The End of Another Month

At the end of every month, we reflect on our learning. It's a great time to sit back and think about all the learning we have done, reset goals, and take a moment to be proud of our achievements. This is only one of the tasks we have done this week during Lockdown. We have also broken out of an Escape Room, completed Episode 2 of The Amazing Race, made animations about the critters we were learning about and many other things. Some students have even blogged other things they have been doing during Lockdown.

Here's a wrap-up of some of our tasks and activities...

Mya's August Reflection

Jame's Saint Vincent de Paul Animation

Sophia's Escape Room

Jakob A's Animation

Olivia S's The Amazing Race - Episode 2

Camille's Diluc Drawing - Just for Fun

SHOUT OUT

While we are learning from home, our Whole School Assemblies are on a Google Meet. Each teacher chooses one student from their class who has stood out during the week. As you can imagine, it is a difficult task only choosing one person as everyone is doing such an amazing job during Lockdown.

When you're doing your learning tasks during Lockdown, sometimes you get stuck. You turn around and put your hand up because you need the teacher...

and she's not there!

So what do you do?

Well, this SHOUT OUT goes to someone who paused their own learning to help out their brother who was having problems with his blogging tasks. He then got straight back into his own learning and blogging.

This SHOUT OUT goes to (drum roll please...)

....for showing patience, compassion and kindness, and taking the time to help others.

Ka mau te wehi, Michael!

A Snapshot of our Learning

 We are into our second week of online learning (some people call it distance learning) because of the COVID-19 Delta outbreak.

Each day we have a Google Meet. We start with students leading a karakia and then move on to talking about the days learning. We have heaps of different tasks - there's report writing tasks, science experiments, an Amazing Race Challenge, nature art and heaps more.

What have you been doing during Lockdown?

Here's a snapshot of some of the online learning that has been posted on our individual blogs...

Mya's Composting Report

Luke's R.E. (Religious Education) Word Cloud

Cameron's Fizz Inflater

James' Amazing Race -  the last challenge

Kylah's Why Plastic is Bad for the Ocean

Michael's Maths

SHOUT OUT

Last week Room 1 started learning about Rongoā Māori (Māori helaing). We went outside to see which native plants we have at school that we can use to heal. Then we designed plaques and painted them with information on. This week was the hardest task of all...HAMMERING! We had to hammer nails through the plaques and onto a stake so we could put them into the ground by the native tree.

This SHOUT OUT goes to a student who has done an excellent job of helping others hammering their nails into their stakes.

You are a champion (drum roll please...)

JAKOB R!

Rongoā Māori

Last week for reading we read about Māori healing plants. Then we found out which of these plants were in our native gardens at school. After, everybody chose one and we researched some more information. Then we summarised the main ideas onto a sign. (You can see our designs on our individual blogs.) Then we painted our signs and hammered them onto a stake. Hammering was probably the trickiest part of all! Now they are ready to be  dug into the ground next to the native tree it tells you about.

Have you ever used a plant to heal yourself?

Report Writing

This week we have been learning how to write paragraphs or how to link paragrpahs. This was new learning for us so it's taking a little while to grasp.

We researched a New Zealand Olympian or an Olympian from another country we admired. We found some fascinating facts and enjoyed writing a WOW fact - read Jakob R's WOW fact!

Here's some of our reports on our Olympians...

Anton Cooper

Lisa Carrington

Dylan Schmidt

Michaela Blyde

Which Olympian do you admire?