Prototec Pros

 Starting Our Prototec Journey

As part of our Numeracy learning this year, we will be working on our Basic Facts and number knowledge.  Part of this will involve using Prototec and documenting our progress.  

To be able to do that, we need to know how to take screenshots of our work and add these regularly to a slide.  

Today, we had a go at doing this on a shared slide.

Prototec Time

 Timed Prototec - Checking My Basic Facts Knowledge

Today we had a set amount of time to complete a Prototec Basic Facts session.  We then all had to stop, take a screenshot and post this to our blogs so we could share how we went.

We had 6 minutes to work and then had to stop.

I did Stage: 

My score was: 

Next time I need to: 

Here are my screenshots:

Insert your screenshot here:

Whakamanawa Writing

 Our Holidays

This week when we were working in our home base class, Whakamanawa created a collaborative piece of writing to share something about our holidays.  

We each had a slide and specific learning outcomes and criteria.  Throughout the week, we gave each other feedback and feedforward.  We then edited our writing and focused on what we could do to improve the quality.  Miss Waho then gave some more suggestions and we acted on those.

On Friday, we got into groups and read our writing to our partners.  We gave a final piece of feedback and feedforward and discussed what it means to be able to work in a group for different situations.

We worked on our digital fluency skills and shared a screenshot of our individual work on our blogs.  

Here is the slide we created:

Next time, we will duplicate our slides so we can show our before feedforward and the finished version.

Goal Check In

 Steps Web Goal - How Am I Going?

This term our focus for Goal Setting is Steps Web.  In July, I set a goal for the rest of the term.  Today, I am checking in to see how I am progressing.  

This is my July goal:

Today, in September/ Mahuru I have done 852 minutes.  This means I have done @#$ minutes so I am on track to reach my goal.  I will continue to do what I have been doing.

or

I haven't really done much so this means I need to do more Steps in my own time.  

or 

I have already reached my goal for this term so now, I can set an even higher goal which is to be on level  $^(*) by the end of the term.

It's a Lockdown Life For us

 Whakamanawa Meet

Going into our second lockdown has been a surprise that I think none of us was expecting.  Whakamanawa has just got started on our online learning and communicating.  We meet two times a day and have a few fun things planned.  We are looking forward to getting back to school and ensuring that we make the most out of this experience.

Sharing Our Learning

 Student-Led Conference Slides

Next week we are having student-led conferences.  Our whānau are coming to school and we will be sharing some of the learning that we have done this year.
This slide is the mahi that I have been doing:

Sources: Miss Waho gave us all the blank template that she created. 

Reflection and Next steps: I am proud of the learning I have done.  I am a little bit nervous about sharing this out loud so I will rehearse what I am going to say.

StepsWeb Goals

 My Goals For StepsWeb

For Steps web this term, we are making sure we use this programme more regularly.  We have set personal goals for the term. 

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.

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: 

Life Education

 Growth Mindset

At the start of term four, we had a visit from Harold and the Life Education Trust team.  Whakamanawa's learning was around a growth mindset and the brain.  

Here are a few of our photos and a brainstorm of learning.

Check out our video clip of a game that uses the brain.

We now plan to take what we have learned and continue to develop a growth mindset.

Prototec August

 Basic Facts Learning

Today we have focused on using Prototec to check-in to see how our basic facts learning is going.  For this session, we had a maximum of 15 minutes to complete it.  

This is my Stage 5 example.

My next step: To work on all of my basic facts at stage 5.

Kia Kaha

Kia Kaha with Constable Brad and Constable Jess

Today we welcomed Constable Brad and Constable Jess to introduce the Kia Kaha programme.  We had some key questions that we discussed.  
What makes us the same?

What makes us different?

Using the photo, children identified things we could see that make us the same and different.

Shields~ I Am Unique Because and Our Class is Special Because...

Shared ideas as unique individuals, origami, learning languages, cultures, own room, being good, different from others, different talents,  go to Mindplus, like arts and crafts, can speak different languages, 

Class-Oldest in the school, artistic, play nicely together, people are born in different cultures, we are all different, we are tidier than other classes, we show empathy, we are role models, 

When we bring all of our differences and uniqueness together, we create a special place.

Food For Thought

Nutrition With Sophie

In week one, we had three days of learning about nutrition and healthy eating with Sophie from the Heart Foundation.  We learned about food groups, reading food labels and how much of certain foods to eat.

Here are a few pictures of things we did.  Students in Whakamanawa are working on a blog post to share more details.

Inquiry and Arts Reflections

Art: I thought our Tapa Art unit was interesting because…

If I rate myself out of 10 for how well I participated in our art unit, I would give myself a…

In our Tapa Art unit, I learned:

1)

2)

3)

Inquiry: I thought our Social Science unit about inventions throughout time was interesting because…

If I rate myself out of 10 for how well I participated in our Inquiry unit, I would give myself a…

In our innovations unit, I learned:

1)

2)

3)

Steps Check In

How My StepsWeb Work Is Going

Today we looked at how many minutes we have done on StepsWeb in the last eight weeks.  This is a screenshot of my time so far.

My goal for Steps time each week for the rest of the term is: 

We're Back

Lockdown Learning PMI

We are back.  Term Two has started back on our school site and we are ready for learning.  Today we did a PMI chart that helped us to reflect on things about the time in lockdown.  We looked at the positives, the negatives and the things we found interesting.  

Students worked on their own version of this Google Drawing and posted it to their blogs.  Check out the individual blogs to see student thoughts.

Bubble Week Two

Our Second Week in Our Onsite Bubble

We had Oskar and Locklyn join us in our Takitini bubble this week.  It has been a great week with lots of different activities. learning opportunities and good times together.

Check out our video that shows a snippet of our week.

Our Onsite Bubble

 Takitini Bubble's First Week Back

As the nation has moved into Alert Level Three, we have some students and staff back at school.  This week was about settling in and developing a programme that would benefit our small groups.

We have two adults in each bubble and in ours over in Takitini Hub, we have had three fantastic students this week.  

We have put together a slide and will continue to add to this as we go.  To share this week's learning, Pholody Slideshow has been used to create a photo slide.

Check it out:

We are looking forward to a full week ahead and a few more students coming to join our bubble.

Back to School

Sort of Back to School

As we have moved into Alert Level 3, there are a few of us who are heading back to school.  We have two bubbles at school and can't wait to get started.  Things look a little bit different but we are set and ready to go.  

Each student has their own big workspace.

Individual workspaces have a few essentials.

GUmboot tape shows us where to sit to keep social distancing up.

Steps Stars

Stunning Steps

In Whakamanawa, one of our goals this week was to do at least 100 minutes on Steps Web.  It is only Thursday and check out these two great self-managers.

Our next goal is to get more people from Whakamanawa doing great amounts of time on Steps.