2022 Room 1 Visual Profile

 

This slide deck is a visual profile of 2022 Room 1 at Ruapotaka School. Each student and teacher took some time to present a page of themselves and the things we love. Shout out to Oaki College Y7&8 for the inspiration with this task! 

What commonalities do you have with Room 1? 

Persuasive Writing: I find it annoying when ...

This is my persuasive writing for this week about a couple of things I find really annoying. The focus was to use emotive language to persuade others to empathise or feel what I'm feeling. 

What pet peeves do you have? 

Room 7 "Clock Out" Blog Post

Welcome to Room 7 "Clock Out" for Week 8. 

Use this time now to complete the following: 

#1: Friday PM Learning Logs

#2: Create a new blog post sharing something amazing you have done this week 

What are you sharing? 

Why is this important to you? 

Don't forget to add your digital learning object (see mine below) 

#3: Have a crack at the Friday PM animals meme on your slide. 

If you've done all of the above, go leave some lovely comments on the blogs of our mates in Belfast School, Ruapotaka or otherwise. 

Done that? Awesome! Go and find your "secret object" and get ready for Fun Friday! 

This is some of the learning my students did in one of their maths workshops with Mrs Allan earlier today. It is about factorising algebraic expressions. 

This is important to me because it says how willing some of my class are to push themselves to learn in maths. We haven't covered it in class but I'm glad to see them giving new and challenging mathematical ideas a crack. 

It is also important because it highlights what they're capable of when expanding or factorising algebraic equations. This lesson also taught me that my class still needs to learn their times tables, common multiples and factors. 

Term 3 Week 6: Monday Home Learning

We have started this week on a very positive note with lots of quality learning happening. We were online in video meetings a lot more as a class with two check in sessions and two workshops for writing, reading and maths. One meeting merged very well into the next. 

Whether we're at home or school, I'm trying to teach my students to use the following phrases while learning:  

What am I learning? 

Why am I learning this? 

How do I know when I've learned this?

What were my success and challenges today? 

In each of our literacy and numeracy classes, we will be starting our own records for learning by using Google Slides. Most of my students did not have their books with them on the last day we were at school so we've had to find another way to track our learning. The example slide decks below are my examples to students how they can track the progress, successes and goals of the learning during Level 4. 

Writing: We have some very descriptive pieces about the takeaways we're missing written as 50-word stories. 

Maths: This week, we are revisiting how to use our multdiv basic facts to find fractions of a set or number. 

Cybersmart Challenge #19: Google Meet Ready

 

This is my finished example of this week's Cybersmart Challenge. Thank you Mr Ferguson for posting the challenge, it was fairly easy to follow and create. I'm sure my class will also have theirs ready by the end of this week. 

I liked this challenge because it was interactive, easy enough but also a fantastic way to remind students (and me!) of some basics when meeting online. Have you completed your challenge?