Day 8 of Distance Learning:

Kia Ora Students, Whanau and Friends,

Week 2 and day 8 of distance learning has come to an end and we are heading into a nice long weekend break.

I hope you all take time off to rest, recoup and spend time relaxing quality time with your family. I know I will be.

Thank you to everyone who dressed up in costume and joined me this morning for our morning video meeting. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did, seeing and sharing all the hard work room 19 has been doing, feeding your puppets and sharing a morning tea snack or two virtually.

Here are some of our super learners:

Sophia has done super work on Thursday and Friday as you can see below:

Fantastic work all week Sophia, I have enjoyed seeing all your learning creations and effort as well as your happy smiling face and wonderful cat costume this morning. I hope you and your family have a great relaxing long weekend filed with aroha. I am proud of you. 

Captain America (aka) Taylor in his fantastic costume from this morning: 

Great costume and pose Taylor, it was awesome seeing your enthusiastic and smiling face this morning. Well done on all the hard work and effort you have put in this week. I hope you and your family have a great relaxing long weekend filed with aroha. I am proud of you. 

Queen Shriya and her royal highness of hard and excellent work:

Brilliant work all week Shriya and nice costume. I have enjoyed seeing all your different endeavours and eagerness to create something special day, while also teaching your sister. I hope you and your family have a great relaxing long weekend filed with aroha. I am proud of you. 

Elijah creates great groups of  the letter blend gr: 

Great work all week Elijah, it has been neat seeing your happy smiling face, and seeing your work evolve in such a short space of time. I hope you and your family have a great relaxing long weekend filed with aroha. I am proud of you. 

Meila shows off her creative skills and divergent thinking: 

Terrific work all week Meila, I have enjoyed seeing your confidence bloom as you work hard to find new ways to learn from home. I hope you and your family have a great relaxing long weekend filed with aroha. I am proud of you. 

Noor navigates new learning with vigor: 

Fabulous work all week Noor. I have enjoyed seeing you advance through the learning and take ownership over your creative skills and expression. I hope you and your family have a great relaxing long weekend filed with aroha. I am proud of you. 

Mahathi shows off her Maths and Literacy prowess: 

Outstanding work this week Mahathi. You are consistently displaying tidy, well written and thoughtful pieces of Literacy and Mathematics. I hope you and your family have a great relaxing long weekend filed with aroha. I am proud of you. 

And lastly by certainly not least.....

Agampreet demonstrates his ninja cunning and creativeness for his Greedy Cat (big book) activities: 

Bombastic work and effort this week Agampreet. Your awesome personality and creativity has really shown through in your work accomplishments and art work. I can see your confidence grow. I hope you and your family have a great relaxing long weekend filed with aroha. I am proud of you. 

Cowboy Sheriff Aiden makes sure his sister rides safely and abides by the law: 

Out of this world effort this week Aiden, I have enjoyed seeing you explore your creativity and divergent thinking is your experimentation of different elements of learning. I can also see your confidence grow with the support of your family.  I hope you and your family have a great relaxing long weekend filed with aroha. I am proud of you. 

 To all my students of Room 19 and your families, I want to thank you for all your efforts, time and hard work over these 8 days of distance home learning. You are all appreciated for all that you do, for your time and patience, and understanding in these new challenges and while we get these learning programs established. I am proud of you, and feel so honored, blessed and thankful to be in your lives as your Year 1 and 2 teacher. You have made this period an enjoyable one for me, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

For all the fans of Minecraft, I thought I would share an amazing video from a talent man who used technology and Minecraft to create a wonderful video. I hope you can see and appreciate the effort, time and skill this young man has shown in this video. It really is amazing what we can accomplish with technology. 

Note Blocks Animation versus Minecraft by Aaron Grooves - YouTube

https://youtu.be/c9DrryMw248

Preview YouTube video Note Blocks - Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Ep. 5 (music by AaronGrooves)

Until our next post, please take care of yourselves and your family, stay safe in your bubble. There will be ANZAC activities happening next week, but if you are paying tribute to our war hero's this week, I hope you will join me on Saturday and if possible light a candle in remembrance for those who stood up for our freedom. 

Sending you all virtual hugs and best wishes from Mrs Futcher and my family, to you and your family. 

P.S - sorry I didn't get to the supermarket, but I will definitely take up this challenge once the lock down is over and it is safe to do so....watch this space!