The end of the year and on to new beginnings!

So, it's not only our Year 6 Graduates off to new and exciting adventures - I am also leaving Hay Park School.

I have had the privilege of being a part of this community for many years. Hunter spoke about the importance of Hay Park's community in her graduation speech and I have to agree - he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. It is the people.

To the Hay Park Community, I'd like to say thank you for allowing me to be part of your lives and to learn along side you all.

To our Hay Park students and especially McCahon Class I would like to encourage you with this whakatauki -

Ko te pae tawhiti whaaia kia tata, ko te pae tata whakamaua kia tina
Seek out distant horizons, and cherish those you attain.

Look for new challenges and be proud of what you achieve - you all have such exciting futures ahead of you!

Hei konā mai,
Kama

Year 6 Graduation - 2015!

Where has Term 4 gone?!
Yesterday we had our Year 6 Graduation celebration - thank you to everyone who helped us have a successful afternoon!

Our learning never stops! Go Evanjaline!

Imagine how thrilled I was when I saw Evanjaline had been posting over the holidays AND making connections with learners in other schools!

Here's her blog post about - Looking Over Our Cyber/Blog World Role Models!

Awesome Evanjaline!

What a great holiday so far, huh? Hey Blogging World, how has your holiday break gone so far? I love it but I do miss school! Since I was missing school, I had a look on some of the class twitter pages and found Mr Hopkins's Twitter page!

I went through some tweets and found a pupil that attends Tamaki Primary as a yr8 student. He currently has 360(!) posts in only 2015! I commented on one of the first three posts (currently) and thanked him for showing me that I can do better in posting in time because my encouraging Teacher, Mrs Kingston, is always telling us that your blog will eventually get boring if you give a long time to keep posting. If you want to know what I am talking about look at: http://tpswillyl.blogspot.co.nz/  His ideas are so incredible as the 'dollarnaire game' he had made! Thanks Willy! 

Mary's Blog Post: PB4L - Being safe in the playground

This is my video created by me ( Mary ).
This video is about how to be safe on the playground.
I uploaded this video on youtube other wise here is the link.
Mary's Video on how to be safe on the play ground.
I hope you have learnt from this video like as they say "treat others as they wanted to be treated".

WAIKOWHAI INTERMEDIATE FUN DAY WINNERS!

That's right! We won Waikowhai Intermediate's Fun Day today - organised and run by the fantastic Waikowhai Student Council.
Unfortunately we could only send six students, but those who went have done us really proud!
Tino pai rawa team!


Here's what they had to say:

HAY PARK SCHOOL WAIKOWHAI INTERMEDIATE FUN DAY WINNERS!

Arnav, Mary, Hati, Lolo, Peter and Nisha have competed in the fun day at Waikowhai Intermediate school. After doing the activities we had a little prize giving, and we have WON!
So our prizes for coming first in this fun day activity were:

• Certificates for encouraging others and participating. 
• $100 for the school (we will meet as a class and decide what to spend it on)!

The activities we participated in were: Crazy dodgeball (Waiwa), Scooter Game (travelwise), Taste Testing Food (Kaiwise) and other activities.

CyberSmart AND PB4L: Protecting Your Privacy Online

Our CyberSmart AND PB4L focus this week has been about being a safe learner online. Our SODA task this morning, with Mrs Wright was to list ways we can protect our privacy while online.
Simeon had some great ideas:

We all shared our ideas on the padlet below - have a look to see what we thought...

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Our latest collaborative project #learningGEMs

Our latest collaborative project is #learningGEMs

This means we will be adding our ideas about what we are:

• Grateful for…
• Excited by…
• Motivated to…

Arnav started us off today and you can see a screen grab of his slide below. Check back, we'll be blogging and tweeting about #learningGEMs!

Click in the image to see a more detailed view.

Highlights from Week 5: The Viewer - Creating Images and Soundscapes - Damien's Post

Description:
In this week we have been learning about a book called The Viewer - the illustrator is Shaun Tan ,
we are working on one of the scenes which is 'the restless sleep', (spoiler alert!)
...it is the part where he dropped of the old toy thing and when he was shocked of the images. As you see in our photo our actor is lying down in a restless sleep he is feeling a Dark Presence nearby.

This is  Our recorder of our sound effects but it isnt that goo

Highlights from Week 5: The Viewer - Creating Images and Soundscapes - Toma's Post

Hola senioritas and senioras! This week we are reviewing on a book called....
THE VIEWER
This book hooks everyone in and it is created by the mysterious minds of Shaun Tan! Beware..........

Here is the link for the soundscapes all created by me and my buddies voices and the resources around us:

Highlights from Week 5: The Viewer - Creating Images and Soundscapes - Arnav's Post

This week we have been focusing on the viewer (a book) by Shaun Tan So there was phrase that was "he was having a restless sleep", this means that we have seen something that we can not get it out of our head. So Tristan (the boy) had looked at some photos that terrified him, and he thought that it will come true. So we had to act that out. This is me having a restless sleep, I  worked with my friend Shahid to photograph and to edit this photo.

This link is the sound scape!

Please leave a comment below!

The Viewer: Should Tristan look at through the machine again?

Should Tristan look through the viewer again? Here's what we thought...

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The Viewer: Capturing Restless Sleep

We are using Shaun Tan's 'The Viewer' to support our Writing. Today we captured photos of a 'restless sleep' which Tristan (the main character) has after seeing the images through the viewer he found.
We'll be posting more of our learning here and on our blogs.
Listen to Hati and Johan explain what they were doing in the photo below.

** Photo and audio to follow (the boys are working on it!)

Just Breathe

This morning for our SODA Task we watched this great video about managing anger. We picked out the key message and added our 'take-away'. You can read them on the padlet below.

 

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We're back from Camp!

Kia ora whanau! We're back from our 3 days @ MERC in Long Bay. We had an amazing time and we have plenty of things to share so stay tuned!

Whakatauki: Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori 2015

Today we learnt about whakatauki (proverbs) and their importance in Te Ao Māori. We found a whakatauki that meant something special to us and added it to this shared resource.
You can visit our individual blogs to see some more of our learning as part of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori.

#kidsedchatnz

Welcome to term 3 team!
We're gearing up for the #kidschatnz Twitter chat next Wednesday. The first chat is using picture cues and I can see a lot of us are really thinking about the prompts. If you haven't visited already, the link is here: http://kidsedchatnz.blogspot.co.nz/2015/07/t3-w2-photo-chat.html 

So you know...this is a pic of us last term after winning the prize for the rocket that stayed airborne the longest (Go Stardome!)

A few highlights from our last day of term 2!

Teach The Teacher Session 9: Samoan Games!

What a fun way to end 'Teach the Teacher' for Term 2. I learnt a new game and I think the teachers learnt it was important to give clear instructions.
This is a game I think I will use for warm-ups in PE lessons in the future.

Jeanett and Saunoa, I am not sure how to spell the name of the game - can you please add it in the comments section below?
Thanks!

Teach The Teacher Session 8: Hockey Skills!

I had so much fun during yesterday's lessons that I had to invite Mrs. Wright to this lesson too. We learnt a few new tricks and I have realised it is REALLY hard to keep your legs bent, keep and eye on the ball but ALSO to look up so you know where you are going!
We have some fantastic hockey players in our class and they were fantastic teachers too!

Teach The Teacher Session 5: Learning About the Samoan Culture

Great work team! I have got some home learning to do over the holidays - my aim is to learn some basic Samoan phrases that I can use in class!