Sharing our learning with others

 Today was a first of........Room 2 during our writing block decided we were going to get better at sharing the cool learning happening in our class through 'BLOGGING'.  Wow - I have spent a minute or many commenting on my awesome students blogs posted today. Super impressed that most of the blogs were around the maths concepts we have been learning about in class and the strategies they used to solve them.  One of the concepts we plugged in was: Converting fractions to decimals, mixed fractions to improper fractions, decimals to fractions and many more.  Our next plug in will be percentages and integers.  Super proud that everyone in Room 2 are having fun while learning maths and they are enjoying the challenges.  Very proud to share a few of the blogs from Room 2 students today:   

PE poolside action

 Room 2 in action spec 4 today poolside - Team building activity before kicking into a refresher on the 'torpedo position and glide' 😀 using their legs to kick only while they glide across the pool to the other side.  Good practise and some of our students had great technique (all the lessons with Mr Ball paid off).  While the hype was still fresh - Room 2 under very close supervision 👀 decided to create a class memory in slow-motion getting some bombing practise in 😏.  Highlights this session was Jonathan hyping his peers up in the pool playing volleyball 'come on guys lets get it', followed by Javarn 'Team work makes the dream work'.  Blessed to have such an awesome class 👍

            

Ice-Ball Experiment

 Check out the cool learning happening in our Careers in STEM class this week - 'Ice-Ball'  (click here)

Learning objective 'Gather and interpret data' Check out some of the fun we had in our Science Lab yesterday finished off with a ice-ball smash in slow-motion. What I enjoyed was the engagement happening through the conversations my students were having 'look at the cracks after I added the iodine' 'look at the food coloring spreading all over the ice-ball'. Great hands on activity 👌

                                               

Lockdown hits Week 5

 

Deja Vu has returned 'COVID19' has struck once again and again and again taking us into a 7 day lockdown at level 3 😒 Despite this interruption to the start of our year, teachers kicked into gear to get their Distant Learning plans set and ready for their students.  

Shout out to our students for their resilience and continuing to learn at home with the resources available to them.  Google hangouts have been happening across the 6 classes over the last few days and our last hangout (maybe) will be tomorrow at 9.30am, so hopefully we get a few more Room 2 students tapping into to say hi 😄 Here are some pics of google hangouts in action:

 

Mid Term kicking in

We have safely arrived to week 3 & 4 and we are starting to settle in to our class routines and expectations.  Our class treaty created by using the 3 P's of the Treaty of Waitangi as a platform 'Participation' 'Partnership' 'Protection'  The expectations under each heading was the ideas formed by our class 👍😎 Testing hit is all at once this week with e-asTTle Maths, REading, Writing, NZCER, Basic facts,  and Spelling and we were very lucky that most of our class returned from a 3 day lockdown in Week 2 so most of our class were able to test.

Tried this visual activity using mini whiteboards/markers with our class - I gave the instructions to the class they had to draw what I was telling them (we may need to do this activity again things didn't match up 😉😉😉 on their whiteboards with my task sheet)

              

Super proud of the year 7's in our class stepping up each morning to run fitness - shout out to Enson and Jonathan who have consistently put their hands up to run fitness alongside our year 8's 💪 Lots of fun during fitness in the mornings and even better when the teacher joins in 😆 (teacher goal: jog 2 laps around the court hehehehehehehehe) so far 1 lap and 3/4's 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Here is some pics of what our Room 2 saints got up too:

Bring it Week 2

Yes - we made it to week 2 and it's swimming week 👏😎😌 with the weather being so humid in and out of class the thought if a nice dip in the school pool was just music to our ears 👌Massive 'big ups' to Mr Ball for working tirelessly to get the pool up and running for our students to use and enjoy.  

99% of our class did an awesome job in remembering their swimming gear 👍 and each session they returned back with positive comments. We were lucky enough to combine swimming sessions with Room 1 which gave our class an opportunity to interact with students from other classes.  Not to mention the pool is the highlight in Term 1 as it is the main 'house reward' at lunch times and sometimes our school teams get a chance to jump in after their training sessions (afterschool) 😀 Few pics of Rm 1 & 2 enjoying the pool..

Nearly forgot to mention - Auckland went into Level 3 lockdown for 3 days 😒 but thankfully when school reopened most of Room 2 came back 💕

All about us - Room 2 Week 1

 So far so good we have started off the week with getting to know each other through games and interactive activities (sneakily threw in some maths 😉 'statistics) It was great to see the instant comraderie between our returning students and year 7's.  The whole focus for this week was to build a strong team unit (while I was observing closely the different personalities).  Thank you Mrs Thomas for supporting our new students this week and participating in our class 'antics'.  Highlight would have to be how well everyone communicated with each other when voices were not allowed to be used during a team game - super impressed at how our year 8's stepped up and took the lead to giving clear and specific silent whispering directions (Tuku) 😂😂 Few photos of our first week of school - already getting good vibes about our class 💛 (all sorts of data collected today - the teacher is the tallest in the class 👀)

Welcoming in 2021

Whakatau presentation this morning for our new year 7's and their whanau created a really nice introduction to our school 👌 It was really cool to see our new senior students and our brand new year 7's looking smart in their new school uniforms 💖 Here is some pics of our whakatau, Mr Davis (Principal) addressing school and new students eagerly waiting to see which awesome class they will be in for 2021 😎 Watch this space for how Week 1 went.