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Wow - we have been busy beavers today in Moana Learning Hub! Our school Craft Fair is coming up next Saturday 17 November and today we had a Make & Do Day to get our craft items ready. We have made: airdry clay christmas ornaments and jewellery dishes, christmas card packs, baking in a jar, little poi and jewellery (necklaces and bracelets).  We had 2 awesome mums (thanks Dayna and Kari) come in to help us. We are really proud of our efforts and look forward to selling our wares next weekend.  Perhaps you could come along to our craft fair too!

Wow - our Cafe Day was today and it was brilliant!!! We had to postpone it from during Term 3 when our topic was 'Actions Speak Louder than Words'... but in the end it ended up fitting in perfectly with this term's topic of 'Culture Club'. Everyone in Moana Learning Hub was involved.... our whanau baked delicious food, we decided what entertainment we should have (especially to showcase all our talents) and invited guests - namely our elders. We had the first 3 weeks of term to practice and get ready... we had ukelele playing, singing, dance, gymnastics, jump jam and finished with a haka.  We had a full hall of guests and everyone had a very, very enjoyable time! We did such a good job that we were even able to sit down together at the end and indulge in some of the baked goodness that was left over! Many thanks to everyone who helped us: before, during and after!! Here is a video with just a snippet of the awesome entertainment enjoyed through the morning.... We al...

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

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.

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!!

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!!