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.

My maths working out

This week we had to make something to explain a maths Strategy that we have been learning in our maths groups. This is what my maths group and me have been doing.

What type of maths do you learn at school ?

How to make a quality blog post

Hi guys its Sophie welcome back to my blog. Today we are using what we know about writing to create a quality blog post.

What do you think my quality blog post should be about ?

What culture am I from ?

Hi my name is Sophie and I am here to talk about my culture and what their traditions are. I am from new Zealand so is my Dad and my Mum is from Hungary. I can speak a little bit of Hungarian but it is hard to remember. Hungary is a Christian place and the majority of Hungarians became christian in the 11th century. I do want to learn some Hungarian because I think it is cool speaking a different language. My sister Emily knows how to speak it and she is really good! The flag looks like this.


I hope you liked this post.What culture are you from.?

Fraction maths

For the past few weeks we have been doing fraction maths using our problem solving. On Friday we share it to the class how to do it and how we worked it out. You can have a go at doing some problem solving if you wanted to the slide is down there.

Blog profile - public vs private

We are learning what to include in a public profile that will go on our blog.