Messed Up Sport

This is Hub 2's 2014 entry for the Manaiakalani Film Festival. 

This film is about a magician who keeps changing the sport his friends are playing. The sports players start playing netball. Netball then turns into basketball. Basketball then turns into soccer and soccer turns into rugby. Finally rugby turns into handball. The magician then puts a spell on the players, making them go to sleep. They wake up very confused as they all remember playing a different sport.

The sneaky magician almost gets away with his plan until he is spotted running away. 

WALHT share our learning with Hub 9

Today we shared our learning with Hub 9. Some of the learning we shared was our progressions, break through learning, inquiry learning, maths learning, literacy learning, our Mihi and more!

Here are a few photos of us sharing our learning!

  

Describing movie characters.

We have been writing descriptions of characters. We have talked about how we can publish in the best way to suit the audience we want to read our writing. These writers have chosen to publish their writing on the blog.

Here are our success criteria. Do you have any feedback for us?

It has lots of information: ·       Uses most of the senses (looks like, sounds like, feels like, smells like, does…) ·       You can imagine this thing easily.

It is interesting to read – it might have lots of detail or it might be funny.

It tells a little mini story about that character.

It has all the capital letters and full stops you need.

It has to have at least one simile.

The information is grouped – what it looks like and what it does.

The  sentences start differently.

Mugdha's description of Ariel.

Jessica's description of Olaf.

Emily's description of Elsa.

Dhevan's description of Emmett.

Jake's description of Lego Spider Man.

Blair's description of Spider Man.

Descriptive writing

Some of the writers in Hub 2 have been exploring descriptions this week. They have written some very creative character descriptions based on a mysterious envelope...

We were shown this envelope, then had to plan and compose a description what what a Gobi Jerboa was.

Here are some quotes from our descriptions:

"Sometimes if you find it you will think it's a bit ugly but it's cute when you look at it properly" - Amelie

"He has two weird arms that are covered in hair and he grows as fat as a pumpkin." - Amber

"A Gobi Jerboa is a flying snake. It smells like chocolate to attract you because it wants to eat you!" - Jamie 

"It is as soft as a snowy pillow. Sometimes they are as hard as a rock." - Blair

Mrs Panapa came and visited us the next day for a big reveal of what a Gobi Jerboa really was. We couldn't wait! Turns out it looks like this!

I wonder if you can find out any facts about this really interesting animal?