Rāwhiti By The Sea: Challenge 2015

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Year 4 Beach House Challenge...

During the last two weeks in Term 2 we had our inquiry workshops on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, The Seven Wonders of the World, the Great Library in Alexandria and Ancient Greek theatre.
We ended the term by all coming together and writing down what we'd like to know more about next. Your thinking was pinned onto the wave wall. This will help us to work out our next inquiry focus groups.
For the workshops on the Great Library of Alexandria and Ancient Greek theatre we discussed why these places were important to people in the ancient world about 2 500 year ago. We also made comparisons as to why the the library and theatre are important for people now.
In Ancient Greece the Great Library of Alexandria was the centre for knowledge. Do we use the library like this today? What do you go to the library for?
Year 4 Beach House Inquiry Challenge - If You Lived Here! Mrs Bourke, Mrs Nicholson and I have set you all a challenge.

Camera Shots & Angles...

Today B3 went on the computers to the Digistore to do an activity. We learnt that you can do all different camera shots. A long shot is when when you are far away, instead of standing close up. Lily and I finished first because we worked hard and quickly. After this we went outside and did photos to show the different camera shots and angles. In PicCollage we put our best photos from the camera roll. Then we needed to write what the shots were and we emailed them to Ms K. What other camera shots can you think of or find?

Where in the World is Matteo?

Where is Matteo?
What is he standing in front of?
Why is this place important?

The Cup Challenged re-visited.....

This was the first challenge we had to do and we failed!
Our class reflection:
We worked as a team. We had two leaders that helped we didn't know what to do. The leaders drew a line on the carpet, so we knew where to stack the cups. We talked to each other and worked out what to do. We had to be honest and keep trying.

40 minute movie Trailer Challenge...

Today the whole class went in to groups of four and we made a movie trailer. Luke, Holly, Oliver and I were in one groups. Most of the groups finished their movie trailer in 40 minutes. They weren't being silly and we took turns doing the action. We did different camera shot. We did it like the person was running in front of the camera. We were doing action shots.

40 minute Trailer Challenge....

I liked recording Jack, Leyam and Mackai. We worked together because we didn't yell at each other. t the start we talked about what we would do. If we did something wrong we tried again. I liked the shot with the ball in the hoop.

Challenge Beach Ball and Legs

Aim: to move a beach ball around the outside walls of the hall by only using your legs.

Challenges: Paper Chain and Marshmallows

This week in the Whale Pool the children were faced with two challenges... Challenge one: TASK - Make the longest paper chain with an A2 piece of paper. Elizabeth gave us the paper and we chose who we wanted to work with. Reflection: We talked to our buddy and worked out who would do what. We worked this out by ourselves. One buddy cut the paper and one glued the paper to make the chain. Some of us swapped over our jobs after a certain amount of time had passed. We worked together. The longest paper chain was around 6.5 metres long? Why was this chain so long?

Challenge Two:

TASK: Each knife must touch only one marshmallow. All knives must be off the table and touching each other.

What Ms K saw: I saw groups of children making mistakes. When I explained the knives couldn't touch the table or you couldn't pile knives onto one marshmallow you accepted this and thought of what else you could do. I saw you all make lots of mistakes and you were talking to each other, like....what if we do this....I know....lets try.... Everyone accepted other people's ideas and I thought the atmosphere is class was positive. I saw some faces that thought...oh my gosh we can't do this....then I saw other team members in the group continue to try different ways of placing the knives onto the marshmallows.