SHOUT OUT

As always, it's difficult to choose just one person when lots of people have been doing such great learning. But this week's SHOUT OUT goes to someone who has been blogging their fantastic learning, writing extra blogs, commenting on lots of other people's blogs and when they get stuck on Maths Buddy, they go and ask their dad for help.

This week's SHOUT OUT goes to.....drum roll please....

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!

SHOUT OUT

It's great to learn new things and this weeks SHOUT OUT goes to someone who is always teaching us something new with every creation he makes. 
Last week he taught us about 'bowsprit' and 'forestay'. You'll know who I'm talking about if you've been following his blog. 
He is... 

'The Cardboard Creations Master, 

Master of all Masters'.

Go to his blog to see his newest masterpiece and find out what a bowsprit and forestay are. Remember he doesn't use a plan or template from the internet - it all comes from his own incredible brain!

Well done for being so creative and clever. Room 1s SHOUT OUT goes to...

SHOUT OUT

It's really interesting when we have online tasks that require some fossicking in garages. Everyone elses garages are always so much more interesting!
Last week, one of the Senior Syndicate tasks was to read Lighting the Sky with Raspberry Pi then head to BrainPOP (an online circuit construction kit) to create their own circuits by clicking and dragging wires, a battery, lightbulb etc onto their drawing board. Nothing at all to do with fossicking!
So if you read their individual blogs about this learning, you will gobsmacked to see someone who has gone to their garage and found cables to strip back, and everything else they needed to create their own electrical circuit with the help of their dad.
Well done for tweaking the task, showing initiative and making it your own...come on down....KYLAH!

Kylah does her online distance learning in her caravan (to keep away from her noisy siblings!)

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...

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.