Matariki 2020

Our Matariki Celebration day today was really lovely. Mrs Sio and I had crafts, Kai and planting. We made Matariki star using cellophane and black paper, and we made a mural with the cellophane on Ms Tumahai's window. Mrs Sio planted silverbeet in the garden. Thanks to Mr Shaw for showing us how to plant using a dibber we used the scissors. The students were really amazing and got on well with each other. To end the day we had Nutella sandwiches. 

Kia mau tonu te tūmanako

Our PENN Movie this term is about Never losing hope. We discussed the meaning of Hope.

This is what the students said: 

it's how you feel, sometimes it's sad, never give up, when something happens to you, a wish, Love, Aroha, help, being kind, talking, forgive. 

Two days before Lockdown we filmed parts of the movie and given the situation the country is in now, I thought this was appropriate for this time.    

        This is our hope tree we made leaves and wrote our feelings on them. We will continue to add more leaves throughout the year.

   

What have you been up to?

I am very proud of all the students in Room 23 you have all worked so hard during Lockdown. Please take some time to check out the student's blogs and please comment. 

Nate has been doing his online learning and cooking, well done Nate.

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Alex did some art during Bubble school

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Anne Marie wrote this story about ANZAC.

My Anzac long weekend with my family, Me and my little brother was drawing a vivid red flower as a remembrance of Anzac day. The next day I went with my family to our church car park to ride our bike and scooters. The final day of Anzac I went with my family for a walk at the Panmure Basin and it was fun.

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Eve has been learning about Landforms

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Google Hangout.

After Easter, we stared our Google Hangouts with our teachers. It was really exciting seeing our teachers and friends. We talked about how we are feeling and what we have been up to at home during the lockdown. We are learning GM4GM, which means having Good Manners for Google meets. We need to stay on the screen during the meetings. We need to indicate by putting our thumbs up or putting our hand up when we want to talk and one of the teachers will say your name and only that person talks. We do this by unmuting the microphone and when we have finished talking we need to mute the microphone to allow others to talk and be heard. Our meeting times are at 11.30 every morning and we need to be on time. If we are late and the meeting has started we just wave to let the teachers know we are here and sorry for being late. 

Holiday Learning

Our second week became the first week of our school holidays. This meant finding ways the students could still be learning, but just in a fun, relaxed, no-pressure way, that would help keep the students interested in learning online. So our wonderful teachers came up with this Holiday Learning Journey
check the link to find out what the students had to do.
https://sites.google.com/ptengland.school.nz/theblockyear342020/online-class
All the student did very well and these are the top prize winners. Well done everyone we are so proud of you all. 

 

All of our students got Participant awards.

Our Learning Online.

Our online learning looks like this. First, there's an introduction from one of our teachers. They tell us what the date is and remind us how and where to access the days' activities. We have our writing and maths books at home and this is where we write. Each learning area has a video of one of the teachers giving us instructions of what we have to do. When we can and if we are able we can post or finished work on our blogs. When we post our work on our blogs the teachers will leave a comment, it is polite to thank the people commenting on your blog. 

Level 4 Lockdown No School learning.

Wednesday the 25th March our Government announced the whole of New Zealand will go into Level 4 Lockdown for a period of 4 weeks. This is because of the Corona Virus Covid 19 which is affecting the whole world at the moment. All the schools are closing and all the students will be learning at home with whanau. Our teachers and support staff worked hard to make sure we had learning packs. Some students got to take chrome books home. All the Block teachers dropped our learning packs to our homes. Ms Tumahai dropped my pack last because her house is not far from mine.