Brisbane Band

Week 11

Welcome to Week 11. The students have been learning a lot of new things, working collaboratively and managing their learning using Google Drive.
They have been busy posting on their blogs. These are a great way to showcase their learning and is a really nice vehicle to showcase what their learning.  Posting onto their blog involves quite a lot of new skills that the children have learnt, like ensuring the posts have titles, adding images, embedding work from Google Drive. I have been very impressed at how much they can do and how much they are able to teach each other.

This Sunday some more children from St Mary's will be making their First Holy Communion and Confirmation at Mass.
Bishop Steve will be visiting this Friday to see our wonderful children and what they have been learning.
Holiday reading logs will be going out this week. Please encourage your child to read and add to their log. Last term we won this as we had 100% of our students return their reading logs. Let's see f we can do it again.

To Catch A Rat...

The Fish Who Could Wish - A Reading by Corbin

We decided to film each other reading a story. Corbin is reading a story called The Fish Who Could Wish. 
Filming by Aaron. Great reading Corbin. Well done boys, you worked very well together.

Hens Don't Crow- A Reading by Aaron

We decided to film each other reading a story.  Aaron is reading a story called Hens Don't Crow. Sound Effects and filming by Corbin. Great reading Aaron. Well done boys, you worked very well together.

One Odd Old Owl- A Reading by Maddy

As part of our Reading Aloud project Maddy and Millie read their books and filmed each other using Capture on an Ipad.  Here Maddy is reading a book called One Odd Old Owl. Well done girls.

Tara's Singing Pencils

Tara brought her Singing Pencils to school to show us. Her very clever Dad made them.  We were very impressed.

Week 10 Matariki

Week 10
There are 2 weeks to go until the holidays.  This week we have Hit it as part of the Sport Bay of Plenty programme. Can students please bring their PE Gear on Mon , Wed and Thur.
The Whanau group are holding the Cultural Dinner onThursday night in the hall at 5.30. It would be great if you could come. Please bring a plate of food to share.

On Friday Molly is going to be the Principal for the day. We all better be on our best behaviour in Room 14 this week!  Todd McClay, the MP for Rotorua is going to come to school on Friday, and hopefully will visit our class. Maybe we will be able to ask him some questions about  Sustainability and protecting our native birds.

Thursday marked the start of Matariki. We spent the day learning about Matariki, which we will continue this week. The students have made some great lanterns- using Google Draw. Once we had made our design we printed it off. we then folded it in half, and cut from the folded edge to the black line all the way across. We then unfolded the  paper and refolded it the along the other edge. We then taped the sides together and added a handle to make a lantern.

Here are some of our designs.

Sustainability Tracking Tunnels

For our Golden Time Options this week we made some Tracking Tunnels. we want to see what animals are around our garden, near where we live, or even inside.  We have even put some in the classroom to see if we can detect whether or not we have a mouse!
 Hopefully the students have used their tracking tunnel at home, and checked them to see what animal has been across it.
This ties into our learning about Sustainability,  Looking after God's Creation, and Protecting our Native Birds.
We have been learning about  different native Birds, why they are special to New Zealand, and ways that we need to protect them. We have also been learning about the predators that attack our native birds and why we need to take steps to reduce the numbers, and ideally stop the predators from having access to our Native birds.

Senior School Science Show

On Wednesday as part of our Enrichment class we were very lucky to be invited to visit the Science Show put on by the Senior classes. We had a great time exploring the different things the students did, and listening to and asking the students questions about their projects.

Gargi's Bucket Experiment

Here is Gargi's Bucket Experiment.

Emailing to our blog

We are learning how to post to our blog from emails. We have set up our email blogger address and we can now send photos and videos straight to our blog.
This is Jacob, Nathaniel and Max on Wacky Hair Day doing the nest challenge.

Sacred Heart Mass

We had Mass on Friday. Here are some photos of us in church. Well done, Room 14  for singing so beautifully.

Dylan's Player of the Day

Dylan shared his medal that he got last week from Miniball.

Ava's Last Day

Friday was Ava's last day. She and her family are going on a big adventure, and are going to live in Chile. How exciting. We will look forward to hearing from Ava. We might be able to learn some interesting things about Chile.

 Here we are waving Good Bye. Have a great time in Chile. 

Once upon a time, a million years ago, or was it only yesterday,

We read Marie Louise Gay’s book, “Any Questions”. In the book some children ask the author how she comes up with ideas to write about. We used some of her ideas as a starter to inspire our writing. Here is some of the writing the students did.
 

Grace and Charlotte

Grace and Charlotte brought their beautiful Confirmation cake for us to share on Monday. Congratulations girls!

Lego Animation- Kronkiwongi Riley

Riley and Avaani had a go at making a Stop motion Movie- using Riley's Kronkiwongi. This was our first go at using this app.  Today,  Riley was the animator and lego builder, and Avaani was the camera man. 

Well done boys. 

Harrison - Junk Free June

Harrison is doing Junk Free June. What a great video he has made to explain what he is doing.

Harrison is doing Junk Free June.  Follow the link https://www.junkfreejune.org.nz/parti...  if you would like to donate  to support him.

Imogen- spinning a bucket of water

Imogen had a go at Spinning a bucket of water as part of her home learning. None of it came out- she must have had it going fast enough. I wonder what would happen if she tried to spin it right over her head. 

Golden Time Bird Drawing Competition

Our task was to draw a Native New Zealand Bird in Google Draw. We then had to add a native tree or plant that was important to the bird, and then we had to add a predator that was threatening the bird's existence.

The Lighthouse Keeper's Bird, by Lily Kautz

We have been learning about Native Birds and why we need to look after them as part of our learning about Sustainability. This week we investigated the Stephens Island Wren. We learnt some very interesting things about the bird.
The Stephens Island Wren became extinct after Tibbles the cat killed off all of the unique, flightless, nocturnal birds on Stephens Island.

 Lily Kautz wrote and illustrated this picture book about the extinction of the Stephens Island Wren.

Baa Baa Smart Sheep

Brooke found this book in the library and decided that she and Grace would present it to us as a play. 

 They did a great job. Well Done.

  Apologies-it is quite hard to hear- I should have had the iPad closer.

St Mary's Day and The Birds- iMovies

Here is Imogen, Molly and Maddy's iMovie that they made together.


Here is William, Patrick and Riley's iMovie that they made.

Posting Screenshots

Today we are learning how to take screenshots on Macbooks, Chromebooks  and PC's. and then post them onto our blogs. We had to take a screenshot of the maths strategy we are learning about on  Maths Whizz- and then post it onto our blog and explain what we are learning.

Liam's iMovie

We have been learning to make iMovies over the last few weeks. Here is the iMovie Liam made.