Kia ora whānau,
Our Year 6 students were lucky enough to visit Christchurch East School on Wednesday for a Technology Taster Day.
In the Soft Materials component the tamariki made a book mark using felt and the sewing machines.
In Hard Materials, tamariki worked with perspex to make a keychain.
Finally, tamariki coded in MicroBit to produce a flashing version of their name in Digital Technologies.
So, this term we have all been learning about food science, food mould, preserving food, food storage and experiments with food.
The last part of our learning was this awesome visit from Anne-Marie. Anne-Marie is the New Zealand ambassador for NASA in the USA. She goes around schools to teach components related to space and space travel. This time, she kitted the children up in space suits and taught us all about the process for dehydrating and sending food into space. There were examples of the types of food and drink sent and our children had loads of questions.
It was a very cool day. The children actually got to prepare the food and try it! Some liked it, some didn't. We think it may have been the veges hidden in there!
Have you ever learnt about food science? Do you know anything about space food? let us know in the comments.
Over the past couple of weeks, our Year 6 students have been involved in the Cycle Safe programme. This is where they get to bring their bikes and helmets to school and a team of teachers from The Christchurch City Council come to school to teach our kids.
Cycle Safe is a cycle skills education programme for schools. Our students get to learn the benefits of cycling and how to ride with confidence and be road-wise.
Christchurch's Cycle Safe Programme is considered one of the best in the country and is used as a leading delivery model. All children receive a personalised certificate highlighting their personal achievements.
The programme our children were involved with this year included;
Cycle maintenance and correct helmet fitting
Basic cycling skills
Road rules
On-road cycling.
Although very cold and a bit wet this year, we watched our year 6 students thriving out on the roads. It was so awesome to see so many bringing their bikes to school and enjoying the outdoor learning!
Have you done the cycle safe programme? What did you think about it?
Well done Korimako! We are super proud of you!
Kia ora Bloggers,
Korimako students have begun their Winter sport journey! With all trials completed, and a few practices sessions, last Friday the 11th saw us ride the (pretty flash) buses to the Rawhiti Sports grounds.
With all our gear ready the teams, which included Netball, Hockey, Football, Ki O Rahi, Capture the Flag, Gardening, and Bowls headed off with our coaches to our games. While the weather was a bit chilly, spirits were high and all the Marshland teams were ready to play.
Teams completed one or two games during the afternoon. It was great to see everyone working and supporting each other on and off the field. Win or lose, it was an awesome start to the 2021 Winter season!
We are looking forward to the rest of the season at Rawhiti!
Has your school started Winter sport yet, and if so, what do you play?
See you next week.
Photos courtesy of Miss Roberts
Over this term, Korimako has been lucky enough to have Sharon with us from Manaiakalani to teach us how to be safe online and to take care of our devices.
Our main focus for this term has been our digital footprint and learning about whatever goes online stays online forever. Korimako children have been learning to have a positive digital footprint, through the contents of:
Being a media detective: Private v's personal information. How private is your personal information, and how can you ensure it remains private. Finding things online and identifying them as safe and not safe.
Savvy sharing: SISOMO - effective advertisements using sight, sound, and motion. Making sure we are responsible for what we are sharing and showing online.
Social media: Learning the terms of each service, what you are paying for and how they use your personal information.
As well of course learning to make a quality blog post and how to use their email correctly.
Overall, we have learned so much from Sharon, and our Korimako tamariki are well set up to be safe, smart, independent learners online!!!
What does being cyber smart mean for you? Do you know how to identify when something online is unsafe for you?
Sources: Sharon from manaiakalani, Manaiakalani site. Mr Bell for photos in the hub.
This week Korimako have been putting each other through their paces and trialing for our preferred Winter Sports Teams.
Earlier in the term we were sent out a google form to choose our top 3 Weekly Winter Sport options. These included: Football, Netball, Hockey, Capture the flag, Bowls, Ki O Rahi, Gardening and Flag Football.
Those sports which had a lot of children sign up their interest needed to trial as there were limited spots available. The sports teams which trialed were: Netball, Football & Hockey. Thank you so much to the Korimako teachers for spending their lunchtimes to run these, we appreciate it so much.
The trials involved a lot of learning for the Korimako students as a lot of this was new to them. Students then did a warm up and practiced their skills before getting into a small sided games
Overall it was a fantastic experience for us all. We learnt the rules for our chosen sports, how to work together in a team, how to play fair and of course how to have fun!
What sport have you chosen for Winter? Do you play a different sport outside of school? How did you go in your trial? Let me know in the comments below :)
Photo Credit: Mr Bell :)
This week Korimako have been lucky enough to have some amazing actors from The Court Theatre come in to put us through our acting paces.
We started with a dance off to warm ourselves up. This was a great opportunity to showcase some of our epic moves. Then we moved into an animal game, this was where you and the person next to you were given an animal and had to act it out. The best animal impression won the round!
Students were then put into groups and had to create shapes with their bodies, the challenge with this is they had to do it in silence! There was everything from an electric toothbrush, rocket ship, a storm, a school bus and a shark. It was awesome to see some great facial expressions with this activity.
Finally, we finished up the lesson with a tongue twister to work on our diction. The challenge was to see how many times we could say 'Irish wrist watch' in 30 seconds. How many times can you say this tongue twister correctly?
Overall it was a great day that all the students and teachers thoroughly enjoyed. Check out some of the photos and videos below!
