Nevaeh's Poetry

Song for Oakridge Villas

We are learning this song to sing to the residents on our trip. Practice, practice, practice. Remember we won't have the words in front of us when we get there.

Storybirds

Yesterday we learned how to use a new tool where we can create and publish our writing. We started out with writing poems. Here are two wonderful poems. That have been shared already!

Science fun

Whilst we have Mrs Johnston, who is a science whiz, we are enjoying some science activities on Wednesday afternoons. 

Take a look at some of the things we have been doing!

In week one we found out about the properties of bubbles. We discovered:

This week we looked at different properties of a variety of liquids.

Term 3! Raring to go

Last term we worked on a single piece of writing to persuade people to look after our favourite place for quite a few weeks. The results...AWESOME! Here are just a few of the examples of the finished pieces. Come in, take a look and read some of the amazing pieces.

Can't wait to see what we can do this term!

New Furniture!

No doubt you have already heard about the new furniture that arrived in the Zone this week. It's been a long wait but most of it is now here. We are still awaiting some new chairs and seating for our Zone library space.

 

This week's KORU value was Excellence and we have spent time thinking about what excellence is. Here is what we decided Excellence looks like for the learners of Zone 31.

Ways we can help each other be excellent

• Encourage each other to keep trying. Don’t let them give up.
• Listen to the speaker.
• Explain how to work things out rather than giving someone the answer.
• Help them by showing them where they can get some help from e.g. Khan Academy, posters on the wall, text books, Google Classroom
• Sitting and paying attention to what the learning is e.g. not talking, fidgeting, bumping
• Leave the X’s clear so the right people can sit on them.
• Share ideas with each other, give an example
• Don’t distract others when they’re trying to learn
• Give feedback and feedforward
• Use a learning buddy/partner

Privileged Learners

This has been an amazing week of learning opportunities. This week have had visitors from the Far North District Council come and share with us about pest plants. We are learning to be experts about the plants in our environment that cause harm to our native bush. We got to see and feel some and we know how they can be spread.



Next we had a visit from David. David is an author and a journalist. He shared with us about some of the things he has done as a writer, some of the places his writing and taken him and the times when he has realised how much power words have to change the world around us. We have been doing lots of learning about persuasive writing and the writing process. Thanks David for sharing how this looks in the world.