Ruma Kereru 2016: February 2016

Saturday 27 February 2016

Making Connections with our Korimako buddies

Kereru had the pleasure of hosting Mrs Kibby and Korimako students on Friday afternoon.

We shared our unit of Inquiry work; googleslide moodboards on BYOD's and class devices.

Korimako students gave valuable feedback and feed forward - changes will be made to our blueprints before we begin creating with cardboard next week

Korimako students will be just some of our 'customers' as we host our cardboard challenge later in term one, (after camp, date TBC)

Thursday 25 February 2016

T1WK4

We could rename Kereru the 'Engine Room' this Friday morning! Industrious learners have been making their way through Friday Finishing checklists, showing self and time management to continue and complete tasks as varied as;

SMARTs posters
2x Spelling tasks
Blog comments
3x Mathletics tasks
1x SMARTs booklet page
'Freezing Saltwater' wonders
Full-colour 'story scribbles'

and...

4x Cardboard Challenge blueprints

Daniel and Levi's 'Mini Basketball'

Trilby and Zarah's 'Time and Space Machine'

Thursday 18 February 2016

T1WK3

T1WK3 launched with House Captain elections. Well done to all those Year 6's who were real Risk Takers and got up to speak to a collection of their house peers. An extra congratulations to the following Kereru students who were successful:

MacKenzie Barnett (Ascot Red House Captain)
Hyun-Jun Yoo (Middlepark Yellow deputy House Captain)
William Bodle (Kensington Green House Captain)
Zarah Higgins (Kensington Green House Captain)
Phoebe McLiver (Kensington Green deputy House Captain)

Our 'Connections' unit of Inquiry continued with the creation of 4x mood boards on doc or slides on the googledrive
Maths and Reading rotations began this week
'T with Mr G' sessions consisted of identifying successes from 2015 progressions and next learning steps for 2016
We welcomed Mrs Chapman and Mrs Taylor into Kereru throughout the week
Daniel and Amara were awards recipients during SNR assembly this week

Friday 12 February 2016

T1WK2

It is hard to believe that we are just two weeks into the new school year!

In the seven days that Kereru have been together, we have:

Gotten to know one another through the lens of the Goodwood Explorer and the 'Connections' unit of Inquiry
We have taken every opportunity to get into the school pool to cool off and exercise our swimming skills
Discussed 'how we learn best' by co-constructing an essential agreement
Started up Reading Rewards, KaHoot and Googledrive accounts
Examined the positives and negatives of ICT learning at home and at school to begin our focus on 'cyber-citizenship'
Completed two sets of 'Friday Finishing' - an opportunity to complete work by the end of the week using checklists to be 'self smart'
Maintained our strong work ethic and positive behaviour alongside our regular reliever for term one, 'Mrs Chapman'
Made a start with our new stationery but left the box behind for a little project starting next week...

A huge 'thank you!' to Kiwi and Kea who co-presented our first school assembly for 2016.

It was a super-hot half hour in the hall but SNR's conducted themselves well, getting used to the new 'houses' seating arrangement
Kereru practised this new layout during buddy time and paired up with new entrant learners from Piwakawaka and Warou to show them where to sit
We found out the name of our next door neighbour class - Mrs Alton's learners can now be referred to as 'Kakariki!'
Hugo and Kendra were our first awards recipients for the year