Can anyone solve this?

Good Afternoon Room 1,

I noticed Briar has shared a maths problem for translation of a triangle. Have a look at her blog to see the post. Can you solve it? If so, leave a comment on her blog post!

Thanks,
Miss Hudson

Work for Today - Wednesday 29th April

Good Morning Room 1,

Please see your work for today:

Term 2, Week 3: Wednesday 29 April 2020

Thanks,

Miss Hudson

Excellent Descriptive Writing

Have a read of Kiran's descriptive writing from our Monday task.
He chose the topic of a spooky house. Kiran has done an excellent job of using descriptive language (such as adjectives and adverbs). He has also thought about using some of the senses (touch, hearing, sight, taste, smell) to guide details in his writing. For example, he has included sights, sounds, and feelings. Awesome work, Kiran!

Can you spot any adverbs, adjectives, or parts were Kiran has used one of the senses to give detail? Have a read and comment below if you can point some features out! You can also leave comments on his blog post directly.

Star of the Week - Term 2, Week 2

The Star of the Week for Term 2, Week 2 is..............

Garuth Athukorala! Garuth has been demonstrating our class treaty value of "including everyone" at home, by including his little sister in his learning activities and fun challenges. If you check out Garuth's blog, you can see he has included his sister in the Tik Tok challenge, as well as the bowling activity for PE. He has also been including people from our class in his learning. For example, answering other classmates' maths questions they have created for our class. Well done Garuth! Mahi pai. Garuth posts regularly to his personal blog, and has even shared some photos of other fun activities he has been up to e.g. making pizzas with his family. 

Friday Fun Challenge

Today's challenge is The Balloon Challenge! watch the video below to find out how to do it:
Note: if you don't have balloons, you can use soft toys.

Google Meet Sessions Tomorrow

As promised, please see below your Google Meet timetable below. We will be meeting in larger groups this time, so you will get to see some more of your classmates! I have also included the meeting ID below for you - copy and paste your group's meeting ID into your browser to join the meeting.

Friday 24th April 

Group 1 - (11am - 11.30am) meeting ID: meet.google.com/tzu-gbbg-inc
Felix
Max
Evie
Chaitra
Janya
Garuth
Zayn
Anjana
Angelina
Azra

Group 2 - (1pm - 1.30pm) Meeting ID: meet.google.com/dpt-vukh-nsa
Eric
Leroy
Christina
Krisha
Fariah
Rishi
Vivaan
Aisha
Shreya
Sana

Group 3 - (2pm - 2.30pm) Meeting ID: meet.google.com/bed-ofhu-jqu 
Isaac
Uzayr
Tunde
Briar
Vrushti
Raaj
Kiran
Akshara
Dorothy
Aleena

Hope to see you all there!

Take care and see you soon,
Miss Hudson

Work For Today - Wednesday 22nd April 2020

Mōrena Room 1,

I can see some of you are already accessing the work for today which is great.

Here is a link to your work for today. Please be aware there are separate google slides for these topics - Te Reo, Art, Inquiry, Health/PE, Music and I have included links to these in the final slide of "WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2020". These have all been shared with you. I will also link them below.

WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2020

Te Reo
Art
Inquiry, Health PE and Music 

Ngā mihi,
Miss Hudson

Term 2 - Week 2

Kia ora koutou,

Here is your work for today:

Term 2, Week 2 - Monday

Have a great day. Remember I am just an email away if you get stuck. Do what you can and take it easy. Remember to share your work with me and also post to your blogs.

Ngā mihi,

Miss Hudson

Star of The Week - Term 2 - Week 1

It has been a short week for our first week of Term Two. As a teacher, I thought it would be harder for me to decide who our star of the week is during lockdown, as I like to focus on people who have been demonstrating our class treaty and school values through direct actions. However, I quickly noticed you are still able to do these things in your distance learning - it just depends on you to make sure you are demonstrating them. How you ask? Well, let's think of some examples, together. How can you demonstrate these things at home? How can you use Blogger as a tool to help you demonstrate these values?

Our Class Treaty 
In Room 1, we agree to……

• Show integrity by being honest and owning up to our mistakes.

• Include everyone.  

• Be kind to everyone.

• Show respect to each other by being friendly and saying positive, kind things to one another.

• Respect our class property and the property of our peers.

• Challenge ourselves. 

School Values:

• Respect for self and others.
• Celebration of diversity.
• Integrity.
• Personal excellence.

I would like to announce the Star of the Week for Term 2 Week 1 is Rishikumar Patel! Rishi has put a lot of effort into his descriptive writing this week, using high-level descriptive language to describe his favourite toys. He has also done a great job using descriptive language to describe a character he has been reading about. By putting a great effort into his work, he has shown respect for himself and others during this lockdown period. I also like how he has included a photo in his blog post so we can all see the toys he has been describing. I would like to point out that Rishi has been posting his work to his blog so we can all see it. Please make sure you are all posting to your blogs regularly. Have a look at his blog! Keep up the great work Rishi. When we are back at school, you can select a prize and collect your certificate. Mahi Pai! (Good work!)

How did we go with our Tik Tok dance challenge?

If you have created a short dance clip with your family, or by yourself please remember to share to your blog so we can see it! Here is an example of my family who made a tik tok to the song "Blinding Lights" by The Weekend. It is a pretty simple dance to learn if you want to give it a go at home! I'm such a proud Auntie watching this!

Here is my niece, Eden demonstrating the dance. I hope this helps those of you who want to give this a go!

Friday Fun Challenge for Today! Friday 17th April 2020

Let the Dancing Begin!

Imagine you are entering the 2020 Tik Tok Dance Challenge. Select a song and design dance moves to go with that song. Practice your moves and teach a parent or sibling your dance. Film your dance and post to your class blog. Feel free to dress up in costumes too! Have fun! Check out other people's dance moves on other class blogs.

Term 2 Day 2 - How are we feeling? What news do we have to share?

It has been great to see some of your lovely, smiling faces today in our Google Meet sessions!
I have enjoyed listening to what you have been up to - cooking/baking experiments, adopting kittens (so jealous! - I couldn't adopt as the SPCA was all out of animals when I attempted), spending time with your families, bike rides, watching movies and playing games online with your friends (not on your school accounts of course!). I look forward to chatting with more of you tomorrow. Keep up the great work, stay tuned in to our class blog and remember - I am only an email away if you feel unsure about anything. Do what you can. Enjoy the benefits of working from home. Keep in touch. Do not stress. We have got this Room 1!

If you would like to share any photos of your cooking, new pets or any work you have been doing, remember your personal blog is a great place for you to share and connect with others. Keep sharing your work with me as you have been doing.

Have you learned any new skills over the holidays? What have been your highlights recently? Let's share our awesome news with each other regularly, to stay connected. Comment below if you want to share anything!

I started to teach myself how to knit via youtube tutorials - it was challenging at first, but I am getting the hang of it - a scarf is in the making. I have also been cooking a lot of meals and trying new recipes, watching movies, going for walks in the park near my house. Do you have any recipes you want to share? Post to your blogs! Did you know you can make doughnuts using only 2 ingredients? and they taste like scones - yumm! (greek yoghurt and self-raising flour). Tip: if you don't have self-raising flour, you can use regular flour and just add 1.5 teaspoons baking powder and 1/4 of a teaspoon of salt per cup of flour. Maybe we should start a recipe section on our class blog!

Kia kaha! (Stay strong!)

Miss Hudson

Welcome to Term 2! Let's do this!

Kia ora koutou Room 1,

Greetings and welcome to Term 2! I hope you have enjoyed time with your families during the holidays, and have been keeping safe during our lockdown period in NZ.

As a class, we will be using Google Meet to catch up with each other once a week. This is an optional meeting, but will be a good opportunity for you to see your teacher and classmates. I have missed seeing your smiling faces in class, so I hope to see you there!

How do I use Google Meet? Please see the link below for instructions:
Google Meet instructions

Google Meet Session Timetable 

Thursday 16th April 
Group 1 (11am - 11.30am)
Max, Felix, Evie, Chaitra, Janya

Group 2 (1pm - 1.30pm) 
Eric, Leroy, Christina, Krisha, Fariah

Group 3 (2pm - 2.30pm)
Garuth, Zayn, Anjana, Angelina, Azra


Friday 17th April 
Group 4 (11am - 11.30am)
Isaac, Uzayr, Tunde, Briar, Vrushti

Group 5 (1pm - 1.30pm) 
Raaj, Kiran, Akshara, Dorothy, Aleena

Group 6 (2pm - 2.30pm) 
Rishi, Vivaan, Aisha, Shreya, Sana

Working from home - Term 2 Week 1 (Wednesday 15th - Friday 17th April 2020)

For the term, I will be posting tasks on our class blog for you to complete. I will be posting these every Monday, Wednesday and Friday so make sure you are checking our class blog regularly. On Fridays, we will have a fun challenge to complete alongside other senior classes... check our class blog to see what this will be! (I think you will really enjoy the challenges, especially this Friday!)

Expectations for distance learning 
You must complete 2 "Must do" tasks each week for Reading, Writing and Maths. Once you have completed your "Must Dos", you can complete "Can Dos". Don't worry about completing everything in one day, as new tasks will be posted every second day.
If you are in ESOL - you will have one task which you will complete instead of one of your "Must Do" tasks in reading or writing.*

Here is your work for today:
Wednesday Term 2 Week 1

*ESOL task - Wednesday 15th April - this task replaces your writing "must do"Choose a character from your story and write them a letter. You may want to ask them some questions about their life or what they did in the story. You may want to give them your opinion on what they did in the story or something you think they could have done better. You may find things you have in common with the character and similarities between your life and their life that you could write about.

We are focusing on Descriptive writing this week. Our purpose for descriptive writing is to ENTERTAIN. Our audience is anyone who reads our personal blogs, including teachers, parents and classmates. 

We are going to learn how to support our ideas with detail in descriptive writing, through using the "show don't tell" technique. For example, if it is cold, we would write about things to give our reader the feeling it is cold, rather than actually saying it is cold. We could use our senses as a guide to help us by describing the below:

- howling wind (sounds)

- icicles (sights)

- shivering (Sound, sight, feeling)

- when you exhale and can see a cloud of vapour condensation similar to mist/fog in the air (sights)

Here is an example of descriptive writing by Angela Abraham about walking to the bus stop in Autumn. Notice how the sights, sounds, temperature and overall vibe/feelings are captured in her writing in an entertaining, descriptive manner. It is enjoyable to read and transports the reader into the scene. 

As the days wane, the nights close in and the trees don their vibrant hues, a chill creeps into the air. Not the bite of wintry blusters, but just a nip to let us know a new season is at hand. The wide avenue is lit by the first rays of the day, shining through a thin layer of grey cloud like a stain glass window. No more are the trees their virescent hues of spring and summer, but are scarlets and gold. In just a few weeks they will stand naked in the frozen air, bereft of their gaiety. Already the usual grey of the concrete sidewalk is adorned with their transient beauty. As I walk to the bus stop in my black woollen coat, I deliberately tread on each one to hear the crunch. Just ahead a leaf tumbles from it's weary branch, it twists and rocks as it falls through the almost still air. I pause to listen for the sound it makes as it joins it's brethren on the ground, but it is lost in the drone of the traffic.

- Angela Abraham, November 7, 2014. 

Can you tell what season it is? What time of day it is? Notice how the writer doesn't explicitly tell us these details, she uses the descriptive writing technique of "show don't tell" to make the writing entertaining, by showing us details rather than telling us. When we are using "show don't tell" we are thinking about how rather than what. For example, describing how a leaf fell from a tree, rather than simply saying it fell. Focus on using adverbs (words that describe an action) and adjectives (describing words). You can use Visuwords and Word Hippo to help you find descriptive words. I'm on the look-out for some excellent descriptive writing, using high-level descriptive words! We want our readers to feel intrigued, captivated and engrossed in reading our work. 

Ngā mihi, 

Miss Hudson 

Welcome to Term Two! A Video Message from Mrs. Taege

Kia ora whānau!

Thought I would share this link for those who are interested. A Kiwi artist living in Wellington has created a lockdown diary template we can download and/or print to fill in! If you would like to complete one, we could add them to our class library to share when we are back at school! Let's add to our class library taonga collection!

Here is the link to the website: https://www.mylockdowndiary.com/

Ngā Mihi,
Miss Hudson