Exploring Recounts with Miss Donaldson

Room 5 are lucky to have Miss Donaldson with us throughout this year as she finishes her final practicum.  Today she worked with Motuihe group to explore what recounts looked like and why we write them.

Current Events: Yvette and Fine

Yvette and Fine worked together and used their collaborative discussion skills to help them make sense of the article they read. Their summary is shown above.

Aquatics in R5

Room 5 have swimming twice a week. We think learning to swim and stay safe in and near water is important as in New Zealand we are surrounded by water, and for most of us going to the beach is something we enjoy doing with our families.

Thinking groups:

Today the Maths thinking groups were challenged to draw on both their number knowledge and strategy knowledge to help them solve this number problem. I was amazed at the use of maths language used as my learners shared their strategies with each other.

John's First Day at Technology

Today I logged into Scratch. I took a tutorial and learnt a lot of things. This was a very cool experience doing it for the first time. I had a really good first time and it is really cool because I can do it again and again. Tech looks like fun.

First Day of Tech for Year 7/8

Jasmine thought the first day of Graphics was awesome because she learnt about a new website called 'Cool Text' that allows you to make eye catching headings. Dontalian thought Food Tech was lots of fun because we learnt how to make a healthy fruit salad. 

Congratulations Jasmine!

Congratulations Jasmine! A certificate for being a great friend and an important quality to have. Well done!

Kiwi Can 2015

Our Kiwi Can lessons this term are focussing around positive relationships and active listening, both skills that will help us make the most of our learning time. Today Miss Latoia and Mr M introduced us to positive communication by showing us how the tone of our voices can change the way people hear what we are saying. We used role plays to help us understand what positive communication looks like.

Congratulations Latham!

Congratulations Latham! A certificate for a great start to the year. Keep up the great work!

Taikehu shares his treasures

Taikehu has a special connection to this kiwiana. A connection that spans many years and generations.

Room 5's Class Treaty Collaboration:

We used our learning from exploring the PBS C.A.R.E Values and the Key Competencies to collaboratively create the guidelines that will help us shape our 2015 learning environment.

Building our Collaborative Classroom

Working collaboratively this year will help Room 5 learn with and from each other. To begin building this collaborative ethos the students worked in groups to experience and explore the key competencies of 'Thinking'; 'Relating to Others'; 'Using Language, Symbols and Text'; 'Managing Self' and 'Participating and Contributing'. 

The challenge: 

• To work together to decide the meaning and purpose of each competency and what this might look like in our classroom. 

We think the key competencies...

"... will improve our work and move it to the next level.  This is because we will have built confidence in our answers and will have learned key information from our friends."

Fine, San Tat, Dontalian, Saruja and Tim

 "... advise you to use them when working individually, in partners, or groups to produce different strategies in order to solve problems."

Yvette, Raymond, Tiare, June and Jacob

"... could help us think about what we would like to do in the future and help us achieve our goals, by making connections with others to help us with our work."

Djae, Halatoa, Samantha, Evelyn and Paige

 "... help us to have courage in our school work.  They make you feel more confident to take risks in your education."

Latham, John, Zahn, Jasmine and Sajiha

"... will help us get more opportunities to ask or answer more questions about our learning."

Sebastian, Oh S’Mar, Zeba and Ducati

PBS CARE Values: Tiare and Saruja

Tiare and Saruja have done a great job of using the key competencies to help them work collaboratively. Well done girls!

Using the Key Competencies in our Maths thinking groups:

The pictures below show Room 5 exploring how the key competencies can help them work collaboratively to solve number problems. Their focus was not only on selecting the best strategy to find the answer, but also to make sure they were Thinking, Relating to Others, Using Language, Symbols and Text, Managing Self and Participating and Contributing. This made for a successful first thinking group challenge. Well done Room 5!

PBS C.A.R.E Values

Djae and Latham have created this presentation to that shows what our PBS CARE values look like through the eyes of a student.