Tui class @ Pompallier Catholic School

 Today during mindfulness we wrote compliment letters to one another. We chose a name out of our name cup and then had to write a compliment letter to that person.  Once we wrote our letters we exchanged them and then reflected in our mindfulness journals about how these compliments made us feel. It was so amazing to exchange these thoughts and feelings with our family of learners.  This activity was such a huge success and all the love was felt for the rest of the day. 

 This term we have started working on lots of open ended math activities. These link to what our math focus or area is.  With these questions we are using the 4'C to make sure we are really thinking deeply about the questions. It is so great to be able to work with others and have great conversations about the question and how we have each interpreted it.  This week our focus is measurement and one of the open ended questions was ' How many ways can you draw a 15cm line'. We really had to think about this and how do we make sure the line is 15cm. We also had to build two different towers that were the exact same hight, this involved creative thinking as we used materials to build our towers. These activities have really helped us to understand our math topics as we are able to explore it in different ways. 

 COVID has been an obstacle that we have been able to overcome. It has been so wonderful to connect with our family of learners online and check in with how we are all going. Every morning at 8:30 we have our morning hangout, we all connect to the call and check in with whats on for the day. We then access all learning tasks through our class site, we choose what choice-board activities we want complete each day. At 13:00 we have our workshop hangout where we have a mini lesson each day on different topics. This is great as we are able to extend our learning and share what we know about the topic. We have also had whole school assemblies on hangouts where we have been able to celebrate all the amazing online learning that has been happening all around the school. It was so cool to be able to see other school whanau that we haven't been able to see during lockdown. Even though it has been a very difficult time it has been so great to be able to have some consistency and continue wit...