Term 3 Week 7 Highlights

 

Term 3 Week 6 Highlights

 

Term 3 Week 5 Highlights

 

Blogger of the Week

 Thank you to Kaleb our Ruru Blogger of the week. 

Kaleb has been the go to guy for our hub this week. Helping other students to load videos onto their Google slide presentations,  posting their create tasks and science experiments onto their own individuals blogs.

Ka pai Kaleb 

Celebrating the awesome examples of Growth Mindset in Ruru this week

Well done boys for sharing your growth mindset with the other members of your group. Try, try and try again.

A very special "TEAM" certificate presented to these three writers for their collaboration on their Narrative Story. Please check out Kezia, Abigail or Daisy's Blogs to read more.

These 3 students - persevered to improve their learning this week. They read and thought about the feedback they were given and acted on it...TU MEKE  

Thank You ....Liam and Mr Robb for our awesome Headphone Tree

 A big shout out from all of the people in Ruru  to Liam and Mr Robb for all their hard work in creating a very sturdy, practical and beautifully painted ' Head phone Tree ...in cool bright colours. THANK YOU

Term 3 Week 4 Highlights

Week 4 of Term 3 ticked off. An emotional week for us as we said goodbye to 3 amazing people in our class. We would like to wish Kevin, Samantha and Nicole all the very best for the future. We hope we get to see you guys soon! 

 

Term 3 Week 3 Highlights

Week 2 Super Achievers in Ruru

These talented students amazed and pleased their teachers this week with their detailed character descriptions and their amazing google drawings that are scary enough to frighten the Wild Things!!

Term 3 Week 2 Highlights

Term 3 Week 1 Highlights

First week back at school for Ruru. We have hit the ground running and have got straight into our learning. This week for Maths we have been Learning about fractions and shapes. We also had fun competing against each other in Canta Maths. We have also been writing about the story "Where the Wild Things are." It's been fun working in groups! For Science, we have planted beans and peas and are hoping they will grow. You can see the progress on our classroom windows.

We also had 12 very fast students represent our school in the West Zone Cross Country race. They all did a fantastic job. A special mention to Peter who came 2nd in his race and qualified for the Canterbury Champs race! Well done :)

Celebrating these Awesome Learners in Ruru ...You have made a fantastic start to Term 3 and we are proud of you.

Term 2 Week 12 Highlights

Check out Ruru's highlights for the last week of Term 2 

Wigram Primary School Cultural Day 2020

We had such a great day celebrating all of the different cultures at our school. I wonder if you know all of the flags in this video.

Wigram HEART Values

Last term we started a wall display on each of our school values: HEART.

We finally completed the final three values of the school - Hauora, Explore and Respect.

The school cross country was last Wednesday and we all worked hard to look after our physical and mental wellbeing through running! Even though it was muddy and slightly wet, everyone tried their best to take part in either the competitive run or the fun run. Each letter of the word, Hauora, is filled up with photos of Ruru running on that day!

The next value was Explore.

We are all explorers and each time we learn something, we gain new knowledge about that topic and  discover new things about ourselves! There are also many fantastic New Zealanders who have different careers and their exploration inspires us as students in New Zealand.

Our final value is Respect!

Due to the wet weather in Christchurch, we had to think about what respect would mean and look like in such conditions. Many of us reflected on how we need to use kind words and making sure we do the right thing. There were some who thought about how they could have shown more respect to others when they are speaking.

We took photos and created a speech bubble of what respect meant to each of us.

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Check out our earlier posts to see what our other school values are!

Term 2 Week 11 Highlights

As well as squeezing in some Reading, Writing and Maths, we also had our Cross Country. Enjoy our highlights of the week :)

Bloggers of the Week - 10

Hats off to you our amazing Bloggers of the week.........

James and Bilal have Blogged amazing, informative  information reports and also shared their thoughts and opinions to raise our awareness of some pretty challenging environmental issues we are facing in the world today........

Ruru Super Star Workers from Week 10

Congratulations we are so proud of these hard working students in Ruru this week. A round of applause please for Kristian, Marcus, Jaden, Jeevit, Jf, Nathan, Risha and Bilial.

Please check out their individual blogs if you want to read some great examples of Information Reports on a range of different topics. Plus some in depth thinking and problem solving solutions on environmental challenges we are facing in New Zealand.

Term 2 Week 10 Highlights

A busy week in Ruru doing lots of learning and having heaps of fun. Here are some of our highlights. What have you enjoyed doing this week?   

Term 2 Week 9 Highlights

Another week down in Ruru. Some of our Favourite parts of the week were Canta Maths where we worked in teams of three to solve a range of problems. We also enjoyed our sports afternoons practicing our Netball, Football and Hockey skills for the upcoming winter competition and Hornby.  

Week 8 Congratulations to this weeks Certificate Winners

Congratulations to Jaydah, Daniel, Kamyar, Emmet, Jayden, Bilal and Kezia our certificate award winners for this week. We are proud of what you are creating and sharing to showcase your learning.

Term 2 Week 8 Highlights

Another week down in Ruru and we've found the slow motion effect!

This week has been another been busy week of learning. For reading we have been focussing on summarising and using our skimming and scanning skills to find key words in the text. For math, we have continued with our multiplication and division basic facts and also learning new strategies to solve problems. For writing we have finished off our information reports on Polar Bears and some of us have even moved onto writing our own information report on an animal of our choice. We also have the cross country coming up in week 11 so we've been training hard for that. The aim is to run two laps of our school field without stopping. We hope you enjoy some of our highlights from week 8 :)

Congratulations to our Week 8 Certificate winners

Congratulations to our Certificate winners this week. We are super proud of all your hard work. Blake, Peter, Tayla-Jayne, Loki, Lucas, Florence and Vitolio with the double whammy - being recognised for his hard work in both maths and reading this week. Keep up the good work team....

Term 2 Week 7 Highlights

We've another great week in Ruru. Check out some of our highlights :)  

Bubble School Video

Blogger of the Week!

Kia ora koutou!

It's been fantastic seeing the increasing number of students engaging in blogging activities over the week. There have been so many great blog posts and enthusiastic bloggers it's been difficult to choose just a few blog posts and one blogger. However.... let me share with you this week's winner.

This week's Blogger of the Week goes to....

Skyla!

Skyla's Sea Challenge slideshow is fantastic and she has put a lot of effort into each of her blog posts.

The following students also worked hard on their blogging and have gotten spot prizes:

Abigail's Out in the Open story

Florence's Samoan Dance slideshow

Jaydah's Garden post

Lathan's Mountain Biking slideshow

Oliver and Sofi's Coral Reef (on Oliver's blog)

We look forward to seeing more of Ruru's fantastic work. Please have a look at their blog posts and leave a positive, thoughtful, helpful comment!

See you again next week :)

Ruru's Celebrity Gardener!

Kia ora koutou,

Today we have an exciting guest to share a message with you all. This video was taken last week when the Wigram teachers met for the first time in five weeks for our Teacher Only Day.

Without much further ado, we welcome to the blog.....

Mr Rob!!

The garden was looking fabulous and there were soooo many carrots!! I was going to take some but sadly forgot. Hopefully there will be some veges to share when we all get back to school.

Do you have a vege garden? Or maybe you have more flowers at home! This could be a good opportunity to take a video of your backyard and share the different things that are growing in your garden. For those of you who do not have a big garden, you could design your own dream garden with a waterfall and pond.. maybe even a magic frog prince! The possibilities are endless......

Have fun creating and leave a message for Mr Rob below!

And the blogging prizes to go.....

Kia ora koutou,

The Ruru teachers have had a fantastic two days seeing lots of the Ruru students through our Google Meets. Mr Williams has been very busy with the children onsite and is sad to be missing out on seeing your smiling faces, but fingers crossed we will all see each other at school soon!

Without much further ado, here are the winners for this week's Blogging Prizes....

Blogger of the Week goes to.....

Makaire!

He has been very busy solving lots of Maths problems and sharing them on his blog. You can check out his blog here.

But wait, there's more!! There have been some spot prizes for blog posts. These go to...

Sapphire for her special ANZAC Day project, showing letters from her grandfather to her grandmother during the war;

Liam for sharing photos of his yummy ANZAC biscuits;

Florence for her very detailed Home Learning Task; and

Madds for her post about baking for her neighbours.

Have a look at their posts and make sure you leave a positive, thoughtful, helpful comment!

And one more person to give a special mention to....

We have had many nominations for this person to get a 'Commenter of the Week' prize and that goes to.....

Petra!

Thank you for commenting on lots of Ruru children's blogs and congratulations on starting your own blog!

That's it for Term 2, Week 3. We will continue to read and comment on your blog posts and then share the winners for next week, next Friday.

Welcome to Emoji Code Breaking

Welcome to Emoji Code Breaking!

1. On a scrap piece of paper work out what number the emoji represents.
2. Use your own strategy to answer the sums. Make sure you show your workings.
3. You can watch this video, or use your own strategy to answer sums. Tidy number strategy video from teacher tools for a reminder. You will need to draw a number line to help you.
4. Once you have answered the first code breaker, take a picture of your workings and answers and then post on your blog.
5. I will check your workings and answers. 

53 + 41 = 

I used my Place Value knowledge and added my  tens together first

50 +  40  =  90

Then I added  the ones together.

3  +   1  = 4

90 + 4 = 94

My answer is 94

As you can see I used the place value strategy to solve this problem.

I wonder if you would solve it as an algorithm? 

Or would you use rounding  and compensation?

I am looking forward to seeing what strategy you use!

There are 3 emoji code breakers in total, so check tomorrow for the second one. Have fun!!

Writing Challenge

We looked really carefully at this picture Ben and Charlotte and I.
Together we brainstormed and shared our ideas to answer the questions.

Dangers: 
-  Rocks falling from above,
- The rock getting slippery when it gets wet and he falls
- Another  climber from above could fall and knock him off,
-  He could get water in his eyes

Problems :
-  Mike could be injured in the fall and be in need of rescue
-  The other climbers could be knocked out and Mike has to make a plan to keep to treat their injuries and get help
-  Another climber could be injured in the fall and they have to make a plan to get help
-  He could get hypothermia and become so cold he is frozen  to the side of the mountain

How could we fix the problems?

Charlotte thought....
- The other climbers could use their first aid kits to patch up Mike and call for help on their
 cellphones. They may even need to send two people out together to seek help if the phone was smashed in the fall.

Ben thought ......
- Mike would need to use all of his skills as a former ambulance driver to help patch up his fellow climbers and repair the broken tracking device. They would need the device to alert help at the local mountain climbers office as there is no way a cell phone would work here. They needed reinforcements to help carry two of the climbers out as one had a broken leg in two places and the other had a serious injury to the head.........

 I thought ....
- Mike could sense the weather was changing. Big black clouds were gathering and the wind was shifting to the south. A  southerly was coming their way. The temperature in these mountains could drop really suddenly. The injured climbers were not going to be able to make enough heat to keep their bodies warm enough on their own. Their energy levels were dropping their bodies had taken a hammering in the fall. Mike needed to get to the first aid packs and find the survival blankets. They would also need food to fuel their bodies.

Ending  
Just For mine
Mike would found the first aid kits there were blankets but no food. H e remembered he ate the emergency snacks out of the pack last week on his way home from Mt Cook.  Not only that he had not replaced them.  A rookie mistake. He could hear his dad growling at him in his head. He remembered him saying you must always check your supplies before you go climbing and tramping. Never mind Mike was a seasoned climber he could fix this. Joey had by far the worst injuries. Between Max and Mike they could make a triangle stretcher from the smaller but solid branches lying on the forest floor around them on the ground.  They could fasten the edges with the vines hanging around them. They could drag Joey out in a reasonably comfortable way to where they could get a signal to call for help.  ...but .......
Sadly I will have to keep writing more of my story later...

I wonder how you would answer the questions from the picture?    
Did you spot anything interesting we missed?  
Does you imagination have your story travelling in a completely different direction ours?

I challenge all of the children in Ruru to have a go. Answer the questions for yourself. I would love to read your answers and see where you story takes you ?
I am especially interested in the endings that you come up with.....

Story time with Radio New Zealand

Story time with Radio New Zealand

If you haven't already discovered RNZ Storytime, here is your chance! Here is a collection of children's audiobooks that you can search according to age, genre, or author. They have a lovely collection of stories from Aotearoa New Zealand including favourites from Joy Cowley, Margaret Mahy, and Jack Lasenby. 
I challenge you to read a story by an author you never read before. 


Link

Blogger of the Lockdown and Spot Prizes!

Kia ora from the Ruru teachers!

We have had some amazing blog posts and hard working bloggers during the Level 4 Lockdown period. To recognise those students, we have chosen:

one Blogger of the Lockdown,

and a few spot prizes for blog posts!

Blogger of the Lockdown goes to....

Karaitiana!

She has shown her diligence by posting something nearly every day in Term 2, from creating Mandela Pizza Art, to researching and sharing facts about Taika Waititi.

Check out her blog here - don't forget to leave a comment!

Next up, we have some spot prizes to give to people for their amazing blog posts.

Skyla - for her blog posts on recycling and Earth Day;

Madds - for showing us her fantastic piano skills;

Kaleb - for sharing the Maths he has been doing;

Risha - for making us all hungry with her baking post;

Lathan - for his efforts on his ANZAC Day post.

Click on the names of the students to have a look at their posts and don't forget to comment!

All six students will be given five Kahu Cards when we get back to school as well as something edible.....?

We would also like to recognise these students, who have posted one or more things throughout this time:
Devan, Izaak, Elise, Marcus, Tayla, Tayla-Jayne, Tyler, Kees, Kezia, Liam, Jaydah, Izanna, Aiden, Dylan. Joshvaa, Sapphire, Annalise, Florence and Makaire.

As we move into Level 3 next week, we will be choosing a blogger of the week and blogpost of the day, then sharing these next Friday.

For those of you who prefer to work on paper, we will be giving out more prizes when you show us, back at school! Alternatively, parents can send photos of children's work to the teachers to share here.

Stay tuned for more fantastic work from the

BEST LEARNING SPACE at Wigram Primary!

Petra's Bubble Anzac Crafts

Hello to all the Ruru bubbles

My family and I have been very busy doing some ANZAC crafts today and I really wanted to share them with you.

Ava and Jack made an ANZAC wreath using cardboard, paper and paint.  I really liked the end result.

Ava and I also used some old milk bottles to make some tea light candle holders.  Ava wrote a lovely poem on her one and painted some poppies.  These were really fun to make and they look amazing.

Jack and Dad made some Army Biscuits.  These were the biscuits that the soldiers had to eat when they were at war.  They never went off so were great to store in their backpacks.  They did go very hard and I think they may have broken some teeth on them.  I have shared the recipe so if you like you can try and make some, apparently they taste best with bully beef or corn beef in a tin, which you can buy at the supermarket.

I would love to see what you have all been doing ready for ANZAC day in your bubble.

Take care and stay safe

Petra

Anzac tile/wafer recipe

The army biscuit, also known as an Anzac wafer or Anzac tile, is essentially a long shelf-life, hard tack biscuit, eaten as a substitute for bread. Unlike bread, though, the biscuits are very, very hard. Some soldiers preferred to grind them up and eat as porridge.

The following recipe has been supplied courtesy of Arnott's Biscuits Limited, through Frank Townsend, Chief Chemist. Originally, the biscuits were baked in large industrial ovens but the recipe has been altered so that one can bake them in a domestic oven.

Ingredients sufficient for six biscuits:

• 200 gm/1.5cups/300 mls flour
• 400 gm/3 cups/600 mls wholemeal flour
• 40 gm/5 tbls sugar
• 20 gm/3 tbls milk powder
• 1.5 gm/good pinch salt
• 220 mls water

Use self-raising flours. If self-raising flours are not available, sieve 10 grams of baking powder together with plain flour before adding other ingredients.

Method

Place flour, sugar, and milk powder in a large bowl and blend with finger tips. Form into pile and scoop out a hole (well) in the centre. Add all of the water in which the salt has been dissolved. Thoroughly work the flour from the inside of the well into the water until the whole is a mass of lumps of flour and water. Once the dough is formed, transfer it to a table top or pastry board. The dough should now be torn apart, rubbed into balls, and thrown together, and the process repeated until the mass is well mixed and in the form of a hard dough. The dough is then rested for about half an hour. Now roll the dough in 8 mm–thick sheets using a rolling pin and two 8–mm thick guides (wooden slats are ideal), the dough being rolled down between the two guides until the rolling pin rests on the guides during each traverse.

The rolled sheet of dough is then cut into 90 mm squares, preferably by pressing with the edge of a steel rule rather than slicing with a knife. The pressing action helps to join the top and bottom surfaces and will improve the lift on baking. A cardboard square, 90 mm on each side, can be used as a pattern to ensure uniformity in your tiles.

Next, the biscuit squares should be docked by having a regular horizontal and vertical pattern of holes pushed into them at about 18 mm spaces with a flat-ended pin or rod. Push it in until it bottoms, twist slightly, and then withdraw. Repeat at the next position. Each biscuit should have five vertical and five horizontal rows of docker holes, 25 holes in all. There are those at the Memorial who argue for 49 holes (7 x 7) as the authentic number of docker holes.

Place on a lightly greased steel baking sheet, with the biscuits about 6 mm apart, and form a wall around the load with scrap dough to avoid burning the edges of the biscuits. Bake at about 200 degrees centigrade for 30 to 40 minutes on a low shelf in the oven. Take care not to burn them. To achieve a suitable hardness in your biscuits, store for a time in an air-tight container.

Do you know what the Perimeter or the Area of shape or space is?

What is Area and Perimeter of a shape?

Watch these Youtube clips to grow your knowledge about just what area and perimeter is all about.

Your challenge is to work out the perimeter of the these shapes. Share your answers on your blog. Which shapes were really easy and which were a bit trickier?

This time the challenge is to work out the area and the perimeter of these shapes.

Don't forget to share the rule you followed to work your answers it might help out a friend.

If you are keen to solve more perimeter and area challenges have a look at the two websites attached below. Have fun team and we will look forward to you sharing your maths learning on your blog.

1.    Area and Perimeter.                                                                                                         
     
2.    https://toytheater.com/perimeter-climber/

Mr Williams' Fitness Challenge

Hi Ruru,

I hope you all had wonderful weekends.

Welcome to week 2! Another week of exciting and fun home learning. It's been so fun looking through all of your blog posts.

We have been super impressed with the all of the activities you have been doing in your bubble.
I was looking through Kereru's blog to see what they have been doing. I saw a post called "Isaacs Fitness Video." Isaac Jumped on 3 boxes. The first box was 22cm high, the second was 30cm high and the third was 43cm. An amazing effort. He then challenged me to see if I could do better. I couldn't find anything in my house that was safe to jump on so I had to go searching. I found a concrete slab down the road that was perfect. I don't have a measuring tape at home so I had to measure it using a 30cm ruler. It's 92cm high. How many 30cm rulers would it take to measure it? I was nervous the first time I did it because I didn't want to hurt myself but I made it woohoo.

Your challenge is to post a video or picture of you doing some fitness at home. This could be a run, skipping, press ups or completing your own obstacle course. I'm looking forward to seeing all of these on your blogs.

Mr Williams :)

P.S be safe when you are doing this. We want you all in one piece for when we get back to school!

   

ANZAC DAY IDEAS

ANZAC Day

ANZAC day is an important day for many New Zealanders and Australians.  Understanding our history helps us to shape our future. Each year thousands of New Zealanders attend services across the country, acknowledging those who sacrificed for our freedom has become part of what we do each year.

Unfortunately, this year services and gatherings across the country have been canceled but people may find ways to commemorate in their own homes.

What is ANZAC Day all about? - a great clip for explaining ANZAC Day to children.
ANZAC Day

Australian Anzac Day Tribute - Spirit of the Anzac


ANZAC online Quiz

 The song is called "The Anzac" and is sung by Adam Brand

ANZAC Day read-aloud books

ANZAC Ted
History of the Poppy


Here is a collection of idea you might like to do at home with our Whanau to commemorate ANZAC Day since we can not attend parades and services this year.

Anzac Lanterns

A simple yet effective idea using old milk bottles, tea light candles and felt pens or paint. Please supervise children with candles and don't leave unattended.

Anzac Biscuits

Everyone loves an Anzac biscuit and the homemade ones taste the best.

You might have a special recipe from your nana which is fabulous.  Here is a link if you need a recipe to try. ANZAC biscuits

Poppy Wreath

this can be made using egg cartons (for the poppy) by cutting out each egg basket and then drawing some leaves to go behind it.  You can stick on to a paper plate to make it easier to get the shape and cut out the middle of the plate.

Poppy Wreath with Plastic Bottles

You can also make a wreath out of plastic bottles.  Follow this clip to see how to make them.

Plastic bottle wreath

Poppy Rocks

I love this idea, which I have to say is borrowed from a teacher in Auckland.  find a nice big rock and paint it white.  then on top paint a poppy.  Once finished you can seal the rock with varnish if you have any at home.  If not bring your rock to school once we return and I can varnish it for you.  If you want we could keep a collection at school to put under our flag pole each ANZAC day.

Many thanks to Ararira Springs Primary for the ideas and inspiration.