My time in GRi11 2.0

Dear future self


GRi11 2.0 has been like a playground there has been so many awesome things to play on.  In GRi11 2.0 i feel like I have grown stronger person because at the end of the year I wouldn't have been able to get up in front of the class and read a speech but last week I actually did that and I am proud of myself for doing that.


The things that were different from learning last year and learning this year are that this year we use computers everyday for everything.  We also have 4 different spaces do work in we have the main area of the classroom which is called the hub.  Then we have the back room called the hangout.  We also have a thing that is like a little hallway called the hall of fame.  And the last room is the hideout.


Some of the awesome things that have happened this year in GRi11 2.0 are When we did TTS aka traditional teaching style.  When we arrived to school there was a sign on the on the door saying GRi11 2.0 does not open until 8:50am.  Then we had to do dictation maths and assigned play.


I have been a College Street Kid by showing the habits of heart every day I
am responsible for charging my iPad every morning because I bring it to school and when I come to school my iPad is on 100% everyday.  I am a happy and healthy CS kid because I do sports rotation every Tuesday.  And I run around all lunch time.  I'm always happy.  I use the habits of mind everyday to help me with my learning I persist when I am given a tough maths Challenge.


I will definitely miss having Miss G and Mr R as my teachers but I'm sure I will see them again.

World of wonders food festival 🌏

In GRi11 2.0 we have been learning about cultural diversity we all have done something to do with taking action some have done it about food about dance and or about sports.   So on Wednesday the 16th of November we are having a cultural day and the IPU drum team are coming.  We have a whole bunch of cultural ideas planed.  Including cultural food, Yoga, sports and dances.  The foods we are having are sushi, fried rice, dumplings, gingerbread men, pizza and stuffed grape leaves. The group I'm in does the organisation for the whole day.

The yoga people are doing different yoga poses to help you relax.  Here's and image.

These are some of the yoga poses.

The performing arts and language group are doing some cultural jump jams for the kids.  They have been practising non stop. 

The sports groups have been learning different sports from Different countries like kabadi soccer football and different sports like that.

My Mandarin Learning

Greetings 

Hi - Ni hao 

I am - Wo Shi 

Thank you - Xie xie

Bye - Zai jian

I am 9 years old - wo Jiu sui 

I like - wo xi huan

Good afternoon - shau hao

Numbers 

0 - ling 

1 - yi

2 - er

3 - San

4 - Si 

5 - Wu 

11 - Shi Yi 

Colours 

Green - lu Se 

Orange - ju Se 

Purple - zi se 

Red - hang Si 

Blue - Lang Si 

Animals 

I am kiwi - xin xi lan ren 

🏃‍♀️Athletics Writing🏃

I woke up and took a look at my calendar to see what I was doing today it said in big bright green letters ATHLETICS DAY YAY I ran out to the kitchen and said to mum “ it's athletics day are you coming”.  She said to me yes of course darling I wouldn't miss it for the world.  Good I'm gonna go get ready.  We finally arrived at school.


We sat down on the mat and did the roll and notices then we went out to the tennis court and lined up in our order for athletics.  Athletics Day  is when we have all sorts of sports and we do them all day but we have morning tea at 10:30 am and lunch at 12:30 pm.  Me and my friends like to sit together and eat lunch and morning tea.


The 6 events we have are shot put, sprints, hurdles, long distance, long jump and high jump.  We do 2 every block so we have 2 before morning tea after morning tea and after lunch.  We also have relays but I will tell you about that later.  The first 2 events we had were high jump and shot put.  Then we had long jump and hurdles and last 2 sports we had were sprints and long distance.


We have relays at the end of athletics day and with relays we have 4 teams Takahe, Kea, Weka and Tui.  We have four battens that we run from one cone around the other cone behind the team and pass the baton to the next person.  To get into the relay teams we have a race the 6 people that got their names written down are in the relay team and the other 2 are the reserves if a person is sick they will ask a reserve if they can fill in for them.


At the end of athletics day we pack up and go back to class put our hats away and grab our bags say goodbye to the teachers and go home.

My Calendar Art 2016

In GRi11 2.0 we have been working on our calendar art.

 This is my calendar art 

Father's Day writing

In GRi11 2.0 we have been working on our Father's Day writing.  Here is my Father's Day writing.

My Dad Is amazing.  We have great times together.  We have a lot of fun. I love my dad so much ❤️.  He is very kind and lovely.  My dad has dark hair and it is like a browny colour.  He has brown hazel coloured eyes.  He has a job as a painter.  Everyday when he comes home from work he has paint on his hands face legs and arms and he has in his eyes as well. 

 My dad's dad has a dog called Jazz and every time we go to his house he jumps up on us and he gives us scratches and it hurts. Jazz also pees everywhere when we come over.

My dad always wears a hat wherever he goes.  Because when he was little his ears always got sunburnt so he went to the doctor and they said that he will have to wear hats for the rest of his life or the top of his ears would be cut of.

I love you dad so much I hope you have a wonderful Father's Day.❤️

Haiku poem

In GRi11 2.0 we have been doing some haiku poems.  A haiku poem is when the first and last lines have five words and the middle line has seven words here is my haiku poem.

My Role In The Production Is...

In week Ten of Term 2 College Street School is doing a Production called Cinderella and Rockafella.

In the production My role is a dancer and a gymnast.  As a gymnast I am one of the first people on stage and I need to do cartwheels down the side of the stage. As a dancer in the production I am part of a clock and I have a very big role in the dance.

Well enough about My role Lets talk about the production. The production there are heaps of different roles we have Cinderella, Rockafella, ugly sisters, Mirrors and a whole lot of different roles. Even the boys From GRi11 2.0 room 9 and 20 are doing are jump jam.

There are some talent acts like Gymnasts, juggler, and a few other acts. I am very exited about the production I am bouncing of the walls. It is going to be a really fun two nights.    

My sign language video

This video is about my sign language.  The reason I made this video was because it was sign language week. I learnt how to do this from a website that my teachers found and it has all the letters and the signs for the letters.

GRi11 2.0 fast track

In GRi11 2.0 we use something called fast track.  We use it to keep track of or work.  The reason it is called fast track is because its fast to track.  Every week we will have a range of different tasks.  We have LITERACY, INTERGRATION, MATHS and OTHER.  We have a week to finish them. We have our names and the tasks that we need to finish. Once we have finished a task we have to put in the link and fill in the box green to know that we are done.

Sometimes at the end of the week we won't have finished everything , and sometimes we have to stay in at lunch and finish the tasks.  These are some of the tasks we have.  Blog post, writing, shared reading, inquiry,  studyladder, mathletics, problem solving and sometimes we will have spelling.

We have a timetable in our book that we write down in what we did and what time we did it.  Every half an hour we either have a different task or we stay on the same one.  We can access fast track in google classroom in GRi11 2.0 home page.  We use google classroom for our learning.

I do recommend other schools use google classroom.  We have google classroom because it is easy to access and each student will get a copy of the work that is set.  So we don't need to make a copy of the work.

Here is an image of our fast track.  This is the MATHS folder.

Traditional Teaching Style and Color Symbol Image

On Wednesday the 10th of may 2016 Mr R and Miss G were dressed all old school and were acting really strict.  And we had tables and chairs in rows and name tags.  We wern't allowed to smile, talk, laugh, cough, or do anything fun.  We had to sit Girl, Boy, Girl, Boy.  We all had the same work at the same time.  We did roll/notices,  maths,   dictation,  adjectives,  dictionary skills, chanting, handwriting, eating,  marching and assinghed play.  

When we were finished our handwriting we had to stand behind our chairs.  Mr R started to say to some people to get one thing from your lunch box and sit back at your place.  Mr R also said to us bite, chew, bite, chew when we were eating.

Then we went outside in lines one line of boys and one line of girls.  So we could do marching.  Miss G tought the girls how to march and Mr R tought the boys how to march.  Then we started to march back and forth On the quad.  After about five minutes of marching we had assinged play.  We were put into groups of six.  My group had two games first we had to sit and watch one group play line tag then our next game was Passes we had to throw a basket ball backwards and forwards it was sooooooo boring.  

After the bell rung for the end of morning tea we had to sit in our lines again and do more marching.  Then we went inside class and the teachers started laughing so much and we had a big laugh and a discission about why they did this.  Then they made a google slide for us and we had to put in the color, symbol and image of what we thought of when we were doing all of this.  And we had to do one for our class.

These are my two that i did.

The adventures in ... Forest Escape

Last week we created  pick a path stories in slides. We had to plan and make our story better many times.

Here is my pick a path story.  Have fun reading it.  Good luck reading.

Make sure you use the buttons on the slides not the arrows at the bottom.

Hope you enjoy reading it.

Senior Syndicate Sports

Every Tuesday afternoon we do senior syndicate sports.  We do heaps of sports rotations,  but my favorite is circuits.  In circuits we do a lot of different kinds of sports.  My favorite is crazy catch.  What you do in crazy catch is you throw the ball at the crazy catch net and try to catch it.

We also do hurdles,  skipping,  hula hoops,  lunges,  sti ups,  planks and a lot of other stuff to.  We get five minutes on each rotation. If you are the last class on circuts then you need to pack up and take all of the equipment back to the P:E shed.

We have tyres,  crazy catch nets,  bats,  balls,  mats,  hula hoops,  ladders and skipping ropes.  There are normally people everywhere.  And sometimes people end up getting stuck in a tornado of people. Well that is our regular Tuesday afternoon.

The Amazing SLEEPOVER!!!

On Friday the 29th of April I had a sleepover with my best friend Milla.   We had candy, coke , popcorn and a lot of other yummy foods.  We stayed up till about 4:00 am.  And we got up at about 7:00 am.  At about 7:00 pm I ran into my room and jumped on my bed and leant on my Ipad and the screen cracked. I ran with my Ipad to my mum and told her exactly what happened.  She said to leave my Ipad alone for a few minutes.

It was midnight I ran and got my Ipad and went on to the app store to check if I had any new updates it said that colour switch needed an update.  It took forever to update then finally it was done.  Milla and I both went on to colour switch it came up with a new mode"LINE" we both yelled. We stayed up for ages playing colour switch.   "What time is it" I moaned.  It's 3:00 am Milla said.

"I'm hungry" we both mumbled.  We ran into the kitchen our tummys grumbling.  We opened the pantry door and chose something to eat.  Milla and I were being really silly in the cuboard.   We were pretending that we were on a judge show.  Then we ran into bed and watched some TV.  My mum came out and told us of for being really loud.

She said that we had to split up.  She put me in my room and Milla stayed out in the lounge.  Then we had no choice but to go to sleep.

This is a picture of my cracked screen

My Trip to the South Island

Kenz Ella it's time to wake up and get in the car.   Ahhhhh I yawned.  I slowly got dressed.  I got in the car then fell asleep.  Finally where are at the ferry.  We waited in two lines for about 1 hour.  Finally we are on the boat.  How long will the boat ride be I asked.  Three hours.  We ran upstairs to the cafe please can we get something to eat we moaned.  Okay fine.  We ate at the playground then we played.  How many hours left now  two and a half hours mum said.  Okay.

Two hours have passed.  We have passed all the windy and cold weather.  Yay.  Can we go to the lookout please okay let's go.  Brrrr it's cold out here.  Look I can see Picton.  C'mon lets go back to the playground before we have to get of the boat.  The boat stopped we went out to the car and waited till we could go.  We drove off the boat. And went to my uncle peters house.

CSNS Senior Syndicate Water Safety

In the Senior Syndicate at College Street Normal School we have been doing water safety. The reason we do water safety is because if we fell out of a boat or went in very deep water. If we did not no how to swim then we are more likely to drown.

We learnt how to open our eyes under water. The reason we opened our eyes underwater was because if we fell over bored, and we needed to open our eyes to see where we were then we woul be afraid to do it.

We learnt what to do if we fell over bored if we fell in the ocean. We learnt how to stay afloat above water. We heald our breath for as long as we could. Zahra K held her breath the longest. We learnt how to get in a pool safely. We don't just jump in because if it was shallow we could hurt ourselves.  And if it was deep we could drown.

We also dived under water to get little rings. We swam to the end of the pool without stopping. And we learnt how to swim with a flutter board and stay afloat with a flutter board.

The HANGOUT (logo\room) GRi11 2.0

 

My favourite spot to work at in GRi11 2.0 is the HANGOUT. Because it is a social space and it's quite but loud.

Falling through a toilet

"Kenz,Ella" yelled Mum."Its time to go"."Yes Mummy" we said. When I got there I was really nervous and scared. I walked in they all said "hello" then my two cousins jumped on and said to me "piggy back piggy back" all night long.

It was dinner time hot chips,sausage and bread yum. After dinner we all said we wanted to play a game then we started playing on the I pads. Then kaleb said "I want to play cheat". My uncle Blair set up thee obstacle course.

There was bricks, wood, chairs, boxes and a toilet their old toilet. Thee obstacle course was ready we started.After about 20 minutes. I was at the toilet and I put one foot down and then CRACK the toilet lid brakes. I looked down and saw My foot in the toilet I slowly walked inside to get a plaster. Then I lifted My foot up and there was blood everywhere. I went outside and kept playing.

It was bedtime we sat down on the bed and watched Cinderella. We ate m and ms and popcorn. We watched another movie the Minions. Then we went to sleep. We woke up at 6:21. I could not get back to sleep. Then we played cheat inside. Then we went outside it was freezing. We blew bubbles and then ran back inside.

My favourite spot to work in GRill 2.0

My favourite spot to sit at in GRill 2.0 is the HANGOUT - social room. Because you get to talk to your friends. And the Teachers come in and out so we can ask them questions. We also get to sit in-between the books in the book room.

We also get to sit on these black wheely chairs, or on the couch. We get to use devices in any space but i like using mine in here. And it has a really awesome logo. We get to sit with our friends. Sometimes it's really quiet, but I like talking to my friends in here about my learning.

Road Patrol Csns 2016

Its Thursday time for road patrol. I am all ready for road patrol and school."Mum" I yelled we need to go to school so I can get to road patrol."Okay get in the car" she said. Ella and I grabbed our bags and jumped into the car.

We raced to school. "I'm going to be late" I said. Then mum pulled over and I climbed out of the car and kissed Mum goodbye and ran across the road."Im so sorry I'm late" I said."Thats okay I quite fancy my self as a lollipop girl" said Mrs Monk."Hahaha" I laughed. So that was my first day of road patrol.