LearningMYway

Tuesday, 12 April 2016

On Monday theONE6ers' put together a 10 minute performance to share the learning we had done during #NZreadaloud4JWM to the rest of the school at Assembly.

Jack volunteered to be our Master of Ceremonies

Chloe and Sharn wrote a song where they had summarised some key themes in the story and a few of the one6ers' stepped out of their comfort zone to sing it at Assembly.

Grace and Te Anahera put together a Google slideshow sharing some of the amazing language features from the story. A line of one6ers' got up to say one each as the slideshow went through.

Mya did some research about 'How to Juggle' and put together a Slideshow to share at Assembly. A small group of one6ers' who had taken up the challenge to learn to juggle took a risk and demonstrated their new found skills of juggling.

For some this was really stepping out of their comfort zone to get up in front of the whole school. I was very proud that ALMOST all got up and did something - a real show of UNITY. Well done you guys:)

Here is the video i took of the performance ... please excuse any 'random noises' !!!

What was it like for you to step out of your comfort zone and share in front of your peers?

Thursday, 7 April 2016

This Wednesday we went on a trip to balls clearing for our native bush research. We had to write down everything we found. The bugs were the hardest to find because they had all run away because of the class before us.
These are the native trees that we found some of the native trees we found
1. Rimu
2. Matai
3. Horopito
4. Mahoe

Here is a video I put together from some photos that we took.

by Bree Ann

Okay ... so call me weird ... the kids do!

But ever since finding the Bitmoji App in the Chrome Web Store a week ago, I have been hooked! I have had SO many laughs at these self-created caricatures that I NEEDED to share the fun with the kids.

So ... it began with me creating my own Bitmoji ...

Then I added the link to our Google Classroom and the kids took to it and made their own ones too!

You can tell a lot about a person's personality from the one they chose for the class bitmoji photo! So here is our 1st Class Bitmoji Photo...

We had so much fun that one of my kids decided they wanted to create a

Class Bitmoji Dab Photo

How cool I thought! SO away she went and had everyone email her their 'dab' bitmoji and here is the result!

The challenge has gone out to some other classes around the country. Mr Kelly at Aorere College had his High School kids do it...

I created a Google Slide Show where all teachers could go and add their Class Bitmoji Photos:)

Please leave us some comments about our Bitmoji creations ... will you take up the challenge?

Here is a Doc we have where we have shared what we learnt from doing Bitmoji's ...

Here is a Doc where we have shared an explanation of our Bitmoji's ...

Friday, 1 April 2016

I know I have written a few posts about #NZreadaloud4JWM but it is a major part of our programme this Term.

We have just read this week probably one of the most emotionally charged chapters in the whole book called "The Balloon Bursts".

As I was reading (although when I watch the video it seems I am yelling!) my kids decided they wanted to 'act the scene out'. So one got hold of the iPad while some volunteers 'got into character'.

What resulted was an intense, emotionally-charged scene (although our actors couldn't help laughing and smiling as they did it) but the vibe was still there.

It was an interesting exercise to listen back on myself too...as it is definitely something I am not comfortable with - listening to myself like this! I always think though, if we do not 'get into the character' while we read then we will lose some of our audience. I think I definitely got into character here!

Enjoy this few minutes of video ...

Sunday, 27 March 2016

Last week for #NZreadaloud4JWM the kids had to select an incident or situation or event from the story and create a 'piece of writing' around what is happening.

I am going to share some of their work here so you can see how creative these kids can be when left to have some CHOICE around what they write about and HOW they express it.

1. Mitchell and Andre collaborated on this piece; using the final soccer game and turning it into a 'commentary'. Just brilliant as they have captured the mood of the game with the detail they have included:

“Ok folks it's the last game of the season, the Condors will face off against the Nomads, we are five minutes away from kick of and the teams are warming up”. The nomads won the coin toss and they chose to kick off first,

here we go the nomads smashed the ball onto the other side, here comes the nomads striker Ryan he is one of the best soccer players in this match but he has just got tackled by katie “she is like a animal in the field tackling everyone’’. She has just pass to Pip on the right wing.

Wait hold on frank can we get a close up on this guy on the sideline, wait where is he, it can’t be too hard he is the only one on that side oh i see him, i feel sorry for whoevers Dad that is.

Wait the condors have the ball the kid called Pip has the ball he’s going for goal there is a defender coming to tackle him but he gets around him and smashes the ball at the goal, it hits the crossbar “Frank I can’t see a thing the sun is blocking my view, does it go in” everyone is yelling, i think it went in but the referee is saying no goal, “the guy on the sideline is not happy with that decision’’,” because he is yelling at the ref the ref is going over to the guy”, who’s Dad is that i feel sorry for the kid who’s related to the mad man because he has to leave the field.

The whistle goes end of the game 3-0 to the nomads, it was great game keep watching for the highlights after the break.

2. This is Emily and Mya's collaborative 'Diary entry' written from Pip's point of view:

It was just another day in English and then Mrs Holland announced that we were going to have a juggling competition. It was going to end of the last Friday of term we had three weeks, three balls, three dollars.

The prizes that we got if we won were a three dollar tuck shop voucher and Mrs Hollands juggling balls.

After school that day i went straight to practice and that's how the story went. I didn't have any juggling balls so i just used mandarins because they were the same weight as Mrs Holland's juggling balls . 100 squishy mandarins later it was competition time.

3. Mikayla did a poster advertising the soccer game:

4. Jack wrote 'an article for the newspaper:

Ignatius Loon Sports Center Massive Success

April 19 2009

It’s been a long time coming, but finally, the Ignatius Loon sports center’s grand opening has arrived. Over half the town arrived for the grand opening, a massive horde waiting in the twilight air outside the Igloo’s large double doors. Climbing instructor, Rob Gale, agreed to an interview on the night’s events.

“The place was packed, especially the climbing center, we have an area called the “Bouldering Room”, it's the sort of place for people to get used to the handholds and environment they would experience on one of our climbing walls. The place was packed with little kids, tumbling all over the place, the maining climbing center was worse though, there were nearly too many people for us to handle, massive lines at each wall. Now, I was here working on this area of the center far before our grand opening and I have a crazy story for you, one night while I was touching up the climbing walls, a kid snuck in through an open door, at first I didn’t notice until I had to go back in for my keys. I was walking around with just a torch, then all of a sudden I hear a tiny little squeak, and I look up, and this little kid is hanging from the top of the midnight run, our hardest climb. Surprisingly he did this without a harness and managed his way down as well. He didn’t seem like the brightest kid, but he was one of the most natural climbers I’ve ever seen”

The Ignatius Loon sports center welcomes everyone to come down and try the range of sports available there. More news on the centers development, coming soon.

5. Sophie wrote an 'interview' with Ivan Kingsley, the soccer selector:

“Is, is it on?”

“What?”

“Is the camera on?” Ivin repeats.

“Yes, it is” says the cameraman.

“You should have told me” says Ivin

“ummm its live” says the cameraman.

“HURRY UP!” Yells Katie, are we gonna do the interview or not??

“Sorry lovey we will do it now” says Ivin politely.

“Hello everyone and welcome, here we have one of the latest Highland players this is the very talented Katie” announced the news reporter. “So Ivin what made you choose Katie for the position as a Highland player?” Hmm well, Ivin started “it was pretty easy to decide she was like a cheetah up and down the field, she was a rocket, i mean this Katie is an amazing passer and tackler as well, she easily just practically grabs the ball off the opponent and quickly passes the ball down to her friend pip, pip is an amazing shooter who scored quite a few goals. I must say i had second thoughts about choosing Katie for the spot but then she just nailed the long pass and i thought i must have her on my, team i need her and by the end of the game i just knew there was no one else with the amount of skill she had that could handle the pressure of being in the almighty Highlands soccer team.”

Those are just a few of the pieces of writing to come out of last week's #NZreadaloud4JWM.

We would love some feedback on what these students have written:)

Wednesday, 9 March 2016

A LearningMYway morning

It was a great morning in theONE6 today - most days are pretty good I must say. But this morning everyone seemed to be humming! It is ALWAYS nice when I look around and see everyone engaged and busy on something of their choice.

So I decided to do a wee video to share out which really shows how our LearningMYway room looks when every learner knows the task to do and is engaged in their own learning journey:)

Tough Kids

On Tuesday this week our class and 2 others went out to Hastings for the

'Mitre 10 Tough Kids Challenge'

It was an absolutely GORGEOUS afternoon to get out of the classroom and do something different and challenge ourselves.

I was REALLY impressed with the way theONE6ers' behaved AND supported each other during the race.

On behalf of the kids, I would like to say a HUGE thankyou to our parents and grandparents who gave up their time to help with transport. Without this help we simply can not do extra things like this. Big ups to: