NZ local heroes

 We had the to do some research and find a NZ local hero. Once we had decide on these people, we had to give a summary of who they are, what they do and what difference they make. Because we have speeches at the end of this unit, we are practicing our public speaking. Each student has recorded their voice, reading this summary. We will re-do the recordings once we have worked on our speech delivery skills! 

Click the picture above

Keep checking our blog for the updated versions of our voice recordings. I'm sure there will be a big difference! 

Well done to Roseena, Teejay, Skylah, Kalivati, Elisha, Peuma, Noah and Akoi. 

Types of Words!

 Today our mini Google Meet task was completed while the class listened to me read a story out loud. As I read the story the students had to put words they heard under the correct heading. 

Our headings were: 

Adjectives - Describing words

Nouns - Names of things

Verbs - Doing/Action words

Proper nouns - Names of places and people 

Emotive language - words that make the reader feel something

Lattice Strategy

 

Today we practiced our Lattice Multiplication Strategy again and here are our results. Some students challenged themselves to do it with three-digit numbers. Have a look and see if you can work out how they do it! 

CHALLENGE: 

Can you do this strategy with thousands? 

2345 x 3210 = 

Lattice Strategy - Double Digit Multiplication

 We have been doing a lot of work around multiplication. This includes multiplying decimals, double digit numbers and solving multiplication word problems. In our google meet this morning, I showed the students a Maths strategy that can be used for double digit multiplication. 

Here is some working from Kalivati and Skylah. These two caught on very quickly! Click the picture below. 

Can you try and apply this same strategy for triple-digit multiplication? 

Give it a go at home! 

Our Weather Writing Task

Click the picture below to have a look at our quick writing task today! We are learning about Natural disasters, so our quick write is weather themed. We had to write a blurb about the weather outside today without using the words RAIN or DARK. This practices to skill of showing not telling. We want to describe the scene rather than just state what you can see. 

We completed this in our 9am Google Meet session this morning. These happen every school day! 

My Holidays

Our first post back is a simple highlight and low light post. Students were given 25 minutes to create their holiday posts. Let's see how they do! 

Google Meet

Today's Google meet! 

Incase you missed it: 

We took the Roll. 

Had a catch up chat. 

Played a Maths flashcard challenge. 

Learnt a bit about writing paragraphs and did an activity on google docs together.

&

Rashaan introduced us to his bunny!

Click on the link below to have a look at some of the awesome paragraphs we created together

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OSnHvuqsdrjawnfdrZHlO7-NyH6p-XpdoZLMvuECDko/edit

Google meet session again at 1pm today!

Hope to see you there

Times tables/Basic facts Practise!

This week all four Maths groups are focusing on their times tables. 

You have been given three sets to focus on. 

CLICK HERE FOR YOUR MATH SLIDES

Here is a cool website with lots of basic facts games for you to try out. 

Click the picture below to go to the website.

Click the picture below to watch my attempt at this game. 

Have an awesome week everyone! I will see you at our google meet sessions at 11am and 1pm. 

Stay safe 

Whole Class Google Meet

I have now had 4 full class google meet sessions. They have been awesome and it is a much easier way to communicate with you all. Thank you to those of you who popped in. 

Why we use google meet: 

- You can directly ask me any questions about your school work

- You can catch up with and discuss with other classmates

- I can clarify my instructions 

- I send out resources or show you something cool everyday! 

Today our class session ended with a game of Scribblio.

I would like to congratulate myself for winning. 

Join next time to see if you can beat me in the next game! 

CLICK HERE FOR GOOGLE MEET (email me for the class code)

My Teaching Area

What does your learning area look like? 

It is good to have a working/learning area in the house, just like we have desks at school! 

This is how I have set up my Teaching area

What do you think?? 

I don't have a desk so had to be a bit creative! 

Fun activities for your whole whanau

I have uploaded some activities onto our class site. You can do them independently or get your whanau involved. 

CLICK HERE

Daily Challenge - Figure of speech

Can you see the firgure's of speech in this photo? A figure of speech is a common saying people use in specific situations. Ask your whanau to have a look too! This is a cool, quick and interesting mini challenge. 

Feel free to comment some of the ones you found below. Or make your own post and see if you can find all 27! 

Rāhina, Rāhina, Rāhina!

Kia Ora everyone! 

I am just checking in, with it being the start to a new week. I have already had time to go for a bike ride, made yummy scrambled eggs on toast and scrolled through Instagram. Yesterday I made the most of my Sunday by walking down to a local waterfall. I was quite scared of the Taniwha living in the water but jumped in anyway! lol

I'd love to see some of the things you have been doing with your whanau during this lock down. Share some photos on your blog! Remember to stay local, only drive for essential trips and do your part around the house. 

Learning related blogs will follow! 

Posting your work to your blog

Morena Room 10 

We are entering our second week of lockdown which hopefully means that you are settling into your new routines. I have introduced myself to you all via email but will be keeping you updated on here from now on. I have received a few emails regarding the posting of your work. Now is the time to really make the most of your blog! Post away! 

Remember that you are senior students. So I would expect to see capital letters, fullstops, correct punctuation AND spelling in your blog posts. You have the time to proofread so please do so. We want to share our best work and in the best way possible. 

Updates coming soon! 

Welcome to our blog!