Paper Wheel Challenge

We have been starting our Monday mornings off learning about Learner Assets, particularly Collaboration. Today was lots of fun as we created our Paper Wheels. You can read what the challenge was below. We had 25 minutes to build our Paper Wheel in a Collaborative group, then we had a race with the other groups. To finish off we assessed ourselves and each other with our Collaborative skills.

Rear View Mirror

We used this rear view mirror to think about what we might do differently if we could have our time again. We were asked these questions:  What are some of your most memorable moments? Is there anything you’d like to change about those moments? Something to make them better? What is something you wish you would have known in those moments or If you could travel back in time to that moment, what would you tell yourself? We created our own scenes in our Writer's Notebook and here is one of our finished mirrors.

Collaborative Owls

These owls were created with a collaborative group. There were lots of decisions to be made and we had to really use our Learner Asset of being a great collaborator to complete the piece. We had to respect the ideas of others and adapt to working with different learners. We shared our amazing Owls at our Learner Led Conferences.

If I Were a Tree During the Fall Season

For this writing activity we learned how to take a selfie and crop it using the circle tool shape. We created a piece of writing about what life would be like if we were an autumn tree. When the rest of our class have completed their writing we will share it as a collaborative digital book. 

Breakouts

Our Learning Neighbourhood experience Breakouts twice a term. It is a time when teachers choose something they are passionate about to teach us. It might be art, science, PE, ICT dance, drama etc. We get to sign up for whatever we like. We have learnt how to create Friendship Bracelets, make Slime, create a Sasa, create Christmas drawings. We then share what we have learnt with our friends in our Neighbourhood or with our families.  
Which Breakout would you like to do?

The Pink Umbrella - Close Reading

 

Luca learnt to use the drawing tools in Google Drawings to dig deeper into the text. He created his own version of the tools and shared his understanding and questions he had about the text with his peers in a small group discussion.

Gym Festival

Over the last few weeks, some of our learners have been learning Gymnastic routines. The gymnasts created their own flair and individual style and then shared their routines at the Gisborne Gym Festival where many other schools compete too. We were so proud of each and every gymnast that competed. All the practices and commitment to polishing routines really showed through. 

Here are a few pics of some very proud and happy faced MKids. 

Congratulations to all of you.