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Senior Syndicate: February 2016
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We are a group of 83 Year 5-6 students, learning collaboratively in an open space, with four teachers. Our blog shares our work, our thoughts and the experiences we have at school. Enjoy! Wednesday, 24 February 2016. We have been learning about the difference between an "Act of Kindness" and "Making Someone's Day. Today we used SOLO hexagons to come up with nice things we could do for others. We then classified them into the two groups. Monday, 22 February 2016. South Hornby School marks 5 years. Kicksta...
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Senior Syndicate: November 2016
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We are a group of 83 Year 5-6 students, learning collaboratively in an open space, with four teachers. Our blog shares our work, our thoughts and the experiences we have at school. Enjoy! Friday, 25 November 2016. Getting Our Geek On. Three of our students have been checking out the game Mrs Raisin has been learning to make from scratch. Check it out here:. Later on we moved into making our own games FROM SCRATCH! We've been learning to collaborate. How to use digital co-ordinates. X and y axis). Both ch...
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Room 8 @ Waikowhai Primary School: August 2016
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Room 8 @ Waikowhai Primary School. Monday, August 29, 2016. Our week started with a mathematical bang! We spent our morning block immersed in a range of different math problems. We split into groups across the senior syndicate and got our brains into gear while we tried to solve a variety of different problems. Best of all we had loads of equipment to use to investigate and work out these problems. Here are a few of the action shots from the day. Tuesday, August 23, 2016. Ako Hiko - student led toolkits.
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Room 8 @ Waikowhai Primary School: December 2016
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Room 8 @ Waikowhai Primary School. Wednesday, December 7, 2016. This term Room 8 have been investigating mechanisms and how they relate to toys. Early in the term we blogged about going to MOTAT and you can you read this here. As a follow up from this we designed then created our own toys. For this we came up with some class success criteria using our trip experience and what we already know, being kids who play with toys. Our success criteria was:. The toy needed a mechanism. It needed to be fun. Romeo ...
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Room 8 @ Waikowhai Primary School: June 2016
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Room 8 @ Waikowhai Primary School. Tuesday, June 21, 2016. Week Eight - Confident Kids. Week Seven - Blogging and Photography. Monday, June 13, 2016. Week Six - Assembly Week. Friday, June 3, 2016. Week Five - Wastewise and Finished Products. Did you know that over half of the waste that is created by Auckland could in fact be recycled? We were also learning about how to copy and paste codes so that we can embed our. Creations about ourselves in our upcoming individual learning blogs, very exciting!
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Room 8 @ Waikowhai Primary School: Week Five - Wastewise and Finished Products
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Room 8 @ Waikowhai Primary School. Friday, June 3, 2016. Week Five - Wastewise and Finished Products. Did you know that over half of the waste that is created by Auckland could in fact be recycled? After the whirlwind that was camp we have also managed to finish off some of the bullyfree resources that we were working on during Week 3. Below are a couple of examples of wordclouds that we created using tagul. We were also learning about how to copy and paste codes so that we can embed our. Thank you for y...
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Room 8 @ Waikowhai Primary School: Monday Maths Madness
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Room 8 @ Waikowhai Primary School. Monday, August 29, 2016. Our week started with a mathematical bang! We spent our morning block immersed in a range of different math problems. We split into groups across the senior syndicate and got our brains into gear while we tried to solve a variety of different problems. Best of all we had loads of equipment to use to investigate and work out these problems. Here are a few of the action shots from the day. Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment. Did y...
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Room 8 @ Waikowhai Primary School: September 2016
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Room 8 @ Waikowhai Primary School. Tuesday, September 20, 2016. Week 8 - Chinese Language Week. As well as our usual learning we have acknowledged Chinese language week this week. We have had a go at some different greetings and words that we could use each day. There are six posters that have words we can used and you will see these displayed below with our Chinese Lanterns. If you would like to have a go at these too. Saturday, September 17, 2016. Week 7 - Tongan Language Week. Malo e lelei,. Hi there,...
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Senior Syndicate: March 2016
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We are a group of 83 Year 5-6 students, learning collaboratively in an open space, with four teachers. Our blog shares our work, our thoughts and the experiences we have at school. Enjoy! Monday, 21 March 2016. We have been learning that problems don't just go away, it all depends what we do and what we say. Tuesday, 15 March 2016. We have been learning about Similes. QUICK as Usain Bolt sprinting like a lightening strike. SLOW as a snowflake drifting to Earth. LARGE as an elephant stomping in a stampede.
