Acrostic Poems

Since starting back at school in Term Two the students of Te Waka Ako have been completing a Lockdown Diary. 

It is filled with all kinds of different writing activities that are done each day. Most students are enthusiastic about this activity and are creating some awesome documents that they will look back on in the future with delight and fond or not so fond memories. Most days there are two slides to complete, but some days only one slide.

They don't have huge amounts of writing to them, but honest, good quality writing is expected. One of the slides was to write an acrostic poem with a word that is relevant to the lockdown event. 
Many students have written excellent poems. Have a read through them and see how you can identify and connect to the experiences of others.                                     

Anzac Activities

ANZAC DAY

Saturday 25th April 2020

In Te Waka Ako we had lots of activities that students could do in their learning time at home. We also let them know about the services that would play on the Radio, as in lockdown
(as we know) we couldn't gather for dawn services. I will definitely be attending a dawn service next year when gatherings of people can happen again. Many students did all sorts of activities, many created awesome art pieces for their property. Here are just a few....

Hauraki as Babies

At a google meet last week we had a guessing game of most of our class from their baby photos, like Waitemata. Teuila did the best at guessing, only missing 2 or 3. Some were definitely easier than others. The students wrote a quick explanation about their photo. 
Enjoy looking through these. 

Week Two Term Two Certificates

 

What is noticeable about all these certificates is the commitment of these students to their online, independent, distant learning. They are learning heaps and heaps regardless of being on lockdown and missing their friends. And so many others are doing the same.

Ms Sands awarded certificates to
Maddison and Daniel in Hauraki.

It is soooo cool to see so many students blogging what they are doing at home and activities set by school. We are all enjoying reading them. Many are also commenting on other students work which is encouraging for them and inspiring!

 Mrs Jones awarded certificates to
Pao and Austin in Manukau.

We love seeing the science experiments, the coding exercises, the art activities, the PE activities all being completed. Keep sharing these extra activities especially so we can award House Points. We have a heap of house points awarded already.

Miss Daly awarded certificates to
Hosanna and Anthony in Waitemata.

ANZAC Day Pixel Art

One of the Maths Learning activities this week for Rāngi was to recreate a symbol or scene representing ANZAC Day using pixel art. Pixel Art is a form of digital art where individual blocks and colour are filled and used to create a larger image.

Here are some examples of our work:

ANZAC Day in 2020 is going to be very different because the country is in Lockdown. How is your family going to commemorate ANZAC Day tomorrow?

Waitemata's Guess the Baby!

Today in our Google Meet we had our 'Guess the Baby' competition. We had 14 entries (one of which was Miss Daly). Everyone filled in their guesses and we went through them together this morning. Some were really hard to guess, some were really easy.
Have a look and see if you could have guessed any of them.

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It was a lot of fun and we had three winners with 12 out of 14, these were......(drumroll)
Angelina, Hosanna and Brittany.
Well done girls you have all earned an extra housepoint. Tomorrow we have our Special Toy meet. I am looking forward to hearing some stories about why some toys are more special to us than others.

Week One Term Two Te Waka Ako. Merit Certificates

Certificates for Excellence

Awesome attitude Te Waka Ako. 

You kids ROCK!

These certificates were awarded in Te Waka Ako on Friday night. (Ahh yeah we forgot on Friday morning at our meetings!!)

We sent them to parents through the Seesaw App and the students through their individual emails.

This week, two certificates will be handed out at the 9am google meet session on Friday morning. An amazing effort in getting organised to learn at home all of you. These six have done particularly well from the beginning and through the holidays , especially with blogging and commenting on other students blogs. It is a great way to stay in contact and lots of the staff are                                                                                  reading what is written and leaving comments.

Most of our syndicate are online and accessing all the tasks you have been set and many of you are doing some of the extra activities that look a lot of fun.  Keep letting us know what you do so we can award House Points.

Keep up the blog posts about your work and about your lockdown on your own blogs. It is great to read what other people and families are                                                                                    doing. It is great inspiration.

Have fun in your bubble.
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