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.

The Whitebait Connection - Wairoa Stream Trip

We have had so much fun learning about the importance of whitebait in helping us to evaluate the health of our waterways. Do you know what five species of whitebait are?

Isabel, Whitebait Connection, has been sharing with us the instruments, tools and processes involved in testing the health of our local stream. 

Our trip to the stream was great. We had a little precipitation but we were prepared to be a little wet so that was all good.

The Intrepid Olwyn Returns

Olwyn has returned from Waipukurau School with a wonderful book detailing her adventures. Her arrival at school was just in time for some reading mileage with Maree. Here she is sharing her adventures. Thanks 7W, Waipukurau School for looking after her so well. We are loving reading about her adventures!

How the slime dripped through by Georgia

Far away where no one would go, something in a down hearted town was ready to petrify people. I was coming home when I felt something on my arm it was wet, clumpy and shiney. I didn’t know what it was. I could feel it spreading across my arm. I could see that it was a green, soggy slime. I felt petrified. It slid from my arm to the ground and fled to the drain. It dripped through the cracks down to the sea and carried on. It dripped in a dolphin’s blow hole and stayed there forever.

Cyber Safety with Hector's World

Hector's World

In ZONE 31 we are learning to be Cyber Safe. Today we learned about the importance of not sharing personal details on line.  We watched Hector and his friends.