Would you rather? - a Flipgrid activity

Today we used Flipgrid to answer the question

 "Would you rather?"

Listen to what we decided.
Our Flipgrid was shared with Matawai School and they have added their responses and replied to some of us as well.

Real or Fake?

Mrs Torrie had lots of different images today for us to look at.  We had to decide whether we thought it was a real photo or it was fake.  Sometimes it is hard to decide!

We then had the opportunity to make our own fake photo.  Check out Charlotte's work...

Athletics

It was a perfect day for Athletics today, not too hot and not too cold.  We had running, high jump, long jump and throwing events.  Lots of our Ormond Learner Qualities were in action today - particularly perseverance and resilience.  Well done to everyone for giving it a go, giving it your best and supporting others.

Pet Day

Today was our annual Ormond School Pet Day.  As well as bringing pets and parading them around for judging, we had art, floral arrangements, miniature gardens, fruit/vegetable creations and baking to be judged as well.  An amazing day and a great effort by everyone!

What is Media?

Today we talked with Mrs Torrie about what media is and what media we have used already today.  We then made our own example of media we use.  We took selfies and then removed the background, followed by a background or picture of our choice to show us using media.

Here is Brooke's work...

Seeking Help

Today with Mrs Torrie, we talked about what to do if someone is not being nice online.  Be an Upstander and do something about it.  Ask them to stop, take a screenshot and email it to 3 trusted adults.  We had a practice screenshotting and emailing these during our session.  All of our learners now know how to do this.

Here are Monty's messages on seeking help...

Animating our Cybersmart Character

Today Mrs Torrie showed us how to animate our Cybersmart Characters that we created last week.  We had to make multiple copies of our slides and adjust each one slightly so that when they play together it looks like our Characters are moving.  We were so engaged in this task and they look really great!  Here is Braiden's work below...

Te Wiki ō Te Reo Māori

Matua Steve has been teaching us a new waiata this week and we have been learning new kupu and wero each day.  Today we also had a whānau group morning of activities - from Myths and Legends about Taniwhā to Kōwhai painting, weaving and colours.  We had a lot of fun!  Another chance for our tuakana-teina bonds to strengthen.

Cybersmart Character

For the last 2 weeks we have been creating a Cybersmart character to give people positive messages about being Cybersmart.  We worked in pairs and we had to use comments to communicate with our buddy.  Most of us used shapes to make our Cybersmart character.  We gave our character a name and we thought about the messages we wanted them to say.  We wanted our messages to be positive and tell people what they should do.

Here is Le Vaine and Joshua's Cybersmart character and messages...

Ka pai tō mahi Le Vaine and Joshua!

Cross Country

What a fabulous day we had at our Cross Country!  This event showcased our Ormond School values of confidence, perseverance and resilience.  It was wonderful to see our learners give it their all.

Another highlight was the tuakana-teina relationship that our seniors have with our juniors and our neighbours at the kindy next door - so many of them were running along in support of our younger friends.  It was neat to see so many of our whanau there supporting our learners too!

Literacy Circles

We are incorporating Literacy Circles into our reading programme in Rimu Learning Hub.  To start off with, our class are working on the same texts so that we get used to the different roles and are able to have a turn at each one.

There are 4 roles - Director, Sketch Artist, Quiz Master and Interpreter.

The Director introduces the book and the author and organises the order of people speaking to the group.  They introduce each person and their role and thank them for their contribution at the end.

The Sketch Artist draws a part of the book that they feel is an important part of the story.  This can include labels, diagrams and captions.

The Quiz Master writes down five questions from the book that need to be answered by the rest of the group at the end.  They write in the answers for each one as the group answer them.

The Interpreter chooses 2 tricky words from the story and writes down what they think the words mean.  They ask the group what they think the words mean and they then check with a dictionary.

Here are some photos of Literacy Circles in action!