What we can see from this table is - April has the most blog posts. The least blog posts made were in February and no blog posts in January.
The total of blog posts our class blog has so far is 121.
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
My blog analysis from January - May 2020
What we can see from this table is - April has the most blog posts. The least blog posts made were in February and no blog posts in January.
The total of blog posts our class blog has so far is 121.
A Samoan language week DLO by Viliami T
Today I created a video explaining facts about Samoa for Samoan language week. In the slides there are facts about Samoa. Did you know Samoans have their own version of cricket? Happy Samoan Language Week.
Monday, 25 May 2020
Faatāuaina o le Gagana Samoa i Niu Sila
As we celebrate the Samoan language in New Zealand this week, Room 7 are working on learning about different aspects of being Samoan and the Samoan language.
Kalolaine made this Google Slide to teach her viewers what the months of the year are in Samoan.
Kalolaine made this Google Slide to teach her viewers what the months of the year are in Samoan.
Fa'afetai Kalolaine
Friday, 22 May 2020
Bounce Back DLO by Ngakiri
This week, we have started our learning about BOUNCE BACK. It is an Australian programme designed to teach students about being resilient. We started the unit by understanding what the acronym BOUNCE BACK stands for. This is Ngakiri's DLO about Bounce Back.
Thursday, 21 May 2020
This is Richie's screencastify discussing his Google Drawing about the lockdown
Step 1 - fill in the Google Drawing about your experience of the lockdown
Step 2 - record a screencastify explaining your answers in detail
Step 3 - embed your screencastify in a blog post on your blog
These are the steps Richie had to follow for this activity. Well done Richie. Great explanation of how the lockdown was for you.
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
Monday, 18 May 2020
Thursday, 14 May 2020
Preparing for our return back to Room 7
The past six weeks have been an amazing journey of learning, reflecting and adjusting. When we first started the lockdown, my biggest fear was - how are my students going to cope with their learning from home? How can I support them when they are not in class? Will the parents be able to help with their learning activities?
However...I strongly believe we have made it work Room 7. We utilised the technology we are blessed to have today, we utilitised the cluster we are blessed to be in and we also utilised the kaupapa of our school and made it work.
Having the hangouts was a great way to see you all and learn together. There were days I felt like the hangout was just simply a hangout where we chatted then you would go off and enjoy your day not giving a second through to your work. A few motivational speeches from Mrs Tofa changed that (I still have to copyright my motivational speech guys).
The blogs have been my go to for the last six weeks. Looking at your blog posts provided a wealth of knowledge, insight and appreciation to your efforts in your learning. Your individuality really comes across in your blog posts. Some of you really are fabulous authors with the way you present your personal voice in your blog posts.
I tried to incorporate your home life in your learning activities. Your whanau recipes were great, our whanau challenges for ANZAC, our school assembly...just pure joy to see. I hope through this lockdown you have been able to see just how important your home learning is as well as your school learning. I also hope you and your whanau have built on your capacity to work together in your learning. Remember this is all for you and your future. The more effort you put in, the more you will be able to receive in success.
Lastly my thank yous. First I would like to thank myself for being Room 7's greatest teacher (lol) just kidding. I would firstly like to thank all of you who consistently tried your best in your learning during the lockdown. Thank you for persevering with your learning. I would also like to thank your parents and caregivers for their on going support. I hope they have been able to enjoy and learn from our learning activities throughout the lockdown weeks. Big thank you to the Manaiakalani team for their support in setting up our hangout links and being there for me to call upon when I needed help. A massive faafetai lava to our Glenbrae whanau Mrs Patea and our staff members for the great team work and communication and guidance during the lockdown.
A special thank you which deserves to be in its own paragraph would have to be for our government. Our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the cabinet not forgetting Dr Bloomfield who is now almost as famous as Taika Waititi or maybe more famous? The support for education and our country has been phenomenal. I am truly grateful for how the government managed the Covid-19 pandemic and how they are still managing the effects of this pandemic on our nation.
Now, as we prepare to head back to school. I know some of you are excited and some might not be too excited about the early morning rises. Just be grateful we had experienced what we had with the lockdown. Covid-19 has changed the world in many ways. We are adaptive and resilient people and now we will go into school on Monday to make adjustments to our new norm.
With that, see you all on Monday. The photo is a preview of what our classroom will look like. I still have to fit in a few more tables in to cater for our class.
However...I strongly believe we have made it work Room 7. We utilised the technology we are blessed to have today, we utilitised the cluster we are blessed to be in and we also utilised the kaupapa of our school and made it work.
Having the hangouts was a great way to see you all and learn together. There were days I felt like the hangout was just simply a hangout where we chatted then you would go off and enjoy your day not giving a second through to your work. A few motivational speeches from Mrs Tofa changed that (I still have to copyright my motivational speech guys).
The blogs have been my go to for the last six weeks. Looking at your blog posts provided a wealth of knowledge, insight and appreciation to your efforts in your learning. Your individuality really comes across in your blog posts. Some of you really are fabulous authors with the way you present your personal voice in your blog posts.
I tried to incorporate your home life in your learning activities. Your whanau recipes were great, our whanau challenges for ANZAC, our school assembly...just pure joy to see. I hope through this lockdown you have been able to see just how important your home learning is as well as your school learning. I also hope you and your whanau have built on your capacity to work together in your learning. Remember this is all for you and your future. The more effort you put in, the more you will be able to receive in success.
Lastly my thank yous. First I would like to thank myself for being Room 7's greatest teacher (lol) just kidding. I would firstly like to thank all of you who consistently tried your best in your learning during the lockdown. Thank you for persevering with your learning. I would also like to thank your parents and caregivers for their on going support. I hope they have been able to enjoy and learn from our learning activities throughout the lockdown weeks. Big thank you to the Manaiakalani team for their support in setting up our hangout links and being there for me to call upon when I needed help. A massive faafetai lava to our Glenbrae whanau Mrs Patea and our staff members for the great team work and communication and guidance during the lockdown.
A special thank you which deserves to be in its own paragraph would have to be for our government. Our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the cabinet not forgetting Dr Bloomfield who is now almost as famous as Taika Waititi or maybe more famous? The support for education and our country has been phenomenal. I am truly grateful for how the government managed the Covid-19 pandemic and how they are still managing the effects of this pandemic on our nation.
Now, as we prepare to head back to school. I know some of you are excited and some might not be too excited about the early morning rises. Just be grateful we had experienced what we had with the lockdown. Covid-19 has changed the world in many ways. We are adaptive and resilient people and now we will go into school on Monday to make adjustments to our new norm.
With that, see you all on Monday. The photo is a preview of what our classroom will look like. I still have to fit in a few more tables in to cater for our class.
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
A reflection from a very proud debate team leader. Well done Viliami Ma for your wonderful leadership.
Last week, we had our class debate and Dwayne and I were team leaders for one of the teams.
We first had to get our teams ready for the debate and it was really difficult for us but, we managed to get our teams to cope with it and we were all ready for the Class debate.
Our teams couldn't decide what team would go first so we held a Kahoot to decide who goes first and who goes last. The short of it, is that my brother won and luckily he was in my team so we got to go last. The debate went like this, Dwayne went first and then I went with a bit of a long speech and all of our team members said the little speeches they made.
After Mrs Tofa our teacher had to decide which team won the debate but, she said "Learning Won" and I was shocked but it was alright. Here is my debate speech.
Viliami's speech :
Good afternoon my name is Viliami I am the leader of this debate team. The topic for today is, Lockdown should be extended for another four weeks and we are going against this statement, and my team members are Aisea, Richie, Gideon, Kuea and Jayden.
First, we have Aisea, he is going to be talking about kids not being able to see their relatives, Next we have Richie and his argument will be about how this lockdown is affecting kids learning. Then we have Gideon, whose argument will be about kids missing out on activities. Lastly but not least Jaydin will be our last speaker.
Our team beliefs are that kids cannot cope with Covid-19 and this Lockdown, and they are so used to working at school, we believe that kids find it hard to work from home, and not just the children but the adults as well.
We first had to get our teams ready for the debate and it was really difficult for us but, we managed to get our teams to cope with it and we were all ready for the Class debate.
Our teams couldn't decide what team would go first so we held a Kahoot to decide who goes first and who goes last. The short of it, is that my brother won and luckily he was in my team so we got to go last. The debate went like this, Dwayne went first and then I went with a bit of a long speech and all of our team members said the little speeches they made.
After Mrs Tofa our teacher had to decide which team won the debate but, she said "Learning Won" and I was shocked but it was alright. Here is my debate speech.
Viliami's speech :
First, we have Aisea, he is going to be talking about kids not being able to see their relatives, Next we have Richie and his argument will be about how this lockdown is affecting kids learning. Then we have Gideon, whose argument will be about kids missing out on activities. Lastly but not least Jaydin will be our last speaker.
Our team beliefs are that kids cannot cope with Covid-19 and this Lockdown, and they are so used to working at school, we believe that kids find it hard to work from home, and not just the children but the adults as well.
Monday, 11 May 2020
Friday, 8 May 2020
Room 7 class debate on hangout
Today, we had our second debate. We had our first one last Friday and the students wanted to do another debate this Friday. We have decided Fridays, we will have our theme for our hangouts and a debate.
During the week, the students work on their arguments. Each team has a team leader and the leader works on making sure everyone is ready with their arguments by Friday. We certainly have very good debaters in Room 7.
Today's topic was 'The lockdown should be extended for another four weeks'. Viliami M's team were against the topic and Dwyane's team were for it. Both teams had very good arguments to support their stance.
Well done to this week's team leaders for our class debate. You did a great job in ensuring your team worked together and had the confidence to speak.
Bring on the next debate!
During the week, the students work on their arguments. Each team has a team leader and the leader works on making sure everyone is ready with their arguments by Friday. We certainly have very good debaters in Room 7.
Today's topic was 'The lockdown should be extended for another four weeks'. Viliami M's team were against the topic and Dwyane's team were for it. Both teams had very good arguments to support their stance.
Well done to this week's team leaders for our class debate. You did a great job in ensuring your team worked together and had the confidence to speak.
Bring on the next debate!
Cooking in technology via hangout
This morning the Year 8 students cooked during their Technology hangout. Mrs Heka and the students did the theory work for today's cooking last week. Therefore, today was a session of cooking in the kitchen.
Richie sourced the help of his mum to cook his dish and this is the delicious result.
Great work Richie and Mrs Changchreonkul.
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
This is Pitara's creation for Mother's Day
Slides dedicated to my Mum, Nena and all our Glenbrae School
This is Richie's creation for his Mum for Mother's Day
Today I made a poster for my mum. I made this poster because on Sunday this week it is Mother's day in New Zealand.
Another Smart Learner Blog Challenge by Dwyane. Great work Dwyane.
Today I did another blog challenge this challenge is called Collage.
What I did is I went to google and typed textures.
E.g blue textures, green textures.
I really had fun doing this challenge
Saturday, 2 May 2020
Blogging comments by Room 7 this week
We have been enriched with reading many blog posts by students in our school and our Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu buddy classes.
This week we made 193 comments. We will continue to support the learning of our peers and each other by looking at blogs and learning about what other students are learning about.
via GIPHY
This week we made 193 comments. We will continue to support the learning of our peers and each other by looking at blogs and learning about what other students are learning about.
via GIPHY
Friday, 1 May 2020
Another great drawing of Robin by Viliami M
This is one of my google drawings I've been working on, which I just finished today. My Google drawing is of Robin. A young superhero and he is Batman's sidekick. He is in the Teen Titans and he is a good leader.
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