School is back on and I must say, it has been so good to be back but especially good to see some of our Room 11 students return to school. Although school is slightly different in terms of the areas we need to stay in and the staggered lunch breaks, we have an understanding that this is to help protect each other.
It has been awesome continuing to learn with students online. Just a reminder that we are online each morning at 10am. You can find the link to our Meet on our class site here.
Wow, what a busy month it's been! During this month we have celebrated Tongan Language Week and also Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori. It's safe to say I would have rather celebrated those languages in class with our class but nonetheless, we still managed to do what we could online.
Last week we officially started our online learning sessions where we met each day for an hour in the morning then an hour in the afternoon. It was really awesome to catch up with students and to reconnect and see how everyone is and what everyone has been up to. Although we are all feeling the same way about missing the face-to-face sessions, it was still nice to reconnect on a different forum.
During our online sessions, we have been doing a range of things such as playing a Scavenger hunt, Kahoot, and doing our Maths number of the day using Jamboard. Today we explored vocabulary and learnt about using adjectives, nouns, adverbs and verbs to create some amazing sentences that would give our readers a clear image of our message. I can't wait to continue working with students to build on the sentences they have started creating.
Below are some pictures of what we've been doing online.
Throwback to our trip to Wero Whitewater Rafting. Thank you to the John Walker Field of Dreams Foundation for making this possible.
Yesterday, Jahnei, Patrick, Izayah and Gavish represented our school in the Manurewa Cluster, Mathex competition and they won!!!!! We are super proud of them!
What makes it even more special is that they "trained" for 2 days and it was our very first time entering a competition like this. Well done team! You all are amazing!
This term our topic is "Faster, Higher, Stronger-Together". Through this topic, we are learning about ourselves and what attributes we have, that we can contribute to a team environment. Sometimes you are loud, which can be a good thing for being a leader or cheering on your team mates. Sometimes you're quiet so you may be good at listening and communicating ideas. Sometimes you're funny or athletic. We want all our students to know that their attribute is valued in a team.
Each week we will play a game and earn points for our class. The class with the most points will win a gold medal.
Our class colour for our games is yellow. We decided to transform this name to Samasama, which means yellow in Samoan.
What a busy week we've had! This term as you may know, we've been learning about the body systems in particular the Circulatory System. Yesterday we had the opportunity to share our learning with our friends, family and our community. We think it was a huge success!!!!!
Over the last couple of weeks, Room 11 and the rest of Aronui (Senior Syndicate) have enjoyed learning about the body systems. Today was the last rotation where Room 11 went to Miss Savila's class to learn about the Digestive System. Check out some of the photos from their lesson.
Last night we had our very first Zumba Fundraiser at our school. I was feeling nervous about it because we had not sold many tickets prior to the event and I wasn't sure if our whanau would do door sales nor come because we have not had the best weather recently.
It ended up turning out so well. We had so many students and parents support us. The dancing was awesome, the routines were crazy (because I couldn't keep up) and everyone looked like they were having fun!
I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who came out to support us! All of the money will be going towards lowering the cost for our Year 5&6 camp.
This week is Road Safety Week. We have a Poster Competition going on right now within our school. Check out the cool entries we have so far...
Yesterday we had our first Topic Rotation within our Senior Syndicate. I had lots of fun teaching the Room 10 students about the Circulatory System.
Last Friday our Project Wy students went to Rotorua to participate in the Rotorua Marathon. Michelle, Jahnei, Moses and Joy participated from our class along with their families. We are all very proud of them and their special achievement. Well done team!
Our students have been learning how to use 'shortcuts' to create an animation. Check out their work so far...
