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

 Kia ora Readers, 

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

Term 3: Week 1 & 2

 Kia ora katou, 

Welcome back to school! It's only week two of Term three and already it has been so busy. 

Room 13 said goodbye to one of its students at the end of week one. They are off to a new city and we wish them all the best in their new school. 

Term 3's focus is on Collaboration; what it means to us and what that looks like in our everyday lives. The students got together in groups and discussed what collaboration sounds, looks, and feels like. Mr Jones only meant for it to be a quick discussion, but it ended up taking the whole block- so many good ideas came from it. 

Our Calendar Art was also themed towards Collaboration. They are not quite finished yet, but are looking really good. I'm biased, but even Whaea Rhoda said so, so it must be true!😆

In Math's, we've started Statistics. Room 13 has had some great discussions centered around what they have noticed and what they wondered when looking at some of the different displays and the data they showed. 

Looking forward to an awesome rest of the Term!

Term 2, Week 9- Toolkits

 Kia ora everyone, 

This week Room 13 were working on creating their own toolkits to show their parents and peers for our School wide open day. 

Lot's of students put their hands up to do it which was great to see. The groups got to show what digitals they use. We saw presentations about Scratch, Minecraft, Google Slides, Google Draw, and Piskel. Everyone looked like they had a lot of fun and learned from the toolkits. 

We also had the official opening of our new shade sail. The whole school sat under and sang waiata for it. Miss Harland and a few of the student leaders each got to cut a ribbon associated with one of our school fale. 

Term 2, Week 7

 Kia ora Readers, 

What a busy week it has been! Room 13 had their Fale practice meeting, getting ready for the parade on Thursday 24th June. The different Fale are earning so many points now its hard to keep track. It's great to see everyone participating and getting recognition though. 

Room 13 also looked into the meaning and origin of their names. A few students were pleasantly surprised when they discovered the history of their name. 

This week we also have started our individual blogs. Room 13 are very excited to start writing about their learning online. Thank you to Mr Margetts for helping set this up for us!

Term 2, Week 5

 Week 5

This week Room 13 have starting setting up their individual blobs. We hope they will be ready in the next week or so. Unfortunately Mr Jones' favourite student....the TV broke. It has been an interesting experience for him teaching and sharing without one. 

 Room 13 as part of their social studies topic chose a flag that we had a connection with and recreated them using pastel. Some students wanted to do multiple flags as they identified as being a part of more than one culture and country. 

Everyone was excited by the long weekend, and even more so when we found out that week 6 was only 3 days long as well. I wonder what everyone will do with their free time?

Term 2, Week 3 & 4

 Cross Country

Room 13 took part in the school Cross Country. Everyone tried their best and did really well. Friday was also Pink Shirt Day. Room 13 celebrated it alongside Room 11 and Room 12. We looked at who started the Pink Shirt Day and the reasons why we remember to do it.

Week 4 was New Windsor's Samoan Language Week. Room 13 looked at slides that had heaps of information about Samoa including its history, culture and national anthem. The week ended with a guest speaker who shared his culture with the whole school in assembly. 

In the last block of the day on Friday Miss Key surprised Room 12 and 13 with Panikeke and Koko alaisa. We all got to try some and decided to write poems filled with adjectives to describe the experience.

Thanks Miss Key!