Visual Arts: New Zealand's Iconic Jandals

As part of our Kiwiana learning, Room 3 created the most famous and popular summer footwear, the jandals. Children and adults wear jandals everywhere. They are great as a beach footwear. 

Virtual School Assembly Term 4 Week 3, 2021

 

Here is our virtual School Assembly hosted by Mrs Hamilton and the Prefects. Room 6 is presenting an item about their learning.  

He rawe to all those who contributed to the assembly and a big thank you to Mr O'Brien who put video together. 

Enjoy!

Celebrating Diwali: The Festival of Light

Today is the Indian New Year. This morning Room 3 celebrated the Diwali festival by creating flowers using the rangoli pattern. 

Look at our beautiful flower designs. Ka pai tamariki!

An Interesting Weekend Story by Mele

On the weekend something interesting happened. Yesterday no one came for trick or treating. I was worried that no one would visit me. Then it hit me. Nobody was visiting me because it was COVID.

Visual Arts Group 2: Buzzy Bee Part 2

Every Friday Room 3 has an online Open Whanau Morning where parents and siblings are invited to join in the lesson. Here is the second part of our visual arts lesson on Buzzy Bee, New Zealand's most famous and popular toy. Here is the link to our first arts lesson, Visual Arts Buzzy Bee Part 1 .

Can you see the progress the Group 2 tamariki and whanau are making?

Standby for the completion of our artwork Part 3, next Friday. 

Oshin Uses Her Hands To Communicate

Sometimes it's just easier to leave your microphone off when you have to communicate with your teacher. Here's Oshin using her fingers to answer the doubles question.

Visual Arts: Buzzy Bee Part 1

Room 3 tamariki are learning about Kiwiana. 

Kiwiana is anything that makes us who we are as New Zealanders. One of the most famous and popular New Zealand toy is Buzzy Bee. It is a pull along wooden toy that makes a clickety-clackety sound. We watched a video on Buzzy Bee and then we began our drawing, thinking about the different shapes that we could see on Buzzy Bee, such as circles and ovals, and the interesting colours on the toy. 

Here is part 1 of our drawing of Buzzy Bee. 

Grace Heads Straight Into Her Online Learning Independently

 

Online learning for Term 4 2021 started this week. Here is Grace working very hard. It's great to see Grace using her  Room 3 Learning Hub site to learn independently without her teacher's guidance. You can see that she has completed her Spelling, Handwriting, Writing, Reading and Maths. She is very organised and knows what the online routines are. I am very proud of you Grace. Ka rawe for your independence. 

Online Learning: Split Screen

 

Room 3 has been learning how to split their screen. It is not an easy skill and takes a lot of practise. It took a while for the tamariki to learn how to perform this new digital skill. Here is Grace's split screen. The purpose of splitting the screen is to be able to stay in view at all times with the teacher and having your Room 3 Learning Hub in front of you so that you can view your learning tasks at the same time. Tino pai to all those tamariki who were able to split their screen. 

Group 2 Visual Arts Online Learning

Today Group 2 tamariki had a fun day of drawing our favourite things. Can you guess what they are? 

Friday's Visual Arts

 

Room 3 takes a break from their focused learning to something more relaxing on a Friday. Today for visual arts, Room 3 tamariki drew self-portraits or pictures of themselves in their favourite costume.

Steven And His Mum Win the Ruapotaka School Whanau Challenge

To celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori, last week our school held a Whanau Challenge where students and their whanua recited the school karakia. Every day during our online learning we said our karakia before our lesson. Listen to Steven and his Mum reciting the Raupotaka Karakia. Ka rawe you two!! 👏👏

Room 3 Online Learning

Room 3 tamariki are learning about skip counting in 2's, 5's and 10's. Here's a screenshot of one of the things we do in our online learning.  We have a warm-up first before we start our lesson. The learners mark their own warm-ups. Tick if it's correct or dot if it's not correct. They are doing a great job coming to google meet for their learning. Ka pai!

Levi's Father's Day Story

 

It is clear that Levi loves his dad. It's great to have a dad who is  always there for you. I'm sure your Dad is as proud of you as you are of him. Tino pai!

Steven's Father's Day Story

Steven does lots of different activities with his Dad. He is very lucky to have a dad like his and he is very proud of him. Tino Pai!

Start of Online Learning Again

This Week's Duffy Award: JJ 👏

Last week JJ was the recipient of the Duffy Award. JJ is very good at reading because he uses his thinking skills to decode and understand the stories he reads. Tino pai JJ!👏

Drip, Drip, Drop, Drop

It’s been raining a lot since the start of Term 3. Here are our rain pictures. We did paper folding to create the octagons and then drew the lines that the folds created to make our colourful umbrellas. Then we observed the raindrops that fell from the grey sky.

Drip, drip, drop, drop

In rainy puddles I love to plop.

Splish, splash, pour, pour,

Now it's raining even more. 

(from Poems For Little People)

This Week's Duffy Award Recipient: Novi

Photographer: JJ

Today at the school assembly, Novi received a Duffy Award for using her thinking skills to predict what will happen next in the story. Tino pai!

This Week's Principal's Award: JJ

Photographer: Mele

JJ also received a Principal's Award today for supporting his classmates with their learning. Tino pai!