Farewell Ms Tapuke

Sad Goodbyes

Ms Tapuke was teaching n our class for 6 weeks.  Her time with Rimu flew by very quickly.  She became a part of our class and taught us many new and interesting things.  She has graduated from teacher training and is now getting set to take her teaching career to the next level.  
We wish her all the best and hope to see her again some day.

SkoolBo Success

Super SkoolBo Stars

SkoolBo is an online tool that children can work on and seem to really love.  They can challenge other players and earn points for the answers they correctly answer.  We are new to SkoolBo so have not yet discovered all that it can do.  We do know though, that the activities and challenges are based on Literacy and Numeracy.

In our first ClassBo Challenge, we earned way more points than expected.  We set another two day challenge and have a goal of 5000 points.  This challenge is still in process.

The students in Rimu can see where we as a school are on the leaderboard against other SkoolBo schools around New Zealand.  

Today, Eli saw that we were third so took a screenshot of the leaderboard and emailed it to Miss Waho.

During the school day we were placing third.

Later that evening, Emily was working on SkoolBo from home so emailed through another screenshot.

Later that day, learner from home pushed us into second place.

Ka mau te wehi!!

Challenge Achieved

ClassBo 5000 Challenge Success

So earlier in the week we set a class challenge in SkoolBo.  We had two days to complete literacy and numeracy activities and reach 5000 points.  We received an email today so can now set our next challenge.  Here is the final leaderboard.

Prototec Example

We are learning to improve our times tables and basic facts.  Today we used Prototec to see what we need to get better at.
Here is my first attempt and my marks.

I think I need to work on division because some of these were not quick and easy to answer.

SKOOLBO Trial

Today we are trialling SKOOLBO.  Skoolbo is a great new program to help with reading and maths. Children are immersed in an incredible learning world and are highly motivated by the inbuilt rewards. Parents and teachers are equipped with an array of tools to help achieve wonderful educational outcomes for their children. And best of all – it’s free!

In Rimu Class, we are having a look at this to see if we think it is something for us to use to enhance our learning.  It certainly was a lot of fun so we are ready to review to see how it can benefit us.
For our first go, here is our leaderboard for the day:

Check out our comments below to see what students thought:

Rimu Learn to Voki

Miss Waho's Twin Voki

Today we learned how to create a Voki so we can share our learning using Sight, Sound and Motion which is also known as SISOMO.

Click here to meet Leon

Learning to Insert Voki Screenshots

Waru learns to Screenshot for Blogs

Today Waru Reading group are learning how to make their blog posts more appealing and interesting to look at.

Click here to view my Voki