Terrifically, tantalising, tango Thursday 4 March check-in and check-out

Tena koutou katoa! 

Room 7 have been doing an excellent job of tuning for their home learning. For every day we're in Level 3, we have a morning check-in video call at 9.30am and a check-out call at 2.30pm. 

The check-in is our chance to switch on mentally and gives us enough time in the morning to make sure we're out of bed, had breakfast, done our chores - basically anything that we would normally do before school. It's also a great way to stay socially connected with each other at this time. 

The check-out gives us all a chance to meet again, share our achievements, challenges and have a bit of a laugh. It's also a good opportunity for us to "clock off" after a hard working day of home learning. 

We try to end each video call with a fun game. So far, we've played Kahoot!, Bus Stop and challenged each other with our basic facts playing Ace King Queen Jack. If you've got some suggestions for us, we'd really like to hear from you. 

Thanks for reading and take care! 

Mr N 

Today's check-out session. Two games of Kahoot! about Marvel's Avengers and General Knowledge about New Zealand. 

Tu Meke Tuesday 2 March: Room 7 Check-In, RemoveBG and pixabay

 Ata marie! 

Great to see all of you who joined in the fun this morning, especially from the same funky kitchen. 

Thank you to Mr Goodwin for joining us today and leading a fun lesson on adding ourselves to cool backgrounds. We'll giver it a crack today and upload to our blogs. 

How to recreate YOU in your own background - For those of you looking for instructions, here's what I remember: 

1. Have a profile pic of yourself available to use; try the webcam on your device. 

2. Go to https://www.remove.bg/

3. Click 'upload image' to upload your profile pic 

4. Download 

5. Open a new Google Drawing > Change file name to '(your name) remove bg' > Save to your Cyerbsermart folder (thanks, Krista!) 

6. Insert your profile pic > Align your new pic to the bottom of the GDrawing page > Resize as required 

7. Go to pixabay and search a background where you would rather be (e.g. beach, bush, space, library, etc.) > Click 'Free Download' for the background you would like to use 

8. Insert your background as a picture to your Google Drawing > Resize your background to fit the working space (the checker boxes) of your GDrawing > Right-click the background and 'send to back'

9. Download as a .png or .jpg 

10. Share to your blog! Don't forget to add a catchy title and tell us about the place you would rather be! Key word use could include removebg, where I'd rather be, lockdown, Level 3, home learning, cybersmart.  

Ahhh, the trusty ol' bakery. This is a pretty, fancy-looking bakery but a bakery none the less. I love it when my nostrils drag me towards freshly baked goods. It happens anytime I stroll past the Master of Pastry ... actually it happens whenever I walk past any food shop. You can see from this picture that I am spoilt for choice. "Sir, I'll take one Bavarian Kreme please. Yes, one dozen. Good day, sir". 

Monday 1 March: Room 7 Home Learning

Kia ora koutou! Wow, what a busy day of home learning it has been. 

The R7 Daily Check-In at 9.30am was an slow but entertaining start. We revisited what our expectations are for learning from home, especially about setting up our learning spaces. I was pleasantly surprised to see three of our classmates in their school uniform - solid effort from Renei, Willie and Ocyan! 

A reminder to the R7 students, keep up the good habits which allow you to make a strong and positive start to your day. What do you think some of those habits might include? 

The R7 Daily Check-Out allows all of us to meet online at the end of our working day, to celebrate our 'wins' and clock off from home learning. R7 were very lucky to have 10 students and Mrs Tidswell join us this afternoon, where we finished with a General Knowledge Kahoot about the weekend just gone, sports, school and Mr N. There are a couple of highlights posted just below. 

Looking forward to seeing my class once again tomorrow! 

Regards 

Mr Nevalagi :)