COCO'S BODY SCRUB

Coco made a body scrub for science. She learnt that humans shed their skin every 2-4 weeks. Dolphins shed their skin every two days. 

SCHOOL IN 1870

Do you remember our trip to Howick Village last term?

HOME LEARNING CHOICE BOARD #4

Here is the latest choice board for you. I am videoing myself reading to you later using the Windows camera app. You could use Mum or Dad's phone to record yourself reading then send it to me. 

Teacher Reads

I have finally got my hands on "The Beast of Buckingham Palace", which has been sitting on my desk for the past 5 weeks!!
You can listen to me read the book, starting tomorrow, on the Teacher Reads page at the top of our blog.

Sophia at School

Today was our first day at school for Sophia. Most of Sophia's day was spent doing activities on our blog. Her favourites are Typing Club and Splash Maths. Sophia's brothers were able to sit with her at the same table but everyone else had to be 1 metre apart when they were inside. Sophia played handball with her brothers when they were outside this afternoon.

PHILLY'S BIRDHOUSE

The birdhouse, on last week's CHOICE SHEET, caught my attention.

I have been busy decorating my birdhouse made with a recycled Xmas cookie container, recycled plastic Easter egg for the feeder, leaves, twigs,  branches, and nest found on my walk with  Mum in Owairaka Park. 

I have spent wonderful days bird watching using  my binoculars and testing my data to find out which feed is most popular to put inside my bird feeder.

Finally the birdhouse  is hung dangling outside next to my bedroom window so I can see if a bird would be kind enough to come and make it their home and hopefully it will also leave their eggs there too! Let's see what happens?

MONDAY MESSAGE

I have a bitmoji

Kia ora koutou and welcome to another week of Learning From Home.

Over the last few  weeks lots of you have shared what you have been doing during Level 4 Lockdown. Please keep sending photos (with descriptions), writing, recipes, etc so that the rest of our class can keep up to date with what you are doing at home.
A few things to note:

• The "Learning From Home Activities" page has been changed slightly. All the activities have been put onto slides so you don't have to keep scrolling down the page. You can enlarge, pause and move forward or backwards on the slides using the tools on the bottom. I have added a few more activities  and links too. If there is something you would like me to add please email or add a comment below.
• Maths Problem Solving - these are on a slideshow in the "Learning From Home Activities" folder. Problems are on one slide and the answers are on the next. This week I have added Problems #5 and #6. The answers for these pages will be posted on Friday.
• A "Matific Help Page" has been set up to help those children who are having trouble with the challenges. Please let me know if you have technical issues with the screencastifies I have made.

Have a wonderful safe week at Level 3. I will be posting our next Choice Board on Wednesday morning.

Ka kite,

Maria

ANZAC DAY CELEBRATIONS & COMMEMORATIONS

Xavier 

This is me on Owairaka mountain at 6:40 with my family. We went to see the sunrise.

Mum and I drew a big field of poppies and a giant one almost as big as me!   

This is me and the army land rover opposite our house.

Harry helped create a poppy field for Anzac Day. We used half a cup cornflour, half a cup water and food colouring.

Lucy celebrated Anzac Day by getting up early and standing by our letterbox with my family at 6am. Then we made lots of Anzac biscuits and done poppies out of cupcake cases and ice block sticks. The biscuits were so yum.

This year I was able to take my grand daughter Harlow to her first dawn service for ANZAC Day. We made poppy lanterns and put them on the driveway where we were standing. While we stood there we listened to the Last Post, the National Anthems and a speech by our Minister of Defence, Ron Mark, on my phone. This year will be an ANZAC Day that I will remember for a long time. Maria

Did anyone else do something special for ANZAC Day?

LEO'S BOOK REVIEW

GEORGE and the GREAT BRAIN SWAPPERY.

The book is by a new zealand author called  Cal Wilson and the illustrations by Sarah Davis.

The book is about this family called the Pepperton’s. The main character is a boy in the pepperton
family called George and his best friend is called muggy sippins who has a habit of eating.

The book is about a brain swapper that their mum invented and there is this boy in the book called
Cane toad and they go to a new zoo and muggy gets to read a poem that hi/ poco ( poco is the
older brother of george but way smaller he was messing around with a shrink ray that his mum made)
so what I mean about that muggy/poco write the poem is that poco was in muggy’s t-shirt telling him
the words.

Then at the zoo George's sister got the brain swapper well had it because she stole it from her mum.
Poco and muggy swapped brain’s so muggy was too scared to read out at the zoo so muggy bib it
( 1 thing you should know about muggy is that one of his ears is bigger than the other one) then cane
toad snathed the brain swapper from george's sister and swapped everyones brains.

Then he went to all of the animal exhibits and swapped human brain’s with animal brain’s but they
got swapped back in the end and when the pepperton kids got home they got grounded for stealing
the  brain swapper. Then they got rid of the swapper. I would give this book 10 out of 10 stars
because it’s so funny and it has good illustrations .

Lochie's Jokes

Lochie has created this slideshow of his favourite jokes. 

Read and enjoy.

ANZAC DAY 2020

This Saturday, 25th April, is ANZAC Day. 

You can make the slides bigger by clicking on this icon

DAYELLE'S WORKOUT WITH HARPER

HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY

Happy Mothers' Day to Vibhore's mum for yesterday.

HARRY'S MOVIE REVIEW

Movie Review

The Black Panther

By Harry Campbell

Black Panther is an amazing super hero movie and I enjoyed watching it.

Black Panther has a necklace made from vibranium, a very powerful metal so when he crosses his arms his suit appears from his necklace.

The villains stole vibranium from the British museum and Black Panther has to stop them so they won’t use it to destroy the world.

My favourite character is Black Panther, a super hero who protects his people. He became Black Panther when his father died in a bomb explosion.  He wasn’t able to save his father.  I like the way he doesn’t need many weapons instead he uses his suit as the weapon.  When he gets shot or hit in the same spot on his suit it causes kinetic energy which pushes back at his enemies.

My favourite part was when he was with his sister who invented lots of different inventions for him to save people.

I give Black Panther a 5 star rating.

TE REO MAORI

Ahiahi marie Good afternoon everyone,
Whaea Carol has asked that we continue practising Te Reo Maori so we don't forget our learning from Term 1. The Puriri teachers have created some slides to help you. Parents who want to practise too can find a slide containing websites which are very helpful as well.

Do you want to join Kapahaka when we return to school? You can start practising the song on our slides called E Minaka Ana.

                            

How to comment on our blog posts

You may have noticed this at the bottom of each post on our blog.

Each time you comment I will send a reminder to the child, who wrote the post, to write a reply. This is a great way for the children to communicate with other people. 

Tips for children writing comments:

• Be positive
• Tell the person something that you liked about their post
• Ask a question about what they have done

Click here for instructions for commenting on our blog and let me know if they were helpful by commenting below 😃 

Maria aka Room21@Owairaka

MORE FROM PHILLY

Hola from Philly!!!

Philly spends her days making ,creating and inventing. She has made a parachute, a biodiversity garden, volcano, and a Sierpinski triangle challenge for any classmates who are interested to extend their triangle to beat her 40 triangle. 

Here is a link about Sierpinski Triangles

Philly spent a couple of days building her mini volcano from paper mache and then painted and added rocks and moss, to finish off her favourite volcanic mountain COTOPAXI which means in Quechua --"-Shining Peak",one of the  highest active volcanoes in the world, and the highest in the Andes ranges.

Viva mi Cotopaxi !!

This is the eruption caused by Cotopaxi Volcano, mixing together vinegar and baking soda. Philly loves making volcanoes due to eruption experiment.

Note from Maria: Can anybody tell me where is the Cotopaxi Volcano? Is it still active or is it dormant? Write your answers in the comment box below.

THIS WEEK'S HOME LEARNING CHOICE BOARD #3

This week's Choice Board includes some Te Reo, Maths, Technology, Arts, PE and Science. I can also spot some kaitiakitanga, manaawanuitanga and manakitanga. Can you? 

You may need to use google search to find the names of some of the birds you see in your garden. Last weekend I saw a kereru in my garden. 

Here is a link to an online Maori Dictionary that I use a lot.

Keep sending photos and writing to me. If you are sending photos please write a few sentences describing what is happening in the photo or photos. 

Don't forget to try some of our recipes. I made afghans yesterday using Etena's recipe. 😄 😋

Keep sending your photos so I can post them on our blog. If you are sedin

PURIRI CHESS CLUB

Do you know how to play chess?  Do you want to learn? 

MORE FROM ETENA

Etena is continuing to learn  his timetables  and practise handwriting. He loves the Core 5 online learning app as well as Typing Club. Etena has learnt how to make Afghans too. The recipe is on our Class Cook book page. He has helped with some cleaning in the weekend and  he still does 1hr walks daily with his family. 

Here are some more photos from Etena: 

Ministry of Education - Learning At Home Website

The Ministry of Education's Website for Learning At Home has information in 10 Pasifika Languages as well as English. 

• Here is the link to the Home page

• Here is the link to the Pacific Communities page

NEWS FROM NAVALA

Navala has been focusing on his 7 and 8 times tables and is slowly understanding how and what method works best for him to learn and memorize these. Vala has also been up to date with his reading. Navala also learned that 90 secs is the same as 1 min and 30 secs when trying to work the amount of time he needed to warm up his porridge in the microwave.

UPDATE FROM FRANCES

FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND OUR BLOG - PAGES

Namaste and welcome to another week. Our blog has suddenly become very important to our class communication and learning so I think it would be helpful to show you around.
Have you noticed the tabs/pages at the top of our blog?  Here is a quick explanation of each page.

"Reading Websites" Epic has a wide range of books for the children to choose from. The Oxford Owl books are age leveled.
"Learning at Home Activities Page."

"Maths Websites" Maths Kete and Maths at our house are links to activities you can do as a family.

"Art Work" will be added to when we return to school.

"Work On Writing" stories, reports, poems etc written by the children\. I have already added one during the Lockdown and am looking forward to adding more.

"Class Cookbook" is new. Please send through any recipes that your child has used during the Lockdown. Vibhore's recipe for dumplings is already there and I am waiting for more cake, pizza, sandwich, etc recipes.

"Learning At Home Activities" This page is for those children who want to do a little extra.

• Handwriting videos - please encourage your child to practise handwriting using the correct starting points, size and shape for each letter. 
• Any writing can be emailed to me and I will add it to our Writers page. 
• Maths problems can be self checked when I post the problem answers on Friday. 
• Exercise and fitness are important for our wellbeing, even if it is 5 minutes every day.
• Websites of interest eg Young Ocean Explorers and the Museum will be changed each week. If you know any websites please add them to the comments below or email them to me. 

I hope this has helped. 

Please follow our blog so you won't miss out on our posts during lockdown. 

ANNIE'S AMAZING ADVENTURE

A message from Annie and her mum...

Annabelle has been enduring and enlivening our little ‘Bubble’ throughout this lockdown!

Quite an adventure in spite of circumstances including walkabouts, discoveries in Nature,  being creative with clay, dominoes and don’t forget dancing!  A wondrous time in a treacherous world!

Take care everyone...

LOCHIE'S DRAGONS

Check out Lochie's slideshow of all the amazing dragons he has draw. Information about the dragons is on the last 2 slides.

You can enlarge the slideshow and pause the slides using the icons at the bottom.

Wonderful drawings and descriptions Lochie ⭐

LESSON FROM LUKA

This is a wonderful way to practise your Maths strategies - ka nui te pai to mahi Luka!

I have been doing maths by playing darts.

My highest score is 121 in one turn, I got triple 20 (3 x 20 = 60) + triple 19 (3 x 19 = 57) + 4

I play darts with my Mum, Dad and my brother. I have beaten my family a few times.

There are different sections of a dart board, the middle red circle is worth 50 points, the middle green circle is worth 25 points.

The next ring out is the triple ring, its is 3 x tables

The outside ring is the double ring, its is 2 x tables.

See my photo and see if you can work out my score

Here is some help... (its not as good as my highest score)

3 x 20 = 60 + 20 +16 =

I am the family score keeper, I need to add each score together, the first person to 301 or 501 wins, its a longer game to get to 501.

We play to 301 you can see my score sheets in the photo.

Playing darts is very fun, its also fun working out the score and using maths.

Core 5 Literacy Programme

Our children been offered free access to the Core 5 programme during the Lockdown. Many of our children already have used it and have a username and password. I have emailed all user names and passwords to you.
Please read the Quick Start instructions to gain access. Use the scroll bar on the right hand side of the document to see pages 2 and 3. Instructions for ipads are further down the page.
If you have problems please contact me.

Home Learning TV and Staying Safe Online

Josh's Long List

Over the past few weeks Josh has ...

• Played chess with his grandad Trevor online
• Mowed the lawns
• Flown a stunt kite which is nearly as big as him
• Gone on bike rides
• Walked up Owairaka
• Baked cupcakes with Hannah and made pancakes solo
• Made Dad's breakfast and coffee most mornings
• Made some amazing paper planes and creations 
• Played Monopoly, Go Fish, Guess Who, Ludo and Hangman with the family 
• And lots of Zooming friends and family. 

Can you match the activities with the photos?

Are you wondering why there is a photo of a weta?

Etena Checking In

 More wonderful photos of classmates doing activities with their families and lots of learning too. Thanks for checking in Etena. Send me the recipe for the pancakes you made for lunch.

Etena practising writing stories. 

Etena's sister, LilyMaina is watching our handwriting tutorial on her tablet then she will try to write them out.

Someone was having a birthday. I wonder who.

 His family have been walking for an hour every day for the past 2 weeks.

Helping with cleaning the windows at home. I think this is on our CHOICE BOARD this week.