Book Week & Halloween

The first week of our Book Theme is done, and here are screenshots from the work we did. 

Also, did you notice some monster around the place? Well, it was for our Middle School Monster Hunt this week. I hope you found them all, if not here are some hints. 

Rhyming Challenge

 Today in our Google Meet we worked together to complete one of the reading challenges. We made lists of the words that rhyme with Bright, Ball and Send. We thought of 15 words, but some other students went away and thought of even more words. How many can you get?

  Braydon                                Ihaka

 

Dylan                                 Emma

Harry                                  Shriya

Our New Challenge

For the last two weeks room 2 has been doing a 'Guess how many' challenge. Every day we had to guess how many items there were in a jar, and we had some great answers, check them out. 

We now have a new daily challenge, called Would you Rather. Everyday students need to decide which option they would prefer and give a great reason why. 

Fathers Day Competition

Check out all the amazing entries we had in the Fathers Day Competition. I wonder who will win? Find out on Wednesday.

Week 7 Challenges - Distance Learning

These are the photos from our daily challenges for the last couple of days. There's our DIY Tic, Tac, Toe Games, Paper Sculptures and Face Shadows. 

Curious Kea Scavenger Hunt - Distance Learning

Today our students did a curious kea scavenger hunt. Students had to act like a kea an find items that a kea would: 5 green items, 5 things that roll, 5 oddly shaped sticks. Look at the slide deck to find out what students found. 

Fantastic Friday - Distance Learning

This week was great, and lots of work got done. Todays challenge was for students to spell out their name with pictures using this key.  

Here are the ones our class made. 

Tremendous Thursday - Distance Learning

Here was our challenge for today - Pick a category, like food or animals then try to name something in that category for every letter of the alphabet. 

Alleyena

  

April

Dylan

Hayleigh

Jess

Kenzo

Sirat

Tayla

Taylor 

The Week that Was

There was so much creativity in week seven. students produced so many amazing digital learning objects. Have a look...

READING

This week JJ, Harry and Kenzo worked together and learnt how to create digital posters on Canva, has a look at their summary by clicking the link here. 

For Reading, Jot created an animation to summarise a video he watched. 

MATHS

Click here for the link to Kenzo's Canva Poster about Polygons.

April (left) and Evelyna (right), were working on their place value skills this week, they worked very hard. The following are a screenshot of one of their activities. 

Here is Taylor's place Value work from this week.

   

Hayleigh worked on identifying shapes from their features, here is her work.

 

WRITING

For writing, students were tasked with creating a piece of writing which involved an airplane. Students interpreted this prompt in many different ways.

 When planes take off They goes really fast .  And when you get high Your ears pop because you're very high. And the  lollies are best. In the plane people walking past gives you lollys so your ears don't pop And if they're nice they will give you more lolls  And the lollies are really nice.  And you can  lolly for a long time.  Then the speakers will going on because these turbulence When turbulence happens you have to sit in your seat .

By Dylan

Once there was a Blake family.They were a perfect family you could ever imagine.There were 4 people in the family,Marge the mom,Tom the dad,grace the daughter and Will the son.One day Marge and Tom arranged a family vacation during the Googlel times.After Marge and Tom figured out where to go for vacation they ringed the school the Grace and Will will be away for a little while on vacation.The next day it was normal except while Grace and Will were at school the mom and dad packed their bags.In the early morning they woke up the kids and said “Were going to Hawaii.Mind you they live in Australia It was going to be a long journey.They all went to the airport and got boarded on their flight on the plane to go to hawaii.while they were on the plane they all so bored so they all decided to play a game.After some time the flight attendant came down with the food tray and handed out some food to everyone on the flight.Just as the mom was eating she felt goosebumps down her spines it felt like to her that something was happening at home but she just brushed off the feelings.Later on the mom just remembered why she felt goosebumps she left the gate open.She started panicking in her head what if she got robbed?After a little while they all went to bed because they were all tired and needed sleep.After everyone woke up they saw it was morning day1 completed so they thought...Just then they heard a big bang what was they thought everyone started panicking running around yelling crying and even more the only people that didn't panik was the flight crew.One of the flight attendants came running out and yelled “It was just the engine it was playing up a little.Everyone froze and went back to their seats and calmed down.Wow the mom  thought am i unlucky  .But are they unlucky?After a little while (again🙄)the plane finally landed and]they got out of the plane that was a relief the mom thought to herself.just when they got to the line the line was long as ever just as long as a giraffe's neck.She and her kids and the dad felt exhausted and hot they just wanted to leave and go to the hotel room that they are staying at.”Yes!” The mom said she finally made it to the front of the line with her family.After checking out the bags they went and got a taxi to their hotel.When they arrived they got inside of the hotel and asked for the keys to their hotel room.Everyone saw the hotel room it was beautiful everyone thought.Everyone had a fun time and had a shower then got changed and went to bed.Grace was the first up she was so happy she got up and got ready.

By Alleyena

TE REO

For our te reo lesson this week students focused on 'feelings'. Their task was to create a digital learning object which shows a conversation between people about how they feel.

Here is Kenzo's animation.

And this is Hayleigh's animation

STELLAR SUPERSTARS CHALLENGE

In Room 2 when a student finishes their task for the week they complete the weeks stellar superstars challenge. This week to go with our geometry maths focus, students flipped rotation, reflected, enlarged, reduced or translated shapes in order to build various objects.

These are Braydon's (left) and Ihaka's (right) favourite animals

Harry and Tayla used the online shapes tool to build their names.

Shriya challenged herself to build something out of exactly 22 shapes. 

Terrific Tessellations

When students in Room 2 finish their work early they work on a task we call the 'Stellar Superstars Challenge'. The challenge last week was to learn about M.C. Escher's Tessellations. Then they had to create their own. Here are some of the digital tessellations students created. 

Ihaka (left) and JJ (right) worked together to create these tessellations with fish designs

Tayla (left) and Shriya (right) worked together to create these rainbow tessellations using arrows. 

Sirat (left) tried making a few different designs. And Harry (right) made this large tessellation, can you figure out what shape he used?