Lockdown Acrostic Poem

During week 1 of the lockdown, room 6 wrote an acrostic poem about being in Lockdown to share what we are going through.

First, we made sure we understood what an acrostic poem is. Most of us knew what an acrostic poem was, we just didn’t know what it was called.

We started a new google drawing and wrote the name Lockdown going downwards using WordArt.

Next, we inserted text boxes to write the information for our poem.

After that, some of us added images that suited the topic, and some of us made changes to our fonts and formatting.

We found it easy to write a sentence that started with the letter in the acrostic.

We found it hard to think of relevant adjectives for my poem.

We really enjoyed making connections to my personal life and how I am experiencing being in lockdown.

Next time we need to try adding adjectives and verbs in my writing to make it more interesting for my reader.

Chris' poem.

Our Term 2 Assembly

 

Week 4 of term 2 was room 6's turn to run the school assembly.

We showcased some of the work we have been doing for Te Reo Maori and Cybersmart.

Tamariki took turns presenting their work and did really well with speaking with confident clear voices so they could be heard.

We also said goodbye to Whaea Lee. She finished working to go on maternity leave. We will miss her but we know she will come and visit us. 

We now have Whaea Leah as a Teacher Aid in our room.

Classroom Countdown

This week for maths we have been working on our problem-solving skills based on the game Countdown.

We have done this before, and are revisiting it as we find we are also practicing our communication skills at the same time. Our goal was to try using different, or varying operations. 

To start off we are given a target number. The teacher writes the number on the board, then writes up 6 "card" numbers. The card numbers are the numbers we can use to try and get to our target number. The rules state that you can only use the card number one time. If you can reach the target using less than 6 cards that's ok too. It is ok if we can't get the target, but we just need to try and get as close to the target as possible.

Exploring our Awa with Whitebait Connection

Yesterday we went on a field trip to Te Maata stream, one of our local rivers. We went to explore the river and to see whether it was healthy or not. We tested the water PH level, water clarity, temperature, and found lots of different invertebrates. The majority of invertebrates we found were Mayflies. All of these indicated that our river is healthy! Thank you to Matua Ray from Whitebait Connection for showing us how to do this type of testing and teaching us about our awa.

Sharing our mahi live on Facebook

 

This week we have been working hard on our presentations for our Whanau Matariki Art Trail (happening in week 10). We have been making inforgraphics to show what we have learned. Some of our students were chosen to share their awesome mahi with Miss Simeon. When they went to show her, she decided to share some more by broadcasting on Facebook Live. 

I Am Water

We are learning to locate language features and to understand the purpose of different texts. We read a poem called I Am Water. We talked together as a class about the poem and we created a glossary to help us with the words we didn't know. Next, we glued the poem into our literacy book and we looked for different language features. Most of the language features we found were verbs and nouns. Then we highlighted what we found to show we knew what language features there were.
We found it easy to locate nouns in the poem.
We found it hard to understand some of the words in the poem so using the glossary was helpful.
We really enjoyed reading the interesting verbs used because they inspired us to write better.
Next time we need to practice using some of the new vocabulary we have learned in our conversations and our own writing.

                     

 

Lego Spike Prime

On Fridays, for Technology, we do Lego Spike Prime. 

This week we made some creations and presented them at assembly. We had to think about what we would make, collaborate within our group, and reflect on our learning.

We are building our collaboration skills and realising who we work well with. We are also developing our resilience and problem-solving skills.