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.
