Graffiti: Art or Vandalism?

Our Huia reading group was given an interesting question from Koka Ngaire... is Graffiti Art or Vandalism?

We read a couple of L4 texts and looked at a video about the history of graffiti and we had to form our opinion from these and our prior knowledge.

We all came to the conclusion that it depends.  It depends where it is and what the message is...  WHAT DO YOU THINK?  We would love to hear your feedback in the comments.

Koka Ngaire took some photos of real life graffiti and street art in Melbourne - we had lots of discussion about those!

Have a read through a couple of examples of our presentations.... from Kaya, Carys, Daniel B and Obe

Earth Paints...

In the Fantails reading group, we read an article called 'Earth Paints' as part of our Culture Club topic this term and learned about aboriginal painting and how they made their paint from the earth...

We followed the instructions that the kids in the article set out... we went off to find several different dirt colours from around our school.  We found yellow, green, dark brown, light brown and a bluey colour.

We were looking at bossy verbs and following instructions.  We had to grind, rub, crush, sieve, mix, stir... we turned our dirt into a paint like paste.  It was exciting to get our fingers into the 'paste' and create our own paintings like the ones in the article.

Battleships!

In Early Level 4 Maths Strand - we have been learning about co-ordinates and position.  We used ourselves as co-ordinate points to understand positive and negative points in a grid... then we got to play Battleships on a 4 way grid to challenge ourselves.

We ruled up a grid for ourselves and one to find our buddies ships.  We hid our grids from each other and attempted to use our new co-ordinate learning.

We all said that we had to remember to use the horizontal line first... "go along the hallway, then up or down the stairs".  This helped most of us to get a hit on at least one battleship!!

Awesome learning with Koka Pip

We have had an awesome student teacher with us in Moana 3 for the past 7 weeks... and we have learnt lots with her.  Below are just some of the learning activities we have had fun doing with her.

We wish her well in her future teaching career and we know she will do well!
Ka pai Koka Pip - thank you for everything you did for us while you were here!!

ACTIONS FOCUS BUZZ GROUPS!

We have had a great term of learning with our "Actions Speak Louder than Words" topic.

In MLH, we had 10 projects in 10 weeks!  Everything from hospital boxes, to the school vege garden and back to rectifying the school outdoor chess board!

Everyone had to work as a team - listening and clearly communicating ideas.  Each group had a planner to fill in and work from - marking in key dates.  It has been really exciting this last week to see all of the projects coming to fruition.

Have a read through our slides to see what each group has been up to for Term 3!

Spectacular Speech Finals!

Congratulations to our Nui speech finalists!   The finals were held this morning and they were all to a very high standard.  Koka Claire (who is a trained Speech and Drama teacher) was the judge and commented on the content and delivery of each speech.

The winners were Isabel (Year 5) and Chloe (Year 6).  A big shout out to all of our Moana Learning Hub students who participated!

Whatu pokeka

Moana 3 and Room 10 buddied up to create our Whatu Pokeka (baby's blanket).   There was lots of discussion around the statements we wrote on the feathers and also about the pattern we wanted to create on the blanket.  We are super proud of what we achieved - we are looking forward to seeing our's and all the other buddy classes whatu pokeka on display in the hall.