TE AKO RITENGA - JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

We continued our Inquiry into learning about Te Ako Ritenga on Friday.  We are getting so good that the teachers say we are ready to self manage our way through the process.  That means when we feel that we have finished our WONDERings we can go through to EXPLORE.  The same applies for EXPLORE.  When we have learnt everything we feel that we need to know we can move through to the ACT stage.

Friday's HOOK was the story of Jack and the Beanstalk!

During EXPLORE, we tried to answer all our WONDERings.  We watched You Tube clips of how to make weak structures strong.  There were lots of other activities where we could EXPLORE the story Jack and the Beanstalk as well.  Some of us worked together to put on a puppet show.  There were a few activities that focus on the book.  We asked the teachers if we could use the Lego and the blocks to try and make a safe way to get the eggs down.

Braxton made a castle out of Lego.  He used the cards with the characters printed on them, to act out the story.  Creative thinking there Brax!








Harlem and Guy made castles from Lego too.  Look at Guy's super proud smile!
Great learning guys!

The boys found You Tube gave them some super ideas for making their invention strong.

Ryla and Ruby worked together to read the book and colour in the characters as they appeared in the book.

Christopher has success making the Jack and the Beanstalk jig-saws.

 Miharo, Shyloh and Nevaeh spent ages EXPLORing the different materials that they could use to make their invention.

Mika and Layla B drew some creative designs on the whiteboard table...

 EXPLORE in Piako Rua ... busy and productive learning times!

 After we had EXPLOREd all that we needed to, we moved through to the Rainbow Room to ACT.  We drew plans of our invention and began to make it and set to work.

At the the of the process we REFLECTed on our invention.  We had to decide if our invention met the success criteria that the teachers set us right back at the start of the process.

We are loving all the challenges we are been talking part in over the week!  

So much so, the teachers think we might even do some more next week!  

Yay!

The Challenge - By Quinn B
When it was Friday we had a challenge for Jack's eggs.  His mother said to Jack, "sell that cow."  This man walked past Jack.  "That is a lovely cow.  I will trade you for these beans.  They are magic beans."
So his mother was super angry.  She chucked the beans out the window.  When it was dark, it grew and grew and grew.  In the morning he climbed the beanstalk and went into the castle.   He stole the golden eggs.

PAPER CHAIN CHALLENGE

Mrs Kenyon's nephew Dylan is having a birthday party and we had to make paper chains to decorate his house.  

BUT......Mrs Lunn said we would use all the coloured paper so only let us use 2 pieces. 

 

 

We had to make sure we only used 2 pieces of paper, that the chain was tidy and that it was long. 

It was tricky.  

 

Ruby, Ava T, Layla and Maddy got their chain to 2.6m long.  

Well done girls!

We hope Dylan has a wonderful party!

ART WORKSHOP - MAKING LIONS

Friday is opt-in workshop day.  Today the Art workshop was to create a lions face using pastels and then to make the mane using strips of yellow paper.

This was a super tricky art workshop and involved lots of sharing of templates and scissors as well as helping each other as you can see in the photos below...

We helped our friend to draw around
the template - it was too tricky to
do it by ourselves 

   

We used pastel to draw in the eyes and nose on our lion

We coloured our lions in using pastels.  We
 learnt about shading and blending.

 

When we'd finished colouring in our faces, we glued
concertinaed strips of paper for the mane

           

COOKING - LOLLYLOG

Cooking was a big hit today.  We made Mr Bron's favourite food.....lolly-log.  It was delicious.

 

  

Adding the eskimo lollies was hard.  We actually wanted to eat them.

 

We even had enough left to share with the teachers.

TEAMWORK AT READING TIME

 Mrs Lunn took photos of these lovely happy kids working together in reading time. 

 Look at those happy smiley faces!

Ruby, Charlie and Holly P after finishing the Alphabet Ice Creams

Kazma and Lloyd building a Word Tower