Discovery day

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Assembly

Hi everyone, welcome to our the Totara 3 assembly. This term we have been working on our visual mihi's, explanations, lists and thinking about 21st-century learning. Here is a snippet of some of the things we've been doing.

Mihi 

Alex's

Dillon

Bryan

Explanations

Weve spent most of the term writing explanations (and we're glad thats over!!!) Here is one of Finlay's 

How to be a super-hero

Lists

10 sports that should be in the Olympics
Dion's List

21st Century Learning

During the week, Madeline came and presented to us a series of videos and ideas relating to new ways to learn. 

Levi's presentation

Brodie's Presentation
Ashley and Zoes

Tie Dye T-Shirts

At the end of last term we tie dyed and screen printed our own t-shirts. Tell us what you think...

Perspective drawing

WALT: Construct simple shapes using 2 vanishing points.

This week we began to construct simple cuboids with two vanishing points. The vanishing points give our drawing its 3D look. If we position our shape on the horizon line we can only see two of its faces. If we contract out shape above or below the horizon line we can see 3 faces.

I think the hardest part we found was the cross over of the vertices to the opposite vanishing point.

Below is a short video we made to take you through it step by step.

Assembly

Last week being book week, we had to dress up as one of our favourite book characters, here is a short presentation of what we dressed up as.

In writing we have been learning how to write the perfect paragraph to go along with our explanations and some us have made a stop motion to display our new learning, here is a few examples of work.


 Samaras

This term we have been looking at how rubbish is disposed from a lollipop wrapper to Kate Valley Landfill in Canterbury.

Learnz has taken us on a journey from your rubbish bin to the dumps around the South Island. Here is a short presentation of our new learning.


 Certain kinds of rubbish takes a long time to break down. Here is what Harrison and Alvin found out



For the Art Soiree Totara has made Tie-Dye T Shirts we will be screen printing them but so far here is the product.

In art for the last couple of weeks we have been focusing on what makes a good Logo as well as Protest art

Zoe’s learning on protest art.

This week we began to learn how to ride unicycles. Here is a short video on our progress.

Book Character Assembly

For many of us this is our 8th and last Book Character assembly. This is what we dressed up as this year! See if you can spot Ricky Baker

Enlargements

Sophie came up with a very clever solution to TOO MUCH INFORMATION

To finish off this term we decided to do some hands-on maths. Enlargements are very much Geometry and Measurement rather than art. Many things need to happen to be able to create a successful enlargement; Measuring the image, estimating the new grid size, using division to confirm, measuring and ruling accurately & finally spatial awareness-to be able to transfer points on an image to a new (and larger image). I was very impressed  by Room 14s efforts.