Kia ora whānau,
Here is a collection of the photos from Room 9 over the year. Thank you to everyone for making it such an awesome year. It was a pleasure to teach you all. If you were a year 5 student this year, see you in 2022! If you are off to intermediate school, please come and visit us when you can. We will miss you!
Greg
Kia ora whānau,
Room 9 was lucky enough to participate in an hour of coding provided on an interactive livestream by OMG Tech. The platform was Minecraft Aquatic. There are some very capable coders in the class and it was lovely to see the children help each other.
Kia ora whānau,
Students in Room 9 have had the opportunity to explore the school ground in pursuit of forced perspective photography shots. Here are some of the cool images they took:
Kia ora whānau,
How wonderful it is to be back together on site in Room 9!
We have been gifted with summer-like weather so we have made the most of it but learning both inside and outside of the classroom. A major focus over the past week or so has been social interaction for our tamariki. They have enjoyed activities such as:
Kia ora tātou,
Wow! Great news! We go back to Level 2 on Wednesday – you can see all your friends! This also means that you have one more day of distance-learning today. I would like you to try and finish as many tasks as you can.
If you would like a new challenge, I have made a Google presentation on how to use Twinery.org to create a choose your own adventure story. I have embedded this for you below. I will also demonstrate this for you in our Zoom meeting at 10AM.
See you soon!
Greg
Kia ora tātou,
I hope you all had a great weekend.
This week is an exciting week because a lot of us will be returning to school! There are two more days before this happens so it is a great time to finish off activities and share your work with me.
I have set Pānui Daily 5 work for Week 5 – please see your Daily 5 planners. These can be found under "Pānui" or "Pānui Links". One new activity this week is an Education Perfect vocabulary activity. You have been asked to work on your word attack strategies so the Education Perfect vocabulary activity will be a great review for that. I will show you how this work in our Zoom meeting.
See you at 10AM! We will have a game of Drawasaurus!
Greg :)
Kia ora tātou,
I hope your family all saw the update from Pippa about our return to school next week. If not, I have posted it for you at the bottom.
The weather has been like summer, hasn't it? Unfortunately the rain might be back late tomorrow and over the weekend.
I have added more tasks to our Pāngarau Weekly Planners (see "Pāngarau Links" on the right-hand side of the blog. Everything is related to statistics. There are more activities for Education Perfect, Mathletics and a task called "Choice Squares". We need to collect some data for this task, so I have created a two-question survey which everyone needs to answer. I will publish the results in your digital modelling books:
Kia ora koutou,
From November 17th this is the Hamilton East School plan for returning to school safely.
Your children will attend school for two days a week.
On Mondays and Wednesdays children with the last name from A-L (Group 1) will go to their own classroom.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays children with the last name from M-Z (Group 2) will go to their own classroom.
Neither group will attend school on Fridays. Online home learning will continue.
The bus will be operating, masks are required.
Year 3 & 4 - Rooms 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 - masks are required to be worn indoors during school hours.
Year 5 & 6 - Rooms 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17 - masks are required to be worn indoors during school hours.
Essential Workers' children currently attending will continue with their allocated days in their own classroom.
This is organised through the Principal by email.
Friday 26th November is a Teacher Only Day, a reminder that school is closed to all children.
Ngā mihi
Pippa Wright Principal
Kia ora tātou,
I was so happy to hear that we will be going back to school next Wednesday, November 17th! Pippa will provide more details about how exactly classes will work when we go back. I also hope you are having fun with your forced perspective photography project.
Today we are going to look at organising the data you have gathering with your surveys. You can find this presentation under "Pāngarau", but here it is below too:
Kia ora tātou,
I hope you had some time in the lovely sunshine yesterday.
Thank you to those who finished their surveys for their statistical enquiries. These are all linked under "Pāngarau" and I need you all to complete each other's surveys. You need data so we can continue your statistical enquiries so I will give you another day to do this.
I have created an Mahi Toi project for you on Forced Perspective. There is a link to this under "General Links" and you can see the presentation embedded below. We will talk about this in our 10AM Zoom meeting and we will also have a treasure hunt. You don't need to prepare anything for this.
I have also made and assigned an Education Perfect lesson on the Bossy R.
See you at 10AM!
Greg :)
Kia ora tātou,
It feels like summer these days, doesn't it?
Thank you to those who finished their surveys. I would like everyone else to have one more day to finish their surveys. Can you please complete the surveys that have been finished? All of the topics are interesting and they don't take long to complete. You can find the links under "Pāngarau". The next step this week will be to analyse our data.
You have your Pānui Daily 5 tasks to continue with. I have also added a Pūtaiao article – "Whakaotirangi and her Kete of Kūmara". We will look at this in our Zoom meeting today
Today we will also have a game of Scattergories. This is a simple game, but you will need a pen and paper. I will show you five categories of things and you will have 2 minutes (120 seconds) to write down something that begins with a random letter. You can see an example below:
It will be fun!
See you soon,
Greg
Kia ora tātou,
I hope you all had a great weekend! It was warm yesterday, wasn't it?
I have given everyone new reading tasks – please see your Pānui Daily 5 Weekly Planners. This week a focus will be on the bossy R vowel sound. This a special long sound that we make in words like car, for, term, bird and turn. Do you see how there is an R after the vowel (A, E, I, O, U) in each word? Think about this makes a long sound. I noticed that a lot of your confused this vowel sound when you identify words like "car" or "far" as being CVC words. "Car" and "far" are definitely not CVC words – they use the bossy R. We will look at this more in our Zoom meeting today.
Thank you to those who have finished their statistical enquiry surveys. I have posted them under "Pāngarau" for everyone to answer like this:
I will show you during our Zoom meeting. We all need to answer each other's surveys so we can collect data to analyse. We will look at this more this week. So could everyone please answer Thai, Tyson, William and Yazeed's surveys? Everyone else, please finish yours so we can answer them too. Maybe you can get some ideas from these students.
You can also find a new word search for "City of Bugs" and there is a new literacy mystery.
See you at 10AM – the link is the same as always!
Greg :)
Kia ora tātou,
I hope you are all well.
A few of you have made a start on your statistical enquiry so thank you. We will see what topics you have in mind today during our Zoom meeting and do some brainstorming together.
I hope you enjoyed the Drawasaurus game – we can do that another time as well. Today I would like to play Taboo. This is a game which can be played without using a website. I will send individual students a word that they have to make the rest of the class guess. However, there will also be some keywords that you cannot say, along with the main word that you want your classmates to guess. For example:
I might say "Tell the time." "What time is it? Do have a ____?" Hopefully someone will guess "WATCH" but I am not allowed to say "clock", "wrist" or "look".
I want everyone to continue with their statistical enquires today. Everyone has other tasks to work on too – please share your work with me by putting in your HES folders or emailing me photos. I have added another set of vocabulary on ailments to the te re Māori Hauora lesson so you can try that too. If anyone else wants more reading material, please let me know.
Have a great weekend!
Greg
Kia ora tātou,
Thank you Tyson for sharing a great idea for Zoom meeting: Drawasaurus. This is a fun activity that we can all use together. It is very similar to the game Pictionary which you may have played before. I will share the link for our class game room after our Zoom meeting starts on the "chat" function. I hope it is possible for us all to use this website while the Zoom meeting is going, but you could also participate by making your guesses on the Zoom chat if you can't open another website while you are using Zoom. Anyhow, we can try it!
We will also look at our statistical enquiry for birthday parties today. After we finish, your task today will be to start your own statistical enquiry!
Thank you to those who have shared more work with me. I always look forward to receiving your work. Don't forget that you still have the new Kea Kids News article to read and make questions too. If you haven't already, I would also like you to try the quizzes for the first two Kea Kids News articles that I gave you to read. You can find the links under "Pānui". You will also notice how I have used Google Forms to make these quizzes. We will talk more about Google Forms soon!
See you at 10AM!
Greg
Kia ora tātou,
I have updated everyone's weekly Pāngarau tasks: you can find these under "Pāngarau" on the right-hand side of the blog. I have added the link to our statistical enquiry for you to review. There are also statistics tasks on Education Perfect and Mathletics.
There is a new riddle today. Send me a screen shot of your time taken to complete the riddles – I wonder who can do them the quickest!
I have also added a new Kea Kids New article for which you can make some quiz questions. You can see the quiz for "Meet the Canterbury farmer who turns junk into art" below.
The weather is not as nice as yesterday but hopefully it will be okay in the evening. It is a good day to catch up on work:
Please share your work with me.
See you at 10AM for our daily Zoom meeting!
Greg
Kia ora tātou,
Today we are going to start a new topic for maths – statistics. I will introduce a statistical enquiry to you. We will do one all together before you do your own. To get some more background on this topic, I have assigned you all the Education Perfect lesson on collecting data. I have also added a new riddle for today. Well done Tyson who has already solved yesterday's one!
Thank you again to those students (Opal, Yazeed, Luci and Brooklyn) who have made questions for the Kea Kids News articles. You can still add more questions.
Everyone has something to continue with:
See you at 10AM for our daily Zoom meeting!
Greg
Kia ora tātou,
Sorry, we ran out of time during our Zoom call. To answer your question, you can email me your work like Yazeed and has done – he took photos of his written work. If you create a digital file using your Hamilton East School account, please put in into the correct folder (Writing, Reading, Inquiry or Maths) and I can see it. If you don't use your school account, just email me (gparkinson@hameast.school.nz).
Thank you to Yazeed and Opal for the wonderful quiz questions that they have written about "Kea Kids News: The kea with half a beak who uses pebbles to preen himself". Please read the article and test yourself on Yazeed ands Opal's questions, and some that I have added, at the bottom of this page.
Here are some new tasks that I have added for you:
Kia ora tātou,
It was great to see so many of you during our daily 10AM Zoom session yesterday. Please remember that I have emailed you all a permanent link for these Zoom sessions so check your school email address. If you can't remember your login details for your school email address, please contact me (gparkinson@hameast.school.nz). I can have a test call with you.
I am already receiving work on. the Lockdown Kitchen project so I will share this in "Room 9's Share Work". You can do this project on paper or digitally using your Hamilton East School account. I think you all have lots of other work to continue with too, but please keep sharing it with me.
There is also a new crossword for the following article from Kea Kids News: The kea with half a beak who uses pebbles to preen himself. I would like you to make quiz questions for this article. I have shared a Google Document with you where you can write your questions and answers. We will start this document together in our Zoom session.
I have created a new Education Perfect te reo lesson for our unit on Hauora. It is about ailments. We will have a look at this today. I would also like you to draw and label a new picture with the same body parts in te reo Māori. Like Ms O'Neil suggested, you can also make a really fancy one with animations in Google Drawings using your Hamilton East School account. I would like to replace the example from my Education Perfect lesson with a better example from the class. I am sure someone can draw a better picture than this one from Twinkl.com:
Kia ora tātou,
It was great to see so many of you during our daily 10AM Zoom session yesterday. Please remember that I have emailed you all a permanent link for these Zoom sessions so check your school email address. If you can't remember your login details for your school email address, please contact me (gparkinson@hameast.school.nz). I can have a test call with you.
I have posted the work we did on our persuasive writing during the Zoom meeting under "Tuhituhi". You can also see an embedded presentation on "Lockdown Kitchen". I will talk about this with you during today's Zoom meeting.
Don't forget that there is riddle to work on this week. More people have solved it. I will reveal the answer at the end of the week. Please send me our flag design and share all other work with me. I think you all have enough to continue with, and there are also crosswords, word finds and other Pānui and Pāngarau games to help your learning.
I hope to see you in today's Zoom meeting!
Greg
Kia ora tātou,
It was great to see a lot of you during our daily 10AM Zoom session yesterday. Please remember that I have emailed you all a permanent link for these Zoom sessions so check your school email address. If you can't remember your login details for your school email address, please contact me (gparkinson@hameast.school.nz).
Everyone has new Pāngarau work for this week. There is a common theme for everyone though: fractions and time so we will talk about this in our Zoom session tomorrow. Your weekly Pāngarau plans are all under Pāngarau Links on the right-hand side of the blog:
Kia ora tātou,
I hope you all had a nice long weekend. It was great to receive work from some of you, such as your flags, so you can see this under "Room 9's Shared Work" at the top of the blog. Please have a look, post some comments and questions and send me your own flags! I have also designed a flag so I will share that with you all once I have more from the whole class.
I have sent you all email invitation for daily 10AM Zoom sessions. Please check your school email accounts.
I have added tasks for "Week 2" in everyone's digital Daily 5 planners which you can find under "Pānui Links" on the right-hand side of the blog. Everyone has a new reading. I have also created puzzles based on the texts from your digital Daily 5 planners. You can find digital interactive words searches on the right-hand side of the blog. You can find digital interactive crosswords at the top of the blog. There crosswords are sorted by reading levels. There is also a crossword for everyone based on the reading for "Squawkvilla". I know there are lots of Roald Dahl fans in Room 9 so have also added extracts from "George's Marvellous Medicine" along with a crossword.
I have also given you a riddle instead of a maths challenge for this week. It might take you a while to figure out, but please be patient and don't give up! We can also do some work together on it during our Zoom sessions.
I have also added some fun new games for literacy and numeracy under "Pāngarau Links" and "Pānui Links". There are all kinds there and I will show you some tomorrow during our Zoom session.
Hope to see you at 10AM!
Kia ora tātou!
How is everyone?
Thank you for those who came to our Zoom meeting at 10AM today – it was great to see you and I hope you had fun drawing your norgards! I will have Zoom meetings every day at 10AM while we are in Level 3. Here is the link for our next Zoom meeting on Tuesday, 26th at 10AM:
https://zoom.us/j/94375684908?pwd=UURNQURueEFlMGpGZ29hNEYwbDhzZz09
You should have lots of work to continue with, but I would like to introduce a new Mahi Toi activity for you to work on: I would like you to design a city flag for Hamilton/Kirikiriroa. I have created a presentation that gives you some information and tips about flags and designing them:
Kia ora tātou,
I hope everyone is well.
I have just added an article about a giant parrot "Squawkzilla" that used to live in New Zealand under the Pūtaiao heading at the top of the blog. There are questions about the article and other activities for you. You can also find an interactive crossword for for this article under "Reading Challenges". You can work on the crossword together, but please press "Clear Puzzle" once you have finished it.
I have also added some new maths challenges and I will put up the answers for Monday's ones. You can see the answers on the right-hand-side of the blog.
Also, I assigned two Education Perfect tasks this week: one is a word list and the other is the main lesson. I suggest that you work on "Sports People – Word List" first. You will find the other task easier after you have learnt the vocabulary.
Tomorrow I would like to meet as many of you as possible for a Zoom meeting at 10AM. It will be a chance to see how you all are, answer any questions you might have and we will also have some fun together. Here is the meeting invitation:
https://zoom.us/j/98316882447?pwd=QW1wK3hGTVdXRzQrYUZ4TUMydjVrZz09
If you don't have Zoom, I believe you will be asked to download the software when you click on this link. It doesn't take very long.
So, I look forward to seeing you tomorrow!
Greg
Kia ora everyone,
I hope you have all had a good break. It is a shame that we couldn't go far, but I at least we got to spend time with our whānau.
As I am sure you know by now, we are still at Level 3 on Monday, October 18th so it is at-home learning this day. I have posted a video message to explain your at-home learning on the class blog but here is a summary for you:
1. Pūtaiao: Where Our Food Comes From
You can find a Google Slide embedded in the blog under the heading "Pūtaiao". This is an introduction activity about an inquiry topic for Term 4.
2. Math Challenges
You can find three new challenges on the blog under the heading "Pāngarau".
3. Daily 5 Reading
I have uploaded the links for each group's weekly Daily 5 reading plans under "Pānui" on the blog.
I know your books are in our class so how about writing on paper and sticking it into your books later? If you would like to create files on your HES Google accounts, that is fine too.
Please let me know if you have any questions and let's see what happens regarding Level 2 and our return to school in Monday's government announcement.
Greg
Kia ora whānau,
Two scientific capabilities we have examined this year are observing and using evidence. These were explored during a class catapult challenge. Here group had to design catapults during only popsicle sticks, rubber bands and a cup to shot a pompom as far as possible. The class showed great resilience in their observations as they altered their designs to create the most elastic force possible. Evidence was collected using a trundle wheel and most groups were able to fire their pompom well over 4 metres!
Well done Room 9 – you are thinking like scientists!
Kia ora whānau,
It is so great to all be back at school! Unfortunately we have had a few rainy days since we have moved back to Level 2. Here is what members of Room 9 do on such days:
Kia ora Room 9,
I hope you are all well.
I know it is not always easy to learn at home so thank you for being resilient and doing your best.
I really look forward to seeing you all on Thursday!
I have added the following tasks for today:
PĀNGARAU: Warm-up, Numbers of the Day and Maths Challenge (click on the “Pānagrau” tab above).
I have also added work to your modelling book (see the “Pānagrau L:inks”).
PĀNUI: I have added more slides to the inferencing activityand another literacy challenge: Who Stole the Emoji’s Colour?
PŪTAIAO:As you know, Hamilton East School is an Enviroschool.
Click on the “Pūtaiao” tab at the top of the blog for an Enviroschool challenge.
You can try at home. If you do this challenge, please share your results!
You can also try e-ako Maths. There are instructions below for how to register.
Greg
Hi everyone,
Greg, Whaea Kat and I are at school in Room 8 and 9 with these lovely people. We are enjoying the spring sunshine. Can you see people from your class? We hope you are all having a lovely day and enjoying the home mahi that you are doing! We are having fun but looking forward to seeing you all when we are allowed to be back together again. Keep up your great online learning and enjoy the moments when you can get outside and go for a walk, ride, etc
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