Literacy Rotation

In Rimu Hub we have been learning about

• Stan Walker
• Lorde
• Peter Jackson
• Dick Frizzel
• Parris Goebel
• Brooke Fraser
• Jamie Curry
• Johnny4Higher

The children were able to research about New Zealand artists and then chose which artist they wanted to learn about. 

Rosie Jones and Kiana Pohe have created a mashup of lyrics to Stan Walker's 'Little Black Box'. 

Kiana

Head to her blog and give her an awesome comment :)

Rosemary

Head to her blog and give her an awesome comment :)

Blogger of the Week: T3 #2

Camden is our very special Blogger of the Week. His post "The Great Super XV Supporter :)" is the most popular post in the history of Parkvale School blogging. At this moment, as I write these words, it now sits on 67 comments. Leave him another comment!

Camden loves sharing on his blog and is an enthusiastic commenter on other blogs. Camden received lots of comments after giving a supporters speech at assembly and then performing his beat boxing. Below is a short video with a great recording of Camden's beat boxing.


 
Camden Beat Boxing from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

Larry The Lamb

The Adventure Of The Larry The lamb from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

Today, Rimu MLE had a special visitor. A woolly visitor! Watch SGK's trailer to find out more!

*SGK = Sophia, Georgia and Kyra

Mickey To Tiki Tu Meke

We have been learning about different New Zealand artists across the arts. Here is a description of an iconic artwork by Dick Frizzell. It is written by Bella C.

Mickey to Tiki Tu Meke

This sketch is a transformation of Mickey Mouse to a tiki, It is designed by a artist named Dick Frizzell. It is called Mickey To Tiki Tu Meke. Dick Frizzell is a famous New Zealand artist who grow up barefoot in Hawkes Bay.

This piece of art starts out as Mickey Mouse then transforms in six steps into a Tiki. A tiki is something that is kiwiana and is often on a necklace.  There is a reversed version of this art that is Tiki To Mickey

The art tells us that there are similarities between NZ and Disney character.  I like this art because it is clever how he transforms one thing into another.  I chose this because it is one of my favourites from him.

Being happy and serious at the same time is something I find unique about it.  It is special to me because it was made by someone that went to the same school as me. And I believe I could do it too, with a little practice that is.

Bella

Rimu MLE Song

For home learning, Liske chose to write and record a song. She wrote it about Rimu Hub. We were proud of her effort and with her permission are sharing it on the blog.


I have published it with some recent photos of students learning in the hub. We definitely have fun learning together in Rimu Hub!

Liske has created her own post about the song. Check it out and leave her a comment!

Emailing Jonny 4Higher

Created with Padlet

At the moment Rimu Hub have literacy groups researching, reading and writing about the New Zealand artist of their choice. One of the groups is investigating the mural / graffiti artist, Jonny 4Higher. It is a boys' group and we are in the process of sending well-written emails to him. Some have already been sent and we wait eagerly for a reply! The Padlet above has the boys' original ideas.

Visit Jonny's website to see his amazing murals!

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UPDATE

Jonny 4Higher replied to Taylor, answering all his questions. Check it out at his blog! His replies to the other boys have been shorter because Taylor was the first to finish the draft of his email.

Postcard T3 W4

Rimu MLE's Term 3 Postcards (Learning All-Stars #4)

Liske - for being a consistently awesome learner and hard worker.
Monica- improved learning habits and focused attitude.
Bella - for her consistent high quality contributions.

He tino pai Rimu All Stars! We are very proud of you.

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Rimu MLE's Term 3 Postcards (Learning All-Stars #3)

Rosemary - for being an enthusiastic learner and leader.
Bodie - improved learning habits and all round responsibility.
George - for sharing top quality learning tasks.

He tino pai Rimu All Stars! We are very proud of you.

Fun Run 2015

We have been training hard for the "Fun Run" in Rimu Hub and we're very proud of our results. Just look at that results table! 

Taylor couldn't run, so he took photos and created this video on the iPad. Visit his blog and leave him a comment. I think he did a creative job which captured the efforts of many students.

2015 Fun Run Results

Year 4 Girls fun	Year 4 Boys fun
1 Monica Sharplin    Takahe 2 Tyler Smith       Pukeko 3 Unique Rigby     Takahe 4 Bella Taylor     Pukeko 5 Aimee Osborne       Kea	1 George Taylor   Tui 2 Boston Dixon  Tui 3 Jordan Ross   Hoiho 4 Kayden Stowe  Hoiho 5 Declan Meads   Kea
Year 5 Girls fun	Year 5 Boys fun
1 Astella Tui 2 Aspen  Kea 3 Keisha Eagan Hoiho 4 Lake Paea  Hoiho 5 Jahzana Winiata   Tui	1 Diaz Davison  Pukeko 2 Rory Cameron  Takahe 3 Ngahere Greaves  Takahe 4 Logan Neis  Tui 5 Campbell Dean  Takahe
Year 6 Girls fun	Year 6 Boys fun
1 Jasmine Taylor  Tui 2 Leilani Williams  Pukeko 3 Emma Jarvis  Pukeko 4 Renee V   Takahe 5 Samontae  Tui	1 Corbyn Bloor  Kea 2 Jared Anderson  Takahe 3 William Wepa-Hazel 4 Liam Harmer  Pukeko 5 Connor McAneney  Hoiho
Year 4 Girls comp 3 laps 7:14	Year 4  Boys comp  3 laps 6:06
1 Ruby Hansen  Tui 2 Jasmine Bixley Kea 3 Ruby Langford Kea 4 Mya Wallace  Tui 5 Kalae Proctor Tui 6 Kaea Pomare  Tui 7 Skyla Halton Tui 8 Sienna Gamabarazzi McCarthy  Tui 9 Tia Dempsey  Hoiho 10 Isabella Ladd  Kea	1 Toby Mc   Tui 2 Camo Murphy   Takahe 3 Deegan Butcher  Hoiho 4 Mitchell Townsend Takahe 5 Bowen Steffert  Hoiho 6Jacob Johnson  Takahe 7 Callan Robson   Tui 8 Beau Heibner   Takahe 9 Jakob Whitnall  Takahe 10 Bradley Singer  Kea
Year 5 Girls comp   4 laps     9:02	Year 5 Boys comp  4 laps   8:15
1 Caitlin Astwood      Kea 2 Liske Halford       Takahe 3 Keighan Hikawai-McIntyre  Tui 4 Charlotte Reid  Kea 5 Claire Morrison   Hoiho 6 Izabella Hancz  Hoiho 7  Hannah Malcolm  Hoiho 8 Megan Orr  Tui 9 Bella Casson  Tui 10 Ruby Van Maanen  Tui	1 Ezra Morton  Hoiho 2 Connor Gallagher  Hoiho 3 Camden Bruce  Hoiho 4 Bodie Scott  Kea 5 Chris Walker Hoiho 6 Oscar Wilkinson  Kea 7 Camden Russell  Tui 8 Cameron Browning  Kea 9 Kevin Karena  Pukeko 10 Lucian Karaitiana  Tui
Year 6 Girls comp  4 laps  7:42	Year 6 Boys comp 4 laps    8:15
1 Aniela Apperley   Takahe 2 Kiana Pohe Pukeko 3 Adrielle Gillespie  Kea 4 Sophia Langford Kea 5 Maia Bassett Kea 6 Rosie Jones  Takahe 7 Shannon Hutchison 8 Tianna Rolls Pukeko 9 Shakayla Burton Kea 10 Emma Randle   Hoiho	1 Dylan Costello  Pukeko 2 Hugh Kilsby   Hoiho 3 Connor Derham   Tui 4 Caleb Johnstone  Hoiho 5 Jonathon Harbord Tui 6 Josh Stephens Takahe 7 Curtis Mc   Tui 8 Zayne Anderson   Tui 9 Tyler White   Pukeko 10 James Brown  Pukeko

Back in the hub, we reflected on the efforts of ourselves and others. It was wonderful to hear how well our students recognize the PRIDE in others. Here is a video of Hannah interviewing Liske about the Fun Run.




Kiana wanted to write a Moment in Time about her race and share it on her blog. She captured her race in vivid detail. Read about it here and leave a comment!

Netball World Cup by Sophia

Here are some highlights from Sophia's amazing Netball Inquiry task. Her chant is super cool!

My chant supporting the Silver Ferns.

We are we are the silver ferns silver ferns

We have girl power to the limit nobody is better than us

We we rule the court like our fans get off your feet and clap your hands

We are we are the Silver ferns Silver ferns

GO SILVER FERNS!

All of the Silver Fern’s players and one of their main positions.

GS Bailey Mes	WA Grace Rumessen	GD Casey Kopua
GS Malia Paseka	WA Shannon Francois	GD Katrina Grant
GA Jodi Brown	C Laura Langman	GK Phoenix Karaka
GA Maria Tutaia	WD Kayla Cullen	GK Leana De Bruin

My NWC Artwork

New Zealand Vs Uganda Report (written by Sophia)

The game is under way with New Zealand starting with the ball and straight away it is a turn over. It gets to the Uganda goal GS, shot and GA got the rebound and stepped out, so it was NZ ball. After NZ shooting a few goals Shannon Francois made a excellent intercept, delivering a great pass into the goal circle, with Malia Paseka shooting a great goal.  After these first few minutes of the game Uganda has had great defence keeping the shooters out of the way for NZ.  

Down the other end Karaka has made a lovely intercept leading to a great goal being shot for NZ. NZ having great teamwork with Jodi Brown making the ball stay on the NZ side. There has been nice pressure by the silver ferns making Uganda struggle and go off side.  There was a lovely save by the Uganda C but NZ still manage to get the ball with 2 nice strong passes down the court to the NZ shooters.  There has been great defence by both teams with a injury time out in the middle. Uganda have been doing some risky moves by shooting and passing with one hand.  What a great pick up by Laura Langman! At the end of the first quarter New Zealand came out winning 20-3.

Uganda have came back on the court really strong ready to play another quarter.  Uganda has a new GA on and that has made a big difference by shooting more goals and straight away. After that Uganda have the ball with a 2 -0 start in the 2nd quarter.  Uganda had a very unlucky step but a nice pick up by Uganda after.  There were lovely passes by NZ making Jodi Brown shoot an amazing goal. Uganda centre pass went right into the hands of Malia Paseka and a centre pass does not normally go into the opposition GS hands. At the end of the 2rd quarter 39-16 with NZ leading and Uganda having a better quarter than their first quarter.

There was a short pass by Uganda so it was a turn over to NZ which went out of court. Then Uganda stepped so it was NZ ball again. A lot was going on! On the Uganda side they had a lot of stepping in the circle and NZ was hustling.  There was lovely passing by Uganda but WD on their side got a warning by the referee. At the end of the 3rd quarter, New Zealand was still leading 56-24.

Maria Tutaia is coming onto the court to play her 100th game for the Silver ferns.  Great ball by Maria Tutaia shooting but the ball fell out of the hoop but rebounded, making a quick pass to Malia Paseka. Great intercept by the Uganda GK but she was unlucky and it was NZ ball. GK for NZ, Karaka, made a big pass to Laura Langman who just missed it. There was a nice rebound by Leana De Bruin making the ball go down to the NZ shooting circle with a goal on its way. The final shot was by NZ.The final score was 76-33 to New Zealand at the Sydney Olympic park. Both teams had never met before.

To see all of Sophia's post, visit here. She would love a quality comment.