Friday, September 26, 2014

Advertising our Businesses

We created small businesses. Our challenge was to choose an animal each and think of a talent it could have. We used the talents of the animals from The Giraffe the Pelly and Me to begin our thinking. We then needed to use the talents and our animals to create a business.

There was lots of great team work and discussions.

The last part of the challenge was to create an advertisement for our business using some of the advertising tricks we have been learning about. 
Advertising Team: Emma, Neesha and Max
Advertising Team: George, Thomas and Mya

Advertising Team: Bella and Teague
Advertising Team: Rana, Ruby and Zane
Advertising Team: Bailey and Czar
Advertising Team: Toby, Henrietta and Caitlyn
Advertising Team: Jacob, Bowen and Ruby
Advertising Team: Gemma
Advertising Team: Logan
Advertising Team: Jeevanjot

Which advertisement made you want to buy?


Thursday, September 25, 2014

Reading Numbers


We have been learning to read numbers. 

 We noticed a pattern. In every house there are hundreds, tens and ones.
This pattern makes it easier to read numbers.

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Blending

We have been learning to blend colours together. 

We will know we can do this when

-We use dark, medium, light and white
-We overlap the colours a little
- When we overlap the colours we 'pull' a little bit 
of a colour into the next colour.

Emma and George's Giraffes

Teague and Bowen's Giraffes
Ruby and Logan's Giraffes
Jerome and Czar's Giraffes
Bella's Giraffe
Jacob and Mya's Giraffes
Jeevanjot and Henrietta's Giraffes

We read The Giraffe The Pelly And Me and loved it. The Duchess is called Henrietta which made us laugh. This story by Roald Dahl inspired our art. 

We think you should read The Giraffe The Pelly And Me it is a great book. 



Thursday, September 18, 2014

Is the Big Bad Wolf Bad?

We are learning to persuade the reader to think like we do. 
We are learning new persuasive vocabulary.

Is the wolf good or bad? Read the arguments and decide.

I believe the wolf off the Three Little Pigs is the most kindest loveliest wolf I've ever met in my life. I know people report that the wolf is big and bad but that is a lie! 
First he wanted to have some fresh air out in the woods and then he saw a little girl and he wanted to play with the girl. The girl thought the wolf was big and bad. Well he is big but not bad! You must believe me!! He just wanted to play. Oh the poor old innocent wolf. He gets blamed for everything.
Second he had a really bad cold He wanted a friend to help him. If I was the Three Little Pigs I would help him wouldn't you? Anyway he sneezed and sneezed achoo achoo. That's what he was doing and he accidentally blew the Three Little Pigs house over and they were cruel to him! The Three Little Pigs are so sinister I feel like blowing their house on purpose. I hope this is the last time I have to report about the wolf getting into trouble. 
It all happens when the wolf is bored. So the wolf went to the goats house and the goats were being mean to him when he was trying to make friends but the little goats thought the same thing that the little girl thought too. 
The wolf is poor and innocent. That must prove to you that he is innocent.
Author Bailey

I believe that the big bad wolf is the biggest baddest wolf in the universe. You must trust me he is the biggest baddest wolf in the universe,
Firstly the wolf will eat anything that he sees even a person. He is like a killing machine. He shreds your flesh rips your eye balls to bits and pieces and will rip your belly open and eat your guts and shed your head off. You must agree that he is big and bad. 
Secondly the wolf locked up that poor poor Grandma in a closet and tricked Little Red Riding Hood that the Big Bad Wolf was the Grandma. Do you think it is really bad to trick Little Red Riding Hood? 
You must trust me now he is truly bad. Now did I convince you that the Big Bad Wolf is bad? 
Author Czar

You must agree the Big Bad Wolf is the most tallest and the most diabolical wolf in the entire WORLD! 
Firstly he eats the six goats and he has a disgraceful plan. He didn't stop thinking about it until he was able to rip the flesh off the goats bellies.
Secondly he tried to eat Grandma and Little Red. Snap! Snap! Snap! He eats Little Red Riding Hood and Grandma in one gulp. He didn't even chew on them! He was greedy he didn't need the humans in his fury over weighted belly. He only needed one small rabbit to eat. 
Thirdly he blows the piglets houses down that they were happily building. "I'm going to devour you piglets come out and fight me like your father" said the wolf. "Oh its on! I'm going to smash you and make you into a diaper sandwich" said the Big Bad Wolf. Would you play with this wolf?
In conclusion you must believe that Wolf is sinister and really really really evil. Do you think he is diabolical? 
Author George

You must believe that the Big Bad Wolf is a really abusive person. He trespasses and goes on other peoples properties. 
You must believe me now the Big Bad Wolf eats anything he comes across. He's a greedy wolf because he gorges more than he needs. Horribly he rips the flesh off innocent little animals and makes them die slowly and painfully.
The terrifying wolf eats because he wants to hurt people not because he is hungry.
The extremely bad wolf suffocates grandmas. He eats innocent defenseless baby goats. Little Red Riding Hood was murdered by the extremely bad wolf. Do you think it is alright he went into somebody's house and killed them? 
This is why the wolf is guilty of these revolting crimes and this proves he is extremely bad.
Author Faith

I believe the amazing, fantastic, fascinating wolf is not an evil guy. He is a wolf who has to do what he needs to do!
Firstly he was just trying to get a friend because most of his friends have died except Bob who is in China. Actually he is just getting a friend! He wanted to explain to mother goat  how he messed it up but she said "Bye! Nasty Wolf!" 
Achoo. He asked the Three Little Pigs if they can look after him but they said "NO". Achoo. He didn't mean to blow down their house.
Will you agree now he is just good. 
Author Toby


The pig is good. The wolf is bad. The wolf gets an axe and goes and kills the pig and that's why I believe he's the most vicious thing in the world.
He assassinates living things.

Firstly the wolf chops animals tails off to make them scream in pain.The wolf made the woodcutter get in trouble when he didn't actually chop the animals tail. When the woodcutter comes along animals look at the woodcutter and then look at the animal and animals pounce on the woodcutter and hurt him. You must believe  me he's really bad.

Secondly he puts landmines  on the helpless pigs house door.The pigs come out side to harvest their corn crops-BOOM! The piggy's were blown up into pork and crackling.
 YUM YUM! :-) There, NOW you must believe me that it is   

EXTREMELY NAUGHTY!, AND BAD.

Lastly the Bad Bad Wolf crushes naans bones at the retirement centre. 
It goes like this: cr cr cr cr crack! ccccccccccccccccc crack crack!
He scratches old poor innocent peoples heads off.
He locks grandmas in cupboards to suffocate. You must agree that the Big Bad Wolf is malicious.

If you wont believe me you might die in pain. The Big Bad Wolf will kill you!
Author Jerome

Which piece of writing convinced you? 
Is the wolf good or bad? 

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Option Sharing

Nga Rakau Iti children chose different learning areas to be involved in this term. The options were Kapa Haka, learning the glockenspiel, papier mache and discovery.

Kapa Haka performing to Nga Rakau Iti
Many Kidd-li-winks chose Kapa Haka

Kapa Haka from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Papier Mache

Jerome and Isabella created papier mache bugs.





Emma and Gemma chose to learn the Glockenspiel 

Glokenspiel from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Monday, September 15, 2014

Creating Light

The Kidd-li-winks have been learning how to show light in their artwork. 
The moon is the light in the art work created by the Kidd-li-winks.

Can you see how the sky is lighter around the moon and the ground lighter the closer it is to the moon? Also can you see the branches closest to the moon have light reflecting off them?

The artwork created will be used as our calendar art. If you would like to come in and see the works of art they will be out Wednesday afternoon. 

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Patterns


We have been learning about patterns.
We had to look carefully at the patterns to see what we noticed. 

There are 6 sticks to build 1 house and 5 sticks to build the other houses.
How can we work out how many sticks are used?
How many sticks to build 10 houses?
5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50+1=51


Zane and Thomas worked together to figure out how many
sticks they would need to build 10 mountains.

Thinking together
4x3=12
12+1=13
so
10x3=30
30+1=31
What times table can we use to work this out?

Mya explaining how she worked out how many sticks
she would need to build 15 houses.
She showed how she could use the same thinking
to build any number of houses.
Here are some games you can play to practise your learning about patterns. Just click on the link. 

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Vocabulary Building

The Kidd-li-winks are building their vocabulary through their reading. To learn new words and make them part of their vocabulary they need to learn them many different ways. 

The Kidd-li-winks created Sock Puppets to share some interesting vocabulary. 

SELF-DESTRUCT
 
Self Destruct from tracey hill on Vimeo.
Created by Bowen and Zane

CLUMPS
 
Created by Isabella and Emma

RANSACKED

Created by Jeevanjot and Rana
LOCATE
 
Created by Teague

QUARANTINE

Created by George

Dance Evening

The Kidd-li-winks have enjoyed working with Room 17 to learn and create the dances they performed at the Dance Evening. 

The Kidd-li-winks would like to thank all their families for coming along and supporting them. 


The Fling from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Happy from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Well done Kidd-li-winks for being role models for all of Nga Rakau Iti. 
Oh, and for being dancing stars :)













Joining in the hokey tokey



Monday, September 08, 2014

Reading Instructions

Did you know sushi was first made over 2,000 years ago? 
Some of us read a book about sushi. 
The book was great because it taught us how to make sushi.
The Kidd-li-winks read and followed the instructions and made some sushi.






Yummy!