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Action so far from Term 4

We have been EXTREMELY busy/productive in Rimu so far this term...

Here's a list of our antics so far - 

• Athletics Practices
• Disco
• National Young Leaders Day
• Athletics Day
• Clued up Kids / Chch City Experience
• Athletics Zones
• Softball Training
• Kapa Haka - Cultural fEstival preparations
• Life Education Duck Race
• FLOW
• Iqbal (our shared story)
• Hook (we are watching this to help us with our writing)
• Home Learning
• PALs
• Technology & Super SIX
• Wellbeing with Sparklers
• CyberSMART Lessons
• Assessment...Doh!

And coming up next week we have - 

• A Mufti Day to raise $$ for our new playground
• ASB Getwise workshops
• A Teacher Only Day
• (and Show Day with no show...)
• AND more Assessment... Doh! and only 3 days!

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It is even Birthday season again in Rimu 

with 6 birthdays in 9 days!

HB to - 

Mia, Delilah, Lucas, Alan, Albin and Olivia!

🥳

So, this term we have learnt that when we are busy, kindness goes a long way. 

Oh and we also made this video (at the end of last term).

We have also learnt that managing our time is very important to get our work done. We have been given a lot of trust this term and it is up to us to prioritise, plan, and produce what is due by the end of each week. Some of us are learning quickly and others are making progress. 

We can't wait for all the exciting things that are still coming this term - there are so many and we'll try to share as many with you as we can!

So stay tuned!

We're Back!

We're back and it's Term 4! 

Stay tuned for the final 10 weeks of action in Rimu for 2020!

Rimu needs your vote...!

 We ran a little writing competition 

Vote for your winner in the form below!

Was this helpful?

Here are the blog commenting sentence starter that you used this week... 

⬇️ Add it to your drive [click here] and put it on your 

CyberSMART Blog post for Week 5... ⬇️

Then, answer this question in the comments below - 

Was having these sentence starters 

helpful for your commenting? 

Why? 

How did it improve what you wrote...?

What does this mean to you...?

A new term, some new challenges...

Week one done, ✅

⬇️ Rimu have had a full on week of getting back into it, here are some of the highlights ⬇️

The Marshmallow Challenge - Build a Tower, Build a TEAM

On Monday our skills in collaboration and innovation were put to the test when we found ourselves in groups of four with limited resources and a tempting task to complete!

We only had the materials below and were to construct a tower in 18 minutes! And the catch was -
DO NOT EAT THE MARSHMALLOW...because it had to be on top of our tower!

This challenge has been done all over the world to test and challenge teams of people in their abilities to work together. It was all about having a team of people who had specialised skills for the task, but in order to succeed, our team also needed someone with facilitation skills (that means someone who is good at running the team - like making sure we listen to each other, that everyone has a chance to share ideas, that we keep checking the time and stay on task etc.)

We had to reflect on our performance afterwards too and that was interesting...
check out our padlet below. 

Marshmallow Challenge materials

Tom Wujec on The Marshmallow Challenge - we watched this after we built our towers

Here are some photos of our creations - 

Then we also had Cross Country on Tuesday - everyone participated and showed excellent camaraderie for the each other. Rimu was by far the loudest and proudest cheer squad of them all!

Well done to our qualifiers for zones!

We also had another highlight this week - 

The CSO came to YMS!

(that is, the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra came to Yaldhurst Model School)

This was an excellent performance - here's a few snippets. We learnt so much about all their different instruments and even about some musical terms. 

Do you know about string, woodwind, and brass instrument families?

Do you know what pitch, tempo and a glissando means?

Come and ask us, we know now 😉

Glissando by Paige from TM

Can you guess this piece of music? Here's a hint - it's from H _ _ _ _  P _ _ _ _ _

Mia from Rimu (a CSO Ambassador) playing her trumpet for us!

We also had Winter Sport start this week, 

and did a lot of work on Matariki BUT that's for another day!

Don't forget to check out our individual blogs for more equally exciting content!

Until next time...

We made it!

Congratulations, 

you made it to the end of the term!

In this blog post, Rimu would like to share some of the things we have been up to...

1. House Rewards and Dress up as a Super Hero Day

2. Our Rimu Hot Chocolate Fundraiser 
(we made $170 - go Rimu!)

3. Student Leadership Badge Presentations & HERO Assembly (presented by the House Captains)

4. Mrs Spragg's Visit!

5. Cross Country training

6. Winter Learning Journey

AND

7. Holiday birthdays!

Here are some photos from the week -

Our House Captain presenters from Friday's HERO Assembly in their shiny new badges!

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Look who showed up to visit!

It was so great to see Mrs Spragg again 

and hear what she has been up to. 

Some of us got to share our own stories with her too!

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Here is Delilah, Michaela, Alvin and Ethan's 

training plan for cross country...try it out over the holidays!

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Will you do the Winter Learning Journey...? 

YOU SHOULD!

HERE IS THE LINK

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And finally, some birthday shoutouts for the holidays...

Michaela on the 7th

Shay on the 10th

Ethan on the 11th 

Maddie on the 13th 

Rimu Learning Shoutouts!

Here's a clue... 
What do you think our MEET theme was today...? 

Rimu Learner Shoutouts

There has been some super cool learning going on in the various Rimu bubbles lately 

so we have compiled a list of Shoutouts 

to the especially impressive work that you need to see! 

Click on the links to see the greatness first hand, and drop them a comment!

	Teegan’s ANZAC Biscuits Video
	Mia’s Flower Dissection and ANZAC / COVID 19 comparisons
	Grace & Abby’s Minecraft Scene
	Bridget’s BIG words
	Hana’s family mascot & ANZAC minecraft scene
	Albin’s tricks for google and magic
	Olivia’s ANZAC Art

What do you guys think?
Shoutout someone else in the comments!

P.S. Here's our learning showcase from our Google MEET today - we all chose the piece of work that we are most proud of to share!

Here are our thoughts about learning at home by distance -
check out our word cloud!

Listen and Draw... a challenging challenge!

Today's Challenge in our MEET was to 

Listen and Draw... 

We had to listen to 8 instructions and see what our final product looked like. 

Some of us had a few technical issues but we persevered. 

Check out our slide deck for the results! 

Most of us surprised ourselves!

Who do think did the best?

Show us your HAT!

Just a quick post today for a quick week that's gone by really fast!

Here we are are today in our MEET with our random HATS 

➡️ If you haven't noticed, 

each Friday we 🅣🅷🅔🅼🅔 our MEET for a bit of fun!

Can you remember what themes we have had so far...?

YMS Eye-solation Challenge #2

created using https://www.gifpal.com/

That's right, its Challenge #2 time - ARTs focus

This week - 

Snap a creative shot of you playing music, a drawing or painting you’ve done, a cool dance move you can do, or a character you’ve dressed up as!

Send your photos to this email address - melissa.rennell1.ymseyesolation@blogger.com 

with a short message, 

your first name 

and class name (Te Kakano, Te Pihinga, Te Mahuri, Rimu). 

NOTE - Please send landscape oriented photos if possible.

Check out the YMS Eye-solation blog HERE

Click here for more information

or check out the poster ⬇️

Today, we "MEET'ed" and "EAT'ed" 🤪

Keep your entries rolling in for the Student Council YMS Eye-solation competition! 

There are currently 22 entries from across the school...is yours in there?!

Click HERE to find out how to enter

Check out our MEET and EAT / EAT and MEET from this morning!

Thanks for coming!

And the winner was...

Ethan! 

(who got 100% on his first go!)

Second place went to two people...

 Olivia P (who got 100% on her second go)

AND 

Teegan (who got 100% on his first go but after Olivia P)

Guess Who answers below 
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YMS Eye-solation Competition - GET INVOLVED!

This week's Challenge is  - 

Snap a shot of you doing your Online Distance Learning
in the most creative place you can find in your bubble!

Once you have your photo, 

email it with a short message, 

your name, 

and class to - 

melissa.rennell1.ymseyesolation@blogger.com

Then a bit later,

check the YMS Eye-solation Competition blog

to see your shot LIVE!

Anyone can enter, so have a go!

Here's what the YMS Eye-solation Blog looks like right now!

Click the image to see!

Today's words of the day - Collaboration & Competitions!

Today's learning was brought to you by the letter 

 Our Google MEET focus was on Collaboration - 

we worked digitally with a buddy on a shared Google Doc. 

The task was an Emoji Quiz on Famous Children's books. 

The highest score we got in about 10 minutes was 16/25 - that' was pretty good!

You can try it here - 

The answers are at the bottom of this post (but don't cheat!)

If you liked that, 

try this one on Kids Movies - add your scores in the comments!

Answers for this are at the bottom of this post too.

The YMS Student Council is launching a cool Student-wide competition today too 

so stay tuned for that!

It's...

Also, Rimu's Guess Who is still going a couple of posts down - have a go!

Play Guess Who?

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Emoji Quiz Answers

Famous Children's Books

Kids Movies

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Show and Tell Tuesday

Today's MEET took us back to the old day's as 

we all brought and shared some special things 

we have in our homes. 

Have a look below at some of the cool things that were shared. 

It was also another day for a party as 

we celebrated Hana's 10th Birthday 

(which was actually on Sunday). 

We all bombed her with Happy Birthday's 

when she joined our MEET - everyone turned on their mic's 

and said HB all at once - that was pretty cool. 

Here's the birthday song we played Hana today -

ALSO, 

Go and spam Hana's latest blog post 

with Happy Birthday messages HERE

Oh and don't forget to play our Guess Who Game!

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It's in the next post down 

OR

in the right hand side featured post
(if you're on a chromebook or computer)

OR 

HERE
(you knew we would give it to you didn't you!)

Rimu's Lockdown Guess Who

Here is our first round of Guess Who?!

Have a go - fill in the form below with your guesses!

Answers will be posted at the end of the week!