made a bunny and a unicorn mask.  It was so hard to cut the eyes so Ava did it then we got the job done". Ava T & Ruby

"On Make it Monday we all made masks and I made Harry Potter.  We had a parade and Mrs Peck came in .  These were my materials paper, jovis and string and it had long black hair and a lightning bolt scar on his forehead and I also made his wand". By Oliver H

"Today we made a mask.  I made a cat and I like the little tongue.  It is very cute.  I love it and the cute rosy cheeks and is was the cutest thing ever". By Layla G

"It was easy.  I made a wolf mask.  It had pink ears but no nose.  It had sharp teeth and whiskers.  It is orange.  I liked making to because it was cool fun". By Royce

"My mask is an owl because it hoots at night and another reason is because it sleeps a lot like me" By Brooke

"My mask is green.  My mask has cardboard behind it". By Connor

Yesterday we made masks. Some people made bunnies ad unicorns and ogres and scary monsters too.  Afterwards it was a pig sty.  It took so long to pack up the mess.  Some people got to move their Self Manager.  Then we sat in a circle and then we did a parade and Mrs Kenyon took photos of us.  By Charlie

Yesterday for Make it Monday.  The Dolphins decided to make masks.  I made a unicorn one but it did not fit.  So I had to get some more string,  By Ruby

OUR PRODUCTION ITEM

This term we will be busy preparing for the School Production.  

These are the two items that we will be performing...

Dates to remember:

Tuesday 3rd July 2018 - The School Production at the Regent

SUPER DOG BY AMON

Amon wrote a marvelous story about Super Dog and Mrs Kenyon was able to turn it into a play.  Take a look at Amon, Ollie, Holly and Ryla presenting Super Dog.

JORJA'S PUPPET SHOW

Jorja is very creative.

She loves putting on puppets shows. 

Today she put one on for the whole of Piako Rua.  

Well done Jorja, you were fabulous! 

READING - PUPPET PLAY

We love playing with the puppets during Reading time.  

Yesterday Mr West saw us and came and joined in.