Making an informed choice

Today we had a PBS vote to see which flag we think should be chosen. Each class went to the polling booth and placed a counter in the bucket under the flag they liked the best. Before we could make a decision Room 5 need to have some facts so that the choice they made was informed (made because they knew the story behind each flag). To do this we used 4 -3 -2 -1 to help us gather our own thoughts, share our thinking and listen to the thinking of others. To help us make connections to this topic we created a list of reasons why we would not choose a flag, then used these reasons to collaboratively write an 'up to 50 word' paragraph that explained this.

The Silver Fern Red was the most popular choice in our class, with the Silver Fern Black coming second. This was because my students felt these flags would be recognisable around the world, they had strong connections to New Zealand's history and could see links to their own and other cultures. 

Which flag would you choose?

Science @ Tamaki College

Today was the start of our science time at Tamaki College. Miss Bunce and Mr Malhotra are teaching us how the process of investigations works.

Check It!

Check It! is the film written by, filmed by and put together by the very talented students in Room 5 for the Manaiakalani Film Festival. We saw the idea on You Tube and decided we would create our own version to celebrate the wealth of reading material available to us from the Tamaki College Overdrive site to our very own Panmure Bridge Library. 

Drop! Cover! Hold!

At 9.15am along with many other schools in New Zealand, we took part in the national 'Shake out' drill. We did this so that in the event of an earthquake we will know how to try and keep ourselves safe. 

For more information on Drop! Cover! Hold! go to: www.shakeout.govt.nz

Making Healthy Lunches

After our trip to Pak 'N Save on Monday we were given a voucher to buy food to make healthy lunches. Room 5 decided to make healthy wraps. We looked at the nutrition information to make sure the products we bought were healthy. Our friend Greg from SPARK and Miss Donaldson came to help us. 

Pak N Save Visit Room 5 and Room 8

Today Room 5 and Room 8 went to Pak N Save to look closely at the nutrition information on food labels. We had a great time and learnt a lot. Thank you to all our helpers and Adele from the Heart Foundation. We are all looking forward to making our healthy lunch on Thursday.

Run, Jump, Throw Coaching

Part of our Run, Jump, Throw coaching is to learn to throw a shot out and discuss correctly. Today Andy showed us how to do this.

Visit from our SPARK 'buddy'

  

Today Room 5 had a visit from our SPARK 'buddy' Greg. Greg has been following our blogs this year so we shared how we learn in our digital 1:1 learning environment, and talked with him about setting goals and making wise choices. Thank you for visiting us Greg!

A snapshot of our learning with Miss D

Room 5 want to say a HUGE congratulations to Miss Donaldson our AMAZING student teacher! This week was her first week of full control. We think she has done a great job taking responsibility for our learning. We're all looking forward to learning with her next week.

Hauora

This week Room 5 have been working with Miss Donaldson to explore the concept of Hauora. The DLO's below reflect their understanding. After doing a reading jigsaw to learn about one 'wall' each group worked collaboratively to build each other's knowledge.


Tim, Tiare, June and Saruja

 

Manu, Zahn, Latham and John

 

Jasmine, Paige, Courtney and Fine

 

Ducati, Juanita and Samantha

 

Sebastian, San Tat, Raymond and Oh S'Mar

Sajiha, Yvette, Shantay and Halatoa

Creating our own Home Learning Tasks

Here we are creating our own home learning tasks. We worked in groups to come up with a list of topics that will help us to practise asking questions and finding information. Each week someone will choose a topic from the topic box then we will create a DLO of our choice to reflect our own understanding and learning around that topic. Every Friday three people will present their DLO to give us practise at speaking to an audience.

Our Student Led Conferences

Today we carried out our first ever student led conferences. What an amazing success this was! The level of engagement and the conversations taking place were powerful and truly showed me how much information my class had taken ownership of. 

A HUGE thank you to everyone who took part.

Practising for our Student Led Conferences

Here we are practising for our very first student led conferences. We are all looking forward to sharing our 2015 learning journey with our families.

Room 4/5 Easter Egg Hunt!

We had lots of fun this morning helping our Tuakana Teina class find the easter eggs that had been hidden for them by Room 5.

Room 5's Collaborative Responses

Today we used Padlet to record our collaborative responses from our smart searching challenge to the questions:

1. What is the difference between being a NZ citizen and a permanent resident?

2. Why do people from other countries become NZ citizens?
3. What would/has stopped people becoming NZ citizens? - obstacles (eg: cost of application)

Created with Padlet

Sharing our thinking

Today we worked in our Maths thinking groups to solve an addition problem. The task involved the students solving the problem independently, then explaining the strategy they used to their groups. Each group then chose the strategy they felt best suited the problem and created a collaborative DLO (of their choice) to help someone else learn that strategy. The final task was to present their DLO to the class. Fantastic work Room 5!

Room 5's Art

These look fantastic!

Tuakana Teina Time with R4

Today we had our tuakana teina time with R4. Room 4 are our gorgeous new entrants and have only been at school for four weeks. They are learning to read so today we read our buddies a story and then talked about the book with them. We had lots of fun and think R4 did a great job with their reading.

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.

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.