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. 

Writing

Today we are going to ice biscuits. First Ms Tumahai and Ms TA put the icing sugar into a bowl. Then water that was boiling hot, that's why Ms Tumahai poured the water into the bowl with icing sugar. Our favourite part was when we got to chose different colours for the icing. We had yellow, green, blue and red. We got a biscuit each and we got to ice our own biscuit. It was lots of fun.

We had to write a recount of what we did.

 First, we washed our hands and then Ms Tumahai gave us a biscuit on a paper towel.

Then we took it to the table to chose which colour we wanted to put on our biscuit. I chose red, that is my favourite colour. Next, I get the knife and put some red icing on it and spread it on my biscuit. Then we sat on the mat and eat it. We made another one but we eat it at morning tea we had to start writing.  

By Tatiana.

Science Experiment

Today we did a science experiment for writing. We were writing a recount so we had to follow exactly what to do so we could write in the order of when we did it and what happens. To do this we needed milk, dishwashing Liquid and different colour dye.
We also needed a white bowl, jug and a cotton bud.
First, we put milk in the bowl and then we put a drop of yellow, blue, red and green dye in the milk. We dipped our cotton bud into some dishwashing Liquid and then we very gently put the cotton bud into the centre of the bowl and waited. We watched the colours dance around the bowl it was very mesmerizing and beautiful. We later learned that the dishwashing liquid causes the fat and the water in the milk to separate and spread apart, the result was a movement of colours dancing.

   

The New Kids on the Block.

The block is made up of 5 classes, two are year 4 classes, which is a shared learning environment lead by Team leader Miss King alongside her is  Mrs Lordache the two of them are Rooms 19 & 20
Our block is 76 very enthusiastic, energetic lovely 7 and 8-year-old students. This is an Innovative Learning Environment. We have 4 teachers, Miss Scanlan, Mrs Carruthers, Ms Tumahai and Miss Szymanik. The team is made up of 3 home classes. Numeracy is collaborative across the spaces and literary can be done in the home classes. We are all very excited for the year ahead.

This week Duffy Certificates went out to Eve, Alivia, and Alexandra. They each
get to choose their very own new Duffy Book to keep.

Aliana, Ariyana and Angel also got Duffy Certificates. Elijah and Toran were our youngest triathlon competitors in this years Weet-bix triathlon. We are so proud of the boys for their participation and amazing attitude. Well done boys!