Journal Week 5

The purpose of your journal writing is to give you time to reflect on different aspects of your life and learning. Journal writing time is also a valuable opportunity to practice and improve your writing. Your journal writing should all be added to the same doc which will accumulate all your reflective journalling for the year. 

For your journal writing today you can choose ONE of these three choices of topic:

What things do you want to do before next year?

What is your most treasured possession and why?

Compare your life now to how you think teenagers lived when Rotorua was first settled. What life would you prefer and why?

Remember - you can write your journal in whatever style you like, creative, poetry, song lyrics, letters, diary etc.....

Rotorua 1970 video footage

Hey team, here is some inquiry related viewing for you, great video of Rotorua in 1970. Sourced from the Facebook page 'Nostalgic Rotorua' - check it out!

Project Based Learning Part 2

The European settlement of Rotorua - PBL Part 2
   

Hauora Lesson Today

Hauora Lesson for Today

Literacy Week 4

Morena 9FFL, here is the powerpoint we will be working through for literacy today.

Here is the link for the Wahine Toa reading: A TRILOGY OF WAHINE TOA

Current Events - Week 4

Journal Week 3

Journal Week 3

• Your journal entry for today is to be about a place in Rotorua that is special to you
• Describe in detail how your special place looks, the sights, sounds, smells and how this place makes you feel - try to describe this in a way that a reader could close their eyes and be able to picture the place.
• Why is this place important to you? What do you do when you are there?
• What do you know about the history of the place? Has it always been as it is now? What was it like in the past? If you do not know anything about the history of the place use your imagination to write about how you think the place might have been in the past.

The above suggestions/questions are there as a guide for you - if there are extra things that you would like to add to your journal entry please do!

This writing exercise is about being descriptive and detailed to give a real sense of this place and how it makes you feel, not about writing short simple answers to the questions.

Numeracy Task 1

Numeracy Task 1

Your tasks have been set for the Numeracy tasks are in the google slide below.  Remember that in our class we believe that everyone will develop their own learner agency!

For these activities you will need to show how you can be a 
"Lifelong Learner"
I am self aware, I set achievable goals, manage my time effectively, I plan my learning and can evaluate my own learning and the learning of others.

Work your way through the activities that are on the google slide - develop your own strategies for being able to stay on task and free from distractions.

The first two rows are to be completed in this block.  

The Statistics workbook is to be completed over the coming weeks to assist with collecting data, sorting and interpreting data for your project.  

Good luck

Project 1: Research and discovery

During the Project Based Learning block yesterday 15th Feb. you had to find as many resources and accounts of the journey of Tamatekapua from Hawaiki to Aotearoa.  Don't forget we have the NZ Library books in class and to check the Online Libraries.

This photo of Museum of New Zealand (Te Papa Tongarewa)

Organising my drive:

1. Set up a folder in your FFL drive and label.  Project 1: My kainga my castle.
2. Add any resources or images you have found to this folder
3. Make a reference list of where you have found this information
4. Be sure to ask whanau about legends and stories passed through the generations about the origins of Maori.

Collating my research:

1. Create a timeline of events showing the journey from Hawaiki to Aotearoa.
• Use the information you researched yesterday.
• It can be made using any method. In your books or digitally from the earliest date you found to the time the Te Arawa waka landed at Maketu.
• You could use a movie, slideshow, pictogram, written account or any other method to depict the journey. 
• Include key points about the journey such as:
• why Tamatekapua left, who else made the journey with him, what events happened during the journey, how did they navigate the seas and include any relevant images.

Next Steps: Friday and next PBL Block.

1. The settlement of Rotorua
• The journey from Maketu to Rotorua
• How did Tamatekapua make his way to Rotorua?
• Why did he decide to settle in Rotorua?
• European Settlement
• What major events occurred in the last 200 years?

Project One

Discover

How can I complete the task? What will I need to do?

Inquiry Process for Year 9 FFL - 2017

Define What is the problem, big question?	Create a brainstorm of ideas Refine and define your driving question, share this with your mentor group and your mentor teacher Driving questions are the heart of your research, they provide purpose and focus.  Your question should be clear, complex and open-ended.  They will provide the basis for you to innovate or create a product for solution. A good driving question will then provide opportunities for you to develop KEY questions - these will help you answer the driving question. See this link on our website for more help in writing a good driving question. Writing good Key Questions
Discover How can I complete the task? What will I need to do?	Select an idea and expand your thoughts. Create an ACTION PLAN Think about the 5 W’s and 1 H.   WHAT, WHERE, WHO, HOW, WHY and WHEN What information do I need to know? Where will I find this information? Who can help me?  This could be experts in our whanau, school or community Why would I use this information in my research?  Why would I choose to interview or survey people? When is my deadline and am I on track to meet this? How am I going to find the primary and secondary sources that I need?  Eg Library, Interviews, Surveys, Newspapers, Magazines, Internet? Create a folder and documents to record all your work.  You and your teachers will need to be able to access this.  Make sure it is in the shared FFL drive. Begin your plan - the HOW (what you are going to do, why and when) Record your PROCESS ensuring you evidence EVERYTHING you are doing - research, phone calls, reading etc. You MUST be able to JUSTIFY what you are doing - time management.
Dream Think big, what is it going to turn out like? Imagine a solution	What do you believe the impact of this information will have on our community in the future? What will it LOOK like? Create a vision board of your ideas.  Think about the solutions that are in place now and what future solutions could look like?  What is your place in this?  How can you affect change?
Design Create a design / plan the way you want it to work.	What do you need to do to make your dream a reality? How are you going to present your information?  What is going to be the most effective way to communicate your ideas and learnings on this topic.   How do you think you can best present your plan of action to implement change or innovation?
Deliver Deliver the idea / end product / action	Put your plan into action. Come up with an end product that encapsulates all of your learnings and work in this topic.
Debrief Go over what worked, what could be improved, next steps to improve	Present and share what you have done. Think about what you achieved throughout the process - final conclusion.   Evaluate the process and your engagement in this. What did you do well? What do you need to improve on? What were new learnings for you in this topic?

Hauora Task HL

Literacy Periods 1 & 2 Monday

Hey team,

Here are the links to the myths for today's literacy session:

When Tamaohoi Awoke

Hatupatu

Ngatoro the Fire-Bringer

Hinemoa and Tutanekai

And also the link to the reading response template

Hope everyone had a great weekend!
Miss Fleming

Digital Citizenship

Digital Citizenship Task:
Click on the link to access the information in the slideshow Whaea Filly presented.
Complete the What do you think? Activity.
Planning to be done today (Friday 10th) Presentations Due Monday 13th

Digital Citizenship Survival Kit

Internet Resources
NetSafe
Waka Hourua

Welcome to Year 9 Future Focussed Learning

Nau mai, haere mai!  Welcome to our classroom blog!

Think of this blog as our very own online whiteboard.  Your teachers will use this to keep you up to date with any class work or tasks that you have to do.  In our class we believe that we are all learners - and that learning happens ANYTIME and ANYWHERE!

So even if you are not in class - you are able to keep up to date with what is happening and ensure that you are in charge of your own learning in this class!

First of all.... make sure that you 'favourite' this blog address in your browser so that you can access this quickly and easily...  How to do this?  Check out this link to see how to do it.

Your first task is to create your very own personalised Blog on Blogger.  This will be where you will post up your own work throughout the year.  Your mentor teachers will be checking these regularly.

First step - you will be pairing up with a year 10 student who will be helping you with this.

Watch the videos and see what you can come up with.....

Create your own blog on blogger

Post the work that you did with Miss Fleming onto your blog!

Good luck!

Work to complete

Kia Ora 9 FFL!

Today in period 5 you are going to have some time to complete any bits and pieces of work that are not quite done!

1. Complete first Journal entry and make sure it is shared to Miss Fleming so that it can go into your literacy portfolio  (jfleming@rghs.school.nz).

2. Complete your motivational poster AND the explanation for why you chose your quote and picture.

3. Post your motivational poster on to your blog to give you something to look back on to keep you motivated and inspired throughout the year.

4. If you are finished all of that you can move onto our Hauora activity which follows on from our Hauora lesson last week. Use this link to get to the activity in docs, make sure that you make your own copy - do not write in to this shared copy or everyone will be able to see it.

Ask or email Miss Fleming if you have any questions :)