Month: August 2023

The Arts

The driving question for our PBL over Term 2 and part of this Term has been, “How can we as performing artists communicate positive messages to an audience?” 

We learnt about The Arts, in particular the elements of Dance, Drama and Music. We read a number of fables or fairy tales and learnt about their positive message. We then took this learning and applied it to our own play writing script. 

In my group it was Kayla, Max, Noah and Geoff . we planned out what our script, and fairy tale was going to be. Click here to see our planning document

Once we had planned our ideas, we started to write our script. The fairy tale or fable our script is based on is Snow White and the 7 dwarfs. The positive message that we wanted the audience to take away was to think twice before doing something. 

The Google Slide shows everyone’s performance in Tumu, my group’s performance is on slide 2

Something that I enjoyed about this project was performing because I love acting.

Something that I found challenging or would change about this project was Writing the script because I didn’t know what I should write and I personally think that it could be better because most of the time we were on at the wrong times and most of the people were just staring directly at their script instead of the camera.

I am most proud of this project because I wrote most of the script and even tho it could have been better I am very proud of the script.

 

The OG4 Kaitiaki Book

A few weeks ago in Reading, we read a School Journal about Kaitaiki. There were 4 people who talked about an area they were passionate about and how they show kaitiaki to something. For example greenstone.

We had to then go away and write our own story about something we want to be kaitiaki of. We took photos and then created a 2 page spread on Canva to create our own School Journal.
Here is a copy of our Journal, enjoy reading our stories.
What would you like to be kaitaiki of?

Spectacular science

Welcome to my blog, last week in science we did all kinds of experiments but my all time favourite was the light bulb one.  To do this experiment you would need

My hypothesis was that the light bulb  was going to light up.

  • two lumps of clay
  • led light bulb
  • battery
  • battery wire

In conclusion my hypothesis was incorrect and I failed  to get the light bulb to glow.

Here is what it would look like if it worked

Something interesting is that we tried multiple different light bulbs and it still didn’t work.

Do you enjoy doing science experiments?