Champion Leaderboard

 

Congratulations to all the learners who have achieved the top 3 positions.

Holiday Activities

 

Here is a choice of activities you all could do if you would like. These are not compulsory but if you do decide to do activities then definitely there will be a reward for you once you get back to school.

Asking and Answering Critical Questions

 

In our class we are working on asking and answering critical questions. Here is a Google slide that has examples of critical questions we ask when we are reading texts and discussing ideas and information.

   

Here are the topics we are working on currently. We are sharing our opinions on these padlets. We ask and answer critical questions on these topics in our Google Meets. Leave a comment or add your opinion on the padlet if you wish to.

This Week's Champion Learners|Online Certificates

 

 

Well done everyone. I am so proud of you all and I am sure you all will continue to be the awesome yous in our last week of online learning before we meet at school (fingers crossed) next Term.

Happy Birthday To Joanna

 

Joanna 

Shout Outs for Today- Daniel, Isaac, Marcus and Faiva

Awesome Mahi from these learners- 

Isaac's Aotearoa Lockdown Slides  

Daniel, Faiva and Marcus's Slides on evaluation questions. We are learning to ask and respond to evaluation questions when reading texts.

PwC Explore- ToiToi Digital Activity Resource

 

Click on the image above to view the ToiToi literacy resource from PwC 

Latest Champion Leaderboard

 

New Lockdown Challenge

New lockdown challenge is ready for you to take part in. So, what are you waiting for? Get in action and make a movie and show a snippet of life in lockdown. 

Send your entries to entries@glentaylor.school.nz, or Mrs Faalili or send them to me. 

Online Champions For This Week!

 

Champion Leaderboard

Here is the updated champion leaderboard. If your name is in the top 5 on the board, you are in for a special reward. Have a read of the rewards on the champion leaderboard page on the class site. 

Learn some Kiwaha (Maori Sayings)

 

Write 3 sayings (Kiwaha) that you have learnt and would like to use. 

History of Te Reo Maori

 

Write 3 things you have found out from this video that you did not know and write two things we can do to keep Te Reo alive. 

Exemplary Online Learning Mahi (work)

Another week in level 4 of lockdown for Auckland but Room 5 learners and their whanau are just shining through their online learning. Level 4 lockdown has definitely been hard on many of us but their attitude, their never giving up spirit has not faded away and they just keep doing absolutely amazingly in their learning. I have shared some snippets here on the class blog but if you would like to visit some individual blogs then please feel welcome to. 

We hope you all are well and are keeping yourself busy with online learning. 

Please click on these images to go the blog post. Hope you enjoy looking at our blog posts. 

Uheina's quiz on Te Reo Maori. 

Uheina's Quiz on Te Reo Maori 

Mokoia's work on fractions. 

Mokoia's work on fractions

Maia's Fact File on Mr Herlihy. 

Maia's Fact File about Mr Herlihy (Our awesome principal) 

Joanna's Fact File on Ms McKenzie

Joanna having a conversation with teachers using the comment and reply tools on her blog post. 

Syntyche's mahi on matching an image with the feeling word in Te Reo Maori. 

Lara's work on working out half of a number.

Online Learning Champions

Look at the awesome bloggers in Room 5

Link 

 

Shout Out Time| Room 5 learners rock!!

This is a shout out post for my class- Room 5. I am so so so proud of you all and the way you have embraced online learning. This lockdown came upon us all of a sudden and you guys just jumped into lockdown learning from your homes just like that. It is certainly not easy but you all make it look like butter on toast. 

For the last 3 weeks Room 5 students have been learning from home and are working creatively and most are working with their classmates using Google docs. It is just incredible. 

Room 5 have been involved in a lot of awesome learning experiences/tasks since lockdown started on 18th August 2021. Last week Room 5 researched on a topic and wrote speeches. This week they are interviewing a staff member from GTS (Glen Taylor School, our school) and creating fact files on them. Here is the interviews schedule. 

Here are links to hear and read some amazing speeches. If you wish to read or hear some more speeches please visit our individual blogs. 

Maia 

Zion 

Here are links to view some amazing Math learning happening in Room 5

Francisco 

Joanna 

Here are links to view some fact files we have written on the staff members of Glen Taylor school who we have interviewed-

Lara    Lara 

Posts from Soana and Uheina from their work on Tongan Language week. Mrs Tupou Fonua in our school shared some slides with us with tasks about Tonga and Tongan language. We are really enjoying working from them, especially all the Tongans in our class. 

Soana     Uheina 

Hope you enjoyed looking at all these amazing pieces of learning from Room 5. 

Examples of Factfiles

When you are interviewing our awesome GTS staff members think about the kinds of questions that will give you detailed information. 

Click here to see different templates you can use to create your factfile on the GTS staff members we interview. 

Happy creating factfiles on our very own famous GTS staff members. 

Kids interviewing the Obamas before they left the presidential house

Listen to the type of questions being asked. Think about what questions you will ask our very own amazing GTS staff members this week and next when you interview them.

This Week's Online Certificates

Room 5's Online Assembly | Friday 3rd September 2021

 

Science Experiments

Some really easy and cool science experiments you can do at home. Please do show your mum or dad first or who ever you live with and ask them if you can go ahead trying an experiment. Comment below and share which one you will try and why. When you do one remember to ask someone to take photos and share them on your blog and explain what materials did you require to do the experiment and what did you notice and explain what happened and why you think it happened that way.