Week 1 Extreme Makeover - Scott Class Edition

On the first day this term I issued Scott Class with a challenge - design our classroom in the best way for us to learn.

In pairs we created a plan for how we wanted to arrange our class. We then presented our ideas to the class and identified the best parts from each plan. The best parts were then combined to make a plan for our class.

We then rearranged just about all of the furniture in our class! We love our new layout!

Creating our plans

Working together to plan our classroom

"Hmm, what should we put here?"

Osana and Saunoa measuring up

Our combined plan on the whiteboard

The finished product! 

SPCA Board Games

Towards the end of last term Scott Class did some learning about the SPCA, animal welfare and how to care for animals. As a way to share our learning we created board games. We featured in an article in the Central Leader (which you can see online here).

This week we have been finishing off our games and trailing them. We gave each other feedback on the games. Some of them were really fun to play!

We hope to take our games to some other classes to play around our school.

Adding the finishing touches to our games

Enjoying the games

So much fun!

Week 7 - Blogging with our families

Tomorrow, we are holding some workshops for our families to learn how to comment on our blogs. We have made a screencast of how to write a blog comment in case our families forget.

Check out how you can comment on a blog if you don't have a Google account. 

Week 7 - Hockey

Hockey is gearing up at the moment. We have our mixed team competing at the zone competition next week and the girls the following week.

Today we were learning how to do a sweep pass. A sweep pass is a powerful pass where you sweep your stick along the ground before it connects with the ball. Check us out in action.

Simione practising his sweep pass

Mr Bryan coaching Sami

Nikolai and Osana practising

We finished our session with a game

Week 6 - Samoan Language Week

Last week was Samoan Language Week. In Scott Class we are very luck to have some expert Samoan Language speakers. They helped us learn how to have a basic conversation in Samoan.

We then recorded them and had a go at using a green screen to make it look like they were in Samoa!

We are all very excited about using our green screen to take us all over the world! Keep an eye out to see where we go next.

Room 8 - First time posting!

Today I have been working with five fabulous students at Waikowhai Primary School. They are very excited about blogging for the first time.

Week 5 - Mau rākau

This term the boys in Scott Class, and some of the year 5 boys from Killeen Class are taking part in mau rākau each Wednesday.  Mau  rākau is a programme of Māori weaponry that involves children from different cultures. They are learning traditional methods and protocols, and also te reo Māori.