The Story of Pentecost

 In our religious education program we have been learning about Pentecost. Pentecost is a special celebration in the Catholic Church where we remember the arrival of the Holy Spirit. In Te Kahu we read the story from Acts Chapter 2 in the bible then learned how to create a stop motion using puppets to retell the story. 

This is our first try at making a stop motion video so there are a few things we still need to work on like keeping our cameras still and working on adding more images. 

How to Create a Stop Motion

1. Create/ gather  props

2. Create setting/ background 

3. Take photos and move the props a small amount each time. 

4. Upload into iMovie and remove the ‘ken burns’ setting for each image and make the images .5 seconds long.

5. Add voice over to the complete stop motion retelling the story.

Shared Reading: The Promise by Bernard Beckett

The Promise 

By Bernard Beckett 

Link to Text  Link to Class Site 

This term we are focusing on mood and atmosphere across a range of texts. To do this we needed to learn lots of new vocabulary such as gustatory imagery and pathetic fallacy. We will be looking at a bunch of visual, hard copy and digital texts to help us understand how the author/ director/ creator can help their audience to feel or think a certain way. 

This week we read the text The Promise which is a journal story written by Bernard Beckett. This piece of writing is full of so much rich vocabulary and language that helps us to put ourselves into the shoes of the people in the story. Check out some of our learning below. 

When have/ might you task to help students explore the new vocabulary we will be using. 

After reading the text students had to find descriptive words or segments of text and add them to a descriptive language cline showing the least to the most interesting. This task got students thinking about more engaging ways to communicate with their reader. 

Students split into small groups to create a jam board unpacking the different features of the text. They looked at colour, lighting, figurative language, verbs and nouns. 

At the end of the week students then got to write their own paragraph using descriptive language about a different environment. In this case we used the environment of a jail cell. They are beginning to think about what it would be like to be in the set environment and the different things that may be felt. 

 

The Sentry - by Wilfred Owen (Shared Reading)

 Our class is looking into the World Wars with ANZAC day coming up in the school holidays. This is being incorporated across the curriculum. In literacy students were able to connect more to the words by being able to get into character and unpack them further. Children are adding more “helmets” to our wall as we learn new kupu associated with our topic. Students have been using this language in their own writing which is amazing!

The Sentry by Wilfred Owen

Shared Reading Plan

We used this image to influence our writing. Students were able to use the new language they had learned through our shared reading task to add more WOW Vocabulary to their writing. This has carried on into their other literacy tasks over the weeks. 

Example of a students writing. 

Students completed the when have/ might you...? task to unpack the vocabulary from the text further. 

Class WOW WORDS: these words were pulled from our shared reading and added to the wall. There are spare helmets available that students can add any other vocabulary to that they learn as we develop a deeper understanding of the World Wars and the ANZACs. 

Student interest has continued to grow in Te Kahu Class, they have had the great opportunity to try on a Royal New Zealand Navy uniform, look at an ammunition box and medals from the second world war. A space next to our WOW Word Wall has been set up with these items as well as images. Students are regularly heading to this space to find inspiration. We are very lucky to have some great support in our community and have an Air Force, Army and Navy visit planned for our kura. 

Te Kahu I am looking forward to seeing more mahi that you produce! Well done 😊

Integrated Mahi

 

Religious Education Mahi- Week Four

 Check out the following slides to find out what tasks you need to be completing. Aim to finish one task each day.

Mc Auley Day 2021

 This Friday we will be celebrating McAuley Day. We cannot wait to be back at school after being in lockdown for what will be the past 9 days dressed in blue. 
Catherine McAuley is a phenomenal woman who founded the Sisters of Mercy. As a mercy school the way she lived her life inspires us daily to care for others and help those in need. Keep an eye on our blog to see what we got up to!

TERM FOUR

 Hey team, here is the link to our term 4 learning site. It is super important you know where to access this link so that you can stay connected to our learning and to each other. 
TERM FOUR CLASS SITE