Raechal's Favourite Mythical Creature

To help our students investigate myths and legends we incorporated a movie study into our inquiry unit. 

WALT  apply critical thinking skills to complete a movie study.

Yesterday we watched the movie Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. We are using Bloom's taxonomy to elaborate more on our thinking about the movie. You have to use critical thinking in able to complete bloom's taxonomy. The stage that I am on right now is applying.

Day trip to the Museum

Today the Kia Manawanui senior syndicate went on an adventure to Auckland Museum. The sun was shining and the students were excited, a fantastic way to start Week 4!

We organised the trip to help our students investigate myths and legends as part of our inquiry unit this term.  We had two educator sessions; Te Ao Pasifika looking at the world through a Polynesian perspective, and Ancient Civilisations where the students became archaeologists and investigated artefacts from ancient Egypt, Greece, Italy and Scandinavia. 

A few spare minutes were also used to check out the amazing and very moving war memorial monuments and galleries, still decorated with beautiful remembrance poppies.

We had some wonderful parent and teacher helpers on the day and the students had a full on entertaining and educational day!  

Andre and Willie's Definitions of Myths and Legends

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At the beginning of our inquiry unit we have been investigating the meaning of words and phrases associated with our topic of myths and legends. Here is Andre and Willie's padlet.

Myths & Legends Around the World by Kia Manawanui

This term our inquiry topic is Myths and Legends. For one of our first lessons we were required to explore different myths and legends around the world and from different cultures.

Here is our syndicate padlet of some of the myths and legends around the world.

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