Check out this gorgeous photo of Lexie with her dog Phoenix. They are great mates and Lexi has even written a story about Phoenix.
Lexi, I am so impressed with your story! I can see you have listened carefully and written down the sounds you heard. You even remembered your capital letter at the beginning of your sentence and a full stop at the end. Kai pai.
Adam has sent us a photo of his scrummy date scones.
They look delicious Adam! I bet you enjoyed eating them as much as you enjoyed making them.
Wow! Look at all the hard work Dylan has been doing at home in his bubble. He has been practising his sight words from the blog, matching spelling words and doing the cut and paste activities from the home learning pack. Awesome work, Dyls! Keep it up.
Gosh didn't our Meet go quickly this morning. Great to see so many faces and all of you are so good at muting and unmuting your microphones. Fantastic.
The teachers loved seeing all your favourite cuddly toys. If we missed anyone out our apologies, time went very quickly.
We have now put up the slide deck for this weeks online learning. Enjoy!
Our exciting news for tomorrow is that ASB are presenting their financial literacy workshop to us. Here is the link:
Topic: GetWise South Hornby School - Te Ope Ruaraki
Tuesday 31 August at 12.00
Passcode: getwise
I have been assured that you are able to go straight in with this link. Please do not try and get in before 12.00 as once again the teachers and tutors from ASB will be chatting regarding the meet.
It would be fantastic to see as many of you there as have been on the Meets!
Looking forward to our Pyjama Day tomorrow! A good opportunity to stay in your PJ's.
Here is the google meet link;
My gosh Varun, you have completed so much work!
I can see you have been practising your numbers and letters. They look outstanding.
Thank you for sharing them with us.
Amber sent in these photos to share with us.
She has been really enjoying doing work from her pack.
Your lovely smile shows me how much you are enjoying it Amber. I'm so glad!
Well done you and your family for keeping up your learning whilst we are in lockdown.
Have a look at these photos of Soul and his family keeping themselves entertained.
Well done folks on spending time outside in the sun and exercising.
Soul it is also great to see you working on your pack. Keep it up!
Check out this photo of Zack having a foot spa
It tickled when his mum rubbed peppermint foot scrub on them.
Again, another fantastic turnout! Thank you to parents and caregivers for making the effort, it is wonderful for the teaching staff to see all those little faces. We do miss you!
Don't forget something yellow for tomorrow's meet.
Looking forward to seeing you all then.
Claire, it is great to see you doing your learning. Keep practising those letters and numbers. The more you do it, the easier it will get.
Emma, thanks for sending Claire's work in.
Enzo has put a lot of work into his book about plants, animals and toys.
He really enjoyed drawing the pictures and writing about the topics.
Then he put his book together with string.
Look at this fantastic work from Sofia
You look like you are working really carefully Sofia - what a great effort, I am very proud of you.
Maybelle has been very busy at home doing some wonderful drawings. They look fabulous!
Good morning chickens,
Tomorrow is daffodil day.
Why don't we all bring something yellow to share at our meet tomorrow morning.
It might be a toy that is yellow or something yellow to wear. I bet there is lots of things you could find in your house that are yellow. You might be clever and build something that is yellow out of lego. You might even draw a picture that is yellow or find a book that you love that is yellow.
I can't wait to see what you might wear or bring tomorrow morning.
Don't forget when you first come onto the google meet to bring your smile and mute your microphone.
We love to see you all.
Thank you so much to all the wonderful parents who are supporting your children to join our meets each morning. It is fantastic to see such a great turn out and to touch base with you all.
See you all in the morning.
Miracle loves to learn the letters of the alphabet at school and he is loving learning the letters of the alphabet at home too. I love it when clever people are able to show learning from school to their adult at home.
Go you Miracle!!!!! Your work ethic is incredible.
Check out all the letters Miracle can match using magnetic letters at home.
As time goes on more and more of you are becoming proficient Meet users. Remember the etiquette of mute and hand raised. This is working well for most of us.
A couple of points:
Enjoy the sunshine today, the weather forecast for the next few days doesn't look as great!
Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Here is the google meet link;
Look at that little face!
Karla is enjoying doing some schoolwork from her learning pack that was delivered yesterday.
Great to see you practising Karla, keep it up!
Li-Chuen has just started school - it is great to see you practising your learning at home.
It's important too that you get outside for some fresh air, especially as we have had a few days of incredible weather. Li-Chuen went out into the garden yesterday and found a ladybird, then she added it to her picture.
Great to see you wearing a helmet. Keep practising.
Look at all the different activities Li-Chuen is doing to keep herself busy.
We love seeing your photos - thank you for sending them in.
Check out the learning space Sofia has set up in her home.
She is loving learning from home and can see all the hard work her brother and sister are doing at the same time. Their mum is very proud of all their efforts. Well done Sofia. You are a South Hornby learning legend.
Wow! What a turn out we had today for our 10am Google Meet. We were able to see 33 children at today's hangout, which is fantastic!
We would love to see you back at 10am tomorrow on the same Google Meet link.
If you are having any problems connecting to this link, please email your child's homeroom teacher and we will do our best to get that sorted for you.
Here is the google meet link;
Sofia enjoyed reading this book about a cake.
She then drew a cake with rainbow icing. It looks delicious Sofia.
What a fantastic turn out we had today!
Some are having technical difficulties, we are about to email another link for the remainder of the week. Hopefully this will help. Please feel free to email us if this still proves problematic and we will try and work through these teething issues.
We are trying to give everyone a chance to talk, so please be patient. Apologies to those that may feel they didn't have an opportunity. This is a steep learning curve for all involved. We are very impressed with all the muted microphones - well done to all the adults and students who have managed this.
What a fantastic turn out today! At one point we had 17 students attending our Google Meet. Once again thank you to all the adults helping our students connect. We have already developed some great knowledge on the etiquette of the Meet. Ms Clothier revisited some of the points on the workings of this just to remind everyone. This will enable each and everyone of us to have a chance to interact with each other once we gain some on-screen confidence.
We had some students share their home workings with enthusiasm, great work, keep it up! As Ms Clothier says send us your work and we can share it on the blog.
Ms Courtney is on her DFI course today, but managed to join us for our Meet. Great to see the other adults from the hub as well, Mrs Parker, Mrs Manson, Ms Ruru, Ms Lana and Mrs Moriarty.
Looking ahead to next week, we will update you as information comes to hand. Enjoy your time at home with family, stay safe.
