Spreading Kindness

We made a monster wall. On this wall we all wrote a kind message to one another since we are all missing each other during this lock down. It put a smile on all of our faces.

Online Learning Fun 2021

We played a fun game on our google meet called Gartic phone. Check out the fun we had. Some wonderful artists in Ngakaunui.

Our Prime Minister

Ngākaunui Challenge the Teacher

Challenge the teacher

Students were asked to send videos in of challenges. Videos are slowly coming in. Keep checking in to see the different challenges. And to have a wee giggle. :) 

Keep the challenges coming!

Another amazing piece of art work of our Prime Minister.

Had to share another amazing art work created my Hakeem. This is his portrait of Jacinda Ardern. He used google drawing and aced it. I think it looks just like her. What do you guys think? Well done Hakeem.

Goose Chase update

CHECK THIS OUT!!!! Ngakaunui are loving the Goose Chase Challenges as you can see. We have some very creative students in Ngakaunui that love a good challange. We get new challenges each day to complete. Even the teachers compete. I wonder who will win this week?

Jacinda Arden

Take a look at this!!!
Ngakaunui were given the task to create a picture of our Prime Minister and look what Maiyah created! She made and decorated a cake to look like Jacinda. Very creative.

Top 3 Stepsweb users for the week!

Check out Ngakaunui's top 3 Steps users for the week! 

Google Meet

We have been catching up each day as a class at 10am. Today we even played a Kahoot together.

Online Learning

Here is some learning thats been happening while we have been on lock down-
GOOSE CHASE ACTIVITIES:

Welcome back to TERM 2 Online

Welcome back everyone!

Term 2 Online

A new and exciting way for us to be learning for the time being while we are in lock down.

Check out the daily videos on the site and learning pages.

Also watch out for our google meets. Great to see all your wonderful faces and catch up each day. 

Netiquette

Today for Cybersmart we have been learning all about 'netiquette' and what it means. We watched some videos as a class, and made a brainstorm on the whiteboard about appropriate ways to act online. We then learned to use a new tool "Venngage" to share our learning. We had a lot of fun experimenting with this site, and created some pretty cool and informative infographics. We made sure they all had a title, at least 3 tips, and stood out in order to capture the audience's attention.

What do you think?

Cybersmart Lesson Two

Today in class we have been learning about Personal vs Private information and what we should be sharing to the world on our blog.
We all completed a google drawing, sorting through info about Miss Morgan's cute dog called Cooper. Lots of us disagreed about where the information went, but in the end we all decided on this:

Do you agree?

Basketball with the Rams!

Some lucky Year 5 and 6 students have been lucky enough to be training with 2 of the Rams Basketball players for the last 2 Wednesday afternoons.
We have been learning lots of different skills and drills such as dribbling, different types of passing, tricks, listening to other players, and many fun games!
We have been having so much fun with Emmett and Cam. Some of us have been attending the games and we were lucky to receive some free tickets to the big game vs Southland Sharks at Horncastle arena this Friday! We are so excited and can't wait to cheer on our favourite team.

Go Rams!

Our Behaviour Expectation Week One

This week our focus for behaviour is 'Before School'
As a class we discussed everything we could do to ensure we are ready to begin our school day. Most of our ideas are on the image below

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We then completed an activity to show some of the activities we could do when the school bell rings at 8.30. A lot of us wanted to go on our devices during this time however, we still need to build some trust before we can do this. We came up with some creative ideas. But here are Miss Johnstone's below:

Pride in Our Achievements

This week our value is Make Someone's Day and we are looking at Pride in our Achievements.
This is a good chance to reflect on all of the amazing things we have achieved this term.

Here's Miss Johnstone's.

You can check out ours on our own blogs!

Jason Gunn comes to Gilby

Te Ropu Ngakaunui and Te Ropu Maia have been learning the song My Hometown by Jason Gunn for assembly. We thought we would contact Jason and see if he wanted to come down and watch our performance. Unfortunately he was at the vigil at Hagley Park the same time assembly was on! This was ok though because he sent us a video to share at assembly instead.. click on the pic below for a link to our special video.

Jason came and visited us at school on Tuesday Morning. He walked in the door and said "Can I ask you a silly question? Would you guys like to be on the radio??!" 

We performed our song and it was recorded to be put on More FM later that day. We did a fantastic job and brought Jason close to tears. He was with us for 45 minutes and talked to us all about what we want to be when we grow up. We had such a great time, what a cool guys!

We loved hearing ourselves on the radio, thanks for coming Jason!

Happy/starstruck faces

All about Ngakaunui

Check out our descriptions of ourselves.

Art in Ngakaunui

We have spent the last couple of weeks decorating our plain grey walls in our classroom.

We created some beautiful portraits based on the style of the artist Nate Williams (check him out). We talked about our interests and things that were important to us. Then we divided our portraits up and wrote these words on. They look amazing up on our walls!

We are also learning our Mihi's this term so we created some colourful visual Mihi masterpieces. Don't they look great! Now we just need to practise speaking them...

Sport Canterbury

For the last two Friday mornings Ngakaunui has been working with Mike Peacock from Sport Canterbury. He has been coming in and showing us how we can use sport equipment in different ways. We each received a sports bag, and in it was some gear. Week One we worked with bean bags, tennis balls and cones. We explored different games and the students had the chance to work together to come up with different ways to use these. Although it was a rainy day and we had to do this in the hall, we had a lot of fun! We then got to take all of this new gear home and show our parents what we had come up with. We are trying really hard to remember to fill out our PassSports with all of the new games we have been coming up with at home.

Week 2 Mike came in with a whole load of Frisbees! It was so much fun learning how to throw these and coming up with games. Students used chalk to create their own Frisbee Golf games (a fave of Miss Johnstone's), there was 'who can throw the furtherest', and Frisbee dodgeball.

A lot of fun on a Friday morning. Students were out there at morning tea with their Frisbees which was awesome to see. A couple ended up on the roof so we are waiting for Mark to get these down... oops!

Check out how much fun we had.

Frisbee crew