Room 13’s Inquiry

Journey

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Citizenship

Culture

Visual Art

Haka

Our Cultural Family

Room 13 children come from all over

the world and have a variety of cultures.

We celebrate the fact we are all

different. Some of us can speak 2

languages

We link ourselves to the following countries, China, South Korea, Philippines, Samoa, Canada, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Fiji.

Every morning we call the roll in a different greetings.

Our Place in Society

We learnt about society

and how we fit in to it.

We belong to many

groups like our family, our

school, Auckland and

New Zealand.

Roles & Responsibilities

We studied some jobs in society and

talked about why they were important

to us. We also made lists of what we

thought their responsibilities would be.

We chose

children, mums, dads, teachers, fireme

n and policemen

We realized how important it is to have

people who will care for us and look

after us. It’s what makes our

community important and special

Roles & Responsibilities Photos

NZ a-Thon Willowbank School held a NZ a-Thon

to help us learn about this beautiful country of ours.

Everyone in the school was so excited and worked hard to find out the answers.

Some of the children in Room 13 even won prizes for their efforts

Watch out! We would like to quiz our parents on our open day to

see how much they know about

New Zealand

2011 Rugby World Cup

Rugby has been a favourite New

Zealand game. It is part of the kiwi

culture.

This year the Rugby World Cup was held

in Auckland, New Zealand. There were

20 teams and the All Blacks won! We are

now the world champions!

The All Blacks have the NZ silver fern on

their jumpers and we used this

on calendar art.

Indian Culture

One day my mum came in and put some henna

on to Miss Ross. Everyone looked at it and liked it.

Henna is made out of a greenish colour plant

Rangoli Patterns

Rangoli patterns are used in the Indian

culture for parties. They are put in the

door way to welcome others. They are

said to bring good luck.

Manderin

One of our mum’s came in and wrote

some words in Manderin on the white

board for us to learn. We found this

fun, but tricky.

Chinese celebrations

China uses lanterns and fans in their

parties. We made some of our own and

had fun. We will be happy to teach you.

Korus Korus are often used in Maori

and NZ art. It is curly and green.

It is about new life Room 13

made some of our own koru art.

You can see them around our

room.

Buddhist Temple

Team 1 wanted to learn more about other

cultures so we visited the Buddhist Temple.

It was so peaceful, had beautiful gardens and lots of bells.

We learnt all about Buddah, and our guide suggested that we do good, think good and say good each day.

We had lunch there. Some of us thought we were eating chicken, but it was actually crispy soy. We felt proud that we had tried something new.

When we came back we made some of our own temples.

You can see our photos displayed in our room.

Buddhist Temple

Photos

Taking Action –

Our Big Idea

We had a walk around the school. We

saw there was not enough children’s art

on display, so we decided to make some

more.

We came up with the idea of making tiles.

They would show a piece of culture that is

close to our hearts.

Cultural Tiles

We brainstormed all the pieces of art we had done this year.

We made a easy and tricky list of what would work well.

We made our own picture and tried it for a few days on paper. We did the same picture each time to make sure it always looked the same.

We decided we would use outside tiles and paint them. We wanted to display them on a wall for people to see.

We couldn’t get hold of the tiles we wanted so we brainstormed some new ideas.

Making Decisions

We thought we could use material tiles

instead.

We ordered in some material and copied

our designs on to it. We were very careful.

We used 2 main colours for our base. The

next day some of us used material felts to

draw finer detail on in a 3rd colour.

We used the projector to look at different

ways we could display our work. We

found a quilt. Miss Ross said she could

sew all our tiles together to make one.

Making our tiles

More brainstorming &

decision making

Our next problem to solve was, how we

could hang our work up in order to display

it. We brainstormed some more and

decided to look at some ideas on the

projector.

Our solution was to sew material loops on

to the top our quilt and put in a piece of

wood to hold them on to.

Our completed work.

We love it. It is now displayed in the office for

everyone to enjoy during our 10th year

celebration.

Reflection

We were happy with our pictures but if we did it all over again we would put more effort into them.

Most of us were careful when we used the paint and paintbrushes so our work turned out well.

Most of us were happy with using material for our tiles.

We learnt lots about NZ and other cultures during this inquiry and had fun.