Summer Learning Journey Sampler

Kick Start  Art Colouring Book: choose an image to colour. Dig Deeper  Watch: colouring time lapse Share  Upload your Art and a screenshot of the original and label each image. Describe why you chose a different colour for one of the objects in the painting. Watch: create your blog post.

Step It Up  Art Colouring Book: choose an image to colour. Use the Zoom Tool Look closely at the original image you chose to colour. What do you see? Dig Deeper  Watch: Elements of Art Read: Elements of Art Share Upload your Art and a screenshot of the original and label each image. Describe the image using as much detail as you can. Watch: create your blog post.

Term 3, Week 9

 

Term 3, Week 8

 Another busy week of learning in Rimu this week!

* We performed our speeches in front of our judges - Mrs McKibbin, Mr Poole and Mrs Dodds.

* Our Aurora learners had great days out at Digital Explorers and the Farm Field Day.

* Underwater fun at Swim for Life!

* Our rugby team played Awapuni, only just missing out on a win.

* Learning - Workshops, STEM Challenge, skipping, Maths Whizz, Steps, Quick Writes... phew!

Check out our Online Assembly...

Term 3, Week 7

 Week 7 has been busy! Here are some highlights...

• Getting our speeches ready for judging next week.
• Swimming with flippers in Swim for Life.
• Braiden and Izaac went to Aurora Digital Explorers at Tonui Collab.
• River, Kaylee and Charlotte went to Aurora Creative Writing at Eastwood Hill Arboretum.
• We made 'Fireworks in a Test Tube' for our STEM Challenge.
• We had lots of fun skipping for fitness.
• Mrs Parsons and Mrs Thompson had Jo in for Assessment for Learning.

Check out our Online Assembly!

Our Learning - Term 3, Week 2

We have had a really busy week this week in Rimu Learning Hub. Our focus has been on Friendships and Harold and the Life Education truck came to visit us. We talked about being an upstander, what makes a good friend and that it is ok to have more than one group of friends. In our learning, we have had a Friendship Choice Board which has included songs, making friendship bracelets and making biscuits for our friends.

Term 3 - We're Back!

Great to see most of our class back at School today!

We have started off with a bang, with Swim for Life lessons at Enterprise Pool.  These lessons are to help us become stronger swimmers and learn some valuable skills that could be used in survival situations around water. We will continue these lessons for the whole term.

The Great Egg Drop Challenge!

Our last STEM Challenge of the term was the Great Egg Drop Challenge! Our aim was to protect our egg when it was dropped from a big height - we didn't want any Humpty Dumptys! We worked in pairs to plan our design, work out what we needed and who was going to bring it and then we made our designs at school.

Finally on Friday, we tested our designs out with Mr Poole's help.  Check out the video to find out the fate of our eggs...

Online Assembly - Week 12

Online Assembly - Term 2, Week 11

Online Assembly - Term 2, Week 10

Online Assembly - Week 9

Online Assembly - Week 8

Online Assembly - Week 7

Online Assembly - Week 6

Term 2, Week 6 - BACK AT SCHOOL!

We returned to School this week - hooray! It has been so good to connect in person again and everyone was excited to see each other. We are still having our Meets in the morning so that we connect with those that are still at home. We have to remember to social distance (at least an arm length away) and keep washing and sanitising our hands, especially after we have been playing outside.

Many of our learners liked the flexibility and choice of our distance learning, so we are carrying this on. We have also kept our creative and hands on components of our timetable, although lego is a no go for now.

Check out this week's padlet...

https://padlet.com/RimuHub/uradodbvyaphbq8d

Online Assembly - Week 5

Distance Learning - Term 2, Week 5

This week we continued with our Lego, Art, STEM and Science challenges as well as encouraging the sharing of work on our Blogs and our Padlet.  We did notice a drop in attendance on our Meets.  We had a Teacher Only Day on Friday to get ready for School to resume on Monday onsite, albeit not quite as we knew it prior to lockdown.  Key messages here - wash and sanitise your hands regularly and if you are unwell, please stay at home.  We will still have some of our tamariki learning from home, so will carry on with Meets and our Distance Learning format.

Click here to check out this week's padlet.

Online Assembly - Week 4

Distance Learning - Term 2, Week 4

It was all about our Mums this week and our art and STEM challenges were all about creating something to say thank you to these special ladies!

Our Mother's Day padlet really shows the love!  Check it out here...

https://padlet.com/RimuHub/3jomydhsrj7lneyt

Online Assembly - Week 3

Distance Learning - Term 2, Week 3

With ANZAC Day being observed on Monday and a Teacher Only Day on Tuesday, this week of learning has been a shorter one.

Our literacy and numeracy has carried on and we have started a science theme for our daily challenges and STEM Challenge.  We have made lava lamps, fireworks in a jar and volcanoes with learners posting photos and videos on our class Padlet and on their Blogs.

We have also had scavenger hunts and quizzes on our morning Google Meet.  It has been lots of fun!

Congratulations to our FLAX Learner Award recipients Madeleine and Natalie.

Check out this week's Padlet...

Online Assembly - Week 2

Distance Learning 2020 - Term 2, Week 2

We have been so impressed with how well everyone in Rimu Learning Hub is going with their learning from home.  We have Google Meets as a class every morning where we catch up and talk about the day ahead and answer questions.  Being able to share our screen to show what we are talking about has been invaluable and we also have learners share their screens at times to give them support as well.

Our focus this week has been on ANZAC Day, which is coming up on 25th April.  As well as our normal literacy and numeracy time, we have built ANZAC challenges into our day.  We have also used padlet, flipgrid and blogs for the learners to share what they have been learning.

Congratulations to this week's FLAX Learner Award winners: Hunter and Kieran!

Here's a snapshot:

Distance Learning - Term 2, Week 1

This week was very much about setting the routines of what we are doing for our Distance Learning - going through the learning that is on our site, showing everyone where they can access links and logins, answering questions and connecting with each other on our daily Google Meets.

Check out some of our challenges on our Padlet!