October 29 Update from Greg

 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:

October 28 Update from Greg

 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

October 27 Update from 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:

When you click on your group, you will find a Google Sheet which has links to:

• your bookwork
• Mathletics (I have indicated the tasks for you to do this week.)
• Education Perfect (There is a task on clocks.)
• Maths Mysteries (There will be a new one each week, and I also list olds ones if you to try.)

Don't forget that you have your flag design project and Einstein's Riddle to work on. There are some lovely flags in Room 9's Shared Work and the riddle has already been solved by some students!

I hope to see you all for our Zoom session at 10AM!

Greg

October 26 Update from Greg

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!

October 22 update from Greg

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:

October 21 Update from Greg

 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

October 20 Update from Greg

Kia ora tātou,

I hope everyone is well. The weather has been nice so I also hope that you have spent some time (safely) outside in the sunshine.

How is everyone going with the Pānui and Pāngarau work? It is great to hear from some of you, so please let me know if you have any questions or if you need any help.

So far this year we have looked at report writing, character and setting profiles and procedural writing. Today I would like to introduce persuasive writing. You can find a new Google slide under the Tuhituhi heading at the top of the blog. I have given an example of a piece of persuasive writing with my explanations. I would like you to choose a topic and write your own piece of persuasive writing (you can find the topics on the last page of the Google slide). 

Just like with the other types of writing that we have done, your writing should follow these three steps:

1. Make a plan (You can see a planning template in the Google slide – you don't need to print this, instead you can make a plan on a piece of paper.)

2. Write (You should have five paragraphs: an introduction, three main body paragraphs and a conclusion.)

3. Use the checklist (This is on the second-to-last page of the Google slide.)

You can do your planning and writing on a piece of paper which you can glue into your Tuhituhi books when we are back at school. You can also do your writing digitally. Please share any writing you do with me. You can take photos and send them to me or share your digital work with me (gparkinson@hameast.school.nz).

I have heard you use persuasive language in the class so I look forward to seeing your writing! Just remember that you are telling the reader why they should agree with you.

Stay safe!

Greg

October 19 Update from Greg

Kia ora everyone,

I am sure you have all seen the news that we are all in Level 3 to at least the end of the week. Let's hope we can go back to school next week.

I have created weekly Pāngarau plans for all groups. These have been shared with you all and you can also find them under the Pāngarau Links on the right-hand side of the blog. We made a lot of progress with fractions in Term 3 so I want to extend these concepts this week. When we are back in class, we will move onto some Statistics as a new Pāngarau topic. I would like to see more of your attempt the new maths challenges that I posted yesterday too. Please add your comments on the bottom of the blog on the Pāngarau page or you can also send some step-by-step photos of your solution to the coin challenge to me.

How are the Daily 5 Pānui tasks going? Please let me know if you have any questions. Remember to try to guess the meanings of the words from the text before you use a dictionary when you work on the Word Attack strategies. You all have more inferencing questions too. If you want any extra practice for this, you can do more of the inferencing activity using pictures. 

This term one of your focuses for te reo Māori is Hauora (Health) so I have created an Education Perfect activities on sports people which have been assigned to you all. 

Did you see the photos of our catapults on the blog? If you think you can make an even better catapult at home with different materials, please do! Send me a a photo with a description of your design for me to add to the blog. You can add some evidence (think measurement) to explain how awesome your design is too!

I know it's a pain not having your books with you, but you can continue to work on scrap paper which you can glue into your books later. So you have plenty to work on for now! I will add more tasks tomorrow.

Kia kaha and keep in touch! It was great to hear from some of you yesterday,

Greg

Welcome back to Term 4

Here is the message that I posted on Hero:

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