Tuesday Week 5

 Kia ora koutou!

Today we created a tally chart of our favourite toys. It was interesting that most of your faves were stuffed animals.

Your homework task is to create a bar graph like the one we looked at yesterday, to show the data we collected today about our favourite toys. 

Here is Finlay's bar graph of our data:

Here is Arnie's graph:

Here is Ryhan's graph:

Here is the link for the "Hit The Button" Website if you missed it on Monday.

21 Day Challenge: 

Watch these videos about sedimentation. What do you think we could do to help with this issue?

ARNIE'S RESPONSE: 

1. Make more wet lands and plant trees to stop mud getting into rivers and creeks and into the ocean.

2. Stop catching mussels because they filter our water.

3. Put more mussels back in our sea.

HUW'S RESPONSE:

1. Eat less mussels because they filter the water.

2. Don't pollute the water by throwing rubbish in it.

Have you checked out "The Cottage" link yet?

Tomorrow at our meeting we will be talking about sedimentation. 

See you then, ka kite apopo!

Week 5 - Our Learning At Home

 I will be adding photos you have shared to each of these slideshows during our Level 3 Lockdown. You can use the toolbar at the bottom of the slides to pause and enlarge for a better view.

Please make a comment below so we know that you have viewed our work. Keep checking in!

Here is a slideshow Finlay created for his "A" letter inquiry. 

  If you have researched something beginning with "A" take a photo, video or make a slideshow of it and I will post it here.

Monday Week 5

 Thank you to everyone who was able to join our class meeting this morning. I was very impressed with your drawings and how well you could follow the instructions. Tomorrow I will have another one for you to try.

Here is the bar graph we looked at together today

You told me that apples were the most popular. Bananas were the second most popular. 8 people like apples. Pears are the least popular.

Can you tell me how many people were asked about their favourite fruit? How many more people liked apples than pears. Which 2 fruit had the same number of people like them?

Keep working on the activities on the Choice Boards. Have you tried "Hit The Button" yet? I will ask you tomorrow which "Hit The Button" activity you did.

Keep picking up rubbish for the 21 Day Challenge! After watching the videos of plastic pollution I went for a walk and picked up 10 pieces of rubbish, only 3 pieces of plastic though. 
I will post videos of sedimentation tomorrow. Do you know what sedimentation is?

Don't forget to bring for favourite toy to our meeting tomorrow at 10.30am. We will be collecting data about our favourite toys. What do you think it will be?

Do you know what this is? Go to "The Cottage" link on the sidebar of our blog to find out more. Mrs Johns also has a competition for you.

You can comment below, email your answers or bring your answers to tomorrow's meeting. 

Ka kite apopo.

Week 5 - Learning at Home

 28 Hui tanguru 

Tēnā koutou katoa,

Over the next five days you will be learning from home again and the Puriri Team teachers have come up with some great learning  activities for you.

You may like to allocate some time each day to:

• read a book. Record what you have read so we can add it to your reading log if your log is at school.
• choose 1 or 2 activities from the choice board each day.
• continue with our 21 Day Challenge. I will post some videos and activities each day for you. Day 12 is below.
• get some exercise. Go for a walk, bike ride or run with your family or play a game of backyard touch or cricket. 

 Choice Board #1

Take a photo of an activity you have completed and send it to me. Don't forget to write a description so I can add it to the blog.

If you would prefer a non digital choice board please email me.

21 Day Challenge

I will be asking you at our Google Meet tomorrow, "How many pieces of plastic did you pick up this weekend?" I picked up 6 so far. 

Day 9 - Plastic Pollution

What is the message this video is trying to get across? What did this video make you think or feel?

                                       

Sea Cleaners are an amazing organisation who work really hard to keep our waterways clear of rubbish. What else can you do to help?

Google Meets

Every day this week at 10.30 our class will have a meeting. Please bring a pencil or pen and paper with you to the meeting. We will do some maths, some discussion around the 21 Day Challenge, check in on your choice board activities and I will read some of "Bad Dad." 

Watch for my email.

Kia kite apopo!

 

Wow! We are nearly halfway through the term.

Last week we continued with the 21 Day Challenge and thanks to the eager kaitiaki in our class we have now picked up 706 pieces of plastic rubbish in and around our communities. This is fantastic news but also sad that so much plastic could have entered our oceans. These are photos from Louie on two separate occasions.

Congratulations to Joe who earned this week's certificate at the school assembly.

HOME LEARNING: 

• MUST DO -Reading every night for 10 - 15 minutes, either to someone else or to ourselves. Please remember to fill in the reading log to show what has been read.
• CAN DO - For those children who enjoy inquiring this is for you! Every week will be represented by a new letter eg this week is the letter 'A'. Your task is to find something interesting and unusual that starts with the letter 'A' and be prepared to share some information you found out about it on Friday. You can present your information anyway you want. Some of the 'A' topics from past classes have been avocados, anacondas, the Arctic Circle, ants, and allergies.  

THIS WEEK:

Class swimming is on Tuesday and Thursday. All children are expected to bring their togs unless they have a note.

Our Open Morning is this Thursday. Please come along anytime between 8.55 and 10.50am to see what we have been doing and join in with our learning.

Kia pai te wiki!!

Wiki Wha

 

It has been so good to return to school and see everyone's smiling faces.

We have been trying hard to follow the Level 2 expectations and routines such as sanitising or soap when entering the class.

Unfortunately 3 of our swimming lessons with the coaches have had to be postponed but we did manage to have 2. Here are a few photos from Friday when we got to use the lifejackets.

This week we also started the 21 Day Challenge. You would have seen the two posts from Tuesday and Wednesday. For the next few weeks we will continuing with the challenge, learning about how we can be kaitiaki for the Hauraki Gulf. We will learn about the different creatures that inhabit the moana, the issues they face and how we can help. One of the #1 ways we can be kaitiaki is by picking up rubbish we see on the ground so it doesn't go down the drain and into our harbour. Lots of the class have started picking up rubbish at and around their homes. Each day I will be asking how many pieces of plastic were picked up. Any photos you send will be added to our slideshow I will upload next week. Can you guess who this is picking up rubbish?

 

On Friday Miss Green visited the class and taught us the Kawa of Care for using our Chromebooks. We have now all signed our contracts and logged onto our Chromebooks with our new passwords. We can't wait to get started on Monday!

Reminders for this week:

1. Class swimming is on Tuesday & Thursday
2. Lunchtime swims are on Monday, Tuesday & Thursday
3. Library is every Thursday
4. All reading logs are due on Friday for checking

Have a wonderful week,

Ngā mihi

Nga Manu~ Day 3 of The 21 Day Challenge

 Look at the pictures of these seabirds. What is the difference between them?

Watch this slideshow and see how many of the seabirds you can name. e.g.Dotterel, Gull, Gannet, Oystercatcher, Kingfisher, Penguin, Black Petrel, Spotted Shag.

Can you match the birds with their calls?

Two more videos you may like to watch about the black petrel:

Can you remember the animals mentioned in the 2 video clips? What is the Maori name for the black petrel? Next time you go fishing what will you do to make sure our seabirds are safe?