Ako Hiko Film Festival Submission - Manukau Class

Hi Bloggers,

This year is the first year of the Ako Hiko film festival.  In Manukau we had heaps of fun making different movies that incorporated the theme of change.  As a class, we are submitting "Two Shoes" created by William, Oscar, Anuk, and Sebastian.  We will also post our other finished films on the blog for you to check out.

We'd love some of your feedback!

Enjoy.

Week 7 - Literacy Tumble in Action

Last week we started our Literacy Tumble again in Te Waka Ako.  This is a chance for us to take more responsibility for our learning, timetabling activities that we Must, Should and Could complete around the times that we gather in our Reading and Writing groups.

The activities are linked here on our syndicate site. A few highlights of activities from the first two weeks are below. If you would like to find out more please check out our individual blogs. We will be sharing this learning with you there too. 

Week 6 - Film Making Scripts

This year we are participating in the Ako Hiko Film Festival.  It is the first time that it has happened and we have been having fun starting out the film making process.  We spent some time learning about different film shots and angles and how movie makers use these.
 We then had a go at creating a short film to tell a joke as a way to work on some of these skills.  You can see one of these below.  We still have quite a bit of work to do to perfect our movie making skills.


Our current challenge is to create a script for our movie about change as a group.  We have collaborated on google docs to describe characters, lines, setting and camera shots to help create a successful film.  Here is one example of our scripts.


Check back later to see our finished films.

Week 1 - Technology Definition

This term, while continuing our Inquiry work, we are also going to be focusing on technology and how it helps us out.

On Monday, we worked on defining technology.  There were lots of different examples that we looked at and sorted in our define map (see below). We made decisions based on whether an object is an example of technology or not.  Once we had sorted all of these we then made statements about what technology is.  Most of our statements decided that technology has some sort of wire or power or runs off a battery.

We are prepared for our thinking to change as Mr Riceman challenged us to think of how a tap is a technology.  Please let us know what you think technology is by posting a positive, thoughtful or helpful comment below.

Week 9 - Our own student led toolkits

On Friday, all of our senior school students were involved in student led toolkits.  Earlier in the term, 24 students from Te Waka Ako attended the cluster toolkits, you can read about these in this post.

Our aim was to bring the learning back from the cluster day and share it with all of the other Year 5s and 6s at our school.  This meant that from 9:15-12:45 students ran and participated in lots of different workshops that help us to use and create in interesting ways.  You can see all of the presentations and the things that the students were involved in on our Toolkits page on our Syndicate Site. We had a great time, found out heaps, made connections with others in our classes and even had the chance to present the learning to our Principal Mrs Peterson too!

Our next step is to share further and wider and we are looking forward to sharing this learning with our families. It is also important for us to think of ways to use these new tools to create digitally with our learning.

If you would like to find out more, or you have any questions about our presentations or our day, please leave a comment.  You could also make connections with the presenters and their blogs too. We would love to hear from you!