School Speech Finals 2020

 Room 8 joined in with the rest of the school for the speech finals at our local Rugby Club rooms. From our class, Keoni was chosen to speak in the Year 4 speeches and Kahurangi was chosen to present her speech in te reo Maori.

We were so proud of them both. Mr Patai presented the certificates and main trophies. He especially acknowledged that 2020 was the first year Ahipara School had speeches in te reo Maori (Maori language). That made the event even more special and indicated a greater level of inclusion in the future. We look forward to next year's speeches.

Kids as Teachers

Kids as Teachers

To create a new post on Google Blogger the children of Room 8 can follow a "pathway".  Fellow students can peer teach by writing this pathway for others to follow, without the help of a teacher!

Learning together about Persuasive Writing

Learning Together about Persuasive Writing

We have been learning to strongly express an opinion to get our point of view across to an audience. We have learned that everyone has an opinion that we either agree or disagree with. Often we need to give really good reasons for having that opinion and examples of each reasons. Here we are working together to write good reasons that support our opinion on the statement, " Girls are smarter than boys!"

Lock Down Nature Walks

Lock Down Nature Walks

In our Google Meet sessions we have talked about getting outdoors every day and going for a nature walk. We talked about taking photos of things we saw, especially Autumn things, and posting them on our blogs with a little writing of our own. Here are some Autumn Leaf nature walk photos that Mrs D took to motivate us to use our "nature eyes". We look forward to more photos being posted on the Room 8 student blogs.

Lots of Learning in Lockdown

Lots of Learning in Lockdown

With so much time at home, the children and parents/caregivers have been very busy creating things, writing stories about topics that interest them and spending a lot of time learning on the many educational websites that are chosen to extend their class learning.

Landon has been busy with his learning with the help of the family. We are impressed with the hut made of bamboo! Please add your comments too. Great work with getting. a Math certificate too!

Room 8 does Team Building

Room 8 does Team Building

Room 8 worked together in teams to construct a triangle of cups. We had to work together and move each cup one at time until the cups were balanced on top of each other.

We learned that teams become great when they talk about how they will do the construction before they do it. We also learned that we need to be patient and not just think about ourselves. We have to listen to others and work with them.

Here is Landon working with his team to build a tower.

Team Building out on the Field

Everyone got into a different group and talked about the best way to get a golf ball from one side of the field to the other side without dropping it.  Our team leader lead the team for this activity. We were inspired by the chart about leadership below. If we dropped it we would have to start all over again. Each team member held a string and together we carefully walked forwards, pausing if we needed to. The winning team listened to each other and won the race!

Sport with Matua Derek

Sport with Matua Derek

Each fortnight Matua Derek has been coaching us in game skills such as Ki o Rahi. We really had to listen to the instructions and watch carefully as he drew the game plan on the whiteboard. It was a fast paced game!

Water Safety 2020

Water Safety Fun

Matua Caleb took us for some fun lessons that would help us survive if we found ourselves in deepwater with a life jacket on. Ahipara has the beautiful 90 Mile Beach close to our homes and school so we really need to know how to keep afloat and help each other.

We learned how to rescue people by using rigid items such as a noodle and rope.