Looking After Your Chromebook In Room 2

 The students were set a task to design a google drawing to share their knowledge on how to look after their chromebooks.  Here some some wonderful examples:

Chido's Presentation on Michelle Obama

This term the tamariki in Rm 5 have been working on developing their research skills and here is an example of what Chido has completed.

Sir Edmond Hillary By Inshiarh

 As we are continuing to develop our research skills the tamariki have been given an open choice about who they would like to research.  The one thing they must include how they made a change in this world.  Inshirah has done a fabulous job on researching Sir Edmond Hillary.

Katy Perry Research Project

Alice and Cheidza have been working on a research project to learn about Katy Perry. Here is their slideshow:

Chido Research Project

Famous Woman Study - Princess Diana

 Room 5 have been learning a variety of research skills and this has been based on people who have made a change in the world.  They were given a guide for their first research project and that was a woman who has made change in the world.  Here is the fantastic project that Mia and Mila put together.

Mila Studies Egypt

Mila has done a wonderful job researching Egypt. Here is her work.

Cohen's Italy Country Study

Cohen has done a fabulous job with his country study on Italy.

Franks Country Study On New Zealand

Frank has done a wonderful job on his country study on New Zealand.

Country Study

All the children in Room 5 chose a country to study. They had to research the country then look into a current or past olympian. Here is Deacons study he did on Australia.

Country Study

 The children in Room 5 have been studying the Tokyo Olympics.  One of the challenges they were set this year was to pick a country who competed in the Tokyo Olympics and do a country study on them.  Here is a fabulous example that Chido completed on Zimbabwe. 

Discovering Out Past - Ahaura Now and Then

 This term the students at Awahono have been 'Discovering Our Past'.  This has been a topic where the students did an inquiry around Ahaura and how the town came to be.  We learn many different things and the students were able to focus on half a decade per group.  They had 3 major challenges, 1 was to build a 3D model of Ahaura during the timeframe they were researching, 2 was to create a slideshow with information to support their 3D model and 3 was to build Ahaura on Minecraft.

We had a sharing afternoon today where all the other classes at Awahono came in to see our displays. I am really proud of all the children and the work they presented.

Discovering Our History

 This term our topic is around 'Discovering Our History'.  This topic will lead the students to look at Ahaura and the local history.  We exposed the students in Rooms 5 and 6 to a starter activity that was based at History Park in Ahaura, which had our students making connections with their history by seeing their family names on the photo boards.

We can't wait to see where this topic takes our children....watch this space!

Let Me Entertain You

 Our Term 1 topic was Let Me Entertain You.  This was a topic based on what we all do for entertainment and included things like music and pop stars, magicians, mimes and even how games entertains us.  The students got to direct their learning and these children decided to make games for other to try.  They were made from a variety of different things.  Some examples were a marble run, maths games and even a pin pong game.

Research Project - Let Me Entertain you.

 Our topic for this term has been 'Let Me Entertain You'.  Throughout this topic we have been researching a person who entertains us in one way or an other.  Inshirah has finished her research on 'Mrs Bean' and this is a great example of what the challenge was about.

The Coconut Opening Challenge

 As we have been studying Fiji for topic this week the children were provided with a traditional Fiji challenge...opening a coconut.  The students were asked to work collaboratively to come with an idea to open the coconut.  The one provision was that they were not allowed to use a knife.   We had some fantastic solutions using a hammer, cracking it on the concrete and using a drill.  We timed each group and Coreys group won but using the crack on the concrete technique.

Potato Planting

 Here at Awahono School we get so many learning opportunities because of our school garden and the wonderful Sue Coleman (our resident expert!).  Sue was teaching the children how to plant potatoes and she showed us 2 ways of doing this, one in soil and one in pea straw.

The children love this real world learning and is linking in nicely with our topic 'The Science Behind Our Food'.

Bee Man!

 On Thursday Awahono had a learning experience around bees.  We were lucky enough to have Noah and Blessed two bee keepers come in and talk to the children about bee and honey.  This was such an incredible learning experience.  The children learnt so much and if you visit their blogs in the next week or so you will see a presentation around bees and a piece of explanation writing on bees.