More Movie Action from Kathie

 

This Week's Home Learning Challenges/Wero

Some extra learning and creating that has been happening!

 

Day 5 Friday 27 August - Home Learning

I am so impressed with the home learning you are doing.  As today is Friday, check if you have finished the 2 tasks on Education Perfect. I have seen 20 of you have been on there but not all of you have finished the Te Reo task.  I did set more tasks on Mathletics, so get those finished off too.  I will be putting a new assignment on Code Avengers next week which is the next level up, so see if you can get this weeks assignment finished today.

Daily Challenge:  Create a Pillow Fort/Hut 

Check out Jared's Hut
Now you see him......

.... and now you don't!

Levi's family having afternoon tea in his fort.

Emily in her hut

The hut made by Jarvis and his brothers.

Lee and Paddington picnicking in her pillow hut.

Thomas and Quinn in their hut.

Annabelle in her pillow hut.

DO:  Ask your parents or caregiver if you can make a hut inside using cushions from the couch or sofa. You can use sheets, pegs, and even pieces of furniture to help build your hut.

It would be great if you could build this collaboratively with your siblings. You are good at working collaboratively in the class so see how you do at home.

Once your hut is built spend some time playing in it, possibly reading your book or having a picnic (if it's okay with your grownups).

When it is finished take a photo and email it to me at cmaunsell@hameast.school.nz

Day 4 Thursday 26 August - Home Learning

Today's Unplugged Challenge is:  Create a dinosaur out of an empty cardboard box using only triangles

Dinosaur created by Leighton

Dinosaur created by Lee

Dinosaur created by Jarvis

 

Spiky the Dinosaur created by Emily

Carrot the Rabbit created by Emily

Trianglasaurus created by Stella

T-Rex exploring the garden created by Thomas

A Horned Dinosaur that eats meat created by Jared.  He says its head is red because it is covered in blood!

WATCH:  ArtJohn make a simple dinosaur sculpture from a cereal box!

DO:  Find a cardboard box, a ruler (or something straight you can use as a ruler), a pencil and a pair of scissors. Follow the steps on the video to make your own dinosaur sculpture. It needs to be able to stand by itself (using some of the triangles).

When it is finished take a photo and email it to me at cmaunsell@hameast.school.nz.

YOUR NEXT MISSION:  When you are finished making your dinosaur, is there another animal you could create using only one shape?  What about a teddy bear using only circles?

First thing this morning, I would like to a big shout out to everyone who has been having a go at our Daily Unplugged Challenges. It's great to see what you have come up with. I would also like to share with you photos sent to me from Toby's household. Toby and Finn have been very busy creating with their lego. Here is what they have made:

   

I would also like to share what our lovely Learning Assistant Kathie has been up to. Kathie has made a movie which is called Aussie Adventures 1. As the title suggests, there may be more to come.  

Here's Kathie's Movie;

Day 3 Wednesday 25 August - Home Learning

  

Yesterday afternoon I found this tiny feather on my driveway. It reminded me of a learning task Room 10 did last year when we were in lockdown that you might like to have a go at. The weather forecast is fine for today, so it would be a great day to get outside and find some natural treasures to create your own insect.

Created by Leighton

This butterfly was created by Lee.

My Creation by Annabelle!

Emily and her Dad made one of these each.  One is a dragonfly and the other a tree insect.  Can you pick which one is which? 

This insect was made by Stella.

                                                            

                                                                        This insect was created by Jarvis. 

CREATE AN INSECT OUT OF STUFF IN YOUR BACKYARD

WATCH:  How to turn stuff from your backyard into stunning insect sculptures.  TALK TO SOMEONE IN YOUR BUBBLE: What are the steps Raku takes to create his sculptures?  Do you think they look realistic?  Are they easy to make? How do you think he chooses which animals to make? What do you have in your backyard? What could you use to make a sculpture? What insect would you choose? DO:  Create an insect out of stuff in your backyard. Go into your backyard/garden or anywhere you can access outside (with your parents or an adult in your bubble). Forage - which means collect - a range of natural items like leaves, twigs, flowers etc.  Bring them back home and lay them out. Think of an insect you would like to try to create and use your items to rearrange into the shape of it.  What can you create?

Share your sculpture with me by either putting a photo on a google drawing, give it a title and share it with me or take a photo on a phone and email it to me: cmaunsell@hameast.school.nz

Day 2 Tuesday 24 August - Home Learning

Today's Challenge - Can you create something that will float?

Here is Lee's first boat. She then made some improvements. Both versions of her boat floated. Once Lee was finished Paddington tried to eat it!

  

Here's Emily's boat made from an egg carton and tinfoil.  

Here's Leighton Floating Craft

Just reminding all students from Room 10 that we have a range of digital learning opportunities accessible from this blog page. These are sites that we use during the week when we are in school. I have emailed your parents/caregivers with all the details you need to access these in case you have forgotten your email address, usernames or passwords.  Please email me if they haven't received this: cmaunsell@hameast.school.nz

Pānui - Reading

You can visit either Sunshine Classics or Read Theory.  Don't forget all the sites on this blog for Listen to Reading or Read to Self.

Tuhituhi - Writing

There is Once Upon a Picture under Work on Writing, which has great images and ideas to get you writing.  No login or password is required. You can do some writing using pen and paper or in a google doc on your google drive.

Pāngarau - Mathematics

You can go to Mathletics or try out the new Education Perfect website. This is found under Websites on this blog.

e Ako - Digital Technology

Code Avengers is all loaded with a new assignment.  You may need to push refresh to load this once you have logged in.

Te Reo Māori

Try the quick lesson I have chosen for you on the new Education Perfect website. 

I will also be loading unplugged daily challenges onto this blog.   

Tuesday's Unplugged Challenge is:  

Can you create something that will float?  You can use your lego bricks or anything else you have in your bubble.  Don't forget to send me photos: cmaunsell@hameast.school.nz

Day 1 Monday 23 August - Home Learning - Scroll to the bottom to see our Aliens

Morena Room 10 Students and Whanau

Today's task for Parents/Caregivers:

Please check your email for information from me so you and your child can access their online learning if they have access to a device.  It would be helpful if you could reply to this email so I know you have received it.  If you have not received anything from me yesterday please email me at cmaunsell@hameast.school.nz and I will resend it to you. Perhaps we have the wrong email address in our system.

Today's task for Students: 

Using whatever building bricks (lego type bricks) or blocks you have available can you build an Alien?  Please send me a photo of what you have made and I will post it on here. Photos can be sent to me by email or text (021 2952707).

I look forward to seeing what you have made.

Look at the Aliens that have landed so far!

 Created by Leighton

 

Created by Annabelle

Name: Orb Star

Power:  Controls stuff with its mind

Planet:  Zero.90.

Made out of:  Lego

Created by Blake

Created by Emily

Stella created a whole family of Aliens!

Created by Toby

Created by Jarvis

Great Work Everyone!

2021 Operetta - Te Ra

During Week 3 of Term 3 here we are concentrating really hard as we practice for our class item. Fingers crossed the show will go on ...

The NRG Science Box from the House of Science

We were lucky to have a Science Box in Room 10 last week. It was based on the story of how Maui Slowed down the Sun.  We undertook three different experiments.

The first experiment was to see what colour paper attracted the most heat from the sun. Was it white, red, black or tinfoil? We had to keep an eye on the weather and as soon as the sun came out, we were out on the court with our thermometers, paper and stopwatches. 

We had to design our own experiment to see what type of fabric was the best insulator.  We finally worked out we could put hot water into a cannister that we wrapped with different types of fabric. We measured the temperature at the start and the temperature at the end of a set time to see which fabric held in the heat the best.

The very last experiment was to see which sunscreen was the most effective in cutting out the UV rays from the sun.  We smeared a small amount of sunscreen on a piece of film and placed some UV beads under the film.  We then used the stopwatch to time how long it took before the beads changed colour.  This was another day we needed the sun to shine.