Room 25's (14) Class Blog

This week we celebrated Chinese Language Week.   Room 14 was determined to learn how to greet each other in Chinese so we set out to achieve this by using the aid of a Chinese language video and learning a Chinese greeting song called 'Ni hao ge'.   We were also very privileged to have Carmen Fu - Alyssa's Mum, join us on zoom and share with us her knowledge and wisdom on the Chinese Language.  We were fascinated to learn there are 4 Tones of Mandarin Chinese and although a word is spelled the same way (like the word 'ma'), the tone marks above the letter (as shown below in the diagram) actually change the tonal sound but more importantly the meaning of the word. Thank you Carmen for a great Zoom session on Chinese language. We read an interesting Chinese book called 'The Warlord's Puzzle' and from this, we learned about an ancient Chinese puzzle known as a Tangram puzzle made up of 7 pieces.  The idea is to rearrange the 7 pieces back to their former sh

  Week 9-  Monday September 20- Friday September 24. Hello again everyone, Another busy week gone by with lots of  fun, games, zooms and of course learning. Thank you to  all our visitors who have taken the time to visit our blog, and have posted a positive and encouraging comment. We love to read all the positive comments that you post and look forward to reading some more during this week.    Our challenge this week has been to use recycled materials to build a tower.  The winner is the student with the highest tower. Congratulations to our two winners- Ethan - 1st prize 20 tokens. for your Fale  Arin- 2nd prize 15 tokens for your Fale. Our Distance learning for Week 8            Literacy-Instructional/procedural reading ,writing and creating.                                             Making sandwiches  You have followed the instructions for the mathematics game,very carefully. Well done!     Some science experiments linked in to Literacy and writing instructions.        

              TE WIKI O TE RE MAORI- 13th to 19th September 2021 Ki ora everyone, What an awesome week of creating ,learning and sharing. Great to see everyone contributing and participating in ourTe reo Maori language week. We have enjoyed facing up to our daily challenges of presenting our Pepeha, reading our Maori Puka, listening to our Maori myths and legends about Maui and his adventures and taking on Mahi toi to learn flax weaving. Presenting our Pepeha Congratulations to our presenters Adriana Vakatini and Alyssa Fu. Adriana Vakatini Alyssa Fu Here are the teachers of Room 14 presenting their digital Pepeha. Click on the links to view their presentations. Mrs.Southcombe Whaea Rhoda Learn ,create, share Maori art work -our Mahi toi         Weaving Flax weaving by Alyssa. Thank you f

A challenge was given to the students of Room 14 to complete for Friday's 'Disconnected Day'. 'How many non-device learning activities can you think of? Make a list of them and try and do as many as you can.' Adriana had a very busy day completing her Word Finds, playing Board Games, reading in the warm sun, practicing her League and Basketball skills, and finally completing her chores so there was less to do on the weekend. Ka pai, Adriana. Christabelle's artwork wall. While walking in the park, Christabelle and her brother found painted rocks. Family fun time creating different henna designs on her hand and forearm. Christabelle showing off her pizza skills in the kitchen. A completed Tongan Tapa design of a beautiful Sea Turtle. Ka pai, Christabelle. Ethan's lovely picture of a Cheetah chasing its prey (a goat) - setting in Africa. A fantastic picture of the Uganda Flag and a description. Ethan testing his catapult experiment and learning about fulcrum.

   Malo e Lelei!  This week we have celebrated Tongan Language Week by learning to greet each other in Tongan, sing a Tongan Welcome song, count to 20 in Tongan, listen to stories read in Tongan and then translated to English, and watch some beautiful videos on how to make Ngatu (Tongan Tapa).  We were also fortunate to watch a video on the beautiful humpback whales of Vava'u. Tonga is one of the few places in the world where you can still swim with whales. Room 14 managed to pause for a few photos during zoom class to capture the beautiful variety of Ngatu in our background.   On the count of 3, everyone say 'Cheese'! 1, 2, 3... CHEESE!!!  Some interesting and informative writing about the Humpback Whales of Vava'u, Tonga. Muzakkir's writing. Ethan's writing. Adriana's writing. On the sunny and sandy island of Vava'u Tonga, you can find the magnificent, majestic, 40ft long humpback whales. These amazing national treasures of Tonga migrate from the icy c