School is out!

Wow! What a year! 2017 is over and so bring on 2018. We've had quite a year and I'm excited to to see and hear about what everyone gets up to during the holidays. 

Thank you, Room 10 for an amazing year! We've had lots of fun, lots of crazy laughs and with that, I want to wish you all a safe and happy holidays. 

Be safe. 

See you in the new year. 

Mrs Faalili 

Want to know our highlights? Of course you do!

We've had lots of fun this year and it so sad thinking about it coming to an end. We wanted to share some of our highlights with you. Here's what some of us had to say. 

GTS Athletics Day

Today, we had our annual Athletics Day. It started off with the best weather ever - and then it slowly turned into grey, dull skies with heavy clouds.

We still managed to have lots of fun though. Lots of exciting activities in our houses with some races against the teachers.

Check out some of the photos we took from the day.

Film #6 - Fantastic Fish Fingers present 'Don't be a bully'

Fantastic Fish Fingers 

"Don't be a bully"

This group included David, Moni, Khin Linn & Zafar. This film is a drama and it is about two students who don't care about anyone else but themselves. They are late to school and mean to others. I wonder if they'll change their ways?

You'll have to watch to find out. 

Film #4 - Daring Donuts present 'Litter Bug'

Daring Donuts

"Litter Bug"

This group included Tiana, Demitrius, Kahnye & Te Morehu. This film is a drama/comedy and it is about a young boy who litters all the time and doesn't care about the environment. I wonder if he'll change his ways? You'll have to watch to find out.

Film #5 - Excellent Eggs present 'The Orphan'

Excellent Eggs

"The Orphan"

This group included Jordan, Liston, Lesieli & Tayja. This film is a drama/comedy and it started when Lesieli had a dream the night we first started talking about creating our own films. She made this 'dream' come to life. It's about a young orphan who really wants to go to school but is really nervous about who he'll meet and the school he's going too. He's really talented and puts himself out there. 

Want to see what his talent is? Watch to find out. 

Film #3 - Crazy Carrots present 'The Stalker

Crazy Carrots 

"The Stalker"

This group included Leeroy, Mone, Olive & Jonay. This film is a horror/comedy/action and it is about a little girl who stalked students in her class.

Will she capture them?

Watch to find out. 

Film #2 - Brave Banana's present 'The mystery of the haunted school'

Brave Bananas

"The mystery of the haunted house"

This group included Lucky, Lexiannah, Cashis & Skyla featuring Liston & Zafar. This film is a horror/comedy/action and it is about two students who get trapped at a haunted school. Something terrible happens and they can't get away from it.

Will they survive?

Watch to find out. 

Film #1 - A day of the life a Glen Taylor Student by the Angelic Apples

Angelic Apples 

"A day in the life of a Glen Taylor Student"

This group included Tracey Lee, Chriszeta, Anna & Miracle. This film is a documentary and it captures the life of Glen Taylor Students. Throughout this film, you will see some of the amazing things that we get up to at Glen Taylor. 

The Alphabet - Sign Language

We've been learning how to finger spell our names. Here is the chart that we used to learn how to do this. By using this chart, everyone in Room 10 can confidently introduce themselves and say "Hi, my name is ___________" in NZSL 

A tale of 3 languages

This term, our inquiry is all about the 3 official languages in Aotearoa

Sign Language, Te Reo & English.

We're really excited to learn sign language this term and learn more about Te Reo Maori.

Stay tuned to see what we get up to! 

We're back!

The term has started and we are already in the swing of things! We are really excited for this term because there are A LOT of things happening! At the moment we are getting ready for Kiwican Jam, our Term 4 Powhiri and the screening of our own films that we made last term. All of this is happening in Week 3. 

We're really excited to share this term with you! Make sure you stay tuned! 

Thank you Kids Can

We are a PROUD Kids Can School. We know that we are very fortunate that we are one of their schools because we get so many things from them. When we sat down and thought about what we get, we were surprised at how much we actually got from them.

OUR LIST

1. Food (Spreads, Cereal, Fruit Cups, Muesli Bars, Scroggin)

2. Clothes (Jackets, Pants, Shoes & Socks)

3. Hygiene (Sanitary pads, Tissues, Hand Sanitizer)

To show our appreciation, we made them a card. Check out the photos below.

Check out our QUALITY BLOG COMMENTS - SCREENCAST

In cybersmart we have been looking at blogs and adding quality blog comments.

We know that a quality blog comment must be POSITIVE, THOUGHTFUL & HELPFUL.

A quality comment must have a greeting, a compliment, feedback and a question if you have one.

We have been drafting our own comments and publishing them on people’s blog posts.

We have used screencastify to share our comments and explain how they are POSITIVE, THOUGHTFUL & HELPFUL.

Here are some of our screencasts.

Recount Writing - WW1

In Room 10, we've been working on adding more detail to our writing by using our senses and recrafting our sentences so that there is more than one idea in them. 

We watched a short video called Canada's 100 days and we had to imagine as if we were there, a soldier battling for our country. 

Some of us worked with Mrs Faalili to enhance our paragraphs and used visualisation to really think about what we could see and hear around us.

Here are some of the amazing drafts that some of the awesome students in Room 10 came up with. 

Be sure to check out the individual blogs for more amazing recounts. 

Buddy Class - Week 6

This week in buddy class, we started planning and crafting our own ISLANDS. On our islands, we had to make sure that we had the four different landforms that we have been learning about...

1. Mountains
2. Hills
3. Valleys
4. Plains

We used paper and pencils to 'plan' our island. When that was done, we used paper, card and corrugated cardboard to create our landforms on our island. Check them out.

Detailed writing

This week, we have been working on adding detail to our writing. 

We watched a short video about The Old Lady in the Junkyard and had to describe what she was doing. We had to make sure that each sentence told 3 pieces of information. We then had a sharing circle and had to share ONE of our sentences that has really good description. 

Here they are 

Old Lady in the Junkyard - Recount. 

Tiana

One average morning I was in my house that was in the junkyard. I went to the junkyard and searched high and low around the junkyard because I was looking for useful random, objects that I could use for my house. 

Miracle

I was looking through the junkyard and I saw a ring and decorated my house high and low. 

Jonay

When I got home I grabbed my stuff I found and I thought I made something. 

Jordan

Today I was planning to escape from the junkyard so I can have a good life and not die in the junkyard and starve to death. 

Liston

One day I was at the junkyard looking for stuff. I saw lots of cool objects and grabbed those materials to make an amazing invention. 

Lucky

One day when the sun was setting down I was picking up some stuff.

Demitrius

In the morning I was looking for stuff so I can make my house look like Christmas.

Tracey

I’m happy with who I am and what I can do. I have collected things that satisfy from me, Sherry.

Lesileli

I was poor but I was creative. 

Mone

I’ve been living in this place for several and I have created my own little world. 

Leeroy

I’ve been living in this junkyard for years and made my own little house. Everyone always judged me but I didn’t care. 

Zeta

For 15 years I’ve been living in a junkyard. I didn’t know who my parents were or my family. 

Tee

For 27 years I’ve lived in this junkyard and no one has ever visited me. 

Olive

One night I was at the junkyard and I found some JUNK!

Skyla

I went to an old rugged box and searched through it and found a yellow and orange spotted umbrella that I could use. 

Moni

For 30 years I lived in this junk yard and never ever knew who my parents were or my family and no one ever visited me. 

Lexi

I opened the old rusty box and found and old broken umbrella. It looked like doritos with cheese on it. 

Kahnye

Although I didn’t own much, I am happy and appreciate everything.  

Movie Making

Our films are in the works. We spent some time learning about storyboarding and why people use them. We also spent time learning about different camera angles and shots and what they show the person watching. 

We have completed our storyboarding and are now onto the  FILMING! 

Watch this space! 

Term 3 Powhiri

T e r m   3   P o w h i r i 

Today, we had a powhiri. This was a very special powhiri because not only did we get to welcome new whanau and students to GT, but we got to say thank you to the very generous people who donated to our school and made the amazing kapa haka uniforms, korowai and poi. 

At Glen Taylor, we know that we are very blessed to have such an amazing group of people supporting our vision and the things that we do. We also had a special performance from the Pasifika Pearls. 

Here are some photos from the powhiri. 

Printing with our buddy class

The third stage in our work with our buddy class.

Today, we got to PRINT! We used a special type of ink/paint, rollers and paper to create our prints. It was really cool to see the different textures the card gave as well as the different levels in our work. Everyone had a part to play - a roller (with paint), a presser and a roller (without paint).

Next week we will be adding to our current prints.

Maritime Museum

Today, we went on our trip to the Maritime Museum. We caught a bus to the city and had a fun activity to do in the Museum. We saw lots of amazing things! Lots of things about the water, sailing, coastline, Sir Blake and things from the past. Check out some of our photos from the trip. Be sure to look on the individual blogs for their own recounts on the trip.

Crazy for Kids Can

Today was 

GET CRAZY FOR KIDS CAN Mufti Day. We got to dress up in Mufti, get crazy with some funky hair styles, crazy socks & crazy dress ups!

We had so much fun dressing up, have a look at who dressed up this week...

Term 3 Buddy Class - Landforms & Printing

This term with our buddy class we are learning about landforms. We now know that there are 4 different landforms

1. Mountains
2. Hills
3. Valleys
4. Plains

After learning about these 4 landforms we had to draw these four landforms on a massive sheet of paper. This was in our first buddy session.

Our 2nd buddy session (this week) we used our sketches from last week to cut pieces of cardboard to create our cards for printing, ready for next week.

Check out what we're up to...

THE TRIAGRAPH DGE by Lucky

For phonics today we focused on the sound of the triagraph dge. We learnt that the rule for the dge are the vowels come before the dge. This is what makes the sound. Here are some example.

Book Character Mufti Day

Today, we had our Mufti Day. It was all about dressing up in our favourite book characters! 

Check out the amazing characters we had in our class today.

Phonics - Soft C

For phonics today we focused on the sound of the soft c. We learnt that the rule for the soft c are the vowels E I and the letter Y come after the letter c. This is what makes the sound a soft c. Here are some examples.

Student Led Conference

We had our Student Led Conferences this week. It was great fun being able to see our families come in and share our learning with them. 

Here are some photos from Thursday. 

Thank you to our whanau for coming in! We really appreciate it!  

Welcome Back

Welcome back to Term 3. 

We hope that you all had a great holiday. Some of us did the Winter Learning Journey and you can check out the things that we learnt on our blogs. The links on the side. 

Keep coming back to our blog and check out the amazing things we get up to. We've got lots of events and some trips this term and we can't wait to share all this with you. 

Matariki Kites with Rm 3

For buddy class, we did some learning about Matariki, the Maori New Year. Together, we designed our own kites. We used kebab sticks, tape, black paper to make the kite and then used pastels (gold, white and silver) and read and white feathers to decorate them. Then we got to fly them. We had so much fun making and flying our kites.