A Day in the Life of Piwakawaka

 For your viewing pleasure Piwakawaka have created this sneak peek into our classroom life. Enjoy!

Tangrams

 We have been creating Tangrams in process we learnt how to flip and rotate shapes. It helps us develop our spatial awareness. Here is Toby's post.

On line classroom

We hope you are all keeping safe and well. Our online classroom is humming along. This week we have been doing our reading groups and having whole class hangouts, so we can catch up. To end the term we are going to have a fun Kahoot together.

Some of us are completing our tessellation art work. This is an image of one of the completed works. Olivia changed her shape into a dog. The class was most impressed with her effort. We can't wait to try rotational symmetry but will use a smaller template and piece of paper because this size took a lot of colouring.

We challenge our Tuhi Atu Tuhi Mai classes to come up with their own tessellation art.

Hanging Out

Today we had our first Hangout with our wonderful Cybersmart teacher Mrs M. She had cold and could not visit us in class. Mrs M sent us a link in our Gmail. That link took us into the meeting. We all had to keep our microphones off and our camera on. Mrs M could show us her screen. We could see where she wanted us to go. The chat was on so we could type any questions for Mrs M. Our headphones are on so we could hear Mrs M without it being too loud.

Recycled Art

We have been exploring different ways to use waste products in artworks. The class has been very excited planning, documenting, and creating their art. Some have already finished and there are lots of works close to completion.

This is one of our finished works. These boys are very proud.

LEARNZ Virtual Field Trip

This week we have participated in a virtual field trip to the Kate Valley Landfill. We have a joined in Webinairs, watched videos and read diary entries. We have learnt so much from this. We have learn t about the gases in the landfill, compacted rubbish is easier to transport, we are more aware of the rubbish we produce. We have really enjoyed the experience.

Life Education

We had Monz and Harold visit Kaniere School in the first week of this term. We learned about what it means to be a digital citizen.  We focus on the behaviours that we should be practicing when we are online and what we can and can't share. Harold also reminded us that whatever we post stays there forever, and if we are ever concerned about what we see we can talk to our parents, or teacher. It is the same messages we get through our Cybersmart programme.

Matific Competition and Screencastify

The whole class was engaged as we recorded our Matific activities on Screencastify, then added to our blogs. Our school is competing with schools from New Zealand and Australia to become Matific champions.

Our original images

Today in Ruma Piwakawaka we completed our original images of dragons. Take a look at our finished pictures by clicking on the links.

Creating our own images

Today Mrs Minehan talked to us about the images we use off the internet. We learnt that it is best to create our own, so she showed us how to download an image from the Explore tool onto Google Drawing and then we made it our own by using the Polyline line tool to draw over it and colour it in. It was so much fun. Have you ever made your own images like this?

TERM ONE

Ruma Piwakawaka has been very busy this term. Check out some of the fun things that we have been doing!

Welcome