New Zealand Studies - Identity - Term 1

Last term in New Zealand Studies we were studying 'Identity". This topic was about who we are, where we're from and what makes us unique. We had to draw an picture of a kiwi and write some interesting facts about the Kiwi, the national bird of New Zealand. Here's my drawing and facts.

This term we have started looking at old art by kiwi artists and identifying what we saw in the artworks that related to New Zealand.  We are exploring more old work of New Zealand artists to see what life was like.

9MG English: Term One

This term in English we have been exploring the hero cycle and the journey of a hero. Our first task was to create a poster and write a few paragraphs about someone that is a hero to us. These poster are now up on the wall, as part of a 'Hero Exhibition'. I did my poster about my friends. Below is a picture of my poster.

Everyday lesson we start off with something called the Big Question. The Big Question is an activity that we do to get us 'ease' us into each lesson and give us an opportunity to develop our writing skills, such as punctuation, grammar and spelling. Ms Evans comes up with a question and we are challenged to write 100 words answering that question in 5 minutes. Here is an example of one that I did, the Big Question that day was just to do free writing. This piece of writing isn't finished.

Smile! Three, two, one... say cheese!  Ugh, picture day again. One of the worst days in the school year,
along with; cross country: practically torture, Mufti-day: too much effort and way too much self
consciousness and last but, definitely not least, rubbish pick up day. The top days for humiliation.

We also have something called the Success Ticket. Which is usually another question but this this is done 5 minutes before the lesson is over, to wrap the lesson up. The question for the success ticket ranges from how we think we did that lesson based on the success criteria to what we're doing in the weekend.