Dress Up Fridays

Week 7 is Green Day          then         Week 8 is PJ & Teddy Bear Day

Water game challenge

There may be a drought, so we have tried our best to conserve water.  Our relay challenge was to use cups to pass water between our players. 


We also had a water
balance relay, trying to keep the cup upright and without spilling water on the back of our hands, from the start to the bucket on the finish line.

With the bad weather, we have even used our desks as barriers for bottle knock.  It took a while to get our eye in, but we started being able to throw the tennis balls with better accuracy to knock it over.

How big is a Cubit? - Old Style Measurement

In week 6 we continued looking into Measurement.  Long before the rulers that we have come to know with their mm, cm and m standard measurements came about, the Egyptians used their own standard measurements.
Cubits, Foot, Digit and Hand span lengths were used.  How did they standardise it?  They used the cubit, foot, digit and hand span of their Pharaoh.  Hopefully their Pharaoh didn't change too often.

We investigated the range of cubits, hand spans, feet and digits of our classmates.  Then we sorted them to find our most common length (mode), our median length, the range of lengths and the class averages for each of these measurements.

 

 

Level 2 Return to school

Shirley Serban, the Principal at Lake Brunner School (this school is on the lake front of Lake Brunner and has stunning views of the Southern Alps), has shared her video and song to help keep us safe as we return to school in Level 2.

A few good points we need to remember as we build our new Room 7 bubble.

Toitoi TV

A large number of students at our school enjoy the Toitoi Journals that regularly get sent to our Library.
Recently Toitoi released details for their own TV channel.  Interested?  Please click the link to find out more.

Also on their site is a challenge on their Home page to write a story inspired by this picture. 

MUST WE DO EVERY ACTIVITY THAT COMES THROUGH?

This post was added earlier 

DISTANCE LEARNING EXPECTATIONS

at present as we feel our way through how distance and digital learning will go, there is no expectation that every activity be done. The goal is for all of you to feel linked with school and classmates, safe and supported with your families, and for all of us to get through this strange time.

You can do a mix of activities in our Google Classroom, on our flip grid, links on this Blog page, from your Home Learning kits, on the TV Home Learning programmes on both TVNZ 2+1 and TV 3 kids programmes, or even your own personal passion project - as long as you can show what you have been working on (a report, a google document or slide show, movie/video, photos, model ...

Ministry of Education's handy website for Home Learning

learning from home links and sites