Who are we?

Te Ara Angitu is a group of Year 5 and 6 students at Ara Tū Whakatā Gilberthorpe School in Hei Hei, Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Welcome to our blog where we share our learning throughout 2022.
You can also see sharing from Rimu and Whakamanawa students from previous years.

Thursday 20 May 2021

SMART GOALS

 Reach For The Stars



This term we have created SMART Goals.  We came up with goals for Reading, Writing, Math and one other area.  
To display our goals, we went with the reach for the stars theme.  Because we don't have much wall space, we decided to use our windows and some duraseal.  Here is the start of our class display.


Wednesday 12 May 2021

STEPSWEB

 Sensational StepsWeb

StepsWeb is a programme that helps our learning in all areas of Literacy.
This is how much time I have spent on Steps so far this year.  You can also see what my accuracy levels are like:

Reflection
My next step is


Monday 10 May 2021

Being On Time

Perfect Punctuality 

How to Be on Time – YouBeauty

This week's value is Being on Time.  This is important for many reasons.  We did an activity to look at how people may think of us if we are on time or if we are not.  
Here are my ideas about being punctual.

REFLECTION: I always try to be on time but the mornings are hard because I struggle to get out of bed.  Hopefully, these ideas will help me. 

QUESTION:  Do you have any suggestions or ideas for how I can get up earlier in the mornings?

Friday 7 May 2021

Let's Celebrate

 Have Fun and Celebrate

This week our values focus has been Having Fun and Celebrating With Each Other.  We have done this by nominating each other for Fish tickets, being kind to each other, having free time as a class because we had been working well together and giving each other compliments.  We have been recognising the great

Today, we are going to Wycola Park to have fun with each other because last term, our class earned over 3,000 Fish! Tickets.

At the start of the week, we created Google Drawings and learned some new digital technology skills.   This was our criteria.

L.O. Identify ways we can celebrate the success of each other.  

Digital skills~Use a checklist of skills to teach, try and peer assess.

DIGITAL SKILLS:

1) Change the background colour.

2) Create a different shape for each idea.

3) Use a different font for each idea.

4) Fill each shape with a different colour.

5) Increase the outline of the shape.

6) Make the colour of text different in each idea.

7) Centre your text.


Here are some examples: