Cybersmart Google Meet

 Kia ora viewers,

We have been doing a slideshow about google Meet.  We are doing this so we can learn how to use etiquette when we are on google meet. 

Some of these I already knew but I had forgotten  to sit still and stay in one place. Check out some of the other manners that we should show while being on a google meet by looking at the slide below.

Can you comment below on something that you read in my slideshow about Meet etiquette?

Goodbye and thank you for reading my post. Have a great day.

Information Letter

 Term1 February 2021

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

I thought I would put our class information letter here as another way of accessing it if you need to look back on anything important.

It briefly outlines what happens in class and the important information about daily school life.

Our Learning

All our learning is chromebook based, however it is expected that the children can write, design, draw, and create with as many ‘tools’ as possible. Our concept for this year is Kotahitanga. We will be thinking about social action and how together we can be more effective for good. In our class we will be focusing on critical thinking, questioning and listening to each other, through collaborative learning. 

Our Class Site

All of the learning in our class is accessed through our class site. Please take a look around and see the tasks that have been set for them, and the groups and subjects which are their focus for the week. This includes an outline of the daily timetable on the home page (ie. when swimming lessons or lunch times are) You can also access all the class blogs from here too.

https://sites.google.com/hornbyprimary.school.nz/room9-2021/home

Our Class Blog

We also have a class blog as well. This allows you to see what all the children in the class are learning and our current topics and experiences. This blog will be regularly updated with posts about what we have been up to.

https://room9-2020-hps.blogspot.com/

Accessing the Notices

Much of our school communication is by email and notices are also emailed out to parents through a system called Hail. All school information can also be found on the school site which is linked to Hail. Facebook is a great way to keep track of what is happening in school too! There will be a new app that you can download on your phone as another option starting this year. 

http://hornbyprimary.school.nz/

Some important things to remember at the beginning of the year.

• Sunhats must be worn during Term One and Four. 
• The school stationery fee is $20 and this covers all subscriptions for online education sites, exercise books, equipment and stationery.
• We are a ‘Water Only School’ and encourage healthy choices for lunch, e.g sandwiches, fruit, vegetables. Fruit should start in Week 2, on Monday 11th but it is helpful to add an extra snack or fruit to your child’s lunch box to eat at fruit time.
• This year our school is beginning the government initiative of ‘Lunches in Schools’. Your child will need to bring their morning tea and anything else they would like to eat during the day to school.
• We are trying to be as rubbish free as possible to enable our children to think about the effect that their choices have on the environment. All wrappers and rubbish that is brought to school needs to remain in your child’s lunchbox and taken home. Rubbish free lunchboxes tend to be healthier ones too.
• Please bring dry togs, a towel, swimming cap and goggles everyday during Terms 1 and 4. Swimming is an important part of the curriculum and it is expected that just like other school subjects, all children participate. If your child is unable to swim due to illness, please write a quick note to explain this to the teacher. A shower is available for those children who have skin allergies.
• If your child has their own chromebook, please ensure that it comes to school fully charged and it is brought everyday. Chargers need to stay at home so they do not get lost at school. 
• It is expected that your child is dressed in the Hornby Primary School uniform. Please leave any non uniform items and jewellery (studs, sleepers and cultural necklaces excluded) at home. Please also ensure that any undergarments are tucked in and cannot be seen. 
• The classroom is not open for children to enter until 8:30 am. We strongly encourage that children do not come to school before this time as there is no formal supervision available for them. If your child arrives at school earlier than this they wait at the picnic table area.
• Formal home learning is not set in Room 9. We would however love you to encourage your child to read for at least 10 minutes every day, practise their basic facts (+, - and x), read and comment on other’s blogs, and carry on with any learning they haven’t completed.
• All cell phones brought to school by your children need to be dropped into the office upon arrival at school and collected when school has finished.

If you have any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me at school or pop into the class. 

Kind regards,

Mrs Thorp :)

Welcome to 2021!

 Kia ora parents, whanau and amazing children!

It's good to finally be starting the 2021 school year.  There has been a lot of change and new learning in 2020 and we are looking forward to the learning that we can accomplish this year.

I am especially looking forward to teaching and learning with Room 9! Many of you I have taught before, however, my name is a bit different to what it was last time!

I am now Mrs Thorp!

I hope you have all had a wonderful holiday and lots of time with your family and friends. I look forward to hearing all about it when I see you on Tuesday!

:) Mrs Thorp

Step it UP

 

Kick Start  Learn  Watch: colouring time lapse  Create Art Colouring Book: choose an image to colour.  Download a copy to your Chromebook  Take a screen shot of the original Art   Describe why you chose a different colour for one of the objects in the painting. Share  Upload your Art and a screenshot of the original and label each image. Insert your description in your post Watch: create your blog post.

Step It Up Learn  Watch: Elements of Art Read: Elements of Art Use the Zoom Tool Look closely at the original image you chose to colour. What do you see?   Create  Art Colouring Book: choose an image to colour. Write a description of the Art you chose using as much detail as you can from the elements of art.  Share Upload your Art and a screenshot of the original and label each image. Insert your description in your post Watch: create your blog post.

Super Sports with Fancy Features

 Kia ora, welcome to my blog,

This week we have been writing recounts using language features. So now that we have learnt all of these language features this term we need to use them in our writing. 

These are the language features we have been learning about for the past weeks:

Onomatopoeia  - ‘Bang’

Metaphor - “You are the sun!’

Personification “The clouds danced across the sky.”

Hyperboles - “I was so embarrassed I would have stuck my head in the toilet to hide.”

Alliteration - “It was time for super Sunday sports.”

Dialogue - “Don’t move,” Ellenessa whispered.

So the first things we did was answer in our documents the questions: who why, what, when, where, and how. we wrote down these ideas in bullet points. Then we looked for places where we could include ur language features. We highlighted the different language features in different colours and then yesterday turned our planning into a story. 

Here are some of my ideas that answer the question 'WHAT'

What?

• Fun Friday super sports
• Line up on the court when the bell rings
• Walk over to the highschool
• Into the old gym
• Wait for our coach 
• Start training and warm ups
• Game: finding positions, getting bibs, choosing the right spaces, Sonnie says, Coach says, 

This is the start of my writing.

3/9

Fun Friday super sports it's now over. But now I'm going to tell you all about it. We have winter sports on Sunny Fridays when it is dry with all the other schools in our cluster. 

Narrative Writing Planning by Malama

 Kia Ora readers, 

My name is Malama and today I am going to be sharing my narrative writing. 

 For narrative writing there was 6 boxes we had to write a story I added 3 characters They were Temera Tori and Malama I was Malama but I was a story teller. We had to write a story in each of them but we had to add language features. 

One of the language features I used was a metaphor. A metaphor  means that a person is like something else like you are tree or a sun. But my line was that " Temera was kicking Tori like a wild cat". 

Another language feature I used was a Dialogue I said  "GET HER GET HER HAND SHES A STRONG ONE!! " Tori said. The reason why I said it was a dialogue because someone is saying something.

I have not finished my story I only got to do my plans but I will be sure I will get it finish and post it when I have time.

But now I am going to be sharing my Narrative writing enjoy readers.

Thank you for reading leave a comment and have a stunning day

The Student Summit by Riley

 Hi Readers!

It's Riley here writing for our class blog.

I went to the Student Summit with a few friends on Wednesday. I think you are wondering what is a Student Summit. Student Summit is a thing where students from schools from all over the Uru Manuka cluster learn new online tools. The online tools me, Jade and Sean taught was 'Storyboard That'. 

I also went to some workshops. the First workshop I went to was how to use Canva. The second workshop I went to was the one Me, Jade and Sean were doing. The third one I went to was how to use Scratch Junior. The forth one I went to was how to use Mihi maker. Here are some photos of me Sean and Jade doing our presentation.

Thank you for reading my blog post! Have a nice day!

Our Tree Planting Trip by Zahina

Kamusta everybody,

On Wednesday September 16, the trusted trekkers, health leaders and some other people that have been amazing at school or just have been chosen got to go on a field trip to plant trees.

What I expected was to just plant a big seed in the ground and look around the farm but I was wrong what we actually did was we...

..first off drove for about half an hour to go to springfield for toilet break and playground time….

…..then it took us maybe 15 minutes to go to the farm near Springfield to plant trees more than once but about as much as we wanted….

...after we planted the plants, we walked towards the cows however there was some down sides, there were cow poop everywhere! We all made it through and saw these lovely cows…….

Finally we had lunch and after we had finished eating we played games that caused some problems, although we got to see a cat named Spook. Lastly we viewed the whole farm inside the van and headed home while some of us slept in the vehicle like me. 

Our Blogs!

 Hi Toroa room 2 and room 4 Ruapotaka!

Sorry for not having our class blogs available to you all!

We went and had a look at all your lovely work last Friday! Wow! You have been up to a lot.

You can check out each of the individual blogs in our class by clicking on the links below!

Have fun exploring!

Matariki Comics

 Kia ora whanau and buddy classes,

A couple of weeks ago Room 9 learnt some matariki legends. We learnt how to work out where the matariki stars are in the sky on a clear day.

Then we had to recreate one of the legends we learnt on Storyboard creator. We all turned our legends into comics by creating images from the important parts of the legends we remembered.

Here are some of the finished Matariki comics we made.

Thanks for checking out our blog!

Filipino Langauge Week

 Kamusta sa taong nagbabasa nito and our buddies (Toroa room 2 and room 4 Ruapotaka,)

This post is about something relating to a culture that’s happening between the days August 13-19. Now what’s happening is it is Filipino language week. 

A fact about the dates were, on August 13 1998 there was a battle of Manila or called ‘Mock battle of Manila’. Quezon was born on August 19th, he was elected president somewhere in the Philippines and so that’s my guess of why between those days are so special. 

You might know, or not but did you know if the blue and red on the flag are in the wrong way it means the Philippines is in war.

(see),

In room 9 there are about 5 Filipino’s, how many are in your class?

Room 9s Assembly

Kia ora readers and our buddy class, Toroa, Room 2 and Room 4,

Sorry for not being active bloggers lately. But we have been doing some exciting and fun learning. 

This Friday we performed our assembly to the whole school. 

Some of us felt embarrassed and nervous but they still got up and presented. Our teacher and our class is very proud of us too. We are proud of ourselves too.

Some people shared their pepeha in Room 9s assembly and some facts about the body. Pretty much everything we have done in class lately we showed at our assembly. We showed some self portraits and art too.

Mr Roberts our principal was really busy but when the children shared their pepeha he stayed for the whole assembly because he was really impressed.

Here is the slideshow that shows all the learning that we presented in assembly.

Thank you for reading our blog. Could you please comment on our post? We hope you have an amazing day and enjoyed reading this amazing post we did for assembly.

Khiel's Louis Sachar questions and facts

Kamusta readers,

Today I am posting my Louis Sachar facts and questions. For the past 5 weeks our group the Aztecs have been reading There's a Boy In The Girls Bathroom. 3 weeks ago we have started to find out facts and questions we can ask him if we meet him in real life and what he said about our questions.

Here is my Facts and Questions about Louis Sachar.

Did you learn something new about Louis Sachar?
Thank you for reading my blog post I hope you enjoyed and have an enthusiastic day.              :P