Advent

 

Reading Group Poem

Lions group read a poem about an Owl. They wanted to write their own. They chose to write their poem about a horse. 

Real or Fake?

 Today we continued our work on smart media. As smart learners we will ask ourselves 2 questions when we are looking at anything online...

is it real or is it fake?

who can I trust?

Today we looked at some photos and decided if they were real or fake. We also talked about why people alter photos. 

Then we created some fake photos to try to convince others of what we do at our school.

Here are some of our photos...

Maara Kai ideas - Rylee

 Check out the individual student blogs to see the great presentation ideas. You will also learn where around the school you can find the different ingredients. 

Celebrating Cultural diversity in our classroom and school.

The lunchtime art group took it upon themselves to create a piece of artwork that honored the cultural diversity of our classrooms and parish community.

We decided to go with the idea of a sculpture. Every Wednesday lunchtime the art group would get together to research and draw designs.

Over the summer holiday some of these designs were chosen and made into the metal plates.

These metal plates show some of the cultures at our school.

During term 2 and 3 Room 4 took on the challenge to sand and varnish this beautiful piece of wood that my family had donated.

Thomas, Chanel, Stella and Jakob A were very keen to use crystals as part of the design. They are a symbol of light and love.

We finally completed the design with the Whakatauki plate.

It means - Let the uniqueness of the child guide our work.

As a school Saint Mary’s is built on the ideals of Mary Mackillop. Children are the centre of everything we do and the beauty and uniqueness of their cultural backgrounds are honored and celebrated here.

Thank you everyone who has shared this journey with us, contributed materials, time, and skills to help this amazing sculpture find it’s resting place in front of our school. 

Room 4 Liturgy Focus

 

Would You Rather?

Last week we read Te Māhuri class blog from Yaldhurst School. They had a sticky question on their blog. We left our replies to the sticky question on their blog here. 

Today we have a Would You Rather? question to practice commenting on a blog. Please add your comment as well.

Kawa of Care & Quality Blog Posts

This week in our Cybersmart lesson we were writing a quality blog post to go with our Kawa of Care revision from last week.

We were working on extending our ideas and writing full sentences to display more about our learning.

Here is Rylee's work. Do you think she has given a clear explanation about what were were doing? Do you have any questions for her? You could ask here on her blog here.

 Today I was learning to explore blogs and write about how much blog post they have posted in 2020 it was fun and i learnt lots. 

My new learning was to click on the world map and if you click location it will show you how much countries has visited.

I enjoyed finding out how much posts they have posted in 2020

I found it challenging to click on the world to see the countries that have visited 

My digital learning object shows I can read blogs and find information, put the information into a table, embed my slides into my blog.

Next time I would change the writing and make it detailed and interesting. 

Blog Statistics

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were exploring blogs and looking for information on them.

We had to look carefully at the side bars to find some statistics.

We looked at how many people had visited the blogs, how many different countries these visitors were from and how many blog posts they had done in 2019.

Have you looked at your blog statistics recently?

How do they compare with these one that Jakob R found?

Quality Blog Posts

Today we were creating a quality blog post with our work from last week.

Here is some of our work.

Charlotte:
I was learning to take care of my cybersmart Chromebook. My new learning was very helpful because now I know to not to put thing on my Chromebook so it does not break it. I found it hard because getting the keyboard picture. I found it easy to change the background. 
See more on Charlotte's blog here

Thomas:
I was learning to take care of our chromebook and being cybersmart.
My new learning was that you can't put things on your chromebook otherwise your chromebook will break.
I found it hard to find the right keyboard image.
It was easy to change the background.
See more on Thomas' blog here

Jacob S:
I was learning to keep my chromebook safe. My new learning was kawa of care slide.
I found it hard to do my kawa of care slide.
It was easy to put it on my kawa of care slide on my blog.
Seemore on Jacob's blog here

Kawa of Care Review

Today Room 4 reviewed their Kawa of Care.
We watched a video about Caring for your Chromebook".
Then we added 3 important messages to make a poster.

This slide deck shows some of our work by Thomas, Rylee and Jakob R.
There is a tutorial on slide 2 of how to make a GIF and put it into a slideshow to make it more appealing.

Matariki Breakfast

Thank you friends and family who joined us to celebrate our Matariki learning in Room 4. We enjoyed talking about all the different things we we learned about Matariki and sharing kai with everyone.

Matariki Kites

This week we have studied the traditional shapes and styles of Maori Kites. As part of our Matariki celebrations we have made our own kites and tested them out. We enjoy learning about our history and traditions. We are exploring how being a great learner often is a result of not getting things right the first time. Sometime we have to try many different ways to be successful. We had a lot of fun in between the down pores of rain!

Our Cultural Celebration Sculpture.

We are sanding a massive slab of wood to make a sculpture. This sculpture will help celebrate the different cultures in our school and our community. The next step will be to varnish the wood.

Room 4 Student Blogs

Everyone in Room 4 has their own blog now.

You can find the list of blogs in the right-hand side gadget. 

Scroll down and see if you can find the list.

Click on a name to view their blog - and please leave a comment.

Do you like our blog header?

It has got artwork that was especially designed for our school.

Guess What This will Be?

Today I walked into Room 4 and saw this 

big piece of wood on the table.

I wonder what it will be?

What do think it will be used for?

As the saying goes...watch this space.

Online Profiles

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we got our own blogs.

We are so excited.

Up until now we have been emailing our work to the class blog.

Now we can post our work to our own blog.

Today we added our profile photos to our new blogs.

You can see our blogs by finding the list in the right-hand side gadget and clicking on our names.

Here is some of our profiles that followed our Cybersmart learning about only adding things like our first name, our year level, our interests or hobbies and what we like doing.

Seb Fraction