Our First Totara Fun Day

First of all, you may be wondering what a Totara fun day is?   During Totara Fun Day the senior school all rotate around to different teacher. We participate in different activities around dance and drama, photography,science,technology and maths.

Firstly we get together as a whole team and we do Kapa Haka practise. Then we went to Andrea and learned about taking photographs instead of just pictures. We think photographs have a story behind them. We used water as our focus because we are learning about our relationship with water.

Then at 10:00 we switched classes. We went to Room 12 and Sandie and Kerry taught us about measurement. We used cereal and rice to learn about measuring capacity and volume. We were split into groups of four or five and some groups got to make their own cereal. The other groups will make their own cereal next time.  We learned how much rice could fit into a cereal box and we discovered it could hold 28 cups.

We are looking forward to next week where we get to try out two new activities.






Guess who this is drinking the cereal?

World Travellers from Room 13

Would you like to see where our vacationing class members are visiting !

Here is a world map so you can check out where they have been. 

World Map

We will check back often to see where they have been and what they have been up to!

Safe travels !

Room 13

Maths Homework

Here are some extra homework sheets to supplement your maths.  You can finish them and save and email me or just let me know in class how you have been going.

2 digit multiplication

Multiply Factors of 10

2 Digit Addition

Good luck and have fun!
Andrea

Help us Win!

Help your local primary school win iPads! We’re giving away double nominations in the YellowLocal.co.nz Schools iPad Competition and we’d like you to help rally support for participating primary schools in winning this fantastic new technology. From Monday 8 August for every registration on YellowLocal.co.nz we’ll give the selected primary school two nominations. That’ll mean it should take half as long for your school to earn an iPad! Here’s your chance to get behind your local school so forward this email to your mum, best friend, neighbour or even your local hairdresser and get them to register on YellowLocal.co.nz.Their selected school will receive two nominations instead of one. The more people who register and nominate your local primary school the closer they get to winning those iPads! Double nominations are only available until 21 August 2011, that’s if the iPads aren’t all snapped up. The Yellow Local® Team T&C’s apply and are available on YellowLocal.co.nz/schools

Recipe for Raw fish or Oka

• 1 fresh mullet or a piece of tuna(filleted)
• 2 lemons

• 2 cups of coconut milk
• onion (or spring onions)

• 1-2 tomatoes

• 1 green pepper

• 1/4 lettuce (optional)

• salt to taste

Procedure:

1. Place the boneless meat in a clean bowl
2. Cut the lemons and squeeze the juice all over the fish, making
sure the meat is well soaked in lemon juice.
3. Cover the bowl for an hour or an hour and a half
(depends on how much meat marinated)
4.Remove the boneless fish from the lemon juice, place it
on the cutting board and cut into small cubes.
5. Place all cubes in a clean bowl, chop the onion, tomato
green pepper and the lettuce and add to the fish.
6. Add coconut milk and stir everything in the bowl with a wooden spoon.
7. Chill in the fridge while preparing the rest of the meal.
8. Salt to taste


Tip: Serve with cooked green bananas or taro.
Chill before serving.

GLS Live Week 1 - Shout for Samoa

Talofa and welcome back to Term 3.

This term marks the start of the Rugby World Cup 2011 hosted here in New Zealand. Each community had the opportunity to adopt a team to welcome them to our nation and make them feel at home.


Our school and community have adopted Manu Samoa which is great as Samoan's have historical roots in Grey Lynn.


This weeks' edition is all about Samoa. We have also worked hard on our camera work and use of the green screen.

Enjoy the episode and please comment !


Untitled from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.

Toby's Big Overseas Adventure !

On Wednesday August the 10th, 2011 I am going on trip that will last for almost 5 weeks!

I am going with my Mum Dad Sister and of course me.

In one country we are going to see my cousins I have not seen them in a very long time! We are going to Japan, England, France, Spain, America and Canada.
The only other country I have been to is Australia! My Dad was born and grow up in England so that is why we are going to England twice! We are not packing that much because we thing that we are going to get lots on our overseas trip. I am going to get a coin from every country. One of the countries I am going to is  Canada and  Andrea is from Canada too! Andrea wants to give me a list of thing's to get. She is also going to give me a map. I never been on a plane for more than 5 hours! I am so excited it is going to be so much fun! I wonder what I am going to see.


By Toby!                                                                

PMI for GLS Live Term 2

Term 3 GLS Live 

Review and Solutions.

Problem	Solution
Camera is moving around a lot and making the picture wobbly.	Have a tripod or a camera stand to steady the camera. Use a music stand to hold the ipad in place.
Can hear the class in the background moving chairs around and some talking.	Class could be doing silent reading outside while the classroom is used as a studio.
News readers not always focussed and looking at the camera.	Hold cue cards directly behind the camera person so the news readers eyes are looking straight ahead. News readers should practise a lot and speaking clearly and with good volume.
Sometimes wearing green when using the green screen.	Don’t wear green or you can borrow a jumper from a friend. Don’t wear green on Fridays if you’re a news reader.
Sometimes certain groups didn’t finish their news item so they weren’t part of the programme for that week.	Use your time wisely. Monday to Thursday is enough time to get a story written and illustrated.

Wall Wisher

Totara Stars by teacher

Click above to add your thought, facts, what you wondered, about water and we'll find the answers over the next term when we study WATER and OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH IT !

Term 3 Homework

This term we are trialling viewing and completing our homework online via our blog. 


We will be able to view our worksheet and won't have to worry about losing our books, losing the paper, or having the dog eat it ! 


This term we will hand in homework every fortnight so this homework is due August 12th.


There is also paper copies available for students without internet access but remember the classroom is open every morning at 8:00 so you can always come in and catch up then.


Email me any questions and good luck and have fun!


Andrea


Click here to view the homework sheet.

School Holiday Edition of GLS Live

We are still learning how to use the green screen. Our goal this week was to have less camera movement which I think the students achieved.

Our next goal is to find a better place to film so we get all of the news readers body in the shot and that the shot makes visual sense.

We will tackle that in Term 3.

Enjoy and please leave us comments or if you are a green screen expert then please leave us some tips !

Room 13


Week 11 - School Holiday Edition from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.

GLS Live Week 10

This week in New Zealand is Maori Language Week so we decided to do the news show around that week as it ties in with our relationship theme and it is also part of who we are as New Zealanders.


It was also our first time using the green screen so we could have "real" pictures behind us. We are learning all the time and we learned that we have to stand still when filming. 


Untitled from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.


Please leave us comments as we love comments and can learn from them too !


Room 13

Nau Mai Haere Mai to Room 13s Art Gallery

Welcome to Maori Language week and also our 100 Days of Learning celebrations.


We have been using Te Reo Maori in our classroom more this week and have used Maori titles for our art gallery movie.
Our Maori teacher, Matua Emerson left us this term to move to Wellington and he used this quote to remind us of what is important. He changed tangata(people) to tamariki (children). 
Our children are the most important thing in the world. 

He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tamariki! He tamariki! He tamariki!

What is the most important thing in the world? 
It is children! It is children! It is children.

Enjoy your children's work.

Leave us comments as we love, love, love comments.

Room 13 Art Show 2011 from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.

Happy Canada Day - GLS Live Week 9

In honour of Canada Day, and because Andrea, our teacher, is Canadian, we focussed our news items on learning some facts about Canada.

We all reckon Andrea should make us Beaver Tails for morning tea next week too ! Yum yum !

Andrea also added some photos her brother had sent her of Vancouver.

Enjoy the show ! Make sure you leave us comments !

Room 13


Week 9 GLS Canada Day Version from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.

Toad Rage.

Toad Rage
The author is Morris Gleitzman.
The setting took place in a swamp near the highway in Australia.
The main characters are Goliath the toad, Limpy the toad, Charm the toad and the athlete.
Limpy goes on adventure to get humans to like cane toads but then from some other animals all he finds out is that that cane toads are really ugly but he does not believe them so he continues to go on through darkness or no darkness. After Limpy has all the information he needs. Then he went home and told everybody the news.

Want to find out what Limpy discovered? Then read the book Toad Rage.

By Rebeka

EOTC week

Hi!Yesterday on Monday 13th June we had EOTC week.We had to go to Room 11 to talk about

what groups we would be in.The groups have to have a name and a chant. It was a  great day.

 We also had to be split up with friends to know other people more.We got to do very fun activities. They were parachute, Futsal, Spider web, photography trust, lava leap, cooking smores, making sock puppets and tent and shelter building.

We are going on a trip tomorrow and cannot wait.

Room 13

Toad Rage

Book: Toad Rage
The author is named Morris Gleitzman.
The setting is at a swamp near a highway
The main characters are Limpy, Goliath, Charm, the cane toads and a triathlete.
Limpy goes on a adventure to stop humans from running cane toads over because some of is family have been run over. But no humans care because that the cane toads have to get food from the highway. Limpy sets off on an adventure to change the humans minds. 


So will Limpy stop the humans from running over cane toads?


Grab the book from your library and have fun reading. You will laugh out loud for sure.


By Elijah
      
 

All About Trees

Arbour Day was two weeks ago and one of our news groups did a news item about the trees around Grey Lynn School.

They took the pictures, uploaded them and used iphoto and keynote to make their movie.

Enjoy.


Untitled from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.

GLS Live week 8

This week the students worked hard to produce the show on time and by themselves. They almost did it !

They researched, wrote, and filmed the show themselves and Andrea still puts it together in iMovie, but they're getting there.



GLS Week 8 News Report from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.


Enjoy ! Leave us a comment. We love comments !

Complex sentences

Room 13 is learning to change our writing from simple sentences to complex sentences.

We are also setting new writing goals.

Here is our first sentence we worked on together. Andrea said she cannot wait to read all our complex sentences now in our writing books.

The cat ran round the mat. - Simple sentence


The cat ran round the mat and then the dog chased the cat. - Compound sentence


The cat ran round the mat as fast as a cheetah and then the dog chased the cat but he was as slow as a snail, so the super fast cat won. -Complex sentence


Keep watching for our complex sentences and see our writing grow !

Bob the potato !

Here is Bay and Ernie's candidate for the best vegetable around - Bob the Potato !

I wonder if he tastes good mashed !

Hopping Broccoli !

We have been practising using persuasive language. We got to chose a fruit or vegetable and use our persuasive writing skills to make our creation sound the yummiest or be the most popular.


Here is Aum and Luke's creation - hopping broccoli.

Let's see if they have persuaded you to eat more broccoli!

Nina for Class President

Hi. I am Nina. I am shy and friendly.


I love art. I want to be your class president.


One because I can make more sport time.
Two because I can make ore art time.
Three because I can make going to school at ten instead of nine.


I promise that the teacher can go for longer morning tea and we can play for longer and have a bit more playtime.


Voting for Nina is like cuddling a puppy!

Vote for Maya

Class President.


Hi there! My name is Maya and I love ice skating.  I want to be your class president because I like going on school trips, see nature and make morning tea longer. If you vote for me I promise I will make Friday and Wednesday 1/2 hour free play and Monday will be an art day.


Go MAYA! It's just like patting a pony !

Vote for Toby.

Hi. I'm Toby. I'm running for class president.  I should get the job because I am good with computers and I am good at doing special jobs and I do lots of work. I promise I'll try to make lunch times longer. If you vote for me it will be like voting for freedom !

Vote for Ernie

Hi there. I am Ernie and I am really funny and cool. I am running for class president. Vote  for me because I am funny, cool, and brainy.

Vote for me and everything will be green.

James' Persuasive Class President Speech

Hi there. I am James in Room 13 and I am very sporty. I like sports like rugby and athletics and I like swimming. I want to be class president because I will care about my classmates. I will help people in some school work too. I will teach people to do the right thing. 


I should be class president because I can help people make the right choices.


Vote for James and I will give you $1.00.


If you vote for for me you will feel like you are at Rainbow's End.

Best memory of EOTC

My best memory was Le Roy's bush walk because we went on the wrong path. Elijah

My favourite bit of EOTC Week was on Tuesday because we did cooking and I love to cook. Inaise

My best part of EOTC week was going on Le Roy's bush walk because we saw lots of things like birds and seeing a waterfall. Chelsea

My best thing was doing the imovie with Hugo. By Ernie

My best E.O.T.C week was Le Roy's bush because it was fun taking photos of the waterfall. Anetema

Syris' Persuasive Campaign Speech

Class President by Syris from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.

Vote Jack for class president

Hi I am Jack and I love Smiggle and I also am sometimes super chatty.
I am running for class president in Room13.
I think I should have it because...
1:I will keep my promise statements.
2:I am in the top 3 groups. And-
3:I would try to make E.O.T.C week be every second term.
My promise statement is...    When Andrea's smelly sticker catalogue gets here I will give my money to her to order them for us to share.
And last but not least my catch phrase is (drum roll please) 

Pancakes!

Yes you heard me pancakes mmmmmmmmm!!!


So please vote for Jack

Room 13s Class President

Room 13 has been learning about persuasive language.

Today we held a mock campaign for class president.  We had to state who we were and what we were running for. We had to come up with three good reasons for people to vote for us and then write a catchy phrase so people will remember us.

Some of the class did this in their writing books while Jack and Anetema did theirs on the blog.

We will record some of the class reading theirs and you can decide who would win if this was real.

Room13

Running for class president

Hi. I'm Anetema. I love sports and I talk too much to my sister. I am running for class president because you can be the boss of the class. The reason why I want to be class president is because     
1.You can give treats to people that would be nice.
2.You can give table points and treats and free play.
3.You can do whatever you want But not too much.
If you vote for me I will give you free BOBBLE HEAD of Prime Minister John Key.

Vote for  Anetema and she will give you a pool.

Ben's Keynote about EOTC Week

Here is my first solo attempt at making a keynote. We saved it as a quicktime movie and published it to Vimeo as well.
EOTC week was great and I got a reward for giving everything a go !

Enjoy.
Ben


Ben's EOTC Movie from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.

Take a Virtual New Zealand Bush Walk

We thought a lot of our blogging audience will never get the chance to walk through a New Zealand bush.

Enjoy our photos and we hope it feels like you have just experienced a piece of NZ nature.

Room 13

Le Roys Bush - The Year 4s Big Day Out 2011 from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.

EOTC Sharing Time

Part of our Pathways to Learning Model is creating and sharing. We spent Thursday and Friday creating and making posters to display and share our learning.

In order to make this movie the students had to:

• take the photos
• upload to iphoto
• edit the photos
• upload new photos to imovie
• add transitions and effects
• type in text
• save and export as a quicktime movie

All of this required collaboration and team work. 

Keep posted for new movies over the next few days.

Jack and Aum worked hard on their movie. 

Untitled from Room13 GLS on Vimeo.

EOTC Week

Well. We  have had the week of our lives and have been busy making movies, keynotes, and posters to show our learning.

We had to focus on our relationship statements while participating in EOTC and see which statement went with what activity.

Here are the statements again in case you forgot:

Relationships can be positive and negative.
Relationships can be influenced.
Relationships can change.
Relationships involve more than one.
Every relationship has a purpose.
Relationships can be powerful.

Here is Uycess movie about EOTC week. She did this on her own and is her 1st  iMovie.


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Have you got the time?

Well Room 13 does....or we're getting it. Our student teacher Kade is teaching us all how to tell time and how to use the correct terms when saying the time.

Here is a short video we made on our ipad2.

What do you think?


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GLS LIVE IS BACK!

We finally got our first show of Term 2 off the ground. We have changed the format a bit and are trying to include many different types of news. 


We are working hard to get this week's out on time as well so watch this space !




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Indoor Wet Days

These days are messy and hard on the students as they are stuck inside and haven't been able to have a run around in the fresh air; however,  Room 13 children turned it into a building and creating time.

Here is an iMovie we all made together to show our creations. 

Enjoy !


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Thinking about our PE

PE is physical education and we are learning to really think about our games and what we learning while we are playing and having fun.

Kade is our student teacher and he has been teaching us strategy games. We play the game and then Kade calls us back in and we talk about what we did well and what we could change.

Here is a brief movie about our latest game. We still haven't thought of a name for it. We love playing it and now play it in four teams so we all have a go.

Watch the video narrated by Flynn and tell us what you think.
Also, this is Flynn's first attempt at making an iMovie with help from the teacher.

We think he did a stupendous job !

Room 13


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On your mark....get set....GO!

Today was cross country and the sun came out for once this week so we got to run in the warm sun.

We all walked to Grey Lynn Park and got ready for our races. It was exciting seeing all the different ages run. The Year 6's were so fit and competitive and the Year 1's were so tiny and cute - running with smiles on their faces and waving to everyone !

Room 13 had 23 awesome runners who all persevered until the end of the race. Andrea almost lost her voice cheering for us all.

Here are our certificate winners:

Today at cross country I was proud of my self because I came 2nd. It  was really fun and everyone was fit.by Zara.
Today I felt proud of my self because I came 3rd. ByRebeka

At cross country I had a really good time I came 2nd James came 1st and Luke came 3rd.by Flynn

At cross country I had a really good time. I was proud of my self because I came first! by James

At cross country I had a really good time. I came 3rd and it was the first time ever coming 3rd. by Luke

Cross country 2011 can be called a success ! Room 13 ran well and achieved their goals !

Cross Country 2011

Here is a short movie about our school's cross country. It goes form 5 years old to 12 years old. We enjoyed the day and hope you enjoy the movie.

Room 13


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The New 3D Phone

The Tiki's reading group are learning to find emotive language in text and understand it's purpose.

They have been looking at advertising and how adverts use different words and phrases to make you want to buy something.

They got a picture and had to decide what it was, how to use it, and how to sell it.


                                                                  Here is their poster.

The 3D Phone.

Features: 

Cover that changes colour.

Makes bubble gum.

Projector screen.

Makes sounds.

Makes music.

Takes photos.

It smells nice.

Slogan - "It never runs out of batteries."

The class gave them some feedback and feedforward for next time. 

What do you think?

By: The Tiki's

Futsal !

Today Nina and Lucy's dad, Craig and his friend Juliano came to teach us about Futsal.

Futsal is like indoor soccer except it is played with a low bounce ball. This helps you control the ball better and doesn't go bouncing off.

" Today was fun playing Futsal because we got to play a game and work together. " James

" It was sad because it rained and we had to stop early when we were having fun." Rebeka

" It was fun because it was on at morning tea." Aum

We all really enjoyed it and hope some of us can make a team to play in the Futsal League.

Juliano taught us that you say hello as, "Oi" in Portuguese ! He is from Brazil where they are really good at football.

Thanks Craig and Juliano for coming to visit us today.

Room 13


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7 Word Holiday Stories

Andrea challenged us to write a 7 word story about our holidays. This made us really think carefully about our word choices and to really think about what we want to say.

Here are some of our 7 word stories.


In the store I got a bike.    By Syris

Me and my family went to church. By Oceania.
                                                                                                             
 Ice skating with Nina was very fun.  By Isobel

I did an awesome ice skating show.  By Josie

I did not like going to Mangawhai. By Kate

In  the  holidays  I  went  Ice  skating. By  Nina

Great work Room 13

7 word stories about our Holidays

 We thought Andrea was crazy ! How are we supposed to tell a story using only 7 words?

We had to think carefully about what we wanted to say and use JUST the RIGHT words to tell the story.

Here they are....

My days were filled with kiddy activities. Andrea(teacher)

I was busy making jewellery at work. Stacey(student teacher)

The place I went to was bigups.        by James

In the holidays I went to Whanghamata.      By Flynn

On Sunday I saw gold class HOP . by Shae

I saw Rio Gold Class on Saturday. By Jack.

In Whitianga I went to the movies. by Rebeka

On Sunday I went to the Hindu temple. By Aum

Me and my brother got new games. by Elijah

On Monday my family watched the rugby. By Kayleen

Well done Room 13.

Mums rock !

My mum is special because she lives very far away and I treasure the time I get to spend with her. - Andrea
My mum is special because she is always there for me and helps me with all my things that I do .Gwyenth
My mum is special because she helps me with my homework. - Ernie
My mum is special because she lets me eat alot.-Flynn
My mum is special because she always gives me yummy food. - Nami
My mum is special  because  she  can play  with me and have fun when she's doing dinner - Nina
My mum is special because she buys me stuff for school - Oceania
My mum is special because she is really fun and makes really good home made pizza - Toby
I like my mum because she buys me my shoes, and plays with me - Kayleen
I love my mum because she buys me treats - Luke
I love my mum because she's really funny and really nice - Anetema
I love my mum because she's really pretty and has been looking after me all my life - Ulycess

Happy Mother's Day! 

The world needs Mothers

I love my mum because she loves me no matter what I do.  - Andrea                                                             
I love my mum because she gives me lots of lollies and helps me.From Syris
My mum is special to me because she takes me on lots of fun things.  by James                                                  
I love my mum because she bye's me stuff and she lets me go anywhere.
I love my mum because she cares for me and makes food and stuff for me.  Aum
I love my mum because she does lots of sports.
My mum is special to me because she has a loving caring heart.  Kate
My mum is special to me because she loves me and she is caring. Rebeka
I love my mum because she loves me no matter what even when I do something wrong. - Isobel
I love my mum so much and I couldn't live without her. Josie
I love my mum because she does work and washes all my clothes and she gives me clean clothes. - Ben
I love my mum because she is special and she cares for me and she is fun to do stuff with. Chelsea
I love my mum because she's very special to me and she brings me to places to learn stuff. - Maya
I love my mum because she helps me with lots of things.  - Bay
I love my mum because she helps me and she does lots of things for me.  - Jack

The world is a better place with all our loving mum's in it. 

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY from Room13

How does and earthquake in Japan relate to our learning?

This year we are hooking all or learning onto our Relationship Statements.
They are:

Relationships can be positive and negative

Relationships can change

Every relationship has a purpose

Relationships involve more than one 

Relationships can be powerful

Relationships can be influenced

Here is our slideshow showing our interpretation of the earthquake in Japan and the relationship statement that fits. 

Untitled from Andrea FAle on Vimeo.