Powhiri by Danielle

Learning at the Museum

Room 7 and Room 10 collaborated this year to create a movie for the Manaiakalani Film Festival. Our movie is called Powhiri. In Term 3 we had been learning about Maori customs and traditions. We visited the Auckland Museum where there are lots of different artifacts that helped us learn about how Maori use to live. You can read more of our blog posts here.

3D displays

We created 3D displays for the classroom sharing what we had learnt about Maori traditions and also read and retold Maori legends for our blogs.
In our movie we shared a Powhiri including waiata (songs) and Mihi (speech).






Powhiri Glenbrae from KPE TV on Vimeo.

Basketball lessons

Wow!!! on Tuesday the 16 of October 2012 Glenbrae school had a Coach called Bruce. Bruce was a basketball player. When he was 18, he got a million dollars for playing, and now he is a famous. Bruce started to play basketball when he as 8 years old Bruce was a professional basketball player in America but he is not a very tall person. Bruce got his first scholarship for playing. Bruce won the scholarship by giving respect and by having the right meal every day.

The Scary Rusty shed

The Scary Rusty shed

LT:To write a story opener to hook in the reader.

 

THERE WAS AN OLD SHED AT THE BACK OF OUR FLOWER GARDEN. MY BROTHER KNEW THAT A GOBLIN LIVED IN IT. A SMALL CROOKED GREEN BODY THAT ATTACKED PEOPLE IF THEY GO IN THE SHED. THE NEXT DAY  ME AND JAKE MY FRIEND AND MY DAD MICHAEL TOOK A LOOK. SQUEEK! SQUEEK! WENT THE RUSTY TIN DOOR. WE WENT WITH A TORCH AND A BASEBALL BAT.  WE TIP TOED IN AND WE WENT AND LOOKED FOR THE CREATURE. SUDDENLY MY DAD TURNED HIS HEAD AND THERE WAS THE GOBLIN STARING RIGHT AT HIM.  HIS TWO RED EYES WERE AS RED AS BLOOD. HE HAD YELLOW SLIME DRIPPING ALL OVER HIM.  THE GOBLIN WAS AS SMALL AS A CHILD ... TO BE CONTINUED.