BEING CREATIVE!

This term, our Nga Matapono focus is Being Creative.  

Today our teachers issued us with a challenge:  We had to make something that MOVES! 

Here are a few photos of us in action...

GENIUS HOUR!

Today in Genius Hour, Jack and Sam made some dinosaur puzzles.  Jacks LOVES dinosaurs!

GENIUS HOUR!

Oliva and Timothy the Bear drew a picture using pastels.  She drew a butterfly first and then she looked for a green pastel and added lots of extra details.

Today in Genius Hour we practised being CREATIVE!

We built amazing towers, jet skis and houses and race tracks.  We drew colourful pictures.  We made cool things with mobilo.

 When we were being Creative we had to think about what were going to do.  We had to ask ourselves how we were going to make it better - we had to REFLECT! 


When were talking to our friends about what they were doing we had to ask...

"Can you tell me about what you are making."

This is an open-ended question.  Asking open-ended questions gets us a lot more detail!

Before

After reflection and improvements

Aaliyah and Stevie made a bedroom for Dawson and he even gets a slide!

Jermaine made a ramp for a car all by himself

Naomi made a city complete with a cylinder on top of the tallest tower

GENIUS HOUR EDITION TWO!

We had about 20 kids choose to take part in Genius Hour this week.   We had kids learning about cheetahs,  dogs,  artic foxes as well as kids designing and building race tracks with portals (as every good race track should have) and cars that transform into helicopters.  Jermaine is a genius at riding his skateboard so he designed and made a skateboard and some ramps from Mobilo.  He gave us a demonstration of how the skateboard could do flips off the ramps. Very cool, Jermaine!

ETHAN'S GENIUS

In Genius Hour this week,  Ethan decided he would write a letter to his Dad.  Here are a few pictures of Ethan showing his letter and reading it to his friends.  

We decided that writing the letter was only half the fun.   The best part was getting it in the mail,  so we went over to the office and asked Mrs Johnston if we could send the letter.   She kindly said yes and gave Ethan an envelope and some stamps.  

So... Ethan's Dad,  keep an eye in your mailbox,  there's something coming for you! 

SHARING OUR GENIUS!

Here's a few photos of us sharing what we did in Genius Hour with our friends.  We are really proud of what we have done.

OUR FIRST EVER GENIUS HOUR!

Today we started Genius Hour.  This is a workshop that we could choose to do.  Basically we get to do what we are passionate about.   Aeva loves insects so she found out all about them.   Sam loves building with mobilo.  He designed and made a special gun with a trigger that actually moves.  Alex and Sukhdeep worked together to build a race track complete with a round about.   Matty is passionate about learning so he spend his time writing an amazing story.   Some kids love art so they made some fantastic pieces of art that we will display in our classroom.   What a fabulous first session of Genius Hour!