Koru 2 Bromley School

We are nearing the end of week 5 and our digital outcome is almost complete. Here is a video about our learning journey: Hanlin and Paige have been busy creating our website, which is almost complete. Once the website goes live here is the web address:  Bromley Hauora Hub Each of us has completed a self-evaluation which helped us reflect on this learning journey. We are excited to enter our website into the Grow Waitaha Digi Awards.

Koru 2 is well into their Grow Waitaha, Digi Awards journey. This year the theme for the Digi Awards is based on the whakatauki:  Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu–Although it is small, it is precious.  First, we discussed what that might mean to us as a class. The main idea that came out of the discussion was that we could have a positive impact on our community by creating something simple. But what? Meanwhile, Mrs Harris had been having some conversations in the staff room. Here's a video breaking down a problem some of the teachers are having: Our next step was to begin empathizing with this problem and ideating - generating some ideas on how it could be solved. Our big project idea is to build a website resource for teachers. The site will be filled with videos that provoke a certain positive emotion or feeling, for example, calm or focused. The teachers will be able to access these videos for their classes when needed. Some of us even want to create videos for the teachers that ...

We have just finished our first novel study of the year. Our book, titled The One and Only Ivan was about a mighty Silverback Gorilla who lives in captivity in a shopping mall in America. Ivan is a wonderful friend to the other animals and his mission is to help set free a baby elephant named Ruby. The novel has taught us about empathy and friendship. We have linked our guided reading groups to the novel by reading non-fiction about Gorillas and other mammals. During literacy time we managed ourselves by selecting tasks off the Ivan task board below. We managed ourselves by keeping track of our progress, working well in small groups, staying on task and completing our tasks on time. If you want to see some of our amazing outcomes check out our Seesaw accounts. Here are some of our thoughts about the novel. Hanlin - "It was amazing it was really good because I'm into animals and it was a really good ending because Ivan found what he was looking for Ruby". ...