Sign Language Week:

...NZ Sign Language Week...

In Hub 1 we have been celebrating and learning all about NZ Sign Language Week.
We have been using and practising the alphabet to learn how to say our name using sign language.

It has been a lot of fun and we are becoming so confident with sharing our names to one another.

Here are some photos of learners who have shared to the hub their name in sign language...

If you would like to learn more about NZ Sign Language week please check out the website: http://www.deaf.org.nz/nz-sign-language

Amazing Origami!

Amazing Origami Flower

Brittany lead her group to create this amazing Origami design. She had help from Carys, Julia, Taylor and Angela to create this amazing origami flower.

She collaborated with the girls to create different parts of the flower and then put all the individual parts together to create the final design. She followed the instructions correctly and followed the sequence in the right order to create her flower as directed. 

It looks stunning so far and we CANNOT wait to see the final coloured in flower!

Break through

Mrs England's Break Through Groups:

Friday the 4th of April has been a busy and full on day here in Hub 1.

One of Mrs England's break through groups, The Balloon group, have been reflecting on their break through choice and  have decided to move on and find a new topic/ idea to research. The children felt it was time to move on from balloons as they had researched about their history, found lots of balloon shapes to make and had a go blowing and tying them up. 
Half of the group moved into the art group, as they really wanted to research and find out about Origami, while the other half of children wanted to explore their passion in Magic, and were able to join that group.
The Origami group researched its history, coming from Japan. They also researched all of the shapes they would like to explore more in Origami. e.g. flowers, hearts. Here is the website that had a range of shapes to create: 

http://en.origami-club.com/

Mrs Ponomaryova brought in a book for the group to look through and many of the shapes are easily created by the children independently. 

The Magic group brainstormed all of the tricks and what they know about Magic to know what they wanted to find out about Magic. The boys researched using YouTube all of the tricks they wanted to look into - blowing fire etc. They found out you need to use gloves and water and be aware of the location of the trick, so no one comes to any danger.

The girls carried on with their magic trick of making someone disappear. They thought carefully about what they needed to do to the box to make the trick work. They came up with putting a hole in the bottom of the box, with a door like function so it looks like their is no hole (Its a secret door). Wonderful thinking!

Even though one break through topic has ended (balloons) it is just great to see how the other children have become so focused and interested in their new chosen passion- bring on the next break through! I can't wait to see the exciting ideas and new learning that will come from this new research. 

Our Wonderful Learners!

Break Through!

...Mrs England's Break Through Groups...

Today the balloon group researched all about the history and origins of balloons.

Here is an interesting fact we discovered: Did you know that balloons originally were pigs bladders! YUCK! Can you imagine blowing up that! 

Brittany and Julia had some time experimenting and researching different types of art forms (origami). They created, with my support, a beautiful bow from watching a YouTube clip- lots of fun and doesn't it look stunning!

Break Through!

Mrs England's Break Through groups have been hard at work today in Hub 1…

The Balloon group managed to ALL blow up their balloons. Many even managed to tie them up! 

We decided to stop trying to tie up our balloons, as it was getting to hard to do. We are now researching animals we want to make for next week and going to have a go at making them. 

Julia and Brittany were able to experiment with paint and create some wonderful paintings.

Next week they want to experiment with another art media and research some other medias to use to create art.

The magic group researched and found many tricks they can do (40 in 4 minutes) WOW!

This group was so focused today- good on you! They are not going to try out these tricks and bring some materials from home to help them do the tricks.

The dance group had some time in the hall today going over their dance and working together to go over some moves. They are now wanting to organize costumes for their performance and to keep practicing their dance to get better at performing on the stage area. 

They also want to create a document explaining all of the roles and dance moves each person can do so that they know who is doing what and as a group they know who can do what and that they are all taking part- good on you girls! 

Yoga

What Yoga poses have you learned this week?