ONLINE CERTIFICATES FOR WEEK 4.

 Hi All,

Here are the certificates for the hard-working and well deserved students from Room 11 this week.

Malo

"I AM Affirmations" By Room 11

Movie Title: I AM affirmations 

Created by: Room 11

School: Glen Taylor School

Synopsis: By beginning to think more positively, we learn to believe in ourselves and work towards fulfilling our full individual potentials.

Online Certificates for Week 4

Hi Everyone,

Here are the certificates for Room 11 learners for Week 3, Term 4.

Week 1, Term 4!

Hi Everyone,

Can't believe we're already in Term 4!

Well, we're still learning online and our learners are still working hard and producing some great work. This term, our learn, create, share focus is on CELEBRATIONS! 

With IDENTITY being our Inquiry focus for the year, we've decided that this term is about CELEBRATING US! Term 1 had a heavy focus on ACCEPTANCE, Term 2 was BELONGING and term 3 was focused on CONNECTIONS! This week is about CELEBRATING US and all the wonderful things that make US who we are today.

For writing, we looked at descriptive writing but in a slightly different way. We wrote down words of affirmations about ourselves and created videos about us. 

Here are 2 videos from our very own Catherine A and Destiny F. Enjoy :)

More Student Work from Online Learning!

 Hi Everyone,

Check out some of the great work R11 students completed in Week 10 of online learning.

For literacy, we are looking at cultural history and legends from the Pacific and around the world and for learn, create, share - we are looking at values.

Enjoy :)

What do you meme?

For our google meet sessions, R11 has a challenge to complete. This is to make our calls engaging and fun.

This weeks challenge was inspired by a teacher on tiktok - What do you meme? Basically it's a collection of funny animal photos our teacher chooses and the students must come up with the captions. The best caption is then published alongside the photo.

Here's room 11's "What do you meme?" slide deck.

Enjoy :)

Lockdown Learning Week 3!

Auckland is in its 3rd week of Lockdown. As hard as it is, the learners of R11 have continued to persevere and continue learning from home. Yes, they admit it's hard because they don't have their teacher around, in person to seek help from and they miss their friends.

Room 11 hopes everyone is doing well and continues to soldier on! We hope to be out of lockdown soon!

In the meantime, check out some of the awesome online learning our students have been working on in the past couple of weeks.

Malo

Tracey's LCS work for Tongan Language Week:

  

Extensions for Keke Vei Siaine: 

If the recipe from the video is enough to feed 5 people. How much of each ingredient would you need to feed Rooms 11, 12 and 13. Altogether, there are 75 people in the Senior Syndicate. Present your findings on a google drawing, including your calculations of each ingredient.

Lockdown Learning Week 2!

Week 2 of online learning and we're still going strong!

Check out some of the amazing work produced by Room 11 students online. Feel free to check out the students individual blogs for more.

Malo

Danait's optical Illusion work (Summer Learning Journey activity)

Tracey's LCS Task

Destiny's LCS Task

Lockdown Learning by Room 11!

Hey Everyone,

I'm going to share some of the amazing learning tasks Room 11 students have been working on during lockdown. You'll find below some Daily 5 tasks and a Cybersmart challenge completed by Tracey, Catherine & Sar Yar Chan.

We hope everyone is staying in their bubbles and taking care of themselves.

Feel free to check out individual student blogs (you can find the links to their blogs on the right panel) and post a comment on some of the informative and amazing work they've produced. 

Regards,

Room 11 champions!

Bike Skills of Room 11

 Hi Everyone,

Today our class went for our first bike skills lesson. We have an amazing bike track at school and each class has an opportunity to use. We went through the helmet safety first (with our teacher Mrs Tupou Fonua) and help from our classroom expert on bikes - Dontae.

Here are some photos for you to enjoy.

Day 1, Term 3!

Where has the year gone?

We're back for Term 3 and ready for some new learning. Every morning before the school bell rings, we come into class and complete our Quick Write that Mirs Tupou-Fonua writes up on the board. Here are the early birds enjoying a good talanoa with each other and working on our quick write piece of writing.

Tamariki Korero - 1/7/2021

 Week 9.

One more week to go before the end of Term 2. Our school is having Tamariki Korero. This is an opportunity for students to lead a talanoa/conversation about their learning with their Whanau. They share and talk about the artwork displayed around the class, their class sites they created for camp (including content about camp the learners had researched about) and their LCS passion projects.

Here is a photo of some of our learners sharing about their learning journey so far for 2021, with their lovely mothers.

Senior Camp on Kawau Island!

 In Week 4 (Monday 24th of May - Friday 28th of May), the Y7&8 classes from GTS went to Kawau Island for our Senior School Camp. We absolutely loved it. For many of us, it was our first time away from home so it was frightening but the FUN times outweighed that.

We got to go kayaking, sailing, raft-building, orienteering, rock-climbing and abseiling. 

On Wednesday night, we had to do a Burma Trail through the bushes and on Thursday night, we had a FIAFIA night. Our students were organised into groups and each group performed a dance performance and came up with a chant!

There was a big group of us who went. 12 teachers/staff members and 63 students. 

Here are some photos of how camp went for us!!!

Classroom Paepae

 This Term, Room 11 has made a commitment to learn more Te Reo and about Te Ao Maori. Every morning we begin our day with our classroom paepae. We have someone to lead our Karakia Timatanga, then we have someone who acknowledges the karakia and continues to share the Kupu o Te Ra and Whakatauki for the week.

Here is a slide of what we go through!

Maritime Museum Trip 12/4/21

 On Monday 12/4/21, the Senior School went on an expedition to Maritime Museum. 

The highlight for us all was the Waka experience. The Waka called Haunui is 1 of 7 that are part of the Te Toki Voyaging Trust. 

Te Toki is dedicated to revitalising and celebrating traditional Pacific voyaging culture. We heard stories about our Pacific Island ancestors who travelled the Pacific Ocean to settle and inhabit the islands that we know today as Hawai'i, Tonga, Samoan, Rapanui, Cook Islands and Aotearoa and many more.

This trip was amazing! Here are some photos from our day at Maritime.

Room 11 Chocolate Hedgehogs

 In Week 9, Room 11 learnt about Procedural/Instructional Writing. We studied the purpose of Instructional Writing, the structure of writing recipes and looked at including action verbs, linking words and precise vocabulary in our writing.

As an incentive, our class decided to make some chocolate hedgehog slices. We worked in groups, created our recipes and then on Wednesday, we spent the whole middle block making our slices.

Here are some photos of how our cooking day went.

Art Week for Week 6!

Fresh out of lockdown, Room 11 has is dedicating Week 6 to a week of ART & FUN!

Here is a glimpse at some of the awesome art work we have been working on.

1. Face Study Art - We had to sketch one half of our face with pencil (using techniques such as shading/blending), with a bit of colouring using coloured pencils.

2. Sandra Silberzweig Abstract Art - Created our abstract masterpieces incorporating elements of art such as lines, shapes and colour. Some of us included in our work cultural patterns & symbols.

3. Visual Pepeha - We wrote our pepeha and created a visual version of it.

4. Graffiti Name Wall Art - Used graffiti art to illustrate our names with a brick wall background effect.

5. Cultural Class Mural - Selected a symbol that represents our ethnicity and collated it with everybody else's work to create a class mural.

Benjamin's DEAR LIFE writing

Today for our #KIAKAHAROOM11 task, we had to write a letter to LIFE. We watched a very inspiring video about GRATITUDE. We had to sit back and reflect and identify the good things in life that we are grateful for.

March 4th 2021

Dear Life: 

“You’re valued!” Some people in this world doubt themselves and judge their own looks, but you always value your looks, skills and life. In this world life means everything,  don’t think your wrist is paper so don't cut it, your neck isn't a shirt so don't hang it, so instead of thinking like that make the most of the oxygen that the lord has given to us, because loads of people “value” you in this world.

1. “Thank you Anime”, you’ve taught me big time important things in life even though you’re not real, but you taught  me “giving up isn't an option” - Naruto Uzumaki , “don't give up, the beginning is always the hardest, so let's keep on going till the very end !” - Natsu Dragneel, “Don't worry about what other people think, hold your head up high and plunge forward” - Izuku Midoriya, “the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams'' - Shouyou Hinata, “ Appreciate everything around you before moments turn into memories” - Naruto Uzumaki, “No matter how impossible it is, never lose sight of your goal” - Monkey D. Luffy, “When the world shoves you around, you just gotta stand up and shove back, it's not like anyone is going to save you if you start babbling excuses” - Roronoa Zoro , 

2. Thank you Lord for waking me from my slumber sleep everyday and breathing life into me. Thank you for bringing negative things in my life to an end, for friends hopping abroad my ship to discover new things, and thank you for guiding me through the dark with your light shining rapidly down on my crosshairs.

3. Thank you Strength. You’ve always been there for me, you never stopped proceeding to make me energized and make me “look alive” everyday. Thanks for the strength to wake up, brush my teeth, eat, drink and also get my work done everyday. I have a purpose to fulfil and I need you to keep me going.
   
   

4. Thank you School for making me a superior student to my youngsters out there. Thank you for teaching me life lessons to proceed with it in the future and use it when I need it. Thanks for building me up to be a smart character in learning and also in sports and the real world.

5. “Oku ou fiefia koe Tonga au” I would love to give thanks to my culture = Tonga. I am above happy to be born as a proud smiling Tongan, my culture will never abandon me because we’re like an anonymous duo that is unbreakable. Thank you Tonga for always helping me out and being there for me. !

               Malo 'aupito - Mani

Tracey's cybersmart challenge task

 

For Week 3's cybersmart challenge, we had to take a screenshot of our class site, class blog, school site, and our own blog. We had to create a google drawing including all the 4 screenshots and add labels to it. Here is what I have created.

New Year, New Faces

 Hi Everyone,

We're back for another year of learning. We look forward to what 2021 has in store and we're excited for fun & new learning to take place in Room 11.

Let's hope 2021 will be better than 2020!

Enjoy all the fun we'll be sharing from our class :)