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. 

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. 

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 :)