Distance Learning - Thursday 4th March '21

Oat the Goat

Aanya is one of our three students on campus during alert level 3. She has been completing her distance learning tasks here at school and getting plenty of digital practice. Today Aanya watched the Oat the Goat video, drew a picture on her iPad of the goat then wrote a story to go with it. Aanya is practicing inserting pictures, using background colours and text boxes and is beginning to add things to her blog. Lots of learning, awesome work Aanya. 

Scientific Friday - Making Sime

 

On Friday Scientist Pryde came to Room 7 and we did chemistry by making slime. Chemistry is putting two or more ingredients together to make a whole new thing. We used food colouring, glue, borax and water to make slime but it didn't work. We are not 100% sure why it didn't work but we think it is because the ingredients were out of date. Have you got any good slime recipes that we could try?

Author: Myah 

Get Set Go!

Sports Coach

On Wednesday we did some balancing. When the coach said, "stop" we had to try balance on one leg with airplane arms. We sit down and listened to the coach, the coach picked someone to be the tagger. He gave them a pool noodle and the tagger had to run and tag everybody. When the person got tagged they had to stand like a starfish. To be back in the game, someone had to crawl through your legs. The tagging game was my favourite game because I liked tagging people. 

Author: Jeremiah, room 7

Room 7 has been enjoying Get Set Go which is a physical education program that incorporates all sorts of gross motor skills and balancing techniques with good old fashion fun. 

Story above orally titled and written by Jeremiah, room 7.

Buddy Reading

 

Every Tuesday after lunch room 7 does buddy reading with room 5. We like buddy reading because the big kids read us funny stories like 'Captain Underpants' and sometimes they read us jokes from their joke books. Today we read them our poem called 'Bugs! Bugs!' We only started the poem yesterday so it was good practice for us and when we got stuck the big kids were able to help us. 

Life Education

Room 7 had their second session with Harold and Nicole today. The students got an opportunity to talk to Harold's puppet friends about their worries. We are getting good at sharing our feelings in the different colour zones. The blue zone is sad, yellow zone is worried, green zone is happy and the red zone is angry. When we have identified what zone we are in, we work together to find ways back to the green zone. This looks different for each student.

We also had a think about if we got lost and what we would do. We talked about our addresses and how it's important to know them so we know where to go if we do get lost. We are writing letters to our parents and are going to send our letters to our parents using our addresses. This ties in with our Inquiry topic, safety. 

Taekwondo

This term our students have been learning Taekwondo. We learnt that Taekwondo is a Korean martial art. We have to say some Korean words. It is important to listen to the leader because he teaches us how to punch and kick properly so we don't hurt ourselves. You don't use it in the playground though. Taekwondo is for self defence which means you only use it if you're in danger. 

We loved trying out our new skills on a bag and making all the fun sounds that go with it. At the end of our lessons we are going to get to kick a board in half. We're pretty excited about that. 

If you have any questions for us let us know. 

Making Musical Instruments

Todays creating challenge was to make an instrument. This is part of our inquiry about sound. Miss Pryde gave us a pile of old boxed and tubes then she let us go on an adventure hunt for anything that could help us make an instrument. We found lots of noisy things. We found leaves that go crunch, acorns that can make a rattling noise, sticks that can make lots of different types of noises depending on size and how you use them. We all came up with some very different ideas for musical instruments. We are a talented group of musicians. 

Egg Carton Creations

Today Room whitu did some creating. We used egg cartons, eyes, pipe cleaners, pompoms and glue to make insects or animals. Three of our brave boys chose to make crocodiles which after a lot of hard work turned out amazing. Some other creatures that are features are caterpillars, lady bugs, whales, bunnies, butterflies and turtles. How clever are we? What would you have made?

Learning from home - Vaingalo

Vaingalo has been doing some awesome at-home learning. For one of his writing tasks, Vaingalo had to find a tree outside his house, draw it, and write a story about it including the five senses. Vaingalo chose to draw an orange tree. I like how his family videoed him explaining his drawing. Good work Vaingalo, keep up the hard work.

Library Forts

At the library room 7 read a book about how to make forts. We worked in groups of 5 to make our own forts. We had to work as a team. We used sheets, pillows, chairs and tables. One of our groups turned their fort into a library, another group chose to make a boy's room and girl's room. The final group made two rooms, one with pillows to make the ground comfortable. This is the room where you read softcover books. The other bedroom was empty and was to read hardcover books. The reason for this is because we have a rule that hardcover books have to be on the floor or on a table in order to protect the spine. This group also incorporated the library computers into their fort as their office. We thought this was pretty cool. All three groups worked wonderfully together and had such wonderful ideas. Tino Pai room 7.

Our Best Adventures

In room 7 we like to celebrate our learning. Below are three learners that worked very hard today. Ka rawe Vanessia, Kendric and Zahra. 

Maritime Museum

On Friday, room 7 went to the Maritime Museum with room 2 and room 3. We learnt all about adventuring and exploring and what that looked like back in the 'olden days'. We got to see lots of boats, both big and small. Lee showed us some of the things you would take on a boat when you go on a big trip. We thought it was pretty cool how he talked about the Pacific Islands and how they found New Zealand.

The Santa Claus Show

The Santa Claus Show

On Thursday we went to the magical Pumphouse on a bus. We went there to watch the magical show, it was amazing. Kelly wanted lots and lots of presents. Holly just wanted a white balloon for the girl who did not get a balloon. My favourite part was when the balloons all fell down.

Author: Eli, room 2

The Christmas Show

Yesterday room 2 went on a trip. We went to the Pumphouse Theatre. The show was made by Tim Bray. We went there by bus. It was like 100 degrees in the bus. The show we were watching was the Santa Claus show and it was hilarious. My favourite part was when the elf picked up the papers but the papers kept falling out of his arms.

Author: Malosi, room 2

The Santa Claus Show

On Thursday after morning tea we tucked in our shirts and we lined up outside for the bus. We were waiting to go to the Pumphouse! When we got to the Pumphouse we sat down on the chairs. At the start Elfy checked the list. The first rule was no electronics when the movie is on. Rule two is always sit down or you will get lost. Only stand up if your mum or teacher says you can stand up. My third favourite part was when Santa showed Kelly Santa's toy work shop.

Author: Jacob, room 2

Mitre 10 ad, remade by room 2

Room 2 had a lot of fun planning, preparing and shooting our movie. The first step was picking which ad we were going to remake. We did a vote and Mitre 10 won by 1 vote. After we decided on the Mitre 10 ad we watched it over and over again so that we were able to rewrite it. You might have noticed we have changed a few things... for the better we think. 

From everybody in room 2, we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it.

Lost Shoes

Room 2 love poems. Every week we do a different poem. After losing a lot of shoes at school over the past week we decided a poem about losing shoes was a good idea. First Miss Pryde read us the poem. She sometimes reads it in a silly voice which we think is funny. Then Miss Pryde picks one child from each reading group to read the poem to the class. We get to pretend to be the teacher. After we have listened to the readers read the poem we make actions to the poem. We love making actions to the poems. This one was really funny. We took off our shoes and hid them for real. We pretended to look in the house, the car, the cupboards, and the shelves. We didn't find them there. We found them walking by themselves. Look at the videos below of us doing the actions to our poems. Hine-Sky and Sahara did a really good job of reading the poem. They were both very nervous. 

Fake Animals

This afternoon we created fake animals with Mrs Collins. We collaborated by taking turns drawing on other people's pictures to make funny and fake creatures. At the end, we created a name for our creature by mixing the animal names up.

Next Tuesday we will do the next step. Check back in to see what we get up to.

Morning maths board

Every morning we do our maths board. There are four parts to the maths board. In part one the teacher tells us the number of the day and we have to say the number before, the number after, double it and half it. Sometimes you can't half the number because it's odd. That's another thing we have to do, say if it is odd or even. We then put up the number in words. Part two is the shape of the day, we talk about the vertices and edges of the shape. Then we do the equation of the day and let's estimate. Do you know what estimate means? It means to take a guess but not a silly guess, a proper guess. It's okay if you get it wrong, you don't always estimate correctly. In the third part we do fractions, we have learnt a lot about fractions. We count money, both notes and coins. We are getting better at that too. We also do dot patterns. We like dot patterns. Miss Pryde holds up a dot pattern for only 1 second and we have to say how many dots there are. Then we have figure out how many dots we have to add or takeaway to get to 5 or how many we have to add to get to 10. The last part is our favourite, it's called What's the time Mr. Wolf. Miss Pryde says that every time then she tells us a time. We have to put up the digital and analogue version of it. We started off doing 1 o clock, 2 o clock, 3 o clock etc but now we do 1:30, 2:30, 3:30. We have to think hard but we love doing the morning maths board. 

Fun at Flying Fives

Every Wednesday we go to Flying Fives. We love flying fives because we get to play with lots of cool things. We play in the kitchen, we build with lego or on the construction table, we play dress up, make puppet shows, create works of arts and sometimes we do activities. Today we were platting wool for our bags. It was hard for our little fingers but we had fun doing it anyway. Keep an eye on our blog to see what our bags look like when we have finished them.

Teamwork Towers

Every Tuesday Mrs Collins teaches us something special. This term we have been learning about smart relationships. We have talked about smart relationships with our parents, teachers, friends and even smart relationships with people online. On Tuesday we put our smart relationships to the test and we worked together to build a tower out of dried pasta and marshmallows. The tower had to stand by itself for three seconds and the group with the tallest tower won. We all tried very hard but there could only be one winner. Congratulations to Dito and Yavi for their freestanding tower that stood at a whopping 31cm tall.

Room 2 Smart Learners

This year we are learning to be 

Smart Learners 

in 

Cyber-Smart
  

Every Monday Mrs Collins from Manaiakalani comes and helps us with our learning on our iPads.  We  have learnt how to Hug-Hold, or have two hands on our iPads, when we are moving around and that the cover must be shut.  Our iPads do not need food or drink...and when we are working on them, the iPads must NOT be near the edge of a table in case they fall off and get hurt.  When we leave the classroom, or we are finished with the iPads, they go back in our special cabinet "Ninjago" to charge or if we are coming back to use them they are stacked 4 (1, 2, 3, 4) high.

HUG HOLDING OUR iPADS

STACKING OUR iPADS 4 HIGH