Team 17 Podcast Term 4 Week1

TEAM 17 PODCAST
This weeks podcast is hosted by Henrica and Bernadette, assisted by Viola and Anitesh.

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Welcome back to term 4 and I hope you are rested. People in Christchurch have had little rest since the first big earthquake with tremors happening almost daily since then. 


Springston E-Team: Endeavour are a class from Christchurch who have experienced the earthquakes and blogged about them. We are going to read their stories and Skype them in a few weeks time to ask some questions. Thank you Springston E-Team: Endeavour. 

Culture Masks

For technology this term we studied masks from different cultures. We explored how they were made, what made them unique and their cultural patterns. After that we designed four draft sketches and finally created a full colour drawing. Eventually the long process began as we drew the designs on with pencil, which was harder then doing it on paper. Some people painted their background first and others filled them along with the designs. Then we painted many layers of fill and outline to get strong colour. 

See our last blog post about how we weaved flax which many have added to their mask. We did a self-reflection using a rubric and have blogged our mask photos on our own kidblogs.

Our masks reflect our cultures, can you guess some of them?

Inanimate Alice

After a term of exploring the digital stories of 'inanimate Alice' all our groups finished their stories this week. We peer-assessed each others work then gave the groups time to work on our feedback. Today we watched all the 'inanimate Alice: Samoa' digital stories created in PowerPoint. You can see our learning journey on our Inanimate Alice wiki.

Steven, Nick and Isaiah who created the one below were voted the as for creating most exciting digital story that included all the 'inanimate Alice' elements. Well done boys!

We uploaded the PowerPoint to SlideShare, however all the music, sound effects and interaction has been lost in the process. We may provide the original file as a download at a later date.

Inanimate Steven

View more presentations from Bailey Road School.

Weaving Flax

On the 20th of September we were weaving flax. First we read a article in the School Journal. The story was about weaving flax. When we finished reading we went to the native plant garden to get flax to weave and put on our mask. When we got there Mr Wood showed us the mother, father and grandparent leaves. Then we had to say a Karakia (Prayer). Mr Wood then started cutting the flax. We each got 2 flax leaves. We went back to the class ready to turn flax into flowers. When we finished making them we stuck them onto our cultural identity masks.

Inanimate Alice

Over the past 2 week Team 17 from Bailey Road Primary and Intermediate school have been making their own episode 5 of Inanimate Alice: Samoa. We chose Samoa because many of our class are Samoan and we also did some class research about Samoan culture. 

We have 6 groups for this challenge and we are still working on this challenge. We have already finished writing the scripts, getting sounds, writing the scripts on the slides, deciding who does what for the PowerPoint.

So far we are working on inserting sound, transitions, special effects and images. We are also adding the finishing touches. We will be sending all our digital Alice stories to Ian Harper the producer of ‘inanimate Alice’ and Mr Wood is going to enter the best Alice story into the Makeup awards. 

You can find more information on our wiki here.

 

Sharnika Plants a Tree

When I went to KIP camp I did gardening and planted broccoli in the vegetable garden. It was fun. 

I got a pahutakawa tree for our school and this is a photo of me planting it in our native tree garden. Sheetel, Vivek and my teacher helped dig the hole. Vivek took the photos and Sheetel helped hold things.