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Home-learning Week 8

This weeks task: What would our country look like if everyone tried to help each other? Present this is an interesting and creative way.

Here are some examples from super organised learners in Room 12.

Advertising

If you are wanting people to support your action you are currently organising, you need to advertise this with outstanding impact. This Mercedes add was all about making the audience feel sorry or sad for the young boy in his quest to get yet another ride in the Mercedes car.



How do emotions play a part in advertising?



Does your advert make people feel like: they are getting a bargain, the offer is too good to refuse, if they buy something it will save them money in the long run, that they are supporting a great cause?

Te inoi whakamutunga – closing karakia

nickyob's Fotobabble: My Fotobabble



Closing Karakia

He Karakia

nickyob's Fotobabble: My Fotobabble



This term we have been been learning to correctly pronounce both an opening and closing karakia. Very soon we will all have a fotobabble inserted into our blog after a few weeks of practicing.

Whakataukī

Mā pango mā whero ka oti.

By black and red together it is done.

(The united effort of the leaders and the workers will get things done.)

Tikanga

Introduction aspects of tikanga Māori we have considered:

• We are responsible for looking after our classroom and showing respect for the people and the things in it.
• The concept of ako (learner/learning) is reciprocal. We learn different things from one another all the time. Teachers, students, parents, and whānau can all learn from each other.
• Beginning the school day with a karakia is an appropriate way for many to set the tone for the day. You don’t have to be religious to engage in Karakia.

Week 7 Home-learning

By only Tuesday night, Miss O'B had received home-learning from DJ Manaenae. Pretty impressive skills with the OT side of things and engaging lyrics to accompany it. You are a super star!!!!

http://www.smule.com/recording/makaihbeats-pray/736372949_611913243?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=web&utm_source=email

http://www.smule.com/recording/midi-mafia-turkey-burgers/736372949_611917835?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=web&utm_source=email

http://www.smule.com/recording/midi-mafia-turkey-burgers/736372949_611931242?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=web&utm_source=email

Riding For The Disabled

We have some outstanding students in Room 12 that are very kind and compassionate. As part of our Change Makers inquiry learning this term, students have been encouraged to take action for a cause or organisation of significance to them. Two girls both spent a big part of their weekend cooking, decorating and packaging the biscuits. Today Lily and Erin were selling their gingerbread biscuits outside the canteen. Funds raised will be presented to the Riding For The Disabled organisation very soon. They still have more biscuits to sell so bring $2 to school tomorrow if you would like to show your support.

Adopt A Kenel

SPCA Flyer

This week we had Amy, who is the Promotions Manager for the Hastings and District SPCA, come and visit Room 12. The purpose of the visit was to provide some feedback for Room 12 learners about the flyers they had created. Very shortly we will be delivering these around the village and within Hastings. In our quest to help raise the profile of the SPCA and the work they do, Room 12 thought a flyer would be an easy and fast way to achieve this. Congratulations to Charlotte, Kane and Hattie. Amy thought the quality of their flyers was that of a professional graphic artist that she pays a lot of money to do the work. Both the content and layout was matching the brief and all criteria included. Way to go people!

See Ya Simon - By Lily and Erin

Vegie Growing Competition

Analysing Song Lyrics - Digging Deeper

As part of our inquiry Change Makers learning, we have decided that creating a song could be a great fundraising campaign to generate some money for the SPCA. During reading time we have been analysing song lyrics, deconstructing them and analysing to find deeper meanings.  Here is an example of Hattie's analysis she completed this week.

Wake Me Up When September ends

link to the lyric video

What is it about?

• Coping with loss of a loved one. It is probably from when his father died in September, also for the victims and families from the 9/11 terrorist attacks in September. The title is basically saying about the

What message is the song trying to convey to the listener?

• To say that bad things come to an end, and tell them about losing or parting with a loved one.

What three poetic sound devices, (rhyming, alliteration, accent, onomatopoeia) can you find? Write the lines that you find each devices in and explain.

• Summer has come and passed, The innocent can never last
• Like my father's come to pass, Seven years has gone so fast
• And lots more rhyming
• And no alliteration, accent or onomatopoeia I think.

What two figurative devices (metaphor, simile, personification) can you find in the lyrics? Write the lines and explain each one.

• … Here comes the rain again, Falling from the stars, Drenched in my pain again… (metaphor)