Robotics Club

Today Mrs Jones and Mrs S began Robotics Club with any Y4-6 students who wanted to come along.  It is each Wednesday lunch time.

Students are learning how to use the Codey Rocky robots.  It was great to see the cooperation the students were showing with each other and the awesome problem solving that was happening.

Mrs Jones' Reading Groups

We are learning the routines of Reading and learning how to work in our 2021 reading groups.  This week students worked collaboratively in their reading group to create a DLO (digital learning object) in response to the text that they had been reading.

Here they are...

Please leave some feedback for them.

Visit to Te Pā o Moki

We have been fortunate enough to take our whole school out over four days to visit to Pā o Moki and surrounding areas.

Stories passed down over time, tell us of Rākaihautū travelling down the South Island of New Zealand, digging out lakes, including Te Waihora (Lake Ellesmere) with his kō (digging stick) and raking the gravels of the Canterbury Plains. 

Te Ruahikihiki later came travelling, through Taumutu and claimed the lake as a great food source for his people, naming the lake 'Te Kete ika a Rākaihautū,' (The fish basket of Rākaihautu) also known later as Te Waihora and Lake Ellesmere. His descendant Moki, built the pā as it is today - Te Pā o Moki. 

We also were lucky enough to have Clem show us some real live tuna (eels) down at Fisherman's Point and then travelled to Lakeside Domain - Timberyard Road, to see where logs used to be barged across from the Peninsula, hauled to shore and transported by train into Christchurch. 

Ferrymead Trip

 The Year 5-6 students visited Ferrymead on 11 September. This was part of our Inquiry learning for Technology about ‘Creating Change and Adapting to Change’.

The day began with the students dressing up in olden day school clothing.  Groups moved around different activities learning about different things from the olden days.

We had a lesson in the school house, where the open fire was keeping us warm.  We learnt about olden day home entertainment (radio, black and white tv, film strips, records, etc).  We played with some old fashioned games and toys (puppet shows, viewmaster, plate spinning, Jacob's ladder, marbles, fishing, spinning tops, pinball, etc). The highlight of the trip was baking cookies in the bakery, which we brought back to school to eat.

Thank you to our wonderful parent helpers who helped us for this trip.

Bike Track Opening

Yay! Our bike track has officially opened!

 

Sewing

 Mrs Jones' technology group had a lot of fun using the sewing machines to make bags from old t-shirts.

Pick-a-Path stories

Mrs Jones' writing class have been working very hard over the last 3 weeks to create pick-a-path stories where you (the reader) choose the path to take in the story.

Click the student's name and you will be directed to their blog post of their pick-a-path story.

Please leave a comment for them.

Hub Assembly

Today we had our hub assembly and we videoed it again.

Congratulations to all our Hero certificate students - Shukria, Erin and An

Congratulations to our special award recipients

Congratulations to our PB4L wrist band winners - they have reached 50 Thank You tickets each!

Our Thank you ticket draw winners who will choose a prize from Mrs Huriwai's prize box - Zyon, Sophie and Zara.

Congratulations to our Weka of the Week students - Tovie, Jahnaleigh and Enzo.

Having fun learning how to use Jamboard

Mrs Jones' Reading class have been learning how to use a new Google Drive app called Jamboard.  Jamboard is a little bit like padlet and it is so easy to use.  You click on the sticky note, write your text and then you can change the colour of your note.

In Reading we used Jamboard to write down all our prior knowledge about cat's whiskers.  We did this all at the same time on the same Jamboard.  We had a few issues with people deleting other people's notes but it was mainly because we were learning how it all worked.

This is our prior knowledge about cat's whiskers.  You can see we knew quite a lot to start with.

Then after we read our text about cat's whiskers we worked in small groups to record all the things we had learnt about cat's whiskers. 

Here are our group Jamboards.  You can see we learnt a lot of new things about cat's whiskers after reading our first text.

Pick-a-Path Teaser

Mrs Jones' writing class have been working hard over the past 2 weeks on Pick-a-Path stories where the reader chooses the direction of the story.

We will share them all with you when they are finished but here is a teaser.....Jordan has posted her finished Pick-a-Path on her blog.

Check it out here and leave Jordan a comment.

Can't wait to share the rest with you!

Welcome to Term 2

It is great to get back into some learning (even if it is at home online).
Today Mrs Jones' reading groups (10 that joined the Google Hangout) read a story on EPIC called "Memoirs of a Goldfish" and then they did a quiz on EPIC that Mrs Jones made.
These are our results - 2 people got everything 100% correct!!  Great work Tovie and Son.