Our PBL

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about cultural stories and the big question was;
What is the significance in the 21st Century of our Cultural stories?

First we brainstormed what culture is and came up with lots of ideas. Culture is…. Where we are from, traditions: food, clothing, dancing celebration, and holidays: Christmas Halloween and Easter.
Then we thought about our own culture and talked to our parents about our traditions and heritage. I wrote a post about my family and things we like to do.
In Literacy we read and discussed myths and legends from around the world then we concentrated on Maori legends. I read… Maui and the Sun and Battle of the Mountains.

We made a performance about the story Battle of the Mountains. Some students wrote the script, some students took on the job of making all the artwork, some worked hard on organising the music and others took on the role of bringing the story alive with dance and drama.

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Reflection:
For our production I contributed by… playing the ukulele and xylophone it was really fun because it was my first time learning how to play the xylophone.

I think the show might impact on others by… How we can show people stories in our own way like doing plays or dancing.

What I learned about working with others was… if we keep the beat then the music will come together and sound amazing.

Reading Evidence

Hi, everyone 

In my Reading Workshops I have been learning to ask good quality questions. I have created a quiz using questions and a wordfind to use with the journal story called my Mother and Stan  that we have been reading

My Mother and Stan

1. Why was Rupert at home not at school ?
2. Why did Stan need to come over ?
   

   
   
3. What was Stan’s motorcycle’s color ?
4. What is mum’s job ?
5. What was Stans jacket wrinkled like ?

I hope you enjoyed this post. Have you done the word search.