Nice to be back!

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. 

Here, Room 11 is enjoying playing maths games outside.

The answer is 23, what could the equation be?

 

Multiplying numbers using more than one way

Today, students shared the different ways you can solve 13 x 7. I did not consider using the doubling and halving strategy because I thought that it might be a little challenging to multiply a decimal number, but it just shows the amazing thinking and processing that my students have. I am super proud :)

 

Welcome to Term 4

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.

Lockdown Learning

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.

My Pepeha

Jamboard- Number of the day...24

The ladies

Number of the day... 13

Whitewater Rafting

Throwback to our trip to Wero Whitewater Rafting. Thank you to the John Walker Field of Dreams Foundation for making this possible.

MATHEX CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!

 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!