Ōrongomai

 This week in Ōrongomai, we have opened up more boxes to expand on our Monsterbox Learning.  Music Box  Tōtara have opened a music box and have begun to explore how sound and music is made. We have also been listening to live and recorded music to expand our knowledge of different musical genres.  Inventor's Box Kereru have discovered inventor's boxes this week. They have been planning and developing models of machines. Lock Box  Kāhu have been racing against the clock and using their problem solving skills to work together to open a lock box. Soon they will be collaborating in teams to plan and create their own lock boxes for others to try!      

Our Monsterbox learning has continued this week as the children write the story of the little girl and her three monsters. We have been improving our descriptive writing by including features such as powerful verbs and similes.  Monsters are featuring a lot in Active time too. We are making our own monsters and designing monster boxes for them. Some of us have opened the Inventor's Box and found out about Rube Goldberg and his crazy contraptions. We have started designing and testing our own Rube Goldberg machines to feed our monsters. It takes a lot of resilience and we've had a few fails but we're heading for success as our machines get more complicated.

This term our learning so far has been inspired by the short film Monsterbox. You can watch it here We have been busy retelling the movie in writing, exploring monsters, myths and legends in reading and have even been solving monster based problems. Monsterbox has even inspired our ACTIVE time. Here are some photos from the past week.