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!

🎂

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!

Rimu needs your vote...!

 We ran a little writing competition 

Vote for your winner in the form below!

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...

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?

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!)

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?

Kia Ora 2020!

Rimu is excited to be a part of the Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu Initiative again this year. As you can see, our class blog is still a work in progress for this year...

...BUT 

the Rimu student blogs (linked down the side) are full of interesting content and they would love to hear your feedback on their learning. 

Check them all out! We can't wait to connect with you too!

This year we are connected to three schools from all over NZ -

Room 1 @ Kumara School

Room 11 @ May Road School

Te Wairua Pakiki 4 @ St Pius X Catholic School

Undercover Surprises

What a great day Mrs Spragg and Mrs Taylor had on their Digital Fluency Intensive Course today. Our brains are filled with a large amount of information and ideas that we are going to enjoy sharing with our students and other staff over the coming weeks.

Today was especially fantastic as we got to meet a special someone that most of our Year 7 and 8 children have been engaging with this year. Hmmm ... who is it I hear you ask? Well you will have to uncover the surprise.