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.