Summer Holidays -Time to participate in the summer learning journey programme! Yay!

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Our 2020 Memory Books

For the past few days the students in Room 9 have been working on creating their memory books. If you wish to read these please visit our individual blogs and see how we have captured the year 2020 in our memory books. Have a fantastic festive season and summer holidays.  

Prizegiving 2020

Congratulations to all the recipients of certificates and awards. You all were rockstars and have done so well this year despite it being a year with a major pandemic hit year. Covid has taught us many things and the things that we mostly take for granted are things that are to be appreciated everyday and valued (taken care of). For if we take care of the small things, big things will come to us or happen. 

Value people, your family, friends, people who are there for you to help you. Value yourself. Always believe in yourself. It is ok not to know something, it is not ok not to try. 

Whether you received a certificate today or not, celebrate your success anyway coz you all have succeeded being great learners this year. 

Treat others the way you want to be treated. 

Be kind and happy. 

Memory Book 2020

 

Click here to make a copy of the memory book and please put it in your inquiry folder. Once completed share it on your blog. 

Our DIY Overnight Camp At School

Please click on the image above with a link to view our photos from our amazing camp. 

On 10th and 11th November we in Room 9 were lucky to have an overnight camp on our own school grounds with Mounty, Omine and Hanne. Om and Mounty are passionate about kiwi children getting outdoor education exepriences and they started this programme called " The Craftslab" Education Outdoors. 

If you wish to explore about Mounty and Om and their programme then please click on the link below this image.

Auckland Zoo Trip

Creative Writing

In Room 9 this week we have been working on creating mood and atmposhere through our writing. We did our creative writing with a buddy or in small groups. We hope you find our stories interesting.

Our Text Analysis on how the author has created mood and atmosphere by using a variety of language features

We are learning to identify how authors use language features to create mood and atmosphere through their writing in their texts (stories, videos etc.) Here are some examples of what we have done over the past week. If you have any questions for us then please visit our individual blogs and leave us a comment with some feedback and your questions. We would love to connect with you. Thank you.

Science Inquiry on Planet Earth and Beyond

This week in Room 9 we have started our new inquiry on Science and it's called "Planet Earth and Beyond". We will explore and learn some cool and fascinating facts about our very own planet Earth and other planets and things surrounding the outer space. Some photos of our's showing what we have been up to today.

 

Solving Word Problems Collaboratively

 

In Maths we have been solving word problems working collaboratively (in a group with our classmates). We have been learning to understand the word problem first and figure out what the question/problem is asking us to do and then work it out using a strategy that most of us want to use in our group and talk about why we used this strategy. 

These are the videos we have watched to help us understand how we can solve word problems and the strategies we can use to solve word problems. Hope you find these videos as helpful and informational as we found them. 

  Look at how we have gone about solving word problems since last week.  

 If you would like to view more of these then please visit our individual blogs. Thank you.

Creating Mood and Atmosphere in Writing

 

We are learning to notice or recognise how authors create mood and atmposhere. We will be exploring a variety of texts in the next few weeks and look at how authors use language to create mood and atmposhere in their writing.

Our goal is to be able to create mood and atmposhere in our own writing. Here is a warm up writing task we have been doing this week. If you have any questions then please let us know in the comments section. Thank you.  

   

     

Maker-Y with Nane from Kootuitui Ki Papakura

 

We are really fortunate to have Nane from Kootuitui Ki Papakura come to our class every Tuesday and work with us on coding and robotics. Today we learnt that when we are creating it is important to remember that there is no right or wrong and the idea is to keep trying and if we make a mistake then we just debug and keep working on creating something until we get there.

 

Speech Competition Winners and Participants

On Thursday 24th September we held the senior school speech competion. Each class in the senior school had 3 participants to present their speech in the finals. 

Our topis for the speech competition was "Heroes are ordinary people". All students wrote persuasively to present their ideas, opinions and statements in their speech. All 3 classes in the senior school had their own speech competition in their individual classes first and the teachers selected 3 students from each class to present their speech in the finals. 

Here are our participants and winners. We are so proud of these students and all the students in the senior school for having the courage to present their speeches with enthusiasm. All students did an amazing job. 

Our School Values

We have been creating DLO's (Digital learning objects) to share what our school values mean to us with a wider audience (As many people as we can share it with). We have created our videos using Powtoon. 

 

Passion Projects

This week we are working on a passion project. We are researching on something that interests us and learn more about it, create a DLO to share our new learning. These peojects are not complete yet as we only started these today. Please visit our individual blogs by the end of this week to check out some DLO's (Digital learning objects) we create to share our passion project. Here is a photo of the research plan template that we are using.

Here is the passion project site.

 

 

Maker-Y with Nane from Kootuitui ki Papakura

Today Nane showed us how to program Edison robots using bar codes.

It was so much fun!

Te Reo Maori Language Week

Go on the Te Reo Maori page on the class site and do the activities on it. Enjoy! Kia ora.

One of the activities we did today in class was this crossword about the native birds of Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Classroom Custom Designs

Currently, in Room 9 as part of our Arts programme we are designing our own classrooms. Hope you enjoy our custom designs.

We are still working on our designs, they are not complete yet. We should be posting our finished designs on our blogs by the end of the week. Please visit our individual blogs by scrolling on the right hand side. 

Quiz Time

Today's quiz is brought to you by Kiwi kids News. Enjoy the quiz.

Link to the Quiz

Our Lockdown Recount Writing

Auckland was in level 3 lockdown for 2 weeks in August. When we got back to school on 31st August we captured this time through recount writing.




 

Quiz Time

        Do this quiz from kiwikids news website.
Just click on the image here and enjoy the quiz.
 

School is back on!

Hi Room 9

Hope you are all doing well. Since you know that school opened yesterday and we have had 14 of us back and Manpreet.
If you are not sure about coming back to school then please email Manpreet. 

We are really practising good hand washing routine and keeping the classroom surfaces clean and sanitised.

We miss you and really would like you to come back to school this week. 

Don't forget to visit the class site to view your learning and read or hear important messages. See you soon!!!

Back to school

Only a few students have come back in Room 9 but all of them are continuing using Google Meets to work with their classmates who are still home and doing online learning.

More than a Mountaineer read to you by Manpreet

We are learning about NZ heroes and today we have to choose a NZ hero and write about them and what they have achieved in their life. What makes them a hero? This is the link to our Heroes learning site.

We have been using Google drawings to share our learning on our blog.

Please visit our individual blogs if you would like to have a look at some more of our creations using Google Draw. Qualities of a hero

Discussion for 26th August @ our 9am Google Meet

https://flipgrid.com/4df0bba5


Click here to hear Manpreet's response.

Qualities of a Hero

This week we have embarked upon our new inquiry unit on - Heroes and we will be particularly looking into New Zealand heroes. Yesterday we brainstormed some qualities that we think a hero has. Here are some brainstorms the students did.
Ana's is the first one, then Vakasa and then Neha. The last one is named.

Blog post for the day

Today's most recommended blog post is Ana's in our class. Every Friday we have decided to do some fun activities as part of our online learning. Look at what Ana did.

Room 9's Daily Writing Tasks

We are writing a paragraph or sharing our ideas using bullet points on the writing prompt for the day. A prompt could be a question, a statement, an opinion or an idea. 

Ana's writing from 19th August. 

Tevita's writing from 19th August. 

Get Blogging- A message from Manpreet

Awesome Online Learners

Some snippets of awesome learning that most students in Room 9 have been doing since Auckland went into level 3 lockdown on 12th August.

We have been learning to write letters. We are writing to a pen pal at a school in Pukekohe and also thank you letters to people who we think have done something for us that we are grateful for.

17.08.2020

Dear Pen Pal,

My name is Neha and I'm 10 years old. I have one brother, and

he is older than me. Do you have any brothers or sisters? If yes

then are they older and younger than you? We are a family of

four. Both my parents are working and my brother is a motor

mechanic. My family comes from Fiji. I was born in Auckland. 

I live in Auckland, New Zealand. I go to Edmund Hillary School

and I am in year 5. There are 30 students in my class. I like

going to school and my favourite subject is Maths. My

teacher’s name is Manpreet and she is from India. I really l

ike her. My favourite sports are soccer and tennis. I

play everyday during breaks in school. I also play

in the park close to my house. 

My cousins come to my house too. In New Zealand

there are lots of amazing and attractive places like

Skyline Gondola, Huka falls, Mt Ruapehu, Sky Tower

and many more. I have been to these places with

my family and I really enjoyed it. My favorite place is

Skyline Rotorua.

I hope to hear from you sometime. 

Take care in the lockdown in Auckland.

Best wishes

Neha 

  Dear: Manpreet

    Tina and I would like to thank you for

everything you have done for us and for

teaching us how to show respect and making

us smart, and teaching us new things we have

learnt about new things because of  you Your

the best teacher ever in our school You have

done everything for room 9 even If someone

is sad you always make their day  happy and

even us, your always a kind  and caring Teacher

in the class.Sometimes you are growly but always

for a reason sometime when the boys are not

lisiening you have to tell them off  and when

us girls are not listening you have to tell us

off we really appreciate what you have done

for us we give this to you as a gift. Thank

you for giving us more chances before you

take our free time away.

                                By: Tina and Luisapeta 

Amazing Bloggers of Room 9

Covid 19 can stop us from going to school but it cannot stop us from learning, from doing work together using Google hangouts, from going on our class site and doing our learning.

There has been some awesome learning that some of the students from Room 9 have been doing in the first three days of online learning under level 3 lockdown.

Some of them have had their first go at creating a Powtoon (Digital learning object) to share their learning. Please click on these student blogs on the left hand side of this blog.

Luisapeta, Victoria, Patrick, Faafua, Tina and Fraise.

Covid 19 Update

School is currently closed for all students, except children of essential workers. You can do all your learning from your class site and your drive. Please email Manpreet if you have any questions. Take care and stay safe. Look after yourselves and your whanau.
Kia Kaha.

Show Not Tell

Some of us are learning to show not tell in our writing. We are working on writing more detailed sentences by using descriptive language. 
Here are some examples of our learning we have been doing.

Cook Island Language Week

We are learning about the Cook Island language. We are learning to say hello, ask how are you to someone and know some more basic things about this beautiful language from one our neighbouring island nations. We are also making a class quilt with Tivaeva patterns and floral patterns. We worked in groups to create these presentations about the Cook Island language.

 

Our Latest Visual Art

Things that make us happy emoji art and koru art. 

Gardening

Today we planted some veggies and flowers in the garden patches outside the senior school classes and our school library. We will be harvesting, taking care of the gardens and enjoy some fresh veggies from our gardens.
We will post some photos soon when our gardens start to bloom.

Look at what we are upto in Reading this week

Victoria and Soloia are learning to summarise texts they read or videos they watch.  

 Ila has been learning to synthesize ideas from texts he reads or videos he watches.

Faafua and Karson are learning to ask and answer questions. They created questions from an article they read on stress from kiwikids News website.

 

Maker-Y with Nane from Kootuitui Ki Papakura

Whaikorero (Speech) about Matariki using Te Reo Maori

We have been learning to introduce ourselves using Te Reo Maori and we also wrote a small information speech about Matariki using Te Reo Maori. Some of us have created our videos using screencastify on our chromebooks. This is our first go at using Te Reo Maori so please keep that in mind and if you would like to give us some feedback to improve ourselves then please leave a comment. Thank you and we hope you enjoy our mahi. 

Our Dioramas on Matariki