Week 9: Maths Challenge

Hi blogging world

Today Jay presented his maths challenge to the class. We used screencastify to record his presentation and the discussion throughout. Feel free to listen to it by clicking on the link below

Jay's presentation/feedback session

Note to Setoga class: please remember to listen to this screencastify before you present to the class. There are a few peices of feedback in there that could apply to you all. It will also give you a springboard from where to start.  Happy presenting!

Week 8: Maths challenge (progress update)

This week we have continued to work on our maths challenges. Miss Fortes gave us the opportunity to get feedback from three other people. Then we had to make some changes that they told us to do.

Instead of finding a link to a game that already exists, we decided to use our digital tools to create new ones. Here is an example of one of the maths games that have been created by Setoga Class.

Maths Game by Gargee, Paris and Kanishka.
Click here to try their game

Week 6: Quality blog commenting

In Setoga class we are forever reflecting on our work and helping each other improve. Two of our class members noticed that some of us were rushing our blog comments and forgetting to make them positive,thoughtful and helpful.

So we decided to put together some examples for each other so we could look at them if we ever forget.

You can open this slideshow by clicking on the link below. We have opened it up so you can comment directly on our slides and gives us feedback on our blog comments. We look forwards to reading your feedback

Link to slideshow

Week 3: Team Germany

This Friday some of Setoga class will be attending the annual 'Have a go' sports day at Keith Hay Park.  They will have the chance to participate in get set go activities, touch rugby, gymnastics and SNAG golf.

This years theme is the Olympics and we are representing Germany.  Andrew, Fehi, Sela, Hinemoa and JD worked together to create a chant for our team.  They made a screencastify of it to share with everyone.  Enjoy.

Week 2: Stop motion animations

We have been learning about natural disasters and how we can be prepared for them. We decided to make stop motion animations to simulate an earthquake. We did this using the 'stop motion animation' app on our chromebooks. Sadly the app isn't working properly and our videos were lost. So... we decided to try again except this time we used stop motion animation on our iPads. It worked perfectly!

Miss Fortes uploaded our videos to youtube so we could create voice overs using screencastify but the videos wouldn't play.  Today was definitely a day to display the Hay park Way and show how resilient we are.

Here are some photo's of us during the planning stage. We created a story board, then added at least five keywords per scene. These were specific topic words we would use during our voice overs.

See video here Stop Motion Animation

 

Week 9: SPCA Website for kids

Did you know that there is a SPCA website especially for kids? Here is a video of a few children from our class talking about what they saw on the website today. Click on this image and follow the link.

Thank you to our sponsors

This is  a slideshow about The Cat Door Company. Please enjoy reading about why they are an amazing company.


Have you ever heard of SureFlap?  They are an innovative company that make cat doors and other products. Please look through this slideshow to see how they have supported our school.

Week 6: Zoo trip

My reflective post

One thing I learned at the zoo was that an elephant has 40,000 muscles in their trunk. Another thing I learned was that a Meerkats have black rings around their eyes like sun glasses to protect their eyes from the sun's glare. The last thing I learned was that elephants can vibrate their head to communicate with other elephants. The vibrations go down through their feet into the ground.

Thank you for reading
By Viliami

Week 6: Enrichment tasks using TinkerCad

Check out this enrichment task by Gargee. She would love some feedback on her task.

Gargee @ Hay Park School: Enrichment Activity: Kia Ora bloggers,  If you read my previous blog post about the zoo, the workers have to make sure they really take care of how much fun...

Week 5: Writing Workshop Slides

Kia ora whanau. Here is a copy of the slides from today's writing workshop.  Feel free to use these at home when supporting your child's writing at home.

Week 5: Mix 'n' Match Activity

Hi bloggers.  This is a good task to get you thinking about how healthy your drinks are.  Do you have any of these drinks at your house?

Here is a fun activity that will help you learn about how much suagr is in your drinks.  Click here to open this drawing and make a copy of your own. Remember to share your finished activity on your own blog so other people can give you feedback.

Link to Nathaniel's mix 'n' match activity

Week 4: Positive-Thoughtful-Helpful blog comments

In Setoga class we enjoy leaving positive, thoughtful and helpful comments on other people's blogs. Sometimes we are so excited that we forget to do one of these things, so this week we are doing a blog commenting 'refresher'.

Here is an example of a positive, thoughtful and helpful blog comment that was written by Gargee.

Gargee has left a new comment on your post "3D Design":

Hola Mandita,

Great job Mandita. I also did TinkerCad and I used a cylinder to make the outside to, same with the rings! Did you have fun making your medal? Next time if you blog about 'TinkerCad', write it as TinkerCad, not TinkaCad. It might make people get mixed up with the names.

Kind Regards

Gargee

Posted by Gargee to Mandita @ Hay Park School at 12 August 2016 at 12:19

The NED Show

This week we were lucky enough to have The NED show visit us. It was a phenomenal show that taught us how to be NED.  NED stands for...

Never give up

Encourage others

Do your best

Channing was the presenter who taught us how to be NED. It was an enthralling show that incorporated funny sounds, yo-yo's that were wicked cool and some awesome magic tricks.  For example Channing tore up a piece of tissue that illustrated how people can sometimes tear us down with mean words.  Then she ate the tissue and with some encouragement she some how connected it together to make a huge 12ft ribbon that just kept coming out of her mouth.  It was spectacular!  That is the beauty of encouragement.

Channing and Setoga Class

Week 3: Aryan @ Hay Park School: Raksha Bhandan Indian celabration

Every wondered what Raksha Bhandan is?  Check out Aryan's blog below.

Aryan @ Hay Park School: Raksha Bhandan Indian celabration: Namaste blogging world. In the month of August there is a special festival for brother and sisters is called Raksha bhandan. On that day s...

Week 2: Kawa of Care Comic Strips

Hey bloggers.  This week we were inspired by Morris class and their amazing 'Kawa of Care' comic strips.  So we decided to make our own about chromebooks.  Here is an example of one group.  Feel free to look through our individual class blogs and check out our comic strips.  We would love some feedback on them.

JD @ Hay Park School: Kawa of Care: This is our Kawa of care.It is about our chromebooks.There is one about holding your chromebook one about eating and drinking.Kawa of care...

You can visit Morris Class and follow their amazing learnng by clicking here

Week 9: Cultural Day by Bendeguz

I liked Culture day because people can see how your cultural dress or lava lava. It is good to wear your costumes on Culture day and show everyone that you are proud of your culture.

On Culture day me and my class made shadow puppets. We started them on week eight. First we started of with Miss Fortes giving us some paper with a shadow puppet template. Then we used a pencil and a ruler to make intricate designs. We drew patterns with the pencils. Then we made the line bold with a felt pen. After that we colored in the shadow puppet.  When we finsihed colouring we had to cut the puppets out and put in needles that we could bend so the piees could move.

After that we made a video about the culture of Hay Park School.  I realy enjoyed this because now I know how to make new patterns and I know about shadow puppets.

By Bendeguz

Week 8: Our class assembly

This is a snippet of our class assembly.  It starts off with Gargee and Fehi singing 'I want you back' with their back up singers from Setoga Class, then ends with Paris demonstrating a set of 'blocks'.

Enjoy

Week 8: Nathaniel @ Hay Park School: Our phenomenal assembly

Did you miss our assembly yesterday? Nathaniel has written a brief recount of what happened.

Nathaniel @ Hay Park School: Our phenomenal assembly: Hi bloggers, Yesterday setoga class presented a new assembly. It was very cool because we did something that was different to what the oth...

Week 7: Reading Together

A big 'thank you' to the families who attended our second Workshop. Workshop 3 will be held next Thursday 23rd June @ 9.00am in the school library. All families are welcome.

Jesse reading together with his mum

Seth and his mum having a blast reading together.

Week 6: Lucas @ Hay Park School: Stop Go Animation Station

Check out Lucas's stop go animation.  During reflection time he poses an interesting question which has written at the end of his post.  I wonder if anyone could help Lucas with this question?

Lucas @ Hay Park School: Stop Go Animation Station: Hello blogging world can you give me feedback for this video.  So you watch the video then you give me feedback so I can make the video bett...