Thursday, September 2, 2021
Room 9's Shared Work
Forced Perspective Photography
Here are Brooklyn's cool photos! Thank you for sharing yours first, Brooklyn!
Lockdown Kitchen
Opal also likes Mexican food. Here is her presentation on nachos! Yum!
Here is Yazeed's information about shawarma wraps – well done! They are absolutely delicious and I hope everyone gets a chance to try one some day!
Hamilton/Kirikiriroa City Flags
Here is Luci's lovely flag. She explains that the coins represent the economy; the big boat represents the shipping of goods to other regions and the small boat represents the transport of goods locally.
Here is Elliott's wonderful flag. What do you think the different parts of his flag represent, everyone? I am sure Elliott can explain things for us.
Here is Opal's bright and beautiful flag. Opal explains that Hamilton was known as the New Zealand's capital of monarch butterflies. You learn something every day!
Here is Yazeed's gorgeous flag. Do you recognise the bridge?
Here is Alex's cool flag. Do you notice the inspiration from Hamilton's coat of arms? Alex explains that the stars represent Matariki – what a great symbol!
Here is Tyson's nice flag. Could you explain your thinking here a little more for us Tyson?
This is Brooklyn's colour flag. What do the symbols represent, Brooklyn?
Te Reo Māori
The Kaimoana Bounty Māori Language Mystery
This is a mystery challenge.
I have shared the pepeha slides that I share with you every day in class. If you need more feedback on how to change your pepeha for certain family members, please let me know. I will also post these slides in a separate blog post if you can’t open the file. So please practise your pepeha – see if you can learn it by heart!
Te Reo Māori on Education Perfect
I have already set some te reo Māori lessons on Education Perfect. I set a new one last week and there is a new one today. Please let me know if you would like more lessons. Please let me know if you have any problems accessing these lessons. If you can’t access Education Perfect but you would like the word lists, please let me know.
Make te reo Māori vocabulary games on Scratch
Some of you have been working on making a te reo Māori vocabulary game using Scratch. Now is a great time to keep working on this! The vocabulary to use is in this class quizlet. If you can’t use Quizlet or Scratch, but you want to learn the vocabulary, here it is:
tū - – to stand
E tū! - – Stand!
Me tū! - – Let's stand!
noho - – to sit
E noho! - – Sit!
Me noho! - – Let's sit!
waiata - – to sing
Waiatatia - – Sing!
Me waiata! - – Let's sing!
hīkoi - – to walk
Hīkoi! - – Walk!
Me hīkoi! - – Let's walk!
kōrero - – to say/speak/talk/tell
Kōrero mai! - – Speak!
Me kōrero! - – Let's talk!
kōrero anō - – to repeat
Kōrero mai anō! - – Speak again/repeat!
Me kōrero anō! - – Let's speak again/repeat!
tatari - – to wait
Tatari! - – Wait!
Me tatari! - – Let's wait!
tīmata - – to begin/start
Tīmatatia! - – Begin/start!
Me tīmata! - – Let's begin/start!
kua oti, mutunga - – to end/finish
Kua oti!, Mutunga! - – Finish!
Me mutu! - – Let's finish!
pakipaki - – to clap
Pakipaki! - – Clap!
Me pakipaki - – Let's clap!
ako - – to learn
E ako! - – Learn!
Me ako! - – Let's learn!
akoako - – to practise
Akoako! - – Practise!
Me akoako! - – Let's practise!
tuhituhi - – to write
Tuhia! - – Write!
Me tuhituhi! - – Let's write!
Pūtaiao
The Tarantula – Using Evidence
We have explored two science capabilities in Room 9 so far this year:
Gathering and interpreting data
Using evidence
We gathered data when we took temperatures in different parts the school. We then had some hunches about why the temperatures were varied in some parts of the school. Please click on the link for the presentation and activity.
September 7: Home Water Challenge
As you know, Hamilton East School is an Enviroschool. Here is an Enviroschool challenge that you can try at home. If you do this challenge, please share your results!
Above is the link to a Google Slide about floods. If you can’t access the file, please let me know. There is an option to do some research on a flood that has happened in New Zealand. You could find more about the flood in Auckland or any other one. For example, I wonder what is the largest flood to ever strike Hamilton? You can make a Google presentation for this research and move it to your Inquiry folder on your Hamilton East School account. You can also write your work on paper and stick it into your Pūtaiao book later.
August 27, Super Senses
I have shared this file with you on Google Slides. Again, you can do your work on paper and stick it into your Pūtaiao book later. You are also welcome to publish anything on your Hamilton East School account and move the file into your Inquiry folder. Please let me know if you have any questions about it.
Background
Supersense: We know that we have five senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. “Super” means that something is especially good, so a “super sense” must mean that an animal or person has an especially powerful sense.
Questions
When are you aware of your senses?
Why do you think animals have senses?
What does “echolocation” mean? Think about “echo” and “location”.
Activity 1
Complete the table:
Activity 2
Investigate some of the ways animals in their own environment carry out other functions (for example, movement, eating): What functions do animals need to be able to perform to stay alive? How do they perform these functions?
Extension Activity: Human senses
Watch the video and repeat the experiment about human reaction times for yourself.
August 25, The Tui – Using Evidence
I have shared this file with you on Google Slides. Please let me know if you have any questions about it.
Tuhituhi
September 2
Another option for Tuhituhi is to make a cartoon strip for a fiction text that you have read.
This could be something from your digital reading box or another book that you have read.
Here is an example template that you can use, but you can also create your own.
You don’t just need to use 8 boxes – you can use fewer or more.
You can write this on paper and stick it into your Tuhituhi book later.
You can also create a digital cartoon strip if you like.
Please share your work with me and I can post it on the blog.
If you write on paper, you can take photos of it.
September 1
If you have watched a movie during lockdown, you could do a movie review and share it with me.I will create a blog post for “Room 9 Movie Reviews”:
You don’t need to print this out.
You can use the same categories and write it on paper, take a photo of it and email it to me later.
August 31
Some of the reading challenges ask you to work on synonyms and antonyms.
I have given you some tasks to help you practise these:
I have already set a task called “NZC3 Synonyms/Antonyms”.
If you can’t access Education Perfect, please let me know. I will probably just need to reset your password.
August 30
The Tokyo Paralympics are on at the moment so here are a new piece of writing that you can try:
(from Twinkl.com)
Choose another paralympian and create a fact file like the example for Sophie Pascoe above.
You can either:
write a fact file above on a piece of paper and stick it into your Tuhituhi book later
Create a presentation on your Hamilton East School – save it in your Writing folder.
August 23
This is a chance for you to do plenty of writing at home. You can start new writing on:
Remember to plan your writing first with a mind map!
If you cannot open the Google Slide, the main parts of your writing are:
backstory, physical description, personality traits and typical routines. You will probably have a paragraph for each.
You can write this one piece of paper and stick it into your Tuhituhi book later or publish it on your
Hamilton East School account. The rubric is below:
You could email your writing to another student or to me to be checked.
Remember to plan your writing first with a mind map!
If you cannot open the Google Slide, the main parts of your writing are:
place, time of day and period of time (past, present or future).You will probably have a paragraph for each.
You can write this one piece of paper and stick it into your Tuhituhi book later or publish it on your
Hamilton East School account. The rubric is below:
You could email your writing to another student or to me to be checked.
Remember to plan your writing first by brainstorming the basic steps and then numbering them!
If you cannot open the Google Slide, the different things you could write about are:
do or make something, find something or someone (directions), use something.
Think carefully about how these processes work.
The test for your writing is to draw pictures for each step after you have finished.
Would someone else be able to follow your process?
I have uploaded some Schonell spelling wordlists for levels 1, 2 and 4 which you can practise.
Start at Level 1 and see how far you can get – this is good practise for spelling tests!
These lessons will be available at 9AM on Monday.
If you can’t access Education Perfect but you would like to practise these spelling lists, please let me know.
Writing Challenges
Pānui
Term 4 Daily 5
Digital Reading Box
You can work the reading challenges with the texts from your digital reading box.
I have created Digital Reading Boxes for each group below. I will keep adding more titles.
You can choose any of these titles (or any other text) for your reading challenges.
Purple/Gold
Pen Pals (non-fiction)
Emerald
Pencarrrow: New Zealand’s First Lighthouse (non-fiction)
Ruby / Independent
Red, the Pig and the Automobile
The Story of the Ventor (non-fiction)
This is an activity for you to improve your inference skills. I will add more questions to this presentation.
Literacy Challenges
September 7 (Who Stole the Emoji’s Colour?)
August 31 (The Mystery of the Missing Medal)
You all have readings for your levels. Please contact me if you need your username or password again.
I have assigned everyone a lesson on Latin building blocks. This is a great review for the root words, prefixes and suffixes that we covered in Term 1.
More Reading Options
September 2
There was a flood in Auckland on Monday. Here is the KiwiKidsNews article about it.
You can write the answers to the questions on a piece of paper.
Stick them into your Pānui book later.
August 31
New Zealand Spring
Tomorrow is the official start of spring.
I have shared a reading with some scientific facts about spring.
There are questions for each reading group below.
You can write your answers on a piece of paper.
Stick it into your Pānui book later.
You can create a file on your Hamilton East School account.
Move it into your Reading folder.
August 23
