Tuesday 23 November 2021

Pet Day with NO PETS ! BUT, we did have a visitor...

 It was the annual YMS Pet Day last Friday but this year due to COVID-19 no pets were allowed to come so we "showed" our pets virtually. 

The Rimu Pet slide show is here ⬇️

Also we had a fun-filled morning doing our other activities. 

We had to choose from - 

Sand Saucers
Floating Water Arrangement
Photography
Leaf Art
Lego Building
Cake decorating

Here are some photos from our day - 


And Lastly, we did have one pet who was able to come to Pet Day... 

this is Miss Rennell's dog, Molly 🐶


Have you had Pet Day this year? 

What pets do you have?





Tuesday 14 September 2021

Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori - Māori Language Moment 2021!

Today at 12pm Rimu joined a LOT of other New Zealanders and took part in the World Record attempt for having the most people speak an endangered and indigenous language at the same time. 

This was called Māori Language Moment 2021 

and last year over 1 million moments were recorded. 


Here's a short video of all you had to do, explaining how it works!



We were lucky because at 12pm on Tuesday's we have our Kapa Haka session so wet set it up with our tutor, Matua Anton, and took part in this amazing movement!

Here is our moment that we shared on the reomaori.co.nz website - 


And here we are, famous on the 'Share your Moment' page on the website!

Can you spot our post?!



Did you take part in Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori this year or last year?

What did you do? 
OR 
What would you have done for it?

           made us


Tuesday 7 September 2021

Treasure Beyond Measure

Last Friday in Level 3 Lockdown, Rimu had a visit from 

Helen Griffiths

She is the Author from Treasure Beyond Measure, a New Zealand children's book. 

 

We were able to ask Helen lots of questions, she did a quiz with us about collective nouns, and she also read her book to us.

We learnt a lot about conservation, collective nouns and illustrating a book! 

The pictures in this one are amazing!


Here are some of our thoughts - 

"I learnt that we should save the world and about conservation." - Max

"I learnt a lot about that a group of fish is a school. I also found it really fun and interesting because she made it rhyme." - Sahil

"What I found interesting is that we all learnt something that we didn't already know." - Nishka

"Something that I found interesting was that she had a lot of other jobs and she wasn't just an author. Something that I learnt is that groups of animals can be called a lot of strange things." - Amelia

"What I found interesting was how she added a globe to each page and try to make it fun." - Zahrah



Have you read Treasure Beyond Measure?
 
Did you know Helen used to be a teacher?

What collective nouns do you know? 
- Write them in the comments!

This Tuesday's Shoutouts!

 

Thursday 2 September 2021

Thursday Thoughts!

Today's online Teaching Session was a Mini Inquiry into Creepy and Scary Animals. 

Check out the work from the handful of Rimu students who participated today!

Well done to - 

Zahrah

Brayden

Nishka, 

Sahil, 

Stella

and 

Zach!


What do you think of their Petting Zoo's...?
Would you visit them to meet their creepy animals?

Tuesday 31 August 2021

Share and Care Tuesday - Shout Outs!

 Here are some Shout Outs from Rimu to Rimu...

We opted into this Teaching Session today and worked on this collaborative slide together.


We can't wait until next week to see some more great work. 

Who would you shout out if you could...?

Friday 27 August 2021

Spot the Imposters!

Today in Rimu's Google MEET we had some gatecrashers!

All of a sudden we thought it was 2020 again because

two sneaky people broke into our MEET! 

(Well not actually, it was all planned with Miss Rennell.)

Can you spot the Imposters in the slides below?


It was Abby and Grace from Rimu last year (2020)! 

Abby goes to Cashmere High and Grace goes to Middleton Grange. They both keep in touch still and thought it would be fun to jump on one of our Google Meets in Lockdown. 

We got to ask them all sorts of questions and learnt a lot about how things have changed for them! It was so cool to see them again and we hope they enjoyed themselves too!

What would questions would you ask a Year 9 if you could?