ROOM 9 BLOG

Welcome to the coolest new blog of Room 9 !  

Really?

Yeah!

The way the room 9 blog works is, the class brainstorms all the exciting things we are doing in the class and decides as a group which aspects we think you will be most interested in. Two students will then write the blog every Friday and share these with you. Today we have Jayden, Sam and Tomoki who have especially written the rest of this for you.

Today we’re going to be talking about Wakas!

In the class we’ve been making a waka and each of the paddles has our names on them. Can you imagine that!

We have been making jigsaw pieces. We wrote our name on the jigsaws, drew 3 things that we liked and coloured it in! We made our jigsaws so that we can learn about each other, what our likes and interests are, and display the for others to see and help get to know us. We made a comparison of our class being like a jigsaw. Each of us is a part of the class and the class is not complete without all of us.  We each have something to offer. We were divided into groups and had to work together to solve the jigsaw a row at a time. This meant we had to cooperate with the others in our group to ensure our pieces were in the right place. Very confusing if someone had theirs upside down!

We also made paddles to represent each of us which have been added to our class waka to represent that we are all on a big learning journey together.  

In our cloak bay we made a mat that shows we are all interwoven into a class of 29. You can see the theme happening in our class at the moment is surrounding getting to know each other and working together to help each other with our learning.

We also did an all about me poster with every piece of information you need to know about yourself. Here are some photos of some of the posters and other bits and pieces.

                                                                                                                                                     Class mat representing our connectedness with each other.    

PHOTO COLLAGE (To be updated next wk with missing photos)

A few days ago we went to swimming sports so people could show people how fast they could go. (even though it was mainly all standing around on a hot hot day watching, it was a great day and went very well. 21 students out of 28 in our class competed in this.
We will update you their results when we know.

Thanks for tuning in. 

Jayden, Tomoki, Angus