Wednesday 25th March. Stay Safe and Be Kind

Year 5 EOTC

 

The highlight of the term has been our trip to Vector Wero for whitewater rafting. With the help of our wonderful parent helpers, our learners had a great environment for risk-taking and pushing themselves out of their comfort zone to rise to the challenge of completing activities and learning new skills.

The Auckland Council provided a day of outdoor learning at Eastern Beach, with paddling skills, kayaking, archery, outdoor cooking and the newly added cooperative games. The learners loved their day and showcased their collaboration and ways of applying their GEMS.

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Welcome to Room 14 Remote Learning!

We look forward to continuing a fantastic year of learning and growing together. With a positive 'can do' attitude and willingness to take risks in your learning, we will continue to learn to be reflective of our thinking. We'll identify what we do well and what we need to work on to grow. It starts with wanting to drive your learning and approach your learning positively.

Now that we are together 'differently' - we hope that you enjoy the blog posts and can share your learning in a new way with each other. The main avenue for learning activities will be through the website set up by Sunnyhills for remote learning. Mrs Driver will communicate how to access that when it is online.

Keep moving! Play nice! Keep safe! Be kind! Keep learning...

Cooking at Eastern beach

    

Cooking at Eastern Beach

At Eastern Beach, we did lots of activities, our favourite activities are cooking. First, we got in groups then the Auckland council gave us the recipe to make pancakes. We needed dry and wet ingredients. The dry ingredients were Flour, Baking powder and sugar; the wet ingredients were eggs and milk. Each group had a big and a small bowl. We put all the dry ingredients in the big bowl and the wet ingredients in the small bowl. We mixed the wet ingredients together then poured the wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mixed it again so the lumps of the flour will go away. After it was time for us to put the ingredients in the pan and wait for the bubbles to appear. When the bubbles appeared we flipped half raw pancakes over the colour browny gold. Once everyone finished making their pancake we went to a table to get maple syrup and jam I chose maple syrup. It was DELICIOUS!

By Sonia Zhang and Emily Chang

School Band

I'm so excited for band today!

That’s the band list! As you can see .There is me (Aaron Zhou) and my friend Nelsen Miller. Nelsen as you can see is playing percussion and I am playing the cello. Today (on the day we’ve written this) is Thursday and our first practice of the year. We aren't going to play anything today. We are just learning to set up. 

First Mrs Dowden gave us music folders. After she gave us the pieces. We are so excited to learn and be part of Sunnyhills school band!

By Aaron Zhou and Nelsen Miller

Technology

Technology is helpful gadgets for people who need help on their device or to make our lives easier.

Blackboards, typewriters and old-fashioned projectors have been replaced by electric smartboards*, iPads and state-of-the-art* 3D printers.

In Room 14 we say you should not watch any technology for a long time or you may get bad eyesight and become blind. And it is a good idea not to go on bad websites that are not inappropriate. 

In Sunnyhills Mrs Lee is teaching us to our own device appropriately, training TeXperts and coding club, which is AWESOME.

There are all sorts of technology, there's an ipad, computer, tablet, iphone, cochlear implants and many more. Watch this space.

By Bharun  & Rhys                          

Picasso Painting

Room 14 has done a few pieces of art, and the one that we spent the most time

and quality on was the Picasso inspired portrait of yourself. The first step was to

simply draw a portrait of yourself. Then, Mrs Swan (our teacher) told us  to cut it

up. We then stuck them together, but before that we moved the pieces around a

bit. Then we traced it on a LARGE piece of paper, went over with Indian ink, and

painted it. We had to wear art shirts since Indian ink stains your clothes, and also

because none of us wanted a whole lot of paint on our uniforms, or your parents

would get... just a little bit mad... Still the finished art looked really colourful, cool,

and amazing! Painting our self- portraits were fun, even though they took quite a

while!

By Cassie Wang