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.