Back at School

 A mix of indoor and outdoor learning.  And learning how to cope with masks on. 

Family Portraits

👪👪👪Miss Aiston's and Miss Lang's Bubbles

 

More Diwali Celebrations

 It's great to see that despite the lockdown our families celebrated Diwali, shared their knowledge and their wonderful pictures. Thank you!

Diwali: Learn, Create And Share

Here are a few examples of learn, create and share from Room 18 this week.

Learn: about the Diwali festival and why it is important for groups of people. We did this by sharing what we know, exploring Diwali videos, eBooks, science experiments, Diwali dance, word search, Kahoots and power points.

Create: design a rangoli pattern, create a Diwali poem, write all you know about the Diwali, ZOOM Diwali dress up, even a collaborative rangoli pattern on the interactive whiteboard, conduct light experiments plus a range of Diwali activities for disconnected Friday. 

We loved sharing everything Diwali this week online and with our families.

A beautiful Rangoli pattern by Vivaan's family

Who can name these sweets in our comment box? Token will be given upon return to school.

Ready for celebrations

Beautiful decorations. What is the name of the flower used for these garlands? Answer if you'd like a token.

Informative piece of writing about Diwali Festival

Families sharing their knowledge during Diwali Dress up ZOOM

Diwali and lights experiments

Diyas

Collaborative Rangoli pattern on the whiteboard

 

Bird of the Year

This week we celebrated the Bird of the Year competition that runs annually. Because we have already studied the ecosystems of New Zealand, in particular NZ birds, there was a lot of excitement about the news. We've structured our programme to extend what we already knew. We looked at the phenomena of flight and the sound waves. We've found out that owls are almost silent flying machines, no sound waves could be recorded. With almost 80% of our endemic birds being at some risk, we studied a few more birds. We found out that there is a surprising contestant this year, a tiny bat called Pekapeka. How could this flying mammal enter a bird competition?! Well, we learned that from a Maori perspective, this endangered fluff is considered to be a bird! Some students voted and encouraged their families to vote as well. We've had a 'bird' dress up on ZOOM and a chance to create a favourite bird. The kereru at the bottom was created on Snapchat! Miss Aiston, our student-teacher created a Kahoot to see how much we've learned. So many students were eager to learn how to participate in this fun quiz. Now we are looking forward to spotting some of these birds and their melodies when we're in nature, even more...

Tui description

NZ falcon needs you-please vote! They are in trouble

Karearea vote

Kahoot quizz

Testing our knowledge

Tui costume out of household items

The controversial bat, pekapeka, entry in 2021

Record environmental sounds task

Discovery-owls are such quiet machines, no sound pattern

Technological creation-Guess who this tui is?

Recording sound patterns

 

Snapchat Kereru by....Vivaan

Kiwi by a 'kiwi'