Genius hour #1 2018

Term 2 has been Genius Hour term in Kauri team. Genius Hour is when we get to chose what we learn about and we have an hour a week to do this. We have to present our learning at the end of term. For many of us this is our first time experiencing Genius Hour and it can be very challenging!
We have to decide what we want to learn about, do the planning, researching, creating, presenting and most importantly ...reflecting.

It can be hard to decide what to learn about
It can be hard to keep motivated when we get stuck
It can be hard to keep going when everything seems to be going wrong
...but...
At the end of the day we love to choose to learn about what we we are interested in, and learn from our challenges and mistakes!

We were all so proud of our achievements today!

Cricket training manual

Food game

Erupting volcano

Tie dyed home made clothes

Paper airplane competition

Presentations in action

Home made car!

Dolls clothes

Chinese gong

Student made computer games

Researching the sun and clay sun

Home made clothes for toy horses

Marble run

Fun games to play

Research on Japan

Movie making - 'Breaking Stereotypes'

Healthy but tasty food

Movie making

What a fantastic Genius Hour - Tui hub have worked hard for 10 weeks! They have planned, researched, been stuck in the learning pit, worked at home, worked in break times and helped each other. Come back to our blog soon to see the finished slideshow presentations!!!