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?

Special Guest MEET!

 We really enjoyed MEETing and learning all about everyone's special guests today!

Check out who wet met in the slides below!

Can anyone remember the word starting with P that Mr Robertson taught us...?

Remember it meant "especially moving or touching information"...

Write your guess in the comments below!

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...?

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!

⇩

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!)

Good News for Rimu in Lockdown!

Today we got some pretty cool news... 

The Year 6's love Maths so much that 

they have made it onto a Hall of Fame!

That's right, the Mathletics Hall of Fame!

Don't believe us?

Well here's the proof! 

First we were 50th, then 22nd!

Thanks Bridget for spotting us! 😉👍🏻

Oh and that's not all, 

we also have a Mathlete in the 

Top 100 students in the country, HA!

Bet you would never have thought that!

Here's some more proof!

Now the challenge is on... what are the Year 7/8s going to do about it? Hmmmm...

Who will be next on the Hall of Fame...?

OH and here's some more news... 

The YMS Student Council met today too, on Google MEET. 

They have something cool brewing...what will it be?

Here are some clues and some inside info 🤭  - 

1. It could be launched this week
   
2. It should be fun
3. It will be for the whole school

It's true, here's the meeting proof...

Oh and the best part of today is that it is 

Jorja's Birthday!

🎵We sang Happy Birthday 

(well, some of us did!...we have a few shy singers amongst us)

AND

🎵 we played her this song - 

AND

✍ We are spamming her blog with happy birthday comments - 

you can say Happy Birthday to Jorja here too!

We hope you all had a good Monday!

Stay safe in your bubble, until next time! 

Ahhh we hope your bubble is this satisfying...
source - https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6fIUzJUNrciN5F96/giphy.gif

PS. We have another 

birthday to celebrate tomorrow... 

Can you guess who?

They turned 10 too and their actual birthday was Sunday...

Stay tuned to find out!

We're Online, We're Distancing, We're Learning, TOGETHER

FOR

Thanks to Google MEET we have been able to connect with each other again for Term 2. 

We have been "MEETing" with each other at 11am each day 

and it has been 

so good 

to see each other again!

We have been working on our Online Distance Learning Programme on our Rimu Team Site as well - check out all the Rimu Team Individual Student blogs for all the kinds of things we do!

Each day on our MEET we have a 

Focus and a Challenge.

Our First FOCUS was 'Connection' and our CHALLENGE was a Quiz. 

On Thursday our FOCUS was 'Understanding our Learning' and our CHALLENGE was going to be a Scavenger Hunt (but Grid View wnet down so we had to change it to...)

...Signing into Google MEET using a nickname instead of a link.

Today's FOCUS was a 'Reflection on our week' and our CHALLENGE was a PET DAY!

We all brought our pets and introduced them 

(well, those of us that have them did, and everyone else chose to just watch and listen...

...no one chose to bring a pet rock this time 😢)

Here we all are on our MEET (it took a few goes to get a screenshot sorted!)

And here are our pets - 

How have you been connecting with your class during Term 2 in lockdown?

Do you use Grid View on Google MEET? 

Is it working for you?

Miss Rennell's dog Molly showed us this video of her friend too, 

singing about LOVING LOCKDOWN 🤣

Do you think your pets will be sad when we all go back to school?