Welcome to Level 2!

We have been learning online for 5 weeks! Some of our students have been learning online for even longer! Well done to all of our students for the effort that they have put into their learning from home over this time.

Today we finished our online sessions with Free Writing Friday, a super scavenger hunt and our class assembly. Congratulations to Lucy, Millan and Reo who received our class certificates this week.

Check out our Free Writing Friday 

Next Monday we will be returning to school. The majority of our class are coming back and we have a few students who will continue their learning from home using our class site for a while longer. We have a very clear health and safety plan in place at school, keeping our distance, hand hygiene and being kind are of the utmost importance.  

Friday Fun Day Scavenger Hunt

As part of our 'Friday Fun Day' we did two scavenger hunts. The rules were simple:

1. DO NOT disturb anyone in your household while you are looking for items for our scavenger hunt.

AND

2. DON'T BREAK ANYTHING or tear the house apart.

Everyone had to give a thumbs up that they could see the list and then it was 

Ready, Set, Go!!!!!!!!

The students had a great time!!! They also put everything back where they found it so everyone was happy!

May Free Writing Friday

We have been doing FREE WRITING FRIDAY as a group for the past 2 weeks during our 9am catch up. Last week we had 16 keen writers and this morning we had 11! It is amazing how much writing can be achieved in a 20 minute writing session.

Our writing focus is on FREE WRITING which means we can write about anything at all! We know that re-crafting and editing is important however this session is all about sharing our thoughts and ideas in our writing without worrying about mistakes. We can re-craft and edit at a later date.

We hope you enjoy reading our wonderful free writing!

 

Term 2 - Week 4 - Te Manga Class Certificates

We had a class assembly today to acknowledge those who have received their reading certificates, 'Top in Class' for Mathletics and to award our weekly certificates.

The following students have been 'Top of Our Class' for Mathletics:
 Week 1 - Kaydee, Week 2 - Edmon, Week 3 - Alani and Week 4 - Reo. 
Keep up the great Mathletics learning everyone!

Our class certificates this week went to Jamie, Tuva-Lisa and Zion.
Click on their name to check out the fabulous learning they have been doing at home.

Congratulations to all our learners, you should feel very proud of how you are managing yor learning at home! Well done everyone!

Term 2 Week 4 - 100 Nights Home Reading - Congratulations

The Te Manga students have continued their home reading since being at home. They will get their paper certificates when we're back at school but in the meantime they can enjoy their digital reading badges, which they can post on their blog. 

Check out our amazing readers ...

Fun at Home with Zana, Kaydee, Zion and Edmon!

The students in Te Manga have been doing all sorts while they've been at home. 

This is Zana's pet pig Hogg. He is little, black and super cute. He has already grown a lot since this picture was taken almost a month ago. 


Zion and his lovely little brother Tyson had fun making dominoes fall BUT their dominoes were big blocks of wood. Check out their cool video.



Kaydee's dad made her a cool pair of stilts. His dad made him some when he was little and now Kaydee has some too. When she grows her dad can move the blocks higher. We're looking forward to her bringing them into school when we all go back.

Edmon has been busy doing science experiments with his family. He has been learning all about surface tension. Look at his learning video and click here to go to his blog which has some great posts about his experiments.

Term 2 - Week 3 - Te Manga - Pupil of the Week and Class Certificates

We had our first class assembly for Term 2 to acknowledge those who have received their 50 nights and 75 nights of reading and to award our weekly certificates.

This week our certificates went to Koda, Edmon and Kaiora.

Te Manga was able to choose a 'Pupil of the Week' and this week it has gone to Larell.

Congratulations to all our learners, you have been doing great from home!

Term 2 Week 3 - 100 Nights Home Reading - Congratulations

The Te Manga students have continued their home reading since being at home. They will get their paper certificates when we're back at school but in the meantime they can enjoy their digital reading badges, which they can post on their blog. Check out our amazing readers ...

Term 2 - Te Manga - Proud and Passionate Leaders of Learning in the Heart of the Community

The students in Te Manga have been super busy since the beginning of Term 2 started.  They have impressed me with the learning that they are doing at home.It has been great to keep in touch at our hangouts each day and the students are using our google hangout timetable for whole class catch ups and group sessions really well.

During our whole class catch up today we had lots of people who were keen to share what they had been doing at home. Not everyone chose to share today which is fine, hopefully they might want to share next time.

Today Tuva shared some photo's of her making - Kolakako or Swedish fudge cake with her mum. They looked delicious. We hope she will share the recipe on her blog. 

Larell talked about all the learning he has been doing about ANZAC Day. He found out that there were WW1 mascots like dogs, horses, bird, cats, rats and even donkeys. He made an ANZAC poppy and shared his learning on his blog. 




Kaydee watched a science experiment on 
our class site and did the egg and vinegar experiment. That one didn't work but then Kaydee and her dad did one with baking soda and vinegar outside and it exploded all over her dog.

Jamie has been adventuring around his farm picking mushrooms and trying to avoid stepping on spiky bushes.

Mihi's mum made her and Anahera some bats. She put them on a rope  and when you pull the strings it moves. She said her sister keeps beating her!

Edmon shared  his science experiment that he did with his dad. It was all about surface tension, he explained it really well. We all thought it was very interesting and you can find out more about his experiment by clicking on his blog here. 

Millan told us that he has been helping do jobs at home like the rubbish, recycling and helping his nan. He's also been getting a lot of math done too! He
also told us that it's his little sisters birthday tomorrow, she is turning 1!

Carrie talked about the reading she has been doing, how she has been working out her technology and she also helped make a delicious brownie too.

Kaiora made snow at home! We couldn't believe it but he told us he used baking soda, water and salt. He was able to make snow at the beach! How cool is that! 

Katarina told us that she made the most delicious cheese scones. She felt so proud of herself because they're using hard rocks. Well done
Katarina.

Yvette has been busy working with her boys, she even did one of their PE activities with them; as many burpees as you can in 5 minutes. Way to go Yvette.

We were really happy to see Sir this morning too. He has been very busy having meetings with lots of principals and teachers. He was very happy because Mrs Windleborn made him banana muffins and they
were delicious. Lucky Sir!!!

I told everyone that I have been enjoying catching up with everyone each day. I have also loved all the mushrooms that are growing around where we live. We have been mushroom picking and I love mushrooms. I could eat mushrooms for breakfast, lunch and dinner! 

We have been at home for 4 weeks now but it has not stopped the enthusiasm that our class has for learning and the enjoyment we all get from catching up with each other!