Room 21's Class Blog

One of the disconnected tasks this week was to make a Whare Tapawha using sticks.  Here is the first submission that was created in record time. I was very surprised at how fast this was completed. Until I opened it.  Tau ke! Here is a quote of the text accompanying the Whare Tapawha creation. "I got lucky and found these sticks" This was a big improvement from the whare tapatoru previously submitted Quote: "I got lucky and found these sticks" If you look closely you can see 4 sticks. One for each side of the house. This is a huge inprovemnet on the whare tapatoru that was submitted before this one.

  Ka pai Room 21 for giving this a go. When we first started the seemed very daunting and overwhelming however you didn't give up. We chunked the phrased into small manageable parts.  You used the rhythm modelled to you and you gave it a very good attempt. Karawhiua! Here are some of the recordings made by Room 21 students. Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu Link to Faisal's Video   Link to Prisha's video Link to Calix's video Link to Ms Corbett's video Link to Nicole's video Congratulations to Nicole who won a prize in the Lynfield Kahui Ako wero. Nicole was up against Lynfield College students.   Link to Samuel's video Links to audio videos; Link to Rieza's audio Link to Ehsani's audio

Here are some of the Digital Pepeha created by Room 21 for Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori.

We normally do number bingo with numbers from 1 - 75. This is really only because that is the highest number our online bingo caller web based app lets us go to. Here is a link to the site we use  https://letsplaybingo.io/ Today we spent a long time creating different shapes and making them a range of colours.  This actually took so long that Ms Corbett had to make a master bingo template because we were running out of time. We decided to have a shared template with all of the coloured shapes already available on the side. We spent 15 minutes as a group contributing different shapes to the template. Today I learned that in Google Sheets I can insert a Google Drawing through "Insert" on the menu and you can draw and colour the shape there and then. Then you can insert directly into the chosen cell.  It is way faster than the way I have been doing it. Samuel shared his screen and showed me in today's lesson. Thanks Samuel. Here is a screenshot of our contributions to our sh...

 We found an online jigsaw site (of which I am sure there are many). This site is called  jisawplanet.com We used this activity as our Wednesday Warm Up task.  We got carried away and ended up doing quite a few jigsaws each.  They ranged from 6 piece jigsaw puzzles to 255 pieces! Ka pai Justin and Nicole. Here are the class efforts on a Google Slide. I thought I chose a 35 piece puzzle but it turned out to be a 96 piece puzzle. I was wondering why it was taking me so much longer than the rest of the class to finish. The class made me share my screen so they could see my progress as they were working on their multiple jigsaws! They offered lots and lots of encouragement and supportive advice. Thank you Room 21. I think you get that from your teacher. Here are a few screenshots of my progress.

We shared our thoughts about lockdown with a focus on what we are grateful for and identifying ways we could improve our wellbeing. We did this as a writing task where we group ideas into paragraphs. This was a very structured task with a modelled example from me. This task was completed in real time as part of our daily get togethers via Google Meet. I was heartened to see how easily students were able to identify things they were grateful for. They ranged from things like sleeping in to working from a comfortable couch to spending quality time with family. It seems that many student's families have kept routines in place which I believe contributes to their resilience in this lockdown.   Here are the thoughts of Room 21 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------...

This week we looked at words that have the "ch" sound but don't have the letters "c" and "h" in them. We created a Jamboard to record our thoughts. We spent about 15 minutes adding our words during one of Google Meet sessions. Students added new words as they though of them over the week. On Day 2, we revisted the Jamboard to check the list by "agreeing" or "disagreeing".  After this process, some students chose to remove their words, some chose to keep them and others added new words based on their new understandings.  Below is a screenshot of one of our Jamboard pages.  Ka pai Room 21 for your contribution and participation. I am very proud that you are comfortable to take risks by sharing your thoughts. I am also really proud that we could question each other in a respectful and value adding manner.  I love being part of your class!