Tips for writing a good recount

We have writing recounts. Ben has created a movie with tips on writing a recount.

Recount Tips from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me, Too

Here is the video of the great Shel Silverstein performing his poem, Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too.

Check out these fantastic examples! 

Can you remember some of the rhyming words in the poem? Leave a comment if you know what they are. Can you think of any others?

Honey bee movie #3

Salah, Vaka and Samson used iMovie for the first time to present their research about bees. They did a great job. Here are the results.

Honey bee movie #2

Taufeeq, Samuel and Edwin made a movie about honey bees. They used iMovie for the first time! Well done. You have presented your facts very well.

Honey Bees

Today some of the learners in Ruma Rima explored iMovie. We have been learning about bees so that is the topic of our movies. Check out Muhammad, Dev and Thiago's movie.

How to draw a bee

Contextual topic: watch this video. Draw a bee. 

Label the following:

• head
• thorax
• abdomen
• eyes
• antennae
• wings
• legs

Awesome work Aniva

Making Lolly Cake @WeVideo

Today Tereana and Sneha used WeVideo on the chromebooks to make a movie about how to make lolly cake. Great job guys!

Making Lolly Cake from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Managing Self #toldwithvoice

We have been learning how to manage our learning. Lakshita and Rebekah have used @adobevoice for the first time to demonstrate their knowledge of self-management.

Self management from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Week 2 Highlights

We are learning how to make movies! Last week, Snedhal and Tereana created their very first iMovie using some videos and photos from our first full week of school. They have done a great job. Now they will be able to teach others how to make movies.

Introducing Ruma Rima

Introducing the amazing learners from the Ruma Rima learning community! Well done Ben for taking the photos and helping to edit the slideshow.

Introducing Ruma Rima from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Picasso Portraits

On Wednesday, we spent the day in R19 with Mrs Bateman. We created portraits based on the art of Pablo Picasso:

Here are the final results. They look amazing in our learning environment.

No Hea Koe? No Mt Roskill Ahau!

What a diverse learning community we have in Ruma Rima. Our families come from all over the world. On Friday we decided to make a movie about our diversity. Here it is!

Getting to know each other #2

Here are the final results of our communication activity. Where we had to get to know a partner and use this information to create a google drawing about them.

Getting to know each other

Today was our first day back at school! We had a great day. One of the activities we carried out was to create venn diagrams to compare the similarities and differences we shared with our classmates. We then had to create a google drawing about one of our classmates.

Here is a drawing about Aniva created by Saulala:

Here is Aniva's drawing about Saulala: