You can watch our Kapa Haka performance here.
St Mary's Junior Kapa Haka 2021 from Sarah Kirkpatrick Photography on Vimeo.
Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were thinking about scams and phishing and the ways that people online try to get things like your password or personal data.
We looked at some online information and had a tug-o-war. We did this digitally on a Jamboard.
Here are some of the ideas we had to think about then decide what to do...
Today we were talking about how we are sunsmart at St Mary's School and thought of 3 or 4 important messages for others.
We created a GIF in Canva. We learned how to make our first page and then duplicate it so our formatting was easy to have on other pages.
We learned how to format text, add backgrounds, find our school logo and shield, change the colours of texts and elements and how to animate elements.
Here is Macey's GIF. Do you think she has good sunsmart messages?
Here are our ideas ...
This afternoon was spent redoing our bug hotel. We took it apart and checked to see what bugs had found a home. We found lots of ants, spiders, centipedes, cockroaches, 3 slugs, 1 snail and 2 caterpillars. Then we put the hotel back together layer by layer adding shells, driftwood, sticks, leaves and other pieces for the bugs to make their new home in and a safe place to have their babies. Check out our photos below!
Here is Marley's video. Does he have sisomo?
Today we had Joey from Northern Districts Cricket Association come and teach us how to throw, catch and bat. We had lots of fun practising these skills.
We made a new Google Drawing ourselves in our Google Drive, renamed it and made sure it was filed in our Cybersmart Folder. Then we designed some important messages about being an upstander.
Here's a sample of what we emailed...
Here is our online learning for week 7. Please check it out and leave a positive comment.
We recently went into lockdown so we have been doing our learning online. Check out our work below!
On Wednesday, we went into lockdown. Here is some of the learning we did at home. Our reading was done on Sunshine Classics and we did maths on MathsBuddy.
Check out our animal reports and prayer spaces below.
Did you know it is Maths Week?
Today we had our school Mini Olympics. We started the day with an Opening Ceremony where we marched through the school waving our flags and holding our signs. Then we started competing in different tabloid events like chuck the chicken, flip cup, soccer, an obstacle course, hula hooping, target throwing, tug of war, bench ball, giant connect four and horse riding. We all had so much fun and enjoyed being Olympic athletes for the day!
We have been making Matariki kites. We learnt about warm and cool colours. We read a book called the Seven Kites of Matariki and then made our own kites. We used dye and blended the colours together so there weren't any hard lines. We then chose silhouettes that reflect the time of Matariki like a man and a woman harvesting and whānau spending time together.
This week we are learning how to comment on blogs. We are going to answer this sticky question today to practise commenting.
We have to be positive, thoughtful and helpful.
We have to write it like a letter and we must remember to write our name at the end.
How would you answer this question? And remember to tell us why.
We have finished our blogging competition.
Here are the final results...
Thank you so much to everyone who visited our blog and left comments.
We are so excited!
Today in our Cybersmart lesson we had a challenge to draw and only use 2 kinds of lines - curve line and polyline.
Here is some of our work from today...
Today we made a weather forecast for Gisborne. We learned how to add audio using Mote. Click on the audio button on the slides to hear the weather forecast for today.
Here is the students work from A-C (Split into groups so the slides load quicker!)
Look for other blog posts for the rest of Room 5
Today we made a weather forecast for Gisborne. We learned how to add audio using Mote. Click on the audio button on the slides to hear the weather forecast for today.
Here is the students work from F-L (Split into groups so the slides load quicker!)
Look for other blog posts for the rest of Room 5
Today we made a weather forecast for Gisborne. We learned how to add audio using Mote. Click on the audio button on the slides to hear the weather forecast for today.
Here is the students work from A-C (Split into groups so the slides load quicker!)
Look for other blog posts for the rest of Room 5
Take a look at our work. We used Remove Background so we could insert our photo and it looks like we are floating over top of our favourite food.
We had to use the Explore Tool to find an image of food that we could reuse.
What's your favourite food?
From Room 5
This week in our Cybersmart lesson we created a Visual Mihi.
We talked about delivering messages with images without any words.
We also talked about using images that are labelled for reuse.
Last week we started our blogging competition. Here is an update.
Last week Room 5 had lots of comments from friends and families around the world. We need to make sure we reply to them.
Room 5 and Room 6 are having a race to see
which class blog can register the most visitors
and
the biggest number of countries that the visitors come from.
On our class blogs we have a globe which counts the countries
and a counter to keep track of the page visitors.
We will update the scores each week on the class blogs.
Click through the slides to see our scores from this week.
What a busy morning we have had planting some of the trees that we received from the Women's Native Tree Nursery here in Gisborne for our awesome recycling. We were given over 120 native trees! We planted some kanuka, hebes and kowhai because we were planting in our school Butterfly Garden - the butterflies and bees love these plants. We used our team work skills to take turns at digging and planting and we even gave the roots a haircut so they weren't bound around the plant. We had so much fun and we can't wait to watch our trees grow into big strong ones!
Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were learning how to use the camera on our Chromebooks.
Chromie the Chromebook set a challenge for us. We were challenged to replace images on slides so that the image stayed in the same place and stayed the same size. We were awarded with a certificate when we completed the challenge.
Today Miss Naden challenged us to make our own fish out the of the shapes on Google Draw. We learned how to insert shapes, change the colours and size, and flip the shapes around. Check out our sea of fish below!
This week in our Cybersmart lesson we did a challenge.
We are in a Manaiakalani programme called Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu.
Here are our learners in Room 5 for 2021.
We are learning how to use our Chromebooks to support our learning.
Every week we will be having Cybersmart lessons with Mrs Torrie. This term we are being Smart Learners. VIsit our class learning site here to see what we are doing to be Cybersmart.
This week we went to the Museum and we had the most amazing time learning all about waka and voyaging!
Our first activity was a scavenger hunt around the museum displays.
In the star dome we watched a video of the Horouta waka coming to Tūranganui A Kiwa and we found the Horouta waka, Matariki, the hook and lots of other constellations in the stars.
Our last activity of the afternoon was making our own waka.
This term Miss Naden is reading "The Wild Robot" to us.
Today we read about a storm in the night.
We love getting the cushions and relaxing while she reads to us.
What books do you like to read?
