Kahoot Champions

 We have been doing regular Kahoots this term. Some of them are subject specific and sometimes they are for the end of the week to check everything we have learnt through the week. 

They are a lot of fun especially since Ange found some medals for us; a bronze medal, a silver medal, and a gold medal. The three winners of the Kahoot are awarded a medal and with great pomp and ceremony, their photos are taken and they go on the winners podium.

Perfect for celebrating success.

Daily Lockdown Journals

Hoiho class has been keeping daily journals over the lockdown.

Here are links to all our Journals

Harlyn's Journal

Learning from Home

While we have been working online, Hoiho class have been able to continue our art. We have been learning how do make different types of lines and how to change lines to edges. We learnt how to use shading to change our shapes from 2D images to 3D ones. Here is some of our work.

 

We used tutorials selected from youtube, a 4B and a HB pencil on art paper.

Week One in Hoiho 2020

We have had a great week so far.
We enjoyed a number of team building and ice-breaking activities, getting our brains back to work. Enjoyed most and possibly the most challenging was the gross-motor co-ordination challenge. Here is a video of the class attempting the challenge.

We are a great class and I am looking forward to working with them this year.

Pink Shirt day in Ruma Kea.

Today we learnt why people are wearing pink shirts, we used our cyber-smart language of positive thoughtful and helpful to design our own shirts.

Happy Friendship day from Ngā Tāmariki ō Ruma Kea.

Term 1 in Ruma Kea.

Term 1 has been largely about getting to know each other - me getting to know the students and them getting to know me and my expectations.

Watching as Ms Cummins demonstrates

We had a lot of fun and some learning happened along the way.
Part of our reading programme has the students presenting what they have read, in their own words and style, to the class.
Making Bread - one group read about bread making. They were asked to present how bread is made to the class. Then we all made our own loaves of bread.

Making a well in the flour for the yeast mixture.

Gently mixing it all together

Ready to start kneading

Fully delicous

Looks like it passes the taste test.

Delicious

Matthew helping Harlyn with the bread-making presentation at assembly.

Kiara and Matilda read a book about making a musical instrument from jars of water. They made presentation for the class and demonstrated the instrument.

Kiara and Matilda presenting to the class.

Kiara is demonstrating the instrument in this video.

Vanessa is helping Matilda with her presentation at assembly.

Another group read the story of Rona and the Moon, they were asked to make it into a play. They put a lot into the practise and got to perform it for the class. We arranged the seating like a theatre and at the end we got to ask the performers questions about the play.

Rona and the Moon - a play by Vanessa, Matilda, Rowan, & Antonia

I am looking forward to the new term, with a lot more fun learning.

(the videos linked to this blog are unlisted, you can only access them with the link)