Summer Learning Journey - Teaser Week, Day 3: Activity 3

Room 6 decided to do this activity as a class. There are many people in our lives that have had a positive impact in our lives. Check out ours!

The New Kid in Town

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you were the new kid in town? Check out Room 6's original song. P.s. if it sounds familiar, it's our version of 'The New Girl in Town' off the Hairspray musical.

Smart Relationships: Blog Comments

Room 6 are practicing replying to their blog comments. They got into pairs and used these examples to practice in case they got a comment similar. Check out what we have been up to lately in CyberSmart with Mrs Collins!


Osa and Zoe



Teingoa and Deborah




Tipelio and Tori

Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori

Room 6 and the rest of Team 4 made a quick video of the greetings in Te Reo Māori for Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori. When saying hello to one person, you would say tēnā koe. You can also say kia ora, mōrena, or in the morning you might say ata mārie. You would use tēnā kōrua for two people, and tēnā koutou for three. Hope you enjoy!

KiwiSport for Room 6 - Hockey

Room 6 has been learning how to play Hockey this term for KiwiSport. Check out our short video of what we have been getting up to!

Thank you to Mary and Sugar for teaching us these new skills.

Smart Relationships Interruption

Today, Room 6 was ready to present their Smart Relationships presentation that they did with their buddies. Zoe and Osa were in the middle of sharing their favourite slides when all of a sudden, the fire alarm went off! It set our lesson back a bit so it means we will be presenting the rest next week.

Kupe and the Wheke

Room 6 has been doing Te Reo Māori with the Year 6 cohort. This week the activity for our lesson was to create an online storyboard retelling the story of Kupe and the Wheke. Check out the storyboard that Mel created on 8bit art!

Cybersmart - Smart Relationships

This term in CYBERSMART we are learning how to interact with others online and make smart decisions about what information we share.

First of all we talked about qualities of what we thought made a "smart relationship". Then we connected with our buddy's at Karoro and Paparore school...

Happy Birthday Miss Tuia

Many, many happy returns of the day Miss Tuia...

hope you enjoy your day at PES with Room 6!

CyberSmart Smart Footprint Reflection

Room 6 has had Mrs Collins come into our class to help us with CyberSmart. She has taught us many things. She put together an assignment for us to show her what we have learnt. Enjoy!

Te Reo Māori with Whaea Francis

Room 6 loves going to Te Reo with Whaea Francis! It is amazing to learn new information using a different language, and we always have fun when we go.

Some of the things that Whaea Francis has taught us are Matariki stars and some of the history, Te Reo and how far Māori people have come through keeping the Reo alive, and we've even used Kupu to translate our own sentences.

We have even been able to work in collaborative groups, sharing ideas and learning new information each time.

Thank you Whaea Francis for having us!

Kindness and Kaitiakitanga

This week in our CyberSmart lesson, we watched Oat the Goat, discussed how we can be kind and things that we can do to be kind.

In last weeks assembly, Mr Burt's korero was 'wheoritia te atawhai - make kindness go viral'. We found that kindness is contagious and if we spread kindness where we can, the world can be a much happier place.


                      

Describing a setting

Room 6 is learning how to write about setting. We are using descriptive words to make our writing sound more interesting. We are also making sure to describe accurately so that when the audience is reading our writing, they get a picture in their head that is similar to the one in the writers.

We hope you enjoy!

By Zoe

By Julia

Please leave a positive comment if you can!

Kia pai te kotahi in Room 6!

At Point England School, our kōrero for this term (and the year) is 'Kia pai te kotahi' which means better together. Room 6 have been finding different and effective ways to work together.

One task that we did in class was making up games. We had to get into groups and create a game using ideas from our teammates.

Watch this video to find out how one of the games went!

Table Discussions - Respect

Every Friday, Room 6 has been having table discussions. Our teacher gives us a question and we answer it the best we can. We thought we would discuss one of the kōrero that Mr Burt talked about in our assembly. The question we were given was 'why is it important that we show respect?' Here are a few of our responses.

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Camp Highlights from Nature and Brendon

Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu

We are very excited to shortly begin our new class blogging programme and hope to build our confidence and our understanding of Learn Create Share over the year.

We are ready as a class to connect, collaborate, support our cybersmart learning, and utilise our classroom blog as a powerful tool with you and hope that you will find it engaging and inspiring through reading and writing the comments we make and those you leave behind on our class (and in time) individual blogs.  

By using Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu we will harness our understanding of Learn, Create, Share and we are confident that with an authentic audience who will regularly comment, the learning we are sharing will develop too.

Welcome to our Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu team...we are so excited to get to know you and share our learning. We hope that we can create new ideas to support our connections and collaborations together.

Lets write to me, write to yo

We love KiwiSport!

 
For KiwiSport this term, our class are learning the required skills for cricket. Some people in our class already knew how to play, but majority of us were learning a sport that was a bit different.

The first skill we learnt was catching. When we are catching a cricket ball, our pinky fingers and palms need to be touching. Half the class got into pairs and went with Jesse. The rest of the class went with Charlie.

The group that went with Jesse were able to practice the new skill in the partners that they chose. We also played a game with her. The aim of the game was to catch the most balls without dropping it. When the ball was dropped, we had to start again from one.

Charlie got his group to line up in two lines so they could toss the ball to one another. We had to practice the catching skill that had been taught to us. Charlie made it a little bit more fun by making them speed it up to see how fast we could do it.

We had so much fun learning new skills in KiwiSport and can't wait to see what else Charlie and Jesse have in store for us. Thank you Charlie and Jesse!

Establishing social norms in Room 6 Maths.

 Room 6 has been focussing on the different social norms that we will use to ensure that our Maths is able to run smoothly and effectively.


The different norms we came up with were:
- work as a group.
- share and acknowledge all ideas.
- justify our answers - use explanations.
- respect my group, the other groups, and the environment.


The children found that having norms like these allows each person to have a voice, and allows others that may be confused an opportunity to listen and discover new strategies. Having groups means children can share their ideas and strategies to those that may not know them, and lets the children practice their listening and talking skills. These norms can be used in a Maths setting and also in a classroom setting.

Introducing Room 6 for 2019!

As excited as I was, I was also nervous to meet the new Year 6's for 2019. Some of the children in this class had already experienced being in a shared learning environment, and others were moving from a single cell class.

I was privileged to get to know some of these children in 2018, and I couldn't wait to get to know everyone else. 

Our theme for this year is 'Kia pai te kotahi' which means better together. I am looking forward to seeing the children in Room 6 work with each other and see the benefits of how doing things as a group is easier than by oneself.

Feel free to visit our Room 6 blog and leave comments, and even go and check some of the children's work throughout the year - I know they would love that!

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