Rottpon's inspiring video for today's Kia Kaha Challenge

Here is a video to lift up your spirit during this horrible pandemic. Miss Tupou instructed Room 11 to create a video with positive things in it during this time. I chose to create one with quotes in it. I hope you enjoy my video!

#KiaKahaRoom11 - Challenge #2

As part of our home learning, Room 11 have daily challenges & tasks to complete. This initiative is called #KiaKahaRoom11. The purpose of this initiative is to keep our students uplifted, inspired and continue to think positively, despite whats happening in the world.

Our challenge for today (Tuesday) was:

- Watch Kid President's "20 things we should say more often"
- Create a short video (30-60 seconds) about KINDNESS.

Watch this space for some of the videos Room 11 students have created.

Arts & Culture work by Zac

For L,C,S today. Zac chose to explore the Musee D'Orsay Museum. This museum is located in Paris, France.

Room 11 students choose a museum to explore each day. Their task is to select an artefact or famous painting that intrigues them. Create an information poster about it and share it. Here's an information poster about Vincent Van Gogh that captured Zac's interest while exploring the museum in Paris.

Khin Linn's poem

Part of Room 11's daily 5 tasks is to write pieces of poetry. Khin created a great piece here, where she describes the Moon, without using the word 'Moon'.

Check out her descriptive poem.

Last week I did a Poem describing the moon, I used word hippo to get more interesting words. I gave out hints that I'm describing the moon. I also decorated it so it can be more enjoyable to read.

Annaleeze shares one of her Daily 5 tasks

For Listen to Reading for Daily 5, I chose a video on Coconet tv about how some U.S Territories Don't get Voting Rights and certain U.S restrictions. Here is my work. Miss Tupou provided some questions to answer after we listen to someone read or when we finish watching an informative video.

The British Museum - By Rottpon

For L.C.S this week Room 11 will be looking into the different museum around the work. We then have to pick a Museum and a piece of art to do facts on. I chose the British Museum for Day 1 and Mummies as my art. Here are some facts about them, Enjoy!

Week 1 of online learning...

Who would have thought we'd be teaching our students online via google meets?

For room 11, on average we have about 11-12 of us attending our hangout calls. Our highest no. of recipients in one call would was 17 and we currently hold the record for highest no. of attendees at GTS!

It's definitely DIFFERENT but I appreciate each and everyone of my students who make the effort to attend every phone call, to talk and discuss our HOME LEARNING expectations.

Kiwi-Sport: Squash 2020

Today was our last day for SQUASH. A new sport that we got to experience and enjoy. Some of us have never played squash before but after our 7 weeks with them, we learnt to grow a love for it. It's competitive and FUN!

Some of the tips/techniques we learnt:

• Volley more! It takes time away from your opponent and allows you to stay closer to the T. Learn to volley and try take the opportunities whenever you can
• Try keep in front of your opponent at ALL times.
• Shoulders facing the side
• Make sure your grip is correct
• Make sure your serve hits the side wall