Thursday, 25 February 2021
Having the Prime Minister for Lunch
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
Cybersmart Challenge: Kawa of Care by Kiarah
This week Kiarah completed the Kawa of Care Challenge. Check out her creation below :
Tuesday, 16 February 2021
I am ready for learning! - Finau
This week Auckland has gone back into level 3. This means that most of our students are staying home and learning online through our class sites and google meets. As one of our activities today, we have been completing this weeks Cybersmart Challenge made by Mr Goodwin. Check out Finau's top tips for online learning above.
Tuesday, 9 February 2021
Welcome to Room 4 Maths
Today we met our maths class for the first time. It was really good to start setting up our maths class norms. We completed a few maths challenges to get to know our groups and to establish our norms.
From these activities we realised that to be an effective maths class we need:
To communicate effectively by sharing our ideas and listening carefully
To have resilience: to persevere through challenging tasks and to have patience with others when they need support
To show respect to others with the way we speak and act
To try our best so that we can succeed.
Saturday, 6 February 2021
Room 4 Literacy
Today we met our literacy class for the first time. Our main activity was to write a letter to introduce ourselves and then we went on to complete some activities to meet our reading groups.
We completed a range of activities that required us to work well as a team. We started with a listening game before moving on to a puzzle and a cup stacking challenge. Finally we created a piece of collaborative art.
Friday, 5 February 2021
Marshmallow Challenge Recount - Nadia
Room 4 have been continuing to develop our class norms. Check out this team building activity recounted by Nadia:
During the first period of school today, we did a challenge in class, the marshmallow challenge. The marshmallow challenge is where you’re given spaghetti sticks, tape, a roll of string, and a marshmallow. With those items you have to make a tower with the marshmallow sitting at the top, the group with the tallest tower wins.
We were split into small groups, I was with Aye, Jane, and Tsai. We had 20 minutes. 2 to plan a strategy, and 18 minutes to build the tower.
We had no plan except to go with the flow. Tsai decided to cut up multiple strips of tape for us while me and Aye placed the spaghetti sticks randomly to form some sort of structure. The time was running out and we still had no idea what we were doing.
Even though we started without a plan we still worked together placing pieces of tape over each other, over lapping it. We kept placing the marshmallow on the top every now and then seeing if what we made was strong enough. Jane was the one who gave us the idea of adding more tape in specific areas to help it stay stable. In the end our teamwork and random ideas were what helped us win the challenge with our tower standing at around 60cm tall. Not only that but our way of prototyping helped us figure out.
Wednesday, 3 February 2021
First Day of School!
Today was our first day back at Pt England! After getting in to our classes we started to work on our class norms and treaty.
We started by playing a game where we had to pass a hoop around in a group, half and as a whole class. Then we reflected on the skills we needed to collaborate successfully.
Next we moved outside for two challenges: the floor is lava and flip the tarp. We had some great examples of teamwork in both of these games. In the first round the year sevens won the tarp challenge (flipping a tarp while standing on top of it) then the teams drew.
After another debrief we moved onto our final game; half pipe golf. In this game the two teams had to get a golf ball from one side of the class to another using half pipes. It was a lot harder than it looked! The year eights won this time, but there was a group of year sevens who were determined to complete the challenge which was fantastic.