Welcome to Term 4 2021
Term 4 2021
It was Prize Giving for Team Whanake
on 8 December
Kura and Damoira got the award for most Outsatanding.
Damoira and Kura both joined us regularly on our Google meetings and positively contributed to the learning sessions.
Elisara got the award for Maths.
Elisara made a great effort trying to solve maths problems in class and during our online sessions. He activley contributed to the learning sessions and completed the assigned tasks given to him.
Well done Elisara!!
Sina got the award for The Certificate of Achievement in Writing
Sina has been doing some amazing writing in class and through the lockdown. She used some amazing adjectives in her writing and she also went back to edit her writing to make it better.
Fantastic Job Sina!!!
Jonathan got the Certificate of Achievement in Reading
Jonathan worked had on his reading and moved up 2 levels.
He joined us on the on-line learning sessions and continued with his learning.
Well done Jonathan!!!
Week 8
7th December 2021 - Whetu o Hakihema.
Tuesday - Week 8 - Home Learning Activities – CRT
Hi team our zoom meet today is at 11.am Here is the link: Rm 15 - CRT
Thank you to the 11 wonderful students who turned up to learn today. Here is some of our art work:
 | Room 15 Goku drawings |
Listen to the story below and see if you can answer the following questions relating to the story:
Sylvester and the magic pebble
WALT: make connections between their own experiences and information in the story to make predictions and inferences.
Draw your own picture of Sylvester and the magic pebble :
Questions:
Where does the story take place?
Who are the characters in the story?
What is Sylvester's hobby?
What did he find?
What are some adjectives to describe what he found?
How did Sylvester discover it was magic?
What did Sylvester have to do to make the magic work?
What are some things that Sylvester wished for after he found the magic thing?
What happened after he was crossing strawberry hill?
What wish did he make to escape?
What are 3 better wishes he could have made?
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b)
c)
Lets see if you can add to the story map.
Shared writing. Try to write at least 3 sentences per starting word. Can you add speech marks in your sentence?
First:
Next:
Last:
Fill in the following chart:
At school we have the resources to create our own rock. For those of you that are at school tomorrow we can create our own special pebble. First design your own rock with patterns. Use paint and the back of a paintbrush. Maybe you could choose a special word or object to paint on. If you have your own paint at home see if you can find a special rock from your garden.
Discus with a partner what you would like to paint on your rock. What are some ideas?
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Maths problems:
Here is the Goku drawing you can complete!!
On 4 November was Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights
Room 15 made some paper Diyas (lamps)
FBS had a Diwali assembly
This term the topic is
Kindness
Room 15 shared what they thought kindness was.
Click on the coloured buttons below and then on the arrow to open the presentations.
Alexander's Sharing  |  Kura's Presentation | Elisara's Kindness presentation |
Theresa's Kindness Presentation |  Jonathan's Presention | |
Sarah's Presentation  |
Friday 5th November- Week 3 - Home Learning Activities – CRT
Ramere Rima o Whiringa- a- rangi, rua mano rua tekau ma tahi
Namaste Room 15, I hope you have all had a great week so far. Our zoom meet today is at 10.30am. Click on the link to join -Rm 15 Google Meeting. Thank you all for attending out meet today. It was lovely to see your faces. Please can you remember to send all of your completed work to Mrs Hira so you can go into the draw for next weeks prize. Have a wonderful weekend.
Listen to the story below and answer the following questions about Diwali:
Diwali story - Click on the link
Answer the questions below:
1: What is Diwali and what does it celebrate?
2: What does Alisha do on the first day of Diwali?
3: What is Alisha’s favourite part of the story?
4: What does Alisha watch her Mum do on the third day?
5: What does Saal Mubarak mean?
6: What is at the hall to welcome everyone?
7. What does Bhai beej mean?
8. What does her Alisha do for her brother Sajan?
Design your Diwali card – who would you make it for and what would you put on it? Write E.g. happy Diwali, rangoli patterns, candles, lanterns
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Listen to one of the stories of Ram and Sita. Can you use the story map to retell the story?
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Fill in your story map of Ram and Sita and see if you can retell the story in your own words. You can use First, Next and Last to help with your structure:
 | Words to help you retell the story |
Maths Problems
A1: On Monday, Ram and Sita share some fireworks.
Ram has 2 fireworks. Sita has 4 fireworks.
Together, how many fireworks do they have to share?
A2:If Ram has 2 fireworks, and Sita has 4 fireworks on Tuesday and Wednesday too, how many fireworks do they each have?
A3:What is the total number of fireworks that Ram and Sita share in three days?
B1:On Monday, Ram and Sita have 7 fireworks.
They are not equally shared.
2 of the fireworks are Ram’s.
How many fireworks are Sita’s?
B2:Ram has the same number of fireworks each day up to (and including) Friday.
Altogether Ram and Sita have 20 fireworks.
How many fireworks are Sita’s that week?
C1:On Monday, Ram, Sita and Lukshman share some fireworks they'd been given.
Lukshman got half as many fireworks as Ram, and Sita got a third as many fireworks as Ram got.
They got the same number of fireworks each day up to (and including) Friday.
- C2:If Lukshman got 9 fireworks on Wednesday, how many fireworks did Sita get on Thursday?
- C3:Is the number of fireworks that Sita got over Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, less than the number Lukshman got for the days Thursday and Friday?
- C4:How many days does it take for the number of fireworks Lukshman got, to be greater than the number Ram got on Friday?
Watch the following clips to help you create your own Rangoli patterns. Pick one that you have resources for, e.g: chalk, paper, rice, paint.
Making Paper Rangoli patterns
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We made our Rangoli patterns using chalk outside. See if you can give one of these rangoli activities a go.
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Week 1
The first week of Term 4 has just zoomed by. It was great meeting with those people that joined us on Google meeting everyday this week. Seeing your smiling faces again really made my heart sing with joy. It was great seeing you all again.
And, it was also fantastic seeing our new students from the old Room 9, Tausili, Alexander and Julia also join us. 
Week 1 of Term 4, we met with Mrs Mayerhofler and other teachers and students of Team Whanake on a Google meeting. Mrs Tuteru shared with us some work that she has been working with her class about Kindness. Miss Browne lead us with some singing and we also did some Jump Jam dancing. It was great seeing you all dishing out all those moves.
WeeK 1 was also Niuean Language Week. We watched some videos that taught us about the Niuean culture, say the days of the week in Niuean and some other cool videos.
On Friday we our Niuean School assembly on Google Meet. We saw amazing FBS whanau sharing about their Niuean culture. It was fantastic seeing our whanau celebrating Niuean Language Week with us.
Welcome Room 15 to Term 4 and we are still working from home and doing online learning.
I have important news to share with you !!
We have 3 new students joining us from Room 9.
They are:
Tausili Lotonuu
Alexander Fritz 
Julia Fa'aumumu
Welcome t o Room 15!!
We all in Room 15 are so excited to have you join us!!
To start the term off we had our first Google meeting.
We played a Kahoot game and even listened to a story on Storyline On Line.
