Totara 1 Assembly Term 4 Wk 8

Wow, the year has gone so quickly and we are nearly finished school for the year. Here is a little snippet of some of the work we have been doing this term in Totara 1. For out Inquiry Miss Power gave us a choice of topics, however we still had to follow the action learning plan. Many of the learners in the class chose to study a country and some chose famous people in history.

Participating and Contributing

We have been looking at what Participating and Contributing... Check out how Totara 1 shows Participating and Contributing within the classroom and school! Here are a couple of examples of how we contribute to life at Grey Main.

Angelina

Eli

Callum

Writing argument

Elijah has put together an awesome argument about whether animals should be in zoos, check it out:

This week I was given a task to write a argument about should or should not animals be kept in zoos. This is what I have created, hope you enjoy.

Should animals be in zoos? 

I strongly believe animals should be kept in zoos because Zoos save endangered species by bringing them into a safe environment, where they are protected from poachers, habitat, 

and loss of starvation Many zoos also have breeding programs for endangered species which will save endangered animals from becoming extinct.

Animals are mostly dying from diseases and being hunted but in a zoo they are always being fed and are being well looked after. They are also getting helpful injections that save them from all sorts of diseases 

It is also educating the public on animals and scientists can also study the way they live and how their bodies work and can improve or help the way they live in the wild  it will also inspire people to protect animals and their habitat. 

Overall I think zoos are a great thing because they are well looked after and also saves endangered species and have a great place to stay in a zoo.

wearable arts

Check out James' work on his groups wearable arts planning:

Lately we have been doing wearable arts. We go to the high school to make  amazing costumes. But the costumes has to be based on the West Coast. For my costume i am making the pancake rocks with a blowhole hat here is a drawing on what its gonna look like. KIND of

Totara 1 Myths

Our class have been writing our own myths and we have created some fantastic myths. We started by researching a phenomenon and then how that came to be. We read lots of local myths and myths from around New Zealand to find out what we needed to have in our own myths.

Here is an example of a lovely myth written by Honor.

Ra and the Green Flash.

Once there was a beautiful young woman who lived on the wild West Coast of the South Island. Her name was Ra Tuhiwai. She was the daughter of Tane Tuhiwai and the lover of Hare Tohoro who was a young warrior. They had a beautiful baby boy called Marama. But soon a tragic thing happened, Hare went to war with the neighbouring tribe and did not return. In her grief Ra rose up and became the sun. But she had left her only child, Marama. Marama was all alone. He had to look after himself. But seeing as he was only 3 (Toru) he rose up and became the light (Marama). To this day they both remain in the sky. They meet on clear nights and their bond creates a green glow or a flash.



That is the story of the green flash.

Check out this amazing blog post!

This is a fantastic blog post created by Emil to explain how to read timetables. He has clearly explained how to read a timetable and Emil has given examples for people to work out. Something clever that he has incorporated into his slide is when you click on the answer to a question it tells you if you are correct or not!

Week 5 Assembly Item

Totara 1 Assembly Item

Today we shared a range of work that we have been doing in class for the past 5 weeks. Take a look and see what we have been up to...

Welcome back to the Term

Welcome Back!

We have now had one week back at school and it has been a fabulous week of learning. In maths we have been learning about perimeter, area and volume in maths. For writing we are going to be writing our own myths and this week we have listened to a variety of different myths.

Today our Key Com recipients were Callum and Angelina, well done guys. 

Also at the end of last term we had a number of our class take part in a hockey tournament with one of the teams coming first in the A grade competition and our second team coming third in the B grade.

Here is a picture of some team members from Totara 1 that took out the trophy in A grade.

There was a MVP chosen for each of the teams... They went to Franklin and Alex.

Congratulations also go to Emil for winning a range of prizes at the Greymouth Swimming Club, taking the Most Promising for the club.

During the holidays there were a number of students in Totara 1 that took part in tennis competitions. One of those competitions was West Coast versus Marlborough which took place in Blenheim. West Coast won the trophy for the first time in the competitions history which is fantastic. Congrats go to Honor, Ruby, Oli and Franklin from Totara 1.

Family Fiesta

Wow, we have some creative children in our class. Children in Totara Hub designed and created cupcakes for our school Family Fiesta... there are some incredible creations. Take a look what was made.