Happy 10th birthday Kalo!

 Happy 10th birthday to our beautiful kalo! Praise God for another year 🎉 Thank you kalo and family for allowing Room 8 students and kaiako to celebrate this milestone with her! And thank you for providing the food and drinks also, we appreciate you all

Happy Cook island language week!

 Room 8 have enjoyed embracing the Cook island culture through learning , dance and music, and food .We are so blessed to have had our wonderful Kuki community come together and embrace their beautiful culture with us to celebrate with us Cook island language week

Learning the essential skills needed to play hockey!

Room 8 learners enjoyed learing the basic skills needed to play hockey over the past week! They did pretty well and seeemed to be enjoying themselves

Hopoate's recount about the trip to Te Oro

 Today my class and I along with Room 7 went to school. We all waited for the bus or van. We waited for one hour then the vans finally arrived to take us to Te Oro. 

We got in a different vans and headed to Te Oro. First, we took our shoes off then we -were talking. Then Whaea Kelly came and told us to come in so we did. We listened to the person that was talking.We all went to groups and I was in the weaving group. We made a necklace or bracelet out of harakeke so I made a necklace. It was so fun! Then each group has to share what they did. 

We went first and two girls were showing w
hat we did and what we made. After that we all went to our shoes and put it on we went in line to the Exit door. We saw Mr Perreau was waiting outside in the van. We all got in and Mr Perreau put some loud music on and we drove happily to school.

How do you prefer to learn best?

 Good results! No surprises here Room 8. I must mention this is only over half of our class that were present to do fill in the google form. Otherwise 14 students filled in the form to get these results:-)

Here is the link to the question posed.Feel free to answer:-)

Cybersmart Lesson - Our 24 Hour Digital Footprint

Today in Cybersmart we were learning about the idea of our Digital Footprint. Having a Smart Footprint means that we think about what we do on the internet. Where we go, and what we share. Having a Smart Footprint means we think about how we advertise ourselves online, and how we can do so in a positive way.

Today we looked at our History and drew a poster showing our Digital Footprint in the last 24 hours.

Room 8 super learner awards week 8 assembly awards

Congratulations to our reward recipients for their super efforts in learning and showing respect

 

Room 8 mathematics

Room 8 have been learning how to measure volume by multiplying length by width by height. Here is some independent maths work Hohepa has done to start the week off:-)

 

Room 8 use symbols in the arts to explain their turangawaewae and the places that are special to them

Here are are some of the special places and things that are important to Katrina..

Room 8 have been learning about the rich history in Tamaki (Glen innes)and the significance of some places that make up the local area.

 See What Danielle has been learning about the local and very sacred places that are special in Glen innes and the wider Tamaki area.

This past week and abit Room 8 have been enjoying about volume and capacity.They have enjoyed hands on activities exploring how to use unit cubes to measure the volume inside boxes

Here is some work Atu, Leva , and Toe'umu did in order to solve the word problem today.

 

Here is some of the learning Room 8 students have been doing

Sosaia shares abit of history about Glen innes and how it got its name :-)

Room 8 are learning to write a narrative.To be succesful they can give an introduction and hook the reader. Followed by a problem, and to end the story a solution..

Manu shares his narrative writing story called 'The day the toys came alive'

Over the past week for maths we have been immersing ourselves in understanding volume and capacity!

We have brainstormed what the words mean and written them in our maths books too.

Here is a word problem Room 8 tamariki were given at the end of the week to problem solve with a buddy/ies

See Daniel P, Hopoate and hohepa

Room 8 learn essential basketball skills through fun games activities

  Room 8 tamariki enjoyed learning essential skills for basketball through games on activities!

In this scene below they got into pairs to practice throwing and catching the ball. They showed great hand eye-co-ordination and arm movements in passing and catching the ball! Each time they were able to catch the ball they would take a step back until the last pair standing won. If they dropped the ball they would have to sit in their peers .

Here they are playing a game of octopus, but in this twist they had to dribble the ball from one end of the court to the other without getting tagged! It was great to see the determination and how they navigated the court :-)

Last but not least, they played a game called 'Golden child' where one team are shooters and the other team runners!

Here team a line up to shoot hoops and team b take turns to run the court, if the shooter gets the ball in the hoop then the runner has to freeze (stop) where they are , and the next runner goes. After a while , once it gets to the last runner they are the 'Golden child' all the frozen players have to make a dash for the base/home base.However many make it home without the shooter getting the ball in the hoop that is how many points are scored.

Overall, great learning of basketball skills through fun games :-)

Room 8 Learning

Rom 8 super learners have been learning about 'My Place ' places within communities that have a special place and/or purposes in our lives and the lives of those around us. We are thinking about the places that make up our own community .

Here is some learning from Atu..

Turangawaewae- The place I stand (My place)

Over the past week room 8 super learners have been learning about places and how they may have purposes or are a special place to us because they give us a sense of belonging too.

  Kalo shares her learning about special places among other people Hopoate wrote about the places that are special to him

Learning in Room 8

For the past two weeks Room 8 learners have been super busy. here is some work done by Kalolaine and Leva. It is all about 'The Treaty of waitangi'.

Here is some lovely explanation writing by Danielle

Below Kaylarni shows some math strategies she uses to solve maths word problems.

Welcome back to school and happy blessed 2022 !

I would like to give a warm welcome to our new students Tupou and Hopoate to Glenbrae School! This past week Room 8 tamariki and myself have been getting to know one another. We have enjoyed playing games, fitness, learning through the arts , writing and having lots of laughs.. Room 8 tamariki certainly are a very creative bunch and enjoyed exploring the environment and learning about 'the Treaty of Waitangi'to end the week..