"Water Skills for Life" Lesson with Moe from Swimming New Zealand

Today we had a great opportunity to learn some water skills for life with Moe - a WSFL educator. 

We had a lot of fun and learnt some essential water skills to properly behave in the water and how to save people if they're in trouble:

• If you see someone in the water in trouble, don’t go into the water yourself but look for an adult to help. 
• If you ring 111, explain what’s happened and where the problem is.
• You can help people float by throwing them anything that floats - like life jackets, boards, plastic milk bottles, buckets etc.
• Ropes can help pull people out of the water. Coil the rope, then throw it underarm, to the person in the water. Make sure you hold onto one end.
• When using a life jacket, put the jacket on and zip it up. Keep the life jacket on until you get out of the water.

Pool safety:

• Hop into the pool safely.
• Stay in the shallows where you feel safe.
• Respect personal space.

Thank you, Mr Victor, for your support today!

Understanding the Treaty of Waitangi through a Role Play

To understand the history of the Treaty of Waitangi and its importance, we played a Game of Land Trading.

First, we created our Wonderlands. Then we were forced to trade our resources for guns, tools and other things. During this game of trading, we experienced frustration, anger, unfairness and many other emotions when our wonderful islands were torn apart and we lost our favourite places. 

Sadaw said that the rules were heart-breaking ... Here is her recount:

Last week, Room 9 played a game of land trade. Ms Elena wanted us to feel like Maori people felt before 1840 when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. When we started I felt happy to draw, but when we finished drawing… Ms Elena called us down to the mat. Our whole class wondered why she called us. I thought it was to show off our fantasy island, but instead… the British were going to trade unfairly! Ms Elena explained to us the rules. The rules were heart-breaking…. We couldn’t do anything but trade our land and resources. I saw other people screaming and yelling, “DON’T TAKE OUR LAND, WE’LL DO ANYTHING, JUST PLEASE DON’T!” But I saw the ‘British’ take their land. At the beginning, I was laughing that they didn’t take our land. When some British approached, I thought they were going to someone’s else’s land, but instead… they came to us! They took our Ice-cream mountains. I was still happy because they didn’t take my favourite part of our island!

Later on, when the game was finished, we felt frustrated. Our land was more like a small dot! When I looked at the other islands, they were much unluckier. My friends lost a lot of their land.

Now when I know what happened to Maori people and their land, I’m happy that it didn’t happen to me! 

by Sadaw Chan!

The Marshmallow Challenge 2021

Welcome to Room 9 2021! Today, we were excited to come to school to meet our friends, share our holiday experiences and have fun learning!

During our first team bonding activity, we understood the importance of teamwork and critical thinking. It was great to work with our friends! 

All our marshmallow towers looked different but we were definitely successful in working together, listening to each other, trying new things, taking risks, making mistakes, persevering and not giving up. 

Ka Pai, Room 9! All of us are the WINNERS!!!

  

Manaiakalani Film Festival - our Fabulous Presenters

Ka Pai Mason, LV and Jasmine for presenting our film "The Gruffalo". You did an amazing job!

'The Ungrateful Snake' was presented by Alyssa, Daniel and Neomi! Fantastic work, team! 

Room 5 is very proud of all of our presenters! 

Ka Pai team!

The Ungrateful Snake - Manaiakalani Film Festival 2020

Kia Ora everybody! We are proud to present our film about the ungrateful snake that learns a life lesson. When we worked on our film, we understood how important it is to work as a team, respect and support each other. But the most important lesson is to be grateful for having great friends and kind people around us! Please sit back, relax and enjoy!

The Gruffalo or an Incredible Lesson on Integrity

Mason: Hey! You can't be talking! It’s our turn now! Don't you know what integrity is? I think we need to share our story! 

Jasmine: Maybe they need a visit from the Gruffalo to teach them integrity and manners?

Mason: Gruffalo???  What's the Gruffalo? 

LV: I'm the Gruffalo! I'll teach you integrity and manners!

Jasmine: Great, thanks Gruffalo! Are you ready to watch our story? Sit back, relax and enjoy!

Favourite Games - Recount writing

 Favourite Games 

recount by Zurielle

Y2/3 - LCS - Games from Around the World

Last Friday, Rooms 5, 4 and 6 got together to learn different games from around the world. Each class had to present and teach one game. We had a lot of fun sharing and learning new games.

Neomi's recount:

Zurielle's recount:

LV's recount:

For more photos and videos, please visit our Class Site and our individual Seesaw Blogs

Our Maori Language Learning Moments

We joined Kia Hana Te Reo Maori for the Māori Language Moment by creating and submitting our Te Reo Maori learning videos. 

Kia Hana te Reo Maori have been inspired by our learning moments and published them on their website. Please check it out by following this LINK. 

Episode #1: Mahunga, pakihiwi, puku, hope, waewae song.

Episode #2: 'How are you?' tutorial created by LV, Raidon, Adrian and Pearl

Episode #3:   Room 5's students were learning greetings in Te Reo Maori. Zurielle, Alyssa and Jasmine created this video tutorial to support our learning. Ka Pai!

Numbers 1-20 in Te Reo Maori

As a student-driven LCS project, a team of Rm 5's students created this fantastic resource for us to practise counting in Maori. 

Thank you, Adrian, Marceline, Pearl and Oscar! Ano te pai!

Our Digital Class Library

Over the past few weeks, we have been reading a lot of interesting books that we wanted to share with our friends. We decided to create our own digital class library so we could share our 'read-aloud' even during home learning.

Please feel free to check out our DIGITAL LIBRARY and listen to our cool books, stories, poems, games and/or recipes!

What Time is It? - Te Reo Maori with Pearl and Ann

Today, during our online learning, we had a fantastic opportunity to learn some Maori words and phrases with Pearl and Ann! 

Thank you, Pearl and Ann, for such a wonderful lesson! 

Ehara koe i a ia!

Click HERE or on the picture to watch the video

Blogging - Smart Relationships and Smart Footprints

Check out our online collaboration and feedback. We value smart online relationships and remember to leave our smart footprints. 

We are always smart, respectful and kind in our classroom and when posting on the internet!

 

Please visit our individual student blogs to see more of our smart posts and comments.

Drama in Room 5! We are Talented Authors, Illustrators and Actors!

This week we spent creating our scripts and performing various plays. Finally, we ended up with a fantastic idea of inviting the Gruffalo into Room 5!

We are so excited to work on our play. Our incredible scriptwriters produced a number of great scenes. Our next steps are to select the best ideas and create the final version of 'The Gruffalo Did It!" play.

It will be very hard to select the best actors, so we are preparing for a big audition day to give everyone an equal opportunity to try for a role! Auditions are hard - maybe the hardest part of acting - but all actors do it, so, Room 5's actors are in excellent company! 

Click here to see our behind the scene working moments.

Year 2-3 Learn Create Share Project - Book Week