INTEGRITY

Across the street from my home three men were washing the office tower windows using harnesses and absailing equipment, it looked fun and scary at the same time.

It made me think about INTEGRITY.    For these men to feel safe, they and other people and the equipment they used all had to have integrity.

What do you think I mean by that? 

Why would they need integrity? 

Why would other people around them need integrity? 

How does equipment have integrity?

As a part of your home learning, or own time learning, this week, discuss these questions with your friends and family and leave a reply that you think helps to answer these questions on this post.

Remember to show your family all the different posts on our class blog. 

Reading Activities to Storm Boy by Colin Thiele

After reading the excellent novel Storm Boy by Colin Thiele,  to the whole class they completed a Personal Response form to the story overall.


Max had some great thinking going on and listened carefully.  Love the photo added and the range of good questions.

Caroline found some relevant
information about Colin Thiele's
earlier Life.

Activities of Storm Boy

Storm boy spends his time collecting stuff at the beach. He also helps his friend Fingerbone. He spends his time sometimes alone and does whatever he wants to do. Storm Boy does not like to kill animals because it makes him sad. He like’s to spend his time playing with Mr Percival and his two brothers on the beach underneath the sun.

By Kayci

Cybersmart Lessons

Lots of important tips on how to look after our devices have been learnt and some excellent work has been created with James visiting Room 9.      Time to share.


Izzy is a whizz at getting jobs done and loves working on her Chromebook! She is efficient and totally focused all the time. Joyce is always listening, then problem solving and trying new things.

Caroline great info

The second task saw lots of                                    people manage to change                                              pictures, colours, shapes and                                   icons as well as add important text.

Taha clear statements

 We are ready to take our Chromebooks home and look after them carefully.                                                                  

Benson super shapes and statements

Charlotte groovy shapes   

Zoe important messages

Lots of awesome advice everyone
needs to follow, to protect their devices.

Shahin Najak came and spoke on her adventures for 40 minutes and had the students enthralled. She was easy to understand and funny. The students were asked to write a quick blog about what they had learnt from her and what they thought, on their chromebooks. They had 15 minutes only and did a great job of relaying all sorts of snippets of information.

If you click on each page you hopefully can read their text.

Learning and Leadership and Late Updates!

Well we had the bicycle team in last week, but here are some great shots of us gearing up in our helmets. We had to check each others for size and suitability. It is important your helmet isn't cracked and doesn't wobble on your head. 
Then this week we had an orienteering challenge, more swimming, more chromebook learning, the student leaders starting up lunchtime games, creating i-movies about our Syndicate Treaty Rules and a fabulous Community BBQ Picnic on Friday.

Storm helps Sadie

The students wrote a few comments....

School is fun when you do lots of Art, and especially when we get to swim. We have made self portraits. Our class has done orienteering and has done lots of work on our chromebooks. School is fun when you get to hang out with your friends. We’ve also done i-movie acts and sorted ourselves into groups. Zoe

I really like talking with other people and coming up with lots of ideas, and making sure everyone is included in the group, and that we are only talking about what the teacher told us to talk about, not mucking around and doing nothing. Just helping the group come up with ideas. Kayci

I really liked discussing about our i-movie and practising it. It was great fun. I can’t wait to start filming with the ipads. Last week we also did orienteering in the hot sunny afternoon. We started off doing a mini circle of orienteering then we did a huge circle of orienteering. It was so tiring, I could nearly faint. After all of the up and down the hill we finally finished the circle. I took my hat off my sweaty head and I felt the back of my hat, it was soaking wet. At first I thought it was water but then I realised it was sweat. Gosh I’ve been sweating a lot today. After that everybody rushed to the water fountains because we were so tired and thirsty.Then we all sat down and talked about how to really read a map and how to get better at it. Joyce

Today is my first Leadership duty day this is going to be really fun and cool. My partners are Charlotte and Travis. We are going to play Samurai, with Room 3 it is a very fun game the samurai has a squishy noodle and the other people have to get the pegs off the samurai and you have to avoid getting hit by the samurai. The team with the most pegs win. It is a very fun game oh yeah um the samurai has to be blindfolded and has to feel if he is losing a peg! Maanov

Travis and Caroline shared information about themselves on a document. We are all learning lots about the many features in google docs and google drawing.

We  have lots of testing to do this week. This will be very new doing our tests on the chromebooks. But at the end of the week when the sun is shining again, we are off to gorgeous Cornwallis for our School Picnic. My goal this week is to make sure more photos are taken of our activities, especially at the beach.

Cycling, Cybersmart, Sharing and Swimming

The students of Room 9 quickly wrote some comments about some of the learning that went on for them in Week 3. We are practising for when we have our own blogs. 
Big Foot came in and taught us some important safety rules and messages when riding our bikes. 

"On Monday we learnt about bike safety with the bigfoot people.They taught me about laws, and riding on the road when you want to turn a corner, or stop.They taught me to lift my left hand when turning left and my right hand when turning left." Izzy

 "I was so excited to practise riding a bike that I didn’t even realise that my bike was too tall for me! (aaahhhh the good old don’t realise thing). The bike was a bit too tall that my seat had to be a bit lower I kept almost falling off the bike because I wasn’t use to mountain bikes neither was Sifa (Sifa was my partner)." Benson

                                  James came in and he and his expertise were a big hit!! 
                                             The students kept up with him faster than I did.  

 

"This week I learnt how to ride a bike when doing Big Foot.(I started off not knowing how to even ride a bike). I also really enjoyed the Cybersmart class with James. I learnt how to use screencastify and made a video about How to change your password." Joyce

"This week I Iearnt about Screencastify. The good thing about Screencastify is, you can video yourself changing your password, going on to the class site and you can save the video so if you forget how to change your password or anything else, the video is in your drive so you won’t forget. Awesome, right!" Travis

We have a buddy reading class every Wednesday and everyone was buddied up with a Year 2 student in Room 4. Stories were exchanged.

"Reading with Room 4 will be fun because we can be involved with Room 4. I hope my buddy  Ethan is a good reader." Tiakiwai

The school pool has been repaired and is back in business!!!

"This week we have been learning how to swim the reason why we have been learning how to swim is because we need to keep safe." Sadie

"I love to swim at school even though the water is so cold." Max

Setting up Systems and Satellite Phones

Shahin collecting organisms  

On Tuesday we were privileged enough to talk to a student explorer visiting The Auckland Islands on HMNZS OTAGO with the Sir Peter Blake Trust. Shahin Najak is from Lynfield College and she won one of only 14 places on the voyage, because of her huge involvement with her school and fighting to protect the environment. Shahin spoke to us by Satellite Phone from the ship on Tuesday morning. It was a static connection but it was excellent to hear her voice and hear what they have been doing down there. We asked her some questions and she spoke to her mother who works at our school. We also posted some questions on their website which they answered for us. It has been very interesting checking out all their blogs and photos. 

http://www.sirpeterblaketrust.org/sub-antarctic-voyage-2016 

"It is so cool having a chrome book  because you can do home work on it and R9 gets our own class site. It was fun calling Shahin but we could not hear her that well." from Travis

During the week we have managed several different tasks on the chromebooks, including creating new passwords, copying files, and organising them into folders in our drive, then completing the set work, signing in and out and finding our work again! The students could write their comments for the Class Blog on a shared document.   

"It is so cool having a mini laptop because we get to take it home at the end of February. We are able to create our own password. R9 has a class blog + a gold fish, we got a phone call from Shahin Najak & we got to go swimming with Rm8 after morning tea. New digital class rooms are awesome and these are cool comments when everyone is writing together." from Tau

I am really lucky to have a chromebook. The thing I like about chromebooks is doing the All About Me work. This year has been a blast because of the learning we have done on our chromebooks, it has been so cool, Room 9 is the best class to be in and CHROMEBOOKS are THE BEST! by Kayci

Words and phrases taken from comments written by Room 9 students excited 

about learning on Chromebooks. 

Out of the Box Day and the Day After.

Whew! What a Welcome Back we've all had. Chromebooks arrived at Waikowhai and they are awesome I think you will agree. Out Of The Box Day and the Day After are done! A whirlwind of excitement, discussion and focused attention. I really enjoyed learning how to use them and launching our class site. I especially enjoyed meeting the students that will spend the next ten months together in Room 9. YOU! So much learning happened with you all getting the basics of how to navigate around your Chromebooks so quickly and so well. It is going to be exciting watching you all become experts........ and making sure I keep up with you!!

Joyce, Storm and Kayci all smiles. 

Yay! Yes this is cool Julie!

Waiting to be opened.....



This coming week we will
start looking in depth
at Cybersafety, so we
get the most out of our
new tools and keep
ourselves safe all the time.
We will also be exploring
what we think our Inquiry topic,
INTEGRITY,
is all about.

Maanov hyped!

Getting down to business. 

Benson and Zoe following instructions.

Our cool class!

Tau super excited.
Charlotte seriously excited!

The best smile Storm!   

Welcome to Room 9's blog

Welcome to Room 9's class blog. We will post our learning and keep you updated with what we are doing.