Spencer Park Group 2 - T14/15

 We loved Spencer Beach and Forest! 

We started our day, protected in the forest, building huts and playing. Lots of teamwork, creating, risktaking and strategizing took place. The pinecones were a popular commodity and were highly sort after by some teams.

We had to watch out for the dragon!

Some teams were very focused on decorating their huts.

We had so much fun we decided to have our lunch in our huts.

After lunch, we headed to the beach to meet Chris. We were really lucky that it had stopped drizzling. Chris helped us to learn how we can care for our beaches and what animals and plants we might find at the beach.

We went on a treasure hunt to see what we could find on the beach.

Then Chris explained he wanted us to sort our treasures into 2 groups; natural and manmade. 

We found lots of natural materials at the beach. We talked about how we could solve the problem of all the manmade items we found. Next, we took the natural items back to the beach and created messages on the beach to remind people how to care for our beaches and be great kaitiaki(guardians)

We would like to say a big thank you to Zara, who is a super Kaitiaki! It was Zara's idea in term 1 that we should have a trip to the beach and help clean up all the rubbish.

Being great Interactors during Open Door Friday

Naomi taught us how to play the card game 31.

We made a big dump truck together.

We were playing a game pretending we were in Antarctica.

Our scooters and skateboarders were working well together sharing the court space.

Sharing the hot glue gun to make our creations.

Lots of children have been challenging themselves this week improving their skipping skills.

Retelling Maui and the Sun

In Tī Kōuka we have been reading lots of different Maori myths and legends.

We read different versions of the myth, Maui and the Sun.

Then we roleplayed and took photos of the main parts of the myth.

We used the photos to help retell the myth in our writing books.

Next, we used Book Creator to publish our myths.

Using Book Creator, we learnt how to insert photos and draw.

 We also learnt how to add sound. We had to read our writing on the correct photo.

It was tricky to find a quiet place to record the story.

We added our finished stories to ClassDojo to share with our families but unfortunately, ClassDojo didn't keep the sound file in time with the video. 

By Zara

By Hasper

By Daisy

By Macca

By Serena

By Soren