Battleship Challenge!

Today we were a very small class due to lots of our learners heading off to the Weetbix Tryathlon.

Koka Terri and Koka Ngaire decided that for our Maths Strand workshop on Position, that we would have a game of battleships!

They made up 2 grids in each classroom space of 8x8 squares.  We then drew another grid on the whiteboard so that we could track our successful hits.

We learned that the x axis goes across the bottom ('walking along the hall') before going up the y axis ('walking up the stairs').
Moana 3 thought that they were going to lose because Moana 2 had scored lots of hits... but then it was down to the wire.  Hazel made the correct tie breaker call.  Moana 3 won!

Digital Technologies Unplugged!

So, we've all heard of Digital Technologies... but what about when we they go 'Unplugged'?!

Today in Koka Ngaire's L4 Maths Strand group - we did exactly that!




Our goal: to rescue Derek
Why: to learn about coding (writing sequential instructions) and position
How? we had a bot, a programmer and a tester.
The bot: listens to and follows instructions exactly.  Does not say anything
The programmer: writes the instructions.  Can not say anything while the instructions are being given.
The tester: takes the instructions and gives them to the bot.  Checks for 'bugs' in the programme.
We thought we were pretty good at giving instructions.... UNTIL we had to give them to the tester!!  We then found out that one little 'bug' can stop the whole programme from running.

However, after lots of 'fixes'.... Derek was definitely rescued!

Kia ora koutou!

We are excited to be back at school ready for another awesome year of learning!  This year we have 55 learners - half of whom were learners in MLH last year.

Getting ready for swimming AND surfing

We have lots of exciting events and activities coming up - stay tuned to see what we get up to!

Our amazing collaborative art piece

So far we have:
* worked in buzz groups
* created an amazing collaborative art piece
* started training for our school swimming sports
* started to prepare for our upcoming camp by walking together twice a week
* created our amazing digital art portraits

Encouraging each other in maths

Camp walk prep

Buzz groups - game of Tension!