Week 9 - Exercise and Sport Blog Ponder

 This week, some of our classes are focusing on sport, fitness and exercise for our T-shaped literacy.  We will be reading stories are about these topics. We will use the ideas we read about to help us with our descriptive writing.  We would love to get some of your ideas and thoughts about exercise because this will help us out too.  Could you respond to our blog ponder by adding your positive, thoughtful and helpful ideas in the comment section below? We would really appreciate it.

Thanks for reading, blog you later!

Fantastic Family Fun Day

Family Fun Day, yay hey! 

On Friday March 19th we had our Family Fun Day at Waikōwhai Primary. It was a free day with lots of different activities for us and our families. We had to wear the colours of our houses. There was a wheels zone, our school pool, bouncy castles and a water slide. One of the bouncy castles was an obstacle course where we got to race our friends and run, climb and crawl through tunnels, rock walls and slides. At lunchtime we had sausages and ice blocks, as well as lots of different treats made by our families. 

Each of us in Mokoroa enjoyed different parts of the day and we loved the chance to try out all the different activities. Check out some of the photos from our day!

Thank you for reading our blog, we can't wait for next year!

Writing - Poetry Language Features

We are learning to identify how authors use language features to make their writing exciting for their readers.  

We used this poem from the School Journal to learn about types of words (nouns, verbs and adjectives)  and investigate descriptive language.

Then our writing challenge was to use this poem to write our own 5 sentence poem using two or three of the language features we discovered. Kaiwhare wrote poems about the sea and Mokoroa wrote poems about the sun.

Here is the start of the class poem we crafted together in Kaiwhare.

Have a look at the amazing poems we wrote:

Reading and Summarising - How we keep safe in water

 Last week, we read stories about being safe around water as our Reading theme.  Our challenge was to find the main ideas in the stories we read to see if we could learn new ideas about how we can be safe around water or what we should do to be safe around water.  

We analysed and summarised ideas with our reading groups.  To do this we read and talked about

• the good things the characters in our stories did. 
• the not so safe things that they did.
• what we thought about the actions of the characters in the story. 

To show our thinking, we had the chance to use our new digital skills to make a poster to show some different ways that we can be safe around water using our new understanding.  Have a look at some of our DLO (digital learning objects) below.

We would appreciate some positive, thoughtful and helpful feedback about what we have created. Thanks for reading!

Netball Skills

This term we have been learning skills to help us improve at netball.

Over the past few weeks we have learnt about...

•  passing (chest passes, bounce passes and high passes)

• pivoting on one foot, running and stopping

• and dodging

We are looking forward to see what is in store for us during the rest of the sessions with our two coaches.

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu - Introductions

 Kia Ora Bloggers, 

This term we have joined a new Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu blog group. This is where we connect to other classes who work digitally like us around the country. We make connections by commenting on class blogs and later individual blogs. We are looking forward to investigating these class blogs in class.  It is super exciting because it means we will have more people to comment on and share our learning and creations with.   It is important that we are positive, thoughtful and helpful when we work online.

 You will find the links to Kaiwhare and Mokoroa's buddy classes in a list on the right of the page. We will take turns commenting on each class blog.

As a start we have shared some google drawings of ourselves, some share what we like, others are developing skills so just show our names.  We had to be Cybersmart when we created these too.  There is one for Kaiwhare class and one for Mokoroa class.  Have a look at what we like and see if you have any connections to us.  If you do, please leave a comment,  we love comments and feedback!

 

Week 5 - Learning through Lockdown

 This week we have returned to Level 3 lockdown.  This means that we have been carrying on our learning at home. For many of us, this is the first time that we have had our Chromebooks at home with us and we have been using our class site to access lots of learning.

During the day, we come together at 1:30 for a class meeting.  It has been great to connect with each other from afar.  Here are some of the learning highlights from our class meetings.

Our big focus for the year is Taha Tinana (Physical Wellbeing).  On Monday, we all contributed to a class discussion by sharing our favourite sports.  Then, on Tuesday, we grouped our pictures together to make some statements about what we noticed from the data we gathered.  What do you notice?

On Monday we played a word game together.  Our challenge was to see how many words we could build using the letters in the word wellbeing. Mr Riceman challenged Kaiwhare class to come up with at least 10 words as a team.  A list of the words we made is below. Could you add any more?

• we
• well
• big
• will
• win
• being
• web
• in
• line
• wing
• I'll
• be
• new
• bell
• being

On Wednesday, we had been working on using interesting words in our writing.  We used the chat in google meet to share different verbs we could think of.  Mr Riceman then grouped all of the verbs and turned them into the running word cloud you can see below. Our challenge is to use these interesting words whenever we write.

What learning have you been doing while away from school?  We would love to hear your positive, thoughtful and helpful comments.