Happy Eid Nowruz

Happy New Year

At the moment, Muslims are celebrating the New Year.  This is celebrated for thirteen days.  To help celebrate this, Elham brought in some delicious cake for Rimu Class to share.  It was delicious and somebody had three pieces.  Thanks Elham.  Check out Elham's slide below.

Delicious treats

Thank you for sharing with us Elham.

  

Storyline Online

Storyline Online

This week in Reading, we have been working on improving our retelling skills.  We listen to and watch a story being read on the site Storyline Online.  

We then completed a follow up activity and created a learning object to help us with our retelling skills.

Here is an example of a story.  This is one of our favourites.

This shows how Aryan has started his follow up activity.

Next week we will continue to work on our understanding and ability to retell stories.

Top of the Mornin'

Happy St Patrick's Day

Here at Gilberthorpe School, we like to celebrate our different cultures and St Patrick's Day brings out the green in all of us.  

This year to celebrate and acknowledge the Irish in all of us, we brought out our green and had a mufti day.  We had sausages for lunch and enjoyed a Duffy Theatre show to end off our day.

Here are a few pics of our day.

Phonics Hero

Phonics Hero

Today in Rimu we started our trial of Phonics Hero.  This online programme is being used to support our knowledge of phonics.  We hope to apply this learning in our Reading and Writing.

So what do we think so far?

Emily- It is fun and is helping to improve my phonics skills.

Nevaeh- It is helping me spell.

Sophie- It is not too hard and not too easy.

We will continue to use this programme and hopefully we will be more confident with our Reading and Writing.

2017

It's a Brand New Year

Kia koutou

It is great to be back and in Rimu Class and the Senior Hub we are looking forward to an exciting year ahead.  We have a move happening, some great events and some interesting learning opportunities.  

Make sure you check out out blogs to see what we are learning and have a fantastic 2017.

Top Team Challenge 2016

Top Team Challenge 2016

This term we had a school Top Team Challenge as part of our Play day we were celebrate being able to play and have fun.  Sport Canterbury brought their gear down and we worked in teams made up of junior and senior participants.  The weather was great for us and we had a fun afternoon.  

Here are a few pictures of our day.

Stacking high

Together we are one pair of feet

Dabbing high

So many skills needed here

Blocking holes in the holey pipe

These two are off task

Hour of Code

Khan Academy Hour of Code

Today we are learning about coding through Khan Academy.  Students worked through a range of tutorials and experimented with creating snowmen and other pictures.  

Here are  couple of examples from the early stages of our coding.

The main part of Hannah N's Snowman

Milan's start to a face.

Sita's duck.

We will share more as we explore coding.

Rimu Class students explore and enjoy Coding.

Update...We can add colour-

What do you mean the teacher doesn't know how to use coding?

Nathan on code:  Keen to code for more than an hour.  It keeps my brain working hard.

Caleb:  It is really good because it gets our brains switched on and working.  It gets us frustrated but it's fun figuring out what you can do.
Callum:  I really like it because you can work at it as a team to figure out the codes.

Nathan's code creation

Hannah O's portrait of Amelia

The 'Hour of Code' is a nationwide initiative by Computer Science Education Week and Code.org to introduce millions of students to one hour of computer science and computer programming. Created by Pamela Fox.