Breaking News Covid Level 3

Welcome whanau, 

Room 6 and Room 7 have created an exciting movie for our Manaiakalani film festival. We are a team of year 3/4 and 7/8 students who usually buddy up for reading and thought this would be another great way to continue our learning together.

We had so much fun, learning how to hold a camera, take sequenced shots as well as looking forward and sideways towards the camera. We had a few challenges around sound and props, but loved making it anyway.

Its called "Breaking News Covid Level 3" 

                           

Water Safety Visit

Today we had a visit  from Danielle Strom who is from
Aquatic Education & Water Safety. She shared lots information about keeping ourselves safe around water. Especially when swimming at our local pools or when we are having fun at the beach. We also talked about being safe if heading out fishing with our family, making sure we all know to wear life jackets.

Here are a few pics.

Posting comments

 To support our learning we ask you to comment as follows:

•  Something positive - Begin with a greeting then talk about what you like about what we have shared.
•  Something thoughtful - A comment that will mean something to us to let us know you read/watched or listened to what we had to say. - use any language.
•  Something helpful - Give us some ideas for next time or ask us a question.
•  Something encouraging - So that we can make another post.

Google Draw - creating Informative posters

WALHT: Using speech and thinking bubbles effectively.

Woohoo! Back to school tomorrow!

Kia ora Room 6 whanau, 

T4 starts tomorrow! 

Some reminders:

Whanau Fridays are back!
Drink bottles and Hats will now be needed this term, its going to be a very HOT one.
Have a great nights sleep and look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

Nga mihi
Mrs T

Speech Finals - Calla and Vaiola on video

 

Rm 6 Speeches 2020

 Awesome effort Calla and Vaiola!

Respecting how we use our Chromebooks

 We were checking in with each other and Ms Grant on how we respect our Chromebooks when using them. Walking around the room , gentle closing them, always putting in our chairs and hug hold when moving with them were just a few.

 

Help us celebrate Māori language week. Tomorrow we are taking part with the rest of NZ in...

Check it out Maori Language Moment NZ

Cybersmart learning

 Fun with Mrs Grant  creating shortcut posters. We used WORDART.. 

Give it a go!

Welcome back everyone!

What a great first day back. Having fun drawing, singing, writing and sharing our experiences during our lockdown level 3 time. 

Awesome to be back - We got this Room 6.

Wk 6 Continued, lockdown learning

Morena whanau, as you know we are in our second week of Level 3 lockdown in Auckland. A quick post to say great job done by Room 6 learners both online and offline.  It has been awesome seeing you in our google meets and completing your learning with whanau support.

Take care and stay safe.

Mrs T

Duffy Books Competition

Email your amazing entries to Mrs Pedersen asap. 

                                                                                                                                                                                

Woohoo! Successful Google Hangouts!

Kia ora whanau, 

what a great day we have had meeting in google hangouts and working through our online learning activities. You were all amazing! Keep the learning going and remember to check out our home learning timetable to complete our off line learning tasks too.  Look forward to seeing you all again tomorrow.

Mrs T

Checking In!

 Morena whanau, 

Fantasic Friday: Here are some snapshot visuals of the fun we have had at school over the last few weeks. Everything from a whole school picnic celebrating Cook Island Language week to our Kapa Haka practises starting and learning more super shortcuts from Ms Grant.

Keep safe and stay home where possible. Mrs T

Lockdown Level 3

Kia ora whanau, as you are all aware we are now in lockdown level 3 in Auckland. 

I will keep you updated as much as possible via email and our blog. Keep checking in on our Facebook page and remember we are open for essential workers children so contact me via email or Mrs Hamilton principal@ruapotaka.school.nz or call 09 5276248, if you need to bring your children to school tomorrow.

Take care and be safe

Mrs T

Morena everyone, Welcome back to school! We have had an exciting last two weeks and are keen to share more with you as the term goes on.

Here are a few snippets. 

WALT: to think like a Scientist. We have been learning how to use and understand The Scientific Method. We invited some Scientists from Motat to share our learning and they showed us how to make rockets out of everyday objects, then we go to launch them.

Woohoo! What a term!

Kia ora whanau, we have almost completed our first term together. What a learning journey it has been.  We have written some fabulous stories, (published in our school newsletter), left messages on our buddy blogs, created some awesome paper Korowai (cloaks) to see in Matariki and continued making our cardboard arcade games. We also  celebrated our schools 66th birthday with a delicious chocolate cake!
We hope all of you and our blog buddies have a fabulous break and look forward to sharing more with you.
Room 6 and Mrs Tidswell

Week 10 already!

Kia ora everybody, we have worked really hard this week to manage ourselves and work well with others. We have been learning skills to play Rippa Rugby, and what Fair Play is. Had fun with Mrs Mitchel, playing our recorders too. We have also continued to construct our cardboard arcade games. Today we had our buddy class come and share their thoughts and ideas about what we'd done so far. They also lent a helping had with some of the tricky bits.

What a week!

Kia ora everyone, what a week of learning we have had! Our learning journey has been challenging and FUN! We have started our Technology challenge and on our Chomebooks, Mrs Grant taught us more shortcuts ctrl T and ctrl W, more bookmarking and we've been practising our keyboard skills too. We have also been are learning about Consonant blends and managing ourselves with care.

Woohoo! Rolled out our Chromebooks today.

First day learning with Ms Grant. Lots of new skills learnt and some great activities to continue with. 

Full of fun and laughter!

Awesome effort Rm 6!
We celebrated Samoan Language week sharing our learning to classes and singing up a storm. A special shout out to Mrs Folu who not only helped us, spent loads of time with other classes sharing her Samoan Culture.

What a great first week back!

Kia ora whanau, 
Our first week back, was a week of first...learning our "Cardio" fitness routine, introduced to Mr Kandinsky and a wee bit of fun with Mrs Hamilton.