Kiwican's Term 1 Finale

 Room 9 are stoked to announce that we claimed the Kiwican trophy for this term! We spent the afternoon completing a fun "Amazing Race" challenge with our Kiwican leaders Here and Gabe. 

Throughout Term 1 Kiwican taught us about positive relationships. This included positive body language, communication and friendship. Thank you Kiwican!

"Have a Go" Day!

 On Friday Edmund Hillary School participated in a Have a Go sports day. We got to try out orienteering, weightlifting, volleyball, handball, golf, ki o rahi, badminton and athletics. It was so much fun, and we discovered some hidden talents - Chastity is a pro at badminton and Faafua was excellent at shotput! Here are some photos of us having a go at weightlifting:

Which sport would you most like to try? Let us know in the comments!

Looking Back on Lockdown Learning

 We are back at school this week, woohoo! On our return we spent some time reflecting on how our learning went at home. Here are some graphs showing why we did (or didn't) participate in online learning.

Why did you do your online learning tasks?

Why didn't you do your online learning tasks? 

Then we brainstormed some ideas for how we can help ourselves to keep learning if we ever have another lockdown:

• Ask our whānau for support to stay on task
• Sit next to others at home who are working
• Limit our time playing games
• Set a timer for doing our work
• Do our work FIRST then have free time after
• Encourage our friends with their learning
• Listen to calming music to help us focus
• Have breaks/rests and spend some time outside
• Play learning games (like Prodigy) if we really want to play a game
• Read books
• Email Roya for feedback or help if we get stuck
• Get our whānau to contact Roya if we need to pick up a device

What's your best tip for home learning? Let us know in the comments!

He inu māu?

 We are currently in the midst of learning how to request, offer, accept and decline food and drinks in te reo Māori. This week we designed our own cafes with menus in te reo Māori. When we go back to school, we'll be able to practise ordering from one another! 

Here are some of our cafe designs:

By Kavel

By Priththika

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By Ruqayat

By Tiannah

By Limihai

By Neha

Which menu and cafe design is your favourite? Why? Let us know in the comments!

What is the Author's Purpose?

Lately for reading we have been learning to analyse the author's purpose. This means deciding why the author wrote what they wrote. Was it to inform (give us information)? Was it to entertain us, something we would read for fun? Or was it to persuade us of their opinion? Here is some of our work on this for texts we have been reading about Te Tiriti o Waitangi. 

If you had to choose between a story, a poem or a news article, which would you prefer to read? Let us know in the comments!

Our 2021 Goals

 

Happy New Year! When we came back to school this week, we started thinking about what we would like to accomplish in 2021. Here are some of our goals:

What's your biggest goal for 2021? How will you work towards achieving it? Let us know in the comments!

Moody Poems

 This term a big focus for us is creating mood and atmosphere in our writing. One way we can do this is through the words that we choose, so we have been learning about the connotations of words (how different words make us feel or what they make us think of). 

We have been calling these purr words (words that have a positive connotation) and snarl words (words that have a negative connotation). Today we also learned about euphony (soft, pleasant sounds) and cacophony (harsh, unpleasant sounds). Our task was to write a 5 line poem using words that would create a strong mood or atmosphere. 

Here are some of our poems so far! You can scroll through the Slides to read them.

Which poem is your favourite, and why? Let us know in the comments.