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. 

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.

Learning From Home - Vili

During this unusual time, our kiddos have been learning from home and what wonderful learning is being done. Vili is working his way through his own challenge sheet. For this challenge, he had to find something in his house that started with every letter of the alphabet. How awesome is his bubble for doing such a wonderful job? He couldn't find anything in his house that starts with an X, can you think of a word that starts with X?
Awesome learning Vili.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Smart Learners return...

Smart learners returned to Room 2 today - and they were awesome!
Today we emptied Ninja-go collaboratively, we listened to instructions and followed them through.  Eli and Milad were SUPER STAR SMART LEARNERS... Tino Pai Miss Pryde and PBS Rm 2!

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