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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!!

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!

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!

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.

Today in Koka Ngaire's Early Level 3 maths workshop we were helping each other out with improper & proper fractions and mixed numbers. We had previously figured out that we had to use multiplication and division to change these fractions.  Bjorn had worked these out and shared them with us, sort of like a 3 step process.  He made them really simple and was great at explaining them to us.  Natalie had been away for a week - so we all helped her to be successful and this made it cement in our brains too! Koka Ngaire gets excited when she sees us automatically helping each other to learn!  We told her she could go and have a coffee because we were so in to our maths learning today!  

We have just had our class speech competition to see who would make it through to the Nui semi-finals and then the finals next week. The topic for this year's speeches was 'Actions Speak Louder than Words' to go alongside our actions and learning from across this term.  It was a great speech topic and we had a variety of speeches given - from saving the bees, to flagging the bag, to Te Reo Maori, to generally putting our actions first. The standard of speeches was really high and everyone single Moana student should be really proud of getting quality speeches written in the timeframe, practising and then presenting to a big audience with confidence, clarity and humour. We congratulate these learners who are through to the semi-finals: Year 5s: Kya, Henry, Nellie, Izzy and Sophie  Year 6s: Obe, Kaya, Chloe, Daniel P and Charlie K Getting ready for semi-finals!

Kia ora cyber whanau, In Moana Learning Hub this term, we have been looking at a different Whakatauki each week. Whakatauki are Maori proverbs with underlying messages of wisdom.  Kia pai to ra / po 

Today one of our groups of young mathematicians collaborated in solving a problem so that Marama knew how much money she needed to save before going on her big OE. What was and always is incredible to see, is the variety of strategies that we all use and can explain to others so, like all good mathematicians, we can double-check our answers. After we solved the problem, we explained our methods to each other and pointed out where some of us made mistakes.  Post problem discussion: "It's OK to make mistakes, because we can learn lessons from them." "I didn't get that. Can someone explain how they solved it?" "What did I do wrong?" "That was easy.... I just solved it in my head." "Can I use a calculator?"

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Today Nui syndicate had a visit from the Capital-E 'Story Studio Live' team!  It was very interesting and exciting.  We learnt how sound is added into TV and movies... there are people that make the sound to put back into the film when it is finished and they use all sorts of normal, everyday items to make these sounds. Some of us were recorded and used later on in the play they presented... watch the video below to see some clips on how hardly any costumes were used - but that it was all about the sound ! What do you think of the dance warm-up moves at the beginning of the clip?!    :-)

In Moana 3, we created some marvellous metaphor writing about our Dad's for Father's Day.  We had learnt about metaphor's previously so we knew the difference between a metaphor and a simile: a metaphor tells it like it is and a simile uses 'like' or 'as'. When we had completed our writing, we then designed wonderful portrait's of our Dad's... the effect was truly stunning and there were some very happy dad's out there on Father's Day! Just some of the wonderful portraits Here are our metaphor's about our Dad's - using Sheena Cameron's lesson ideas.  They brought a warm fuzzy feeling to Koka Ngaire as she was reading them!!