Week 3

 Kia ora Readers, 

This week seems to have gone really fast. Must be an end of year thing. What do you think? 

Room 13 have been spending some time catching up on their work and making sure that they've completed the tasks set this term. 

In our Meetings, we've started to use Jamboards to collaborate and share ideas with each other for Math and Reading. The students seem to really engage with these so we will definitely keep using them from now on. 

We're still looking at patterns in Geometry. The students had to create their own one that included some form of symmetry, reflection, or rotation. Check out Lucija's pattern that she made. 

Our focus for writing this week was to look back at what makes up a Quality blog post or comment from our CyberSmart lessons. Mr Jones is hoping that by the end of Friday this week everyone in the class has commented or posted at least once.  

Term 4 Week 2

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This week has been a short one with Labour Weekend. I think Room 13 appreciated the extra day of rest. 

Room 13 have continued their focus into Geometry- specifically Tessellation and what that is. 

Isla shared a pattern she made to her blog. Ka pai!  Leave her a comment about what you think of her work so far. George shared his as well. 

We also started to look at Te Whare Tapa Whā and our own wellbeing.

Maimuna wrote a but about her wellbeing.

As it is Halloween week, Mr Jones set a few challenges for the class.

Leon has already completed his choice of activity on Minecraft (Shot Leon!!!!)

Check out his blog

The class were very excited to hear about the "indicative" return date to school- November 15th. Here's hoping we can all end our year back inside the classroom!

Term 4

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Welcome to Term 4. Definitely did not expect to still be in Lockdown going into Term 4 but I'm sure we will make the best of it. 

Our online learning has already begun. Here's Room 13's schedule for this week:

This week New Windsor is celebrating Niuean and Cook Island Languages. Whaea Tini has done an awesome job with the language sites for the school and has given us lots to challenge ourselves with. Take a look:

For Writing we have looked at what being responsible means. The class made posters showing what they think it means to be responsible in a context of their choice. 

Check out Amelia's poster and leave her a comment. 

Lucija made one focusing on being tidy and recycling. 

For Math, Room 13 have started looking at Geometry, specifically in Tivaevae patterns. 

We have discussed some key words that pop up in Geometry like rotation, reflection and parallel. 

To help us learn some of these words Nazahah recommended we watch a video that she has used to help her learn them.  Here's the link. 

 

Monday Week 10

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Wow, Week 10 of Term 3. Time and space have melted together a bit for Mr Jones. This term was jam packed at the start, funny how things change so suddenly. 

This week Room 13 will be celebrating Chinese Language Week. Thanks to Whaea Tini and the Cultural Events Team for setting up an amazing resource for us. Check it our below:

There are daily challenges on there as well as a weekly challenge to do with the Chinese Zodiac. One of the daily challenges today was to find a recipe for dumplings and try to make some. I know that's a task for our juniors but it is very tempting....

Did you know it's also Tuvalu Language Week? Mr Jones does not know much about Tuvalu at the moment. His challenge this week is to find out more about them. 

Room 13 will be carrying on their Quest writing this week. This morning Leon and Ananya shared their maps from last week to the class. 

            

Maimuna has been working hard on her Stop Motion filming. Check out her blog to see what she's done. 

Last week, Mr Jones set a challenge for Room 13. Anyone who completed Toxicode and took a screenshot of the completed challenges would win fale points. So far only 2 have been able to. Ka Pai Leon and Viliami! How far can you get? 

Stop Motion Animations and Coding

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Wow, week 9 already! This Term has really been a bit of a blob hasn't it? 

This week Room 13 are focusing on animations and coding activities. Mr Jones was inspired by a course he was on and wanted to share his learning with his students. 

Check out the coding activities, how far can you get?

Previously, Room 13 had looked at animating using Google slides. This week we've stepped in up and started looking at Stop Motion filming- this is where you take an object, take a photo, then move it EVER SO slightly and then take another photo. You repeat this process and put all the photos together to make it look like the object is moving by itself. 

Room 13 are currently still working on this so be sure to check out their blogs when they finish them. 

Term 3, Week 8

Kia ora Readers, 

Check out what Room 13 have been up to this week. 

Mr Jones started a Rube Goldberg Competition with Fale points and prizes up for grabs. There were quite a few entries. Some stand out ones came from George, Lucija, Amelia and Gevan. Antonio made an amazing one at home and it was even featured on the school Facebook page. Ka pai, Antonio!

These are George and Lucija's entries. 

This week is Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori. The whole school are taking part in daily challenges. Some are designed for students and others for Teachers. Isla has recorded her pepeha and done the karakia.

Tomorrow is our Disconnect Friday. Room 13 will get to choose from a number of activities on their day off from Google Meet. Check out what they might be getting up to:

Term 3 Lockdown

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Term 3 seems to have brought with it another Lockdown. Poor old Auckland. At this point we are coming up to our 4th week at Level 4. Room 13 has been working away using our class site to carry on our learning. 

We've continued out DMIC Maths topic of statistics. Check out Isla's and Hajira's blogs to see what they've been doing for it. 

For Reading, Mr Jones has focused on Fairy tales like Goldilocks and Red Riding Hood. What's that? A bit to easy for Year 5 & 6 students you ask? Have a look at what Giovanna's been doing to find out. 

For writing, the class have been creating memes about their experiences of Lockdown. Here is what George did, and one that Antonio did about Mr Jones. 

Mr Jones neither confirms nor denies this.

Room 13's big project at the moment is picking an animal that they are fascinated by and creating a digital presentation on it to share with their peers. Leon has chosen to look at skinks. You can see part of his presentation here.

Mr Jones has kept a tally of Fale points earned over the Lockdown so far from all the work and blogging Room 13 has been doing. It's a very close race at the moment. 

                    

Want to check out the other work Room 13 has been doing? Visit our class site here