SHOUT OUT

This weeks SHOUT OUT goes to someone who is taking ownership of his learning. He continued to read all the books set for him over the holidays, and has kept up with his reading this term. Last week, he emailed me requesting some more tips on how to improve his reading during Lockdown.
Well done...you are a super star...

ANZAC Day

This week, a lot of our tasks were to do with learning about the ANZACs. We read articles about what ANZAC meant, the Gallipoli Campaign, the first ANZAC Day, why poppies became a symbol for ANZAC Day, trench life and The Dawn Service. We had a new Create component for our LEARN CREATE SHARE each day. 
On Friday, we got to choose which ones we wanted to do from an ANZAC Day Choice Taskboard:

Which one would you have done and why?

Here are some of this weeks completed tasks:

Morning Prayers During Online Distance Learning

Every day, we start with a Google Meet Check-In. This starts with karakia (prayer). Each School House group has a turn at leading our prayers. Today it was St Joseph's turn.
Catalina shared her prayer space and read a special prayer St Francis has written for us.
Sam and Selina both shared lovely prayers they had written especially for today.
Francesca also shared her prayer space and read a special prayer from a prayer book.
Save read a beautiful prayer his father wrote for him to say.
Josh said an incredible spontaneous prayer.
Charlie M also showed his prayer space and read a lovely prayer he had found on the internet.

This is Catalina's prayer space and her explanation:

"The blue on the cloth symbolizes Mother Mary, the gold is Jesus. The candle means God's light. Joseph is there because it was St Joseph's day for prayers."

This is Charlie M's prayer space and his explanation:

"I chose Saint Patrick to remind me of my brother in England. I chose a poppy that I made for ANZAC Day and I chose the amazing smelling candle for the light of Jesus."

This is Francesca's prayer space. Her explanation is on the Google Slide she made.

Elephant Art

During Lockdown, Room 1 were set the task of collecting some of their recycling. They were keeping plastic milk bottles, coloured paper, magazines, newspaper, wrapping paper and Easter egg wrappers. 
After a couple of weeks collecting what we needed, we were set the task of turning our milk bottles into elephants. First we cut off the bottom of the handle so it looked like a trunk with a curve at the end. Then we cut off the bottom of the milk bottle and cut curves to create the legs. After that, we cut or ripped all of our recycled paper into squares. Finally, we glued all our pieces of paper onto the milk bottle. Some people added ears, some added eyes and some added a crown.
Have a look at our individual blogs to see more photos, and to read how we problem solved some issues we had.

The Taskmaster SHOUT OUT!

Every now and again, The Taskmaster sets us a challenge to complete. One of last weeks challenges was to disguise or camouflage ourselves for ten seconds then reveal ourselves. Someone had to video you and then we put our videos on our individual blogs. We had to try and be more creative than just hiding behind some cushions or under a blanket. 
The ten seconds of hiding was full of suspense and it was really hard to work out where they would appear.
This weeks SHOUT OUT went to the person who camouflaged themselves so well, that when they revealed themselves it was hard to see because they were still camouflaged from head to toe. Room 1s SHOUT OUT goes to...drum roll please...

Click here to watch him complete the challenge. Tino pai rawa Kharn.
We are having some fun during our Lockdown Online Distance Learning.

First Day of Online Distance Learning

Today began with a Whole School Online Liturgy. We started with karakia and waiata then moved on to Shout Outs. Each teacher gave one shout out to a student who had done some fabulous work. It was difficult to choose in Room 1 because a few people had been blogging over the holidays. So it went to the person who had used a variety of digital tools on their blog. This person had used photos, WeVideo, Apps they've been using, Canva, Google Drawings, screenshots and links to other websites. They've also explained how they accidentally used Premium tools on WeVideo which you have to pay for so had to redo it. So this weeks Shout Out goes to....(drum roll please)...

After our Whole School Liturgy we had a class Google Meet. 

We started with karakia then moved onto todays learning. On our class site, there are now Weekly Slides explaining each task. We have four tasks each day. Sometimes a video also explains what to do. 

You can see our finished tasks on our individual blogs.