Team building

We have been doing team building and one of the challenges were making the longest paper chain.The only things we got to use was an big piece of paper,2 or 3 scissors and an arm length of tape.

Another one of the challenges were stacking cups without touching the cup.We also got to have a rubber band with five pieces of string on it.My groups strategy was each person grabbed one string each and it stretched the rubber band, then we put it on the cup.
We also did the pasta and marshmallow challenge.You had to make a tower.
One other thing we did was making a stretcher and you had to put heavy things on it and water in a cup then run it around outside without spilling it.
Team building is good because you are in a group. You can listen to other people for ideas.

Have you ever done team challenges like this at you school?

PBL Performance

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about cultural stories and the big question was;

What is the significance in the 21st Century of our Cultural stories?

First we brainstormed what culture is and came up with lots of ideas.

Culture is……

• Where you are from
• Traditions
• Celebrations

Then we thought about our own culture and talked to our parents about our traditions and heritage.
I wrote a post about my family and things we like to do.

In Literacy we read and discussed myths and legends from around the world then we concentrated on
Maori legends.

I read….  

• Maui slowed down the sun
• Maui and the bird women
• The battle of the mountains
• Maui and the big fish

One way I decided to present my work for legends was through a word find

We made a performance about the story Battle of the Mountains. Some students wrote the script,
some students took on the job of making all the artwork, some worked hard on organising the music
and others took on the role of bringing the story alive with dance and drama.

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Reflection:

For our production I contributed by singing, dancing, helping to make the dances, writing some of the
script, contributing with ideas, helping to make costumes and doing some of the costumes in my own
free time at home.

I think the show might impact on others by teaching them some new legends, showing them some new
songs and making them happy with the movement and he music.

What I learned about working with others was that you really need to include other peoples ideas
because otherwise you might miss out on all these great opportunities to make your work better