Home Learning

Kia ora parents and whanau.

 I will be updating our class site regularly over the coming weeks to ensure students from Ruma Piwakawaka have meaningful learning activities to do from home. I will be communicating via the email you have provided to the school office. If you have no provided an email to the office, I can not send you important passwords and updates that are relevant to individual students.  Keep well and safe in the coming weeks and remember I am only an email away if you need any help. Nga mihi, Caitlin


Learning Site link,

https://sites.google.com/hokitika.school.nz/piwakawaka-learning-site/home



my email : caitlin@hokitika.school.nz

The Fantastic Science Roadshow

Today, we went to the Science Roadshow in our school hall. We learned about all sorts of scientific concepts such as air pressure, chemical reactions with acids and bases, and speed.

Eva "if you turned this picture upside down they would smile and if you left it they would be frowning" It was an optical illusion. 

Novayah "I was spinning a lever around and the blocks went up and down like how mountains form" 

Kairi "I was looking inside and it spun around making electricity and the lights went on" 

Alice "you had to put balls down those rows to see which was heavier"
Zac "my favourite bit was when they showed the balloons popping with the nails.
Harmoni "I liked when they turned on the vacuum cleaner and the beach ball floated in the air"
Lui "my favourite bit was when you had to stand with a partner in front of the big fan. It was so loud"
Impala "I loved the lightening inside the ball, it felt weird and soft"
Liam "my favourite part was when my old teacher vacuum sealed in a bag"
Logan "I liked the experiment with coke and mentos, it went up and then down the tubes into the glasses. 

Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu, Back in Time

Last week, we went to Shantytown to learn about the olden days. 

First, we got to dress up in olden day clothes. The girls wore long dresses and skirts, an apron and a bonnet hat. The boys wore shorts, shirts, waistcoats and a cheese cutter cap. We felt really hot in those clothes. 

Next, we learned about how the Maori came to get pounamu, a precious stone. We also learned about the gold rush and how all the people came to prospect for gold. 

After that, we did some shopping activities and had to go to Chinatown for our fresh vegetables. 

At lunchtime, we got to play with toys like, stilts and wooden horses and a horseshoe game like the ones from Victorian times. 

Our favourite thing was riding the steam train to the gold panning site and panning for our very own gold. 
 We had heaps of fun. 

Squiggle Art

We have been learning Squiggle Art. It was a way to practise having a growth mindset. We drew scribbles then had to turn them into pictures. We worked on using our imaginations, and not worrying if we made mistakes or if our work did not look perfect. Here are our thoughts:

• It was very challenging.
• It was fun.
• I felt great!
• It was a little bit hard but I didn't give up.
• I thought of it as growth mindset.
• I thought it was pretty good, 
• It was very good and challenging.
• It makes you get better at art.
• It helps your brain.
• It was funny!
• I did a really weird scribble and turned it into an old bird.

Whaea Tiff was proud of us because we gave it a shot.

Fixed versus Growth Mindset

We have been learning what it means to have a growth mindset. 

• We started off by thinking about a fixed mindset comment we often tell ourselves. 
• Then we thought about a growth mindset comment we could say to ourselves instead.

These posters show our learning!

This term we are learning about having a GROWTH MINDSET. 

Today we learned how having a growth mindset can help us accomplish great achievements.
We tried to make the paper structure on the LEFT, with just ONE sheet of paper and scissors.
The focus was on keeping trying, and learning from our mistakes. It was very hard.

We tried to not be an Al not a Toad, and to think "how could I do this a different way?"

Have a go and you will see what a challenge it is!

Rūaumoko Rages

On Friday, we activated our volcanoes that were made in the Venus reading group when they were reading the book Rūaumoko rages. It was so exciting when the lava came up over the rim of the volcanoes.