Year 5 E.O.T.C. Day 3
Day 3 of our EOTC activities consisted of four stations: jump rope, wheels, survivor, and orienteering.
Whaea Isabel was at the survivor station. Here, the children got to explore cooking over a fire by roasting marshmallows and making dampers. This was an awesome experience for the children to experience fire close up, and enjoy cooking their own food.
Mankirat and Ilaisaane enjoying their marshmallows!
The next station was orienteering with Graham, Lilly's Dad. He began the session with explaining what a compass is and how to use it. He designed a few different courses and taught the children how to use coordinates to navigate themselves from one area to another.
For our expert orienteering students, the next activity was to find different letters hidden around the courts using coordinates and their navigation skills, to find what the mystery word was.
Students were very focussed and eager to get underway.
Miley, Omayda and Amelia becoming expert navigators.
The students worked in teams to try and navigate their way around the course. Lots of cooperation and collaborative work was being displayed.
Graham was really helpful and the children thoroughly enjoyed their time at this station.
Orienteering - Good experience for the kids to learn how to use a compass for navigation, and how to interpret coordinates. Thank you to Graham (our parent helper) for making our EOTC a memorable one for the kids.
Jump Rope - Students participated in activities which required them to work together as a team and problem solve. These activities included knot tying and jump rope activities such as skipping races & double dutch. Overall, the students enjoyed learning knot tying skills as well working with their friends.
Learning about all the different knots.
Sophia and Shalom working together to tie their knots.
Whaea Geneva helped all the groups tie their knots beautifully.
Miss Leatigaga (our student teacher) was also at this station, and she did an amazing job of teaching us all about knots and skipping.
The fourth and final station was wheels. Students were allowed to bring in their own bikes/scooters, or use the school's ones. Here, the students practiced riding their bike in an orderly and safe fashion. All children were wearing safety gear (helmets and high-visibility vests).
Wheels - Children needed to listen to each other; share turns, safety of bike riding. They needed to follow instructions, work in a group of 2 and share their bike. Students participated in a few games focussing on balance and riding in small areas.
Mrs Kasi-Salote was in charge of this station, and ensured all children were riding their bikes and scooters in a really safe way.
Lessons with Whaea Grace
Maori Language Week Art
For Maori language week, we read a story in a guided reading activity called Kuia and the Spider. The story was about a competitive Kuia and a spider that lived in her kitchen, and they would compete with each other to make the best weaving. This story incorporated aspects of Te Ao Maori, and positive familial relationships (grandchild and grandparent).
After the reading activity, we made our own panels of weaving using different koru patterns, which we then proudly displayed on our window. Ezekiel was our weaving experts, and he helped the rest of the group a lot.
Maori Language Week Game: Kemu Kaute
We learnt a new game, which was Kemu Kaute (counting game). Each different Maori word represented a number. When Whaea Grace called out a word, we would have to get into those specific groups and do the specific action related to the word too.
Pictured here is the moana action.
Kemu Kaute:
Rangatira = Chief. Children should stand alone by themselves, still like a statue.
Whare = House. In groups of two, stand opposite each other with arms outstretched to make a roof.
Hapu = Group. In groups of 3, stand together shoulder to shoulder.
Waka = Canoe. In groups of 4, stand in a line directly behind each other and row.
Moana = Ocean. In groups of 5, hold hands and make waves with arms.
Iwi = Tribe. In groups of 6, link arms to become a tribe.
After finishing Kemu Kaute, we comepleted Te Reo worksheets and weaving activities.
Maori Language Week Activities
Science Lesson
A small group of students completed a science experiment about clouds and how rain forms. For this experiment, we started with a jar of water that represented air. Then, we sprayed shaving foam on top of the water which represented a cloud. Next, we then used droplets of food colouring to put into our 'cloud' to represent rain. When the food colouring became too heavy, it dropped through the cloud into the air. The food colouring was important to use as it was a visual aid to clearly represent rain.
Here, Tomillia is putting droplets of food colouring into the shaving foam.
The food colouring has come through the shaving foam, and can now be seen in the jar.
Big science idea we were exploring: when air rises, it cools. As the air cools, it becomes saturated and the water vapour in it condenses and gets smaller. This means it turns from a gas to a liquid. When the water vapour turns into a liquid in the sky, it forms tiny little droplets which cling to small pieces of dust, which creates clouds. When the liquid in the cloud becomes too heavy, it releases subsequently resulting in rain/snow.
