Distance Learning

Dear families,

Your child’s learning is all online on their class site. 

They have access to Study-ladder, Sunshine Classics, Prodigy, weekly plans and lots of activities.

They can post videos and photos of their work on Dojo. Please sign up, you can send us messages if you need anything or have any questions. 

All students have had their passwords and usernames sent home. If they forget these they can message us on Dojo or email us at:

s.bound@wesleyprimary.school.nz

j.to’oala@wesleyprimary.school.nz 

There is packs in the office (open 24th and 25th of March for collection) for students that need extra work or do not have access to the internet at home.

To get to the class site follow this link:

https://sites.google.com/wesleyprimary.school.nz/hoiho2020/home?authuser=0

Take care, stay safe and enjoy each others company.

Fear Factor

We played fear factor yesterday. We had to feel inside the bag and describe what it felt like without saying what we thought it was. We were learning about the five senses. Sight, hear, smell, taste and touch. We then had to go and find something to describe outside. Here are some videos of the describing words we came up with. These are called adjectives.

The three Little Pigs

Inspired by the book, students were given multiple materials to make their own houses for the three pigs. Some students made a house where you need a secret password to get in and some used bubble wrap to make windows and smoke from a chimney.

New scooters for Wheels Club

A humongous thank you to AT Transport for our new scooters! They are amazing, fast and strong. We always remember to wear covered shoes, a helmet and pick up our scooters when we cross the road.

Check out some photos from Wheels Club.

Whiri Time

Whiri Time (choice time) is a time where we can choose to work on projects. As long as we create in that time. We look forward to it every week and sometimes we do it more than once a week. Here are some of the things we have been working on.

We use Pasifik Drums to make rhythms and perform these, we also make sure we talk in Samoan when we do this. We build with nails, hammers, screwdrivers and more. We make up dance routines and practise to lead whole school Jump Jam. Lots of us enjoy engineering and working together to make a circuit, so far we have made a light buln light up and a fan because it has been HOT. We made playdoh and ice-blocks. We also enjoy constructing marble ramps.

Do you have any ideas for us?

Making our own waka

After coming up with many questions. We decided to attempt to make our own waka.
We had the challenge to only use a few sticks, a few pieces of sellotape and 30cm of string.

We found it way harder than we thought it would be. It was hard to get it to stick together. We started thinking about how hard it must of been back then, especially with the big waves.

The one that floated the best was the one that spread the sticks out and weighed less.

This lead to more wondering...

I wonder how they make it float

I wonder why some sunk and other did not

I wonder why some of our boats fell apart in the water

I wonder how long it would take till the boats sunk

I wonder what shape of boat would float best

I wonder what material float the best

I wonder why some boats needed less equipment

Voyage from the Pasifik Islands

We watched the Moana boat clip. From that clip we had lots of wonderings. Here are a few:

I wonder where the echo came from

I wonder why she is drumming on a boat

I wonder what the paintings on the sail mean

I wonder how the boat is layed out

I wonder how people see on boats at night

I wonder where the people that drew on the sail came from

I wonder why they are in a cave

I wonder why they are not on water

I wonder what countries they are from

I wonder how they get through waterfalls and big waves without falling off or flipping

I wonder how many people they can fit on the boats

I wonder how they get onto the boats

I wonder what their boats are made out of

I wonder where their going

I wonder where they’ve come from

I wonder how they use the stars to see where to go

I wonder

I wonder if they know where to go

I wonder why they didn’t need to hold onto anything when they were standing on the boat

I wonder why they are singing

I wonder why he was making a hand sign at the stars

I wonder how they make the wood stick together

What do you wonder?

Dance for School

Thank you to everyone who came and watched our Dance Show. We had so much fun dancing to Prince Ali with our instructor Mark from Dance for Schools!