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? 

The Olympic Games

In reading we have been learning to skim and scan. We read the articles first and then practised skimming and scanning. Skimming is reading quickly in order to get a general overview of the material. Scanning is reading quickly in order to find specific facts. The facts we needed to find were about the Olympic Games. We found some very interesting facts. Did you know that there is actually a fourth medal?

Read Jakob A's fact file. Just click on the picture and it will take you to some facts, then click on the picture of the house and it will take you back 'home' so you can click on another button.

We have also been creating our own Olympic mascots. We looked at the current mascots and mascots of the past and decided to create one just in case the Olympics ever came to New Zealand. We used a new google tool called Chrome Canvas. For most of us, it was the first time we have used it.

Have you ever used Chrome Canvas? What did you create?

Here's Camille's NZ Olympic Mascot.

Gamefroot

For the past couple of weeks we have turbo-charged our coding and really challenged ourselves into programming our own games using Gamefroot. We have been posting our progress on our blogs to get feedback to work on before going on to the next segment or challenge. It was interesting to read as some people said some of the games were too challenging - that led to a great discussion about if they were too easy would you play them? Some of us decided we wanted our games to be challenging to teach people about perseverance. They did this by choosing not to act on some of the advice about offering 'lives' - if you failed the attempt, you just have to start again.

Our task was to make sure our 'player' stayed on the screen and did not fall off. We also had to make our 'player' move forwards, backwards, up and down. Some people extended themselves by adding immovable objects, levels and sound. You can read about how we did this by reading our individual blogs.

Check out these games and leave some positive feedback for the learner.

Kylah

Baxter

Michael

James