Freya and Tara's Inquiry Response

Check out the advert created by Tara and Freya using Wideo.

CLICK ON THIS LINK to view it.

Getting ready for inquiry sharing next week

Here are some sneak previews of what we have been working on.  Come and see the finished products next Thursday from 12.30 - 1pm

Visit from Stacey Gregg

Karaka was visited by author Stacey Gregg today.  She shared with us her writing process and told us about her new book "The Diamond Horse."

She shared three great tips with us:

1. Do your research.  Stacey travels all around the world to find out about the history of different places so she can include them in her books.

2. You must plan.  If you don't plan your work, you might not know where it's going, and so your story might go nowhere!

3. Get somebody else to have a look at your work, help you edit and give you suggestions.  Stacey said she sometimes rewrites her books ten times or more until she's happy with them!

She awarded Rosettes to Lola M, Lola F, Elliott and Immanuel for their awesome contributions during her talk!

Links to World War 1 Videos and Websites

MARK BRIGGS - Great War story (objector)

Conscientious Objectors of WW1 - BBC News

Animated Maps of the Western Front - BBC History

Illness and Injury - BBC Schools

Weapons and Technology - BBC Bitesize

⚽Sport report -futsal.⚽

15/9/2016

Today Karaka had a mini futsal tournament. Five students from Wellington East Girls coached and reffed for a bunch of teams from Karaka. I spoke to them and this is what they said “we like playing with you guys and it’s cool to see familiar faces (from the winter tournament).”

I also walked around and talked to the students and took lots of photos

Here are some of the stuff they told me

(ps sorry if what you said did not make it in the final edit!-lola)

Laura-rose said this ”The dodo doughnuts have shone skill it’s nice to see them working together no one is left out and every one has made this an extraordinary team!”

Aaron said his team was great (non-bands) and he is having fun and getting a lot of experience in futsal!

Cara said her coaches are amazing and she was have a heap of fun her team (ketchup) won 2 games and worked well together.

Anokha said it was all right she got hit but was ok her coaches were great her team (ligers) won 1 game but participated more in previous sessions.

Anikha said she had fun her coaches were nice/cool/friendly her team (lion tamers) won all of their games she thinks they did well.

Thank you for reading By Lola Mackie Karaka (ps I did take more photos!)

Sports report

Making the world a better place

Karaka kids have been exploring some of the products we use every day.  Where do they come from? What are they made from?