This term our extension group has been working hard to make our Manaiakalani movie. We’ve been story boarding, practising our actions and editing. My main role was to edit, me and my friends Winter and Michael learned a lot and enjoyed our time.

Planning & Story boarding-

First we had to find a movie idea, my group thought of doing a parody of The  Truman Show. We put our ideas in and then we voted for which one we should use. the votes came in and… only three people voted for it; we talked over why it couldn’t work, and what we heard was pretty understandable. First we found out that we didn’t know what the plot would be since it’s at a school and we’d have to make him live at the school which would cause questions like, “Wouldn’t he be curious why other kids go home?” Moving on…

 Three ideas also tied for the most amount of votes. We split into groups and each group had to work with one of the three ideas. Our idea was to do a music video for the popular song, I AM By Stan Walker. While we were story boarding the scenes, we realised that people would mainly not understand because the lyrics was mostly Maori.

So our teacher, Mrs Burton, asked us to find a song that might be a great suit for our music video. Everyone was on the search until my friend Michael found it, a song that was perfect! A song that you’ve probably heard, From The Start By Laufey. We all quickly agreed with the idea and we went straight to story boarding AGAIN. After we figured out the scenes, Mrs Burton was going out with the class to start filming, but then she asked for two people to help with the editing, so me and Michael put our had up.

We used IMovie when we weren’t really used to it. Michael and I put the song in so we could match the lyrics, then we started editing! It was only scenes of kids in class imagining that they were in a certain situation.

This was our slides where we learnt about background understanding. This involved stuff like describing what a parody was, what is satire and who is going to be in the lyrics of our scenes.

For inquiry, me and a buddy had to make a poster of someone that’s a leader in our school. Either it’s a prefect, house captain or one of our teachers. Me and my friend Michelle worked together to make a poster about our friend Jaxon, who is also a prefect. We needed to explain what he does for the school, and how it helps. Enjoy!

On Wednesday room 4 & 5 went to our special Pt England reserve. This was continuing our term focus, Positive Difference. Each class in team 5 would go to different places in our community to help make it more positive. For example, room 1 went over to a Dementia healthcare centre and saw one of our teachers nana! We went out, split into twelve groups and grabbed our cleaning equipment.

All twelve of the groups split into two with six going right outside of the school gates and the other going to clean three different sections of the reserve. We started outside the black school gates and moved our way up from there. Me and my friend Robin found the jackpot by searching around the rugby field.

We moved onto the beach and it was awesome! We saw people mucking around but me and Robin knew what we were there for. We were there to help make a positive difference! We’d pick up big wood with nails hammered in it. I had a hard time taking the rubbish back but it was worth it, since we made a positive difference.

Later on, me and some other people would take all of the heavy rubbish bags into the big recycle bin.

This was amazing because of the feeling you have when your having fun with your friends and helping a community out at the same time!

This term, our literacy have been reading a book called Dawn Raid. We split it into different parts so we could read every week. We recreated a scene in the book by making a play.

In extension we had the same lady from Fisher & Paykel come over to teach us even more!  This time she gave us the result of our last expirement. We were surprise as the results were not as we expected. High chemical ection was always the cleanest, while low chemical action was never effected. After that, she gave us her clothes to feel the materiel of it and she’ll ask us what it was made out of of. Then we got given a cotton ball to feel it and to experience the different type of wool. Then we did a experiment where we measured a dry string, and after that we wet the string and it was shorter than before! Then we looked at the different kind of wool.

For literacy this week, we’re having a novel study reading a part of the book every week. In the book one of the main characters brother was playing with their neighbour. They were playing darts until one of them had the brilliant idea of using 3 darts while the other was holding the board over his head. The brother later got hit close to his eye with the dart. We had to recreate that scene in real life. Enjoy!

For literacy this week, we’re having a novel study reading a part of the book every week. In the book, the main character expresses that she wants to buy these white Go-Go boots. In our task we had to recreate these Go-Go boots. I think I did well. Enjoy!

A knock on the door, a slight breeze through the air, I look through my window and gaze at the white road full of snow, a figure behind the door. I couldn’t identify, I don’t really have people in my house, in fact, no one dares to even come near my spooky abode. Something deep in my soul was daring for me to open it; I couldn’t resist. So, I marched on my way to the door, ready to block them off. As I twisted the knob, the door opened with a screech.

A meaty man with a gigantic grey beard, I was confused. I looked at his red and white onesie and his big black and gold belt, it wasn’t until I saw his red hat shaped like a triangle dangling down with a white ball of cotton. It was Santa! I was stunned, excitement filled the air as I thought he came to give me presents. Instead, he said something that changed my perspective of fairy tales forever… “Ho Ho Ho, let me see on my list, oh you’re going to the dungeon!” Santa said.

And with one click, we got teleported to a dim place. A prison cell I was in, a person in the corner, sitting there all alone. I stared back, it was Peter pan! “I guess the rumours were true.” I said, “the rumours of you kidnapping children, and Captain Cook saving them all.” “NO!” He said, “Santa is kidnapping all the naughty children and the magic users. We thought he was a loving guy, but he just wanted the magic all to himself!”
That’s when my childhood got ruined. END