We are learning to summarise. In Room 1 each student along with a buddy wrote two summaries on Christmas stories as part of their mini Christmas inquiry.

Mini Christmas Inquiry Slides Summaries

Recycling- What is it? Why do it? How to do it?

We have been learning to use Google sheets to create graphs to show information and data. These two graphs created by Ema show the number of vehicles and types of vehicles that went past our school on Friday morning between 10.20 and 10.35 am on 22nd November 2019.

Room 1 have been learning to use Google forms to share ideas and information. Everyone in Room 1 worked either by themselves or in a group to create a quiz about Egypt as we have been learning about different countries in the world.

Here is Emora's quiz on Egypt and if you would like to do more of these then please go on our individual blogs. Happy Quizzing.

20 Things we all should say more often. In Room 1 we heard Kid President share 20 things we should say more often and we worked in pairs and came up with our own 20 things that we think we should be saying more often.

We are learning to share our ideas in writing by creating posters this week. We all have shared our posters on our individual blogs.

Maths Quiz - We in Ruma Tahi have had fun doing this Maths quiz. Hope you enjoy it too. Comment below and let us know how you found it. Thank you.

We have been learning about earthquakes as part of our Science inquiry in the first few weeks of this Term. Here is Neha, Victoria and Savannah's inquiry. If you would like to take the quiz they have created on slide 15, please give your email to them in the comments and they will share the quiz with you.

Informational Posters on Diwali by Neha, Elena and Ema.

Argumentation Writing

First post for last but not the least Term for the year 2019, in fact one of the busiest one. Hope you all had a good break over the school holidays. Room 1 at Edmund Hillary School have kicked off Term 4 with full swing. Our first topic of inquiry is Earthquakes. It's a mini Science based inquiry we are doing on earthquakes to better our understanding of what earthquakes are, how they occur, where they occur and what we can do to be safe if an earthquake occurs.

Students are completing tasks from this Google Slides Presentation. It is work in progress so please be aware of that when commenting. Thank you

Look at our fantastic Animations!

Have a look at our current inquiries we are working on. We are inquiring into emotional well being and physical fitness. Here are some activities we have been doing. Our work is in progress (not complete yet).

Room 1 have been using Google Slides or Google Draw to create inspirational posters. This poster on determination is by Ruqayat.

Photos of us presenting our inquiries on sound to a small group of our classmates.

We have been inquiring into what Sound is in Room 1 as part of our Science Inquiry. Hope you enjoy listening to what Ema, Victoria and Viena have to tell you about what they have found out about Sound.

We are learning to understand and solve word problems.

Narrative Writing

We are learning to structure our stories using an orientation (introduction), complication(Problem) and resolution (Solution).

Elena's poster on what to do when you are bored. She made this poster as part of free choice in Writing. What a great piece of advice through your poster Elena.

Descriptive Writing - We are learning to describe a moment in time.

Koru Art

In Room 1 we created an Art Piece with koru patterns on it. Koru means growth and we all are going to look at this piece of art and remember that we are all growing in our learning journey.

Student inquiry presentations on inspirational people in New Zealand and 10 inspirational people in the world.

In Room 1 students have been exploring what inspiration means, how we look at some people for inspiration and learn from their achievements.

We are learning about Manaakitanga, Kaitiakitanga and Rangatiratanga in our school. Read these posters by Ema and Joshua.

Argumentation Writing - Should birds be kept as pets by Ema and Ruqa, Neha and Elena, Ila and Faafua. Should Zoos be banned by Albert and Elena.

Neha and Elena Ila and Faafua

Room 1 working on their background for their Koru Art Designs

Room 1 working on their background for their Koru Art Designs

As part of our Social Science inquiry we are inquiring into "Continuity and Change". We are looking at inspirational people in New Zealand of now and then and what life circumstances they faced and yet achieved what they achieved. Here is a presentation in it's initial stages(not complete) by Emora and Ema in Room 1 who are looking at 10 inspirational people that we decided as a class after a week of looking at the word inspiration and what roles change and continuity have played in these people's lives. Hope you enjoy their presentations. More presentations will be posted here soon.

Posters on Matariki by a group of students. Ellakaye, Ruqa, Ema, Nese and Victoria.

We are learning about safety and how to be safe in different situations. Here is a video a group of students created to share their message on Cyber Safety.

Argumentation Board Writing - This week's Topic was "Should Sugary Drinks be Taxed in New Zealand"?

Mini Inquiry on Safety - Weeks 9 and 10 Term 2 ,2019. First slideshow presentation is the Tasks Slides for students to work from these two weeks followed by a few pieces of student work they did on their prior knowledge on Safety through brainstorming ideas using the brainstorming question key answering what , where, how and who.

Two Presentations from a group of students in Room 1 showing their learning on States of Matter (Science Inquiry).

We have been learning to share our opinions and at the same time see both the perspectives- Yes and No, Right and Wrong, Advantages and Disadvantages- We are learning to ask the question WHY? and really get thinking deeply about the world around us.

Here are some Topics we have given our opinions on through Argumentation Writing. Mahara and Emora's Argumentation Writing Ema's Argumentation Writing

In Room 1 we do free Writing on Thursdays and some students chose to make posters on things that are important to them and the messages they want to share with the wider world. Some students chose to write letters to people they wanted to express their feelings to or just write a letter to.

Here are two posters and more will be posted soon. The students used Google Draw to create their posters and share their messages. Here are two letters these students wrote to their Teacher- Manpreet.

We are learning about the States of Matter.

Look at Emora's Google Draw on the Water Cycle. Look at Ellakaye and Victoria's Google Draw on a task they did as part of their learning.

In Room 1 we are learning to write narratives. We have been working on organising our writing in paragraphs and use a variety of punctuation and language features to make our stories effective. Here are some of our Narratives. Enjoy!

Science Inquiry- Currently we are learning about the States of Matter. This week we brainstormed our ideas on what we already know about the states of matter using the brainstorm thinking key.

Google Slide Presentations on New Zealand. As part of our Social Science unit of studies we have been learning about New Zealand as a place. We explored things like it's climate, location, environment, wildlife and culture. Students chose 8 different aspects to find information on from a list of ideas shared with them.

Recounts by Joshua and Emora narrating their time at Camp Adair from 14th May to 17th May.

On 14th May we are going to Camp Adair for 4 days. YAY! We are so lucky and thankful to all the organisations that have made it possible for us to go to camp. We are thankful to our lovely principal Raina and Naomi who have worked so hard to request many organisations and people to donate money to us so we can attend camp.

Some tasks that we have done before going to camp like we have written a summary of what each organisation that has helped us and what they do and we have completed a Vocab list and a scenario task. Hope you enjoy reading some of the student's responses and work.

What we already know about New Zealand? We used the brainstorming key to write what we already know about New Zealand.

In Term 2 for the first 5 weeks we are zooming into the subject of Social Sciences and learning about New Zealand - Place, Environment and Landmarks. We will choose 8 things from the list our teacher has provided us with and research about those 8 things. Hope you learn something from our brainstorms.

Our Holiday Recounts

Ellakaye's Recount Karson and Nathaniel's Recount Joshua and Senric's Recount Soloia's Recount Victoria and Ema's Recount

Presentations on ANZACS

Information reports on Animal Groups

In Room 1 we have been learning to write information reports. Information report on Animal Groups by Ellakaye and Viena Information report on Animal Groups by Neha, Vaa and Mahana

Art Lessons with Losalina - The Artist

We are fortunate to have Losalina come into our class every Tuesday from 9 am to 10 am and she teaches us different art forms. 

Today we made designs and patterns that will go on a panel that represent the diversity in our school. 

Duffy Role Model Assembly

We had Marc Duffy come into our school to talk about his life and how he became the awesome person he is. 

We learnt the following things from his story- 

• Never give up 

• Believe in yourself 

• Be brave 

• Say to yourself that you are GREAT 

• You can change for the better if you try and make the right choices

• Stay at school

• Read lots

• Work hard 

All the certificate receivers with Marc Duffy. Toa and Mahara received certificates from Room 1 for their excellent effort in Reading and learning.   

Information Slides on writing information reports.

We are learning to write information reports and are working on organising our writing into paragraphs.

Click on the words Swimming Lessons to watch the video. Swimming Lessons

Swimming Lessons

We are currently inquiring into the topic of 'Living World' and today we completed this activity.

T Chart activity saying what we think Living and Non living means.

Figure Me Out!

Room 1 has been making questions for their classmates and the teacher to figure out that's all to do with them. Their house number, age, year level, how many siblings they have and their parents age. Here are some photos of our work.

We have been setting up our class culture and talking about what a good teacher is like and what a good student is like. What a good friend looks like, sounds like and feels like. We worked in pairs and small groups to brainstorm our ideas using a T-Chart and we used Y-Charts to show what we think a good friend looks like, sounds and feels like.

Soloia and Victoria's T-Chart Ila's T-Chart