Term 1 2025
Lesson 1: Tuning In – What is Aroha mō te Ako and Mārama?
🔹 Discussion:
What does "Aroha mō te ako" mean to you?
When have you experienced "Mārama" – that "aha" moment in learning?
How do artists express learning, growth, and light in their work?
Lesson 2: Exploring Artistic Techniques
🔹 Activity Options:
Experiment with light and dark using charcoal, pastels, or digital tools to represent the journey from confusion to understanding.
Create weaving (raranga) or collage showing how different influences (teachers, friends, whānau) shape their learning.
Try silhouette art with symbols of learning emerging from the darkness.
WALHT - We are learning to share our success with each other and our parents and family?
Term 1 2025
Read this cool story about families
Click to open the audio about the story
Create a game with rules and instructions about how to use your catapult. Maybe a target game could be a great Idea.
Secondly, create a slide about the history of the catapult, use these key words
How
What
Why
When
Writing a Quality Blog Post
Today I will:
Reflect on what makes a Quality Blog Post with my checklist
Sign into Edublogs
Create a New Blog Post
Write a fun title
Use the sentence starters to write your own blog post
Insert your About Me Poster using the insert Media button
Add a tag - Cybersmart
Publish your blog post
Homai cycle of Inquiry
This is the stage where I can work with a buddy. Recording my websites by copying the URl in the search bar and pasting them onto a google doc. Save it into your Inquiry folder.
What can do with my research? Who can I share it with? My Parents, my peers and even my teachers need to see what I have done.