Maori Language Week

Whole of this week we had Maori Language Week.
The whole class was super excited to do slides either in pairs or on their own.
Below are some of the slides we did.


By: Eloida and Mokoia By: Sunita and Estalina By: Cassia By: Te Wai and Pippa

Tongan Language Week (2/9/2019 - 6/9/2019)

This week we are recognising Tongan Language Week at school.
So today Mrs Tuakoi - a Tongan teacher came to our class and taught us few Tongan words, alphabets and numbers. You can see below in the pictures some of the words we learnt today.

Good Bye

On 24th of August it was Ilm's last day at school. He is flying off to Australia on Friday night. The reason why he is going to Australia is because his father works there for quite sometime now. He will be starting a new school there as well.

Ilm loved dancing, creating good jokes, he was very funny and everybody loved him. Though he was a Year 2 but he adjusted really well with Year 3/4. 

We want to wish him all the very best for his future ahead especially with new school and his learning. 

Farm Animals - Habitat

Farm Animals is a very interesting Inquiry topic this term. We all love farm animals. We have been learning lots of different things about farm animals such as their babies, how different each farm animals look like, sounds different farm animals make and so on. This week particularly we are looking at their habitats and for that one of the activities we had to do was to create our own group farm animals habitat. For that we were divided into 3 groups. We then were given some plastic farm animals and were asked to make habitats for the animals. Watch the video and see our group creation. We had loads of fun doing this activity.

Happy Birthday Ms Lammas

It was Ms Lammas's Birthday today. We got in groups of 3-4 people and made her a birthday card each using Google Drawing. Just because we worked as a team by sharing our work we were able to finish doing the cards super fast. Our teacher printed the cards and then we invited Ms Lammas into our class for 10-15 minutes. She was very kind and accepted our invitation to come to our class. She was not sure what's happening. Wwe made her sit in front and we all sang her a Happy Birthday song. She got very emotional and had tears in her eyes. We also had some questioning and answering time with her as well. 

We discovered that she has been with our school for 19 years. 

These are the cards we made for Ms Lammas.

Farm Animals

This term our Inquiry topic is Farm Animals.

One of the tasks we had to do was to use Google Drawing and publish a Farm Animal Book Cover So basically we were in the shoes of an Illustrator. We saw some example and produced our own illustrations. We felt proud of using Remove Background from Image and then inserting the pictures of animals too.

Below are Room 8's final piece of work.

Big day for Rolex

Rolex is our new class member. He joined us in the last week of Term 2. He comes from a school in Manurewa. Just last week Rolex has received his pair of glasses and his hearing aide from the nurse. He was bit reluctant to wear his glasses and hearing aide but today with the help and encouragement of some of the class students he successfully can put it on all by himself and felt proud of it.

Chromebook Art by Andy

We learnt how to use shapes in Google Draw to create a Chromebook.

Keyboard Ninja by Ahou

We have been learning keyboard shortcuts. I used Google Draw to create my poster. I used the webcam to take my photo.

Storyboard

For our reading, one of the activities was for us to do a storyboard by going on https://www.storyboardthat.com/

Below are some of the learners storyboard. It was their first attempt.

By: Ilm

By: Alefaio

By: Eloida

Google Maps

Google Maps - fun to explore. helps us to find lots of places. Please have a go at Google Maps and lets see if you can find your house.

Matariki Celebration

What a full on day we had on the 27th of June.
Below is the snapshot of our Matariki Celebration Day.