Soapylicious Soap

 

Soapylicious smells delicious! It's a great bargain. Made with 1000% love! Click on the image and it will take you to our "Craft Market Catalogue!"

Which soap will you buy?

Maori Language Week

 

We learnt how to say How are you? in Te Reo.  We created emojis to show how we were feeling. This emoji has an angry face, but we are not really angry it was a new word we learnt. Me Koe? (And you?)

Soap Making

Our Online Craft Market is coming up and in our class, we are making Soap and Bath Salts! We have been split up into groups and each group got called up to make soap with Mrs. P, we made our soap and bath salts scented and we even made little mini soaps! The mini soaps are in little soap dishes that come with the soaps. Our online shopping will go live on Monday 21st September and will end Thursday 8th October.  

Dress Up & A Kahoot

 We had a dress up and Kahoot today on our Friday Google Meet.  Who can spot our Marvel character?

Well done Bailey you went to a lot of effort for our dress up today! 

Indie's writing

 Indie has been going to school during Level 3 lockdown and she has been doing some writing about what she has been doing with her dad.  

Father's Day or any Male Role Model Comp

Please NOTE that you can choose anyone who is a male role model to you, e.g. grandpa/ koro, uncle or cousin. Get creative!! Have a look at when it is due to Mrs Thompson.

Jingle

Sariah Making Her A Sandwich

Sariah has made a video of making her favourite sandwich. As part of the Learn Create Share this week they are learning about Procedural Writing. Miss Greenwood and Mrs P put out a challenge for the students to send in a video of themselves making a sandwich! I heard you used spinach from your mothers garden. Yum yum Sariah and well done.

Online Distance Learning

 Here we go again!  Please check your emails so Miss Greenwood and Mrs P can keep you regularly updated.  Look out for your first email.

We will have a Google Meet every morning at 9:30am.

Click on the Meet Logo to be taken to the web page.

You will need to enter the password - MissGRoom11 to enter the Meet.

You will find the Learn Create Share Slides for the week here and on our Class Site.

Remember to read each slide carefully and look for the buttons to click for more instructions.

Packaging & Labels

This Term we are doing an online Craft Market. We are so excited and looking forward to deciding what product we will make and sell. So part of our learning this week was around Packaging. We learnt about what important information goes into labels on packages. We created front and back labels for our product - Popcorn! The pictures represent what we created in groups. This was our first attempt and know that we are still developing our understanding. I wonder if you can identify some of the important things to have on product labels. Do you like the choice of packaging?

Soccer Taster - Room 11

Room 11 had a soccer taster session with Sports Footy Kids. They will run 5 weekly sessions from Monday 10th August at lunchtimes. Cost is $59 per child, $29 per sibling. Room 11 were pretty cool and between the 4 teams, scored 8 goals!

The children will come home with a notice if they are interested in having soccer sessions at lunchtime. Or you can find the providers here m-sports-footykids.org.nz

Tuakana Teina - Making Matariki Stars with Room 15

Tuakana Teina - Papakura Haka

Room 11 went to the seniors today to have a lesson on how to do the Papakura Haka.

Yesterday we prepared for the lesson by seeing a recording of Cruze and TJ doing the Papakura Haka. The students got into groups of 4 to learn either the lyrics or the actions.

Today was a great way to get together to learn and practice.

The BFG

We have been listening to The BFG by Roald Dahl being read aloud, mostly after lunch while drinking Milk in Schools' milk.

The students were on the edge of their seats as the Queen of England met Sophie on the windowsill after having just dreamt about meeting a girl sitting on the windowsill.

As a class we have been talking about dream jars, and mixing two dreams together, like the BFG did.

Today we looked at the other meaning of 'dream' - a personal dream - a goal. The students drafted their personal dreams on paper and then some students opted to digitise them. Others opted to decorate their dream jars with crayons, colours and glitter.

Check out the digital dream jars from the class.

SPOTLIGHT on Aiden

Aiden is a Year 3. Here is a spotlight on his response to designing an amusement park.  Wow, well done Aiden.

Collaborative Maths - First week back

As a class we are doing collaborative maths in small groups. The children are given a problem and then in groups of 3 or 4, they pool ideas and knowledge in how to solve it.  The students are given roles like 'recorder, reporter and keeper-on-tracker'.

We 'warm-up' our maths brains first with a dot-talk. This particular dot talk is designed for multiplicative thinking answers as there are too many dots to count one-to-one.

Here are some photos of this week's collaborations. We are taking extra time to thoroughly wash our hands and sanitise frequently, also we are ensuring that we are not in each other's 'breath zone'.

Welcome Back to School

Welcome back to school! It has been great to see so many shiny, happy student faces at school.  We miss the students who are staying at home.

A gentle reminders that parents are not allowed on the school campus to drop off or collect students at their classrooms unless the parents sign in at the office - this is for contact tracing purposes during Level 2. 

Make sure the students and parents know which gate they are meeting at, when the school bell goes at the end of the day.

Lots of sanitising is going on and healthy hand washing.

Lots of art and music going on at school this week to help us all settle back into our school routine.

Recycling - Distance Learning

Disney - Distance Learning

Comic Books - Distance Learning

Electricity - Distance Learning

SPOTLIGHT on Book Reviews

Today's first SPOTLIGHT is on Jelsy, a year 3 student in Room 11. She has done an awesome book review on her favourite book.

Today's second SPOTLIGHT is on Saadhi, also a year 3 and she is recommending a chapter book from Olivia's Secret Scribbles range.

I have so enjoyed finding out all the students' favourite books from today's distance learning lesson.

Book Review - Distance Learning

Creepy Crawly - Distance Learning

Mother's Day - Distance Learning

Spoil that special person in your life with these Mother's Day activities - don't forget aunties, older sisters, Nannas!

Spotlight on Kenzo

Kenzo responded to the questions about Kelly Tarlton's. Penguins are cool Kenzo, no doubt about it!

The Deep - Dive into the Ocean of Learning

Today's distance learning is all about the animals in the oceans.

Spotlight on Saadhi

Saadhi wrote a flash-fiction piece on the characters you'd find if you were exploring the science of light... Here is her writing.

Story of UV and IF

Ones upon time  there was UV and IF.
They didn't know each other.
One day, the IF was in a rush  to go to work.
But IF crashed into UV then IF got a little shock, because UV was a girl and she was beautiful. 
They both climbed to the top of the roof to see nature.
They fell into a solar panel on the roof top and created a cell, which then electrified
and produced electricity! This electricity was then used for lighting bulbs, TV, Fridge Etc.

And they all lived happily ever after.

By Saadhi

Room 11 Distance Learning Student

Light - Distance Learning

Space - May the Force Be With You!

Hello to another week of distance learning!

Today is May 4th. And if you are a Star Wars fan you know the saying 'may the force be with you' or 'May the 4th be with you'.

Enjoy!

Farming

Kia ora, today's distance learning is about Farming. My late great-grandfather was a dairy farmer in Yorkshire in England. I am very fond of dairy products, like butter, milk and cheese. I wonder what you think about farming?



Funnily enough, FlipGrid gave me a badge as a FlipGrid Farmer - for having made 25+ grids and "cultivating fields of opportunity for our community to share their voice" and here is the badge.

Class Badges for Awesomeness at Distance Learning

We have been distance learning now for a couple of weeks and I wanted to say "WOW".  Students in Room 11 have amazed me with their ability to do the learning either independently or with family and whanau help. I am IMPRESSED how we have all adapted and been flexible.

As a class we have been doing so many FlipGrid responses that I got a teacher award as a Certified FlipGrid Educator!

As distance learners, the children have been reading books on Epic like crazy, so much that as a class we got a new milestone on our Readerpillar.

All About Pets

Today's distance learning is All About Pets. I can't wait to find out all about your pets!

Distance Learning - Diversity

Welcome to Distance Learning in Room 11. 

Today's topic is Diversity - going around the world.

SPOTLIGHT on Kenzo

For each distance learning activity I am so pleased to be able to SPOTLIGHT a year 3 learner.  Today's activity was Patterns and Sequencing and here is Kenzo's google drawing of the 10th and 20th pattern.  Ka pai Kenzo!

Distance Learning - Patterns and Sequencing

Today's topic is Patterns and Sequencing. It is going to be a good day!

Spotlight on ANZAC Day Activities

Here is a few of the activities from Anzac Day distance learning. 

Distance Learning - Day 8 - Walking with an ANZAC

Welcome to Distance Learning in Room 11 on Day 8. 

Today's topic is Walking with an ANZAC. There are two versions of this. Also available is a third, simpler version on the Class Site.

Distance Learning - Day 7 - Maori

Welcome to Day 7 of Distance Learning in Room 11. Today's topic is Maori.

Distance Learning - Day 6 - Chocolate

Welcome to Day 6 of Distance Learning in Room 11!

Today's topic is CHOCOLATE!

SPOTLIGHT on Jot!

Today's distance learning was all about dinosaur skeletons vs human skeletons. Jot, a year 3 student, shared 5 amazing facts about the human skeleton on FlipGrid.

"Skeletons hold up your body. Skeletons protect your organs like hearts and lungs. The smallest bone is in your ear. Here's the interesting part, humans have 206 bones in their body, did you know that?  Your bones are alive!"

Distance Learning - Day 5 - Skeletons, what are they good for?

Welcome to Day 5 of Distance Learning in Room 11! 

The topic today is Skeletons: specifically DINOSAUR vs HUMAN. 

SPOTLIGHT on Elijah!

Elijah is a year 3 student in Room 11. He has been responding to activities on FlipGrid. My favourite response of his was his fitness routine. He did five sets of the staircase up and down, 5 push-ups and finished with 5 star jumps. Here is a snip of his FlipGrid for Get Moving.  Ka pai Elijah!

SPOTLIGHT on Kenzo!

Kenzo is a Year 3 student in Room 11 - here he is answering questions about why we should keep fit and active. Well done Kenzo!

Distance Learning - Day 4 - Get Moving!

Welcome to Day 4 of Distance Learning in Room 11: Get Moving!

Distance Learning - Day 3 - Kindness

Welcome to Day 3 of Distance Learning in Room 11. Kindness.

SPOTLIGHT on Danielle!

Part of our Robot responses today are on FlipGrid and these are not shareable unless you are in our class.

I wanted to SPOTLIGHT Danielle's FlipGrid response to the News article about Robots in Classrooms.  See how she typed the questions into her screen as she responded?  When Danielle replied to the questions, I could see which question she was answering. Well done Danielle!

SPOTLIGHT on Amber!

Each day I will spotlight a year 3 student's work on our class blog. Today the spotlight is on Amber! Here is her robot drawing where she opened a Google Drawing and inserted two photos and closely aligned them.  I just love the expression on its face! Well done Amber.

Distance Learning - Day 2 - Robots

Day 2 - Robots

Remember, look and learn through the readings, watch the videos and then follow the instructions for the activities. I can't wait to see your robots! 

SPOTLIGHT on Saadhi!

Each day there will be a SPOTLIGHT on a year 3 student showing off their distance learning work.

Today the spotlight is on Saadhi.  Here are her questions and answers about the architecture of a city and on Iggy Peck, Architect. Well done Saadhi!

Distance Learning - Day 1 - STEAM

Welcome! 

This is the first day of Distance Learning after the holidays. I hope you are all well.  Here is the first day of learning.

The slides have lots of things to learn about, lots of activities to make and create and if you are a Year 4, the expectation is to blog about the learning.  Year 3s need to save a copy of the slides in their Reading Folder.

I will be checking in with you throughout the school day.   Each day there will be a new slideshow, with new learning! Exciting!

Day One - STEAM

Distance Learning starts tomorrow!

Room 11 starts distance learning tomorrow! 

There is a Google Hangout link on the Class Site Home Page. Come by and have a quick look at the learning and then at 9.30am join the Hangout. 

We will catch up, learn how to mute our microphones and use our thumbs like we already know how!

It will be awesome to see the students tomorrow.  

Remember, any time we are all learning something new can feel chaotic at first. But I reckon we've got this.