Twitter Questions for Wednesday

ANZAC

Q1. What have you learnt about ANZAC Day at your school?

Q2. What does ANZAC day mean to you personally?

Q3. Do you have any extended family that fought in Gallipoli? What stories can you tell us?

Q4. How does your school and/or family celebrate ANZAC Day?

Q5. Do you think ANZAC day is important? Should we celebrate the day? How else could ANZAC Day be celebrated?

Q6. There are lots of great ANZAC books and stories out there. Which is your favourite and why? Share your book reviews! :)

Q7. Why are poppies sold before and on Anzac Day? Why was the poppy chosen and what does it represent?

Q8. How did the Anzac biscuit originate? Do you have a favourite Anzac biscuit recipe that you would like to share?

Q9. Have you ever been to an ANZAC Day celebration? What happened and how did it make you feel?

Swimming Tomorrow

Room 20 will not be able to use their swim time tomorrow so we will be able to go swimming at 10.30 tomorrow! Remember to bring your togs!

Wednesday's Twitter Questions

Twitter Design Competition

After our awesome Twitter chat today we were thinking about what we should do for our profile picture on our class Twitter profile.

I think it would be fantastic if someone in our class designed a logo for us so we could use it as our profile picture on Twitter.

It needs to include the words 'Team 23' and be colourful. See the 'POD 11' logo as an example. There are also some examples of other logos below.

Have fun designing! Designs are due to me by next Tuesday.

Blue Skies

Last Tuesday we had a fabulous day at Blue Skies in Kaiapoi. We worked together on a confidence course, an initiatives course and a fitness course.

Swimming this week

Room 2 have kindly allowed us to join in on their swimming time at 10.30am on Friday. Please bring your togs that day.

Multiple Intelligences link

Click on the link below to find out more about Multiple Intelligences...

Multiple Intelligences information

Twitter questions for this week: Food and Nutrition

As usual, there are 9 questions this week. Here are some questions (1, 3, 4 and 6) for you to think about independently and draft some tweets if you like. We will discuss the other questions as a class.

1. Why do you think it is important to eat healthily? 

3. Does your school have a garden? What grows in it? Do you get to eat any of the food grown? What do you do with the extra produce?

4. Do you grow food at home? What do you grow? What would you like to grow?

6. Find a recipe (from home or google) that uses your favourite fruit or vege.

Awesome week 6

Hi my name is Josh and my name is Nisha and we are this week's bloggers.

On Tuesday we went to Blue Skies in Kaiapoi for the day with the whole senior school. We were put in groups and there were 24 groups in total. The activities were Flying fox, Confidence course, Initiative activities and fitness. Blue skies was awesome. Everybody enjoyed it and there was lovely weather.The parents that came from our class were Jake's dad Clayton, Paige's dad Bill, Zachariah's mum Sarah, Ben's dad Grant and Jarkwyn's mum Chontelle.

Every Wednesday our class does a Twitter chat on the laptops and the desktop computers. We have to choose a partner to work with and Mrs Hanson told us the 10 questions about creativity. Mrs Hanson said we could write our own tweet with a buddy and Nisha and Ben's tweet got replied by someone with over 2,000 followers. Next time we have to work with another buddy.

We also did another creativity task we started of with a odd picture then we had 10 seconds to complete it, then 10 minutes and the 10 minute ones looked a lot better. Once the 10 minutes was over Mrs Hanson told us to come down to the mat and she looked at the drawings and she choose some  for the wall. It showed us that creativity takes time.

On Monday we started our family description writing. Lots of people have started publishing it.The family description writing is our second piece of writing for our personal newspaper.The family description writing is about our family. Each paragraph is a different person in our family.We also started this new thing called literacy time, instead of separate reading and writing time. We personally love it.

Well that's all for this week because we have to go swimming right now so goodbye.

Twitter

We are loving our learning that we are doing through Twitter at the moment! The weekly questions are making us do some deep and inventive thinking. Come and see our Twitter wall to see what we are up to on Twitter. We did an awesome activity on creativity where we had a basic picture and we only had 10 seconds to finish it. Then Mrs Hanson gave us 10 minutes to work on it. The message we got from that is that CREATIVITY TAKES TIME! We also talked about inventions that we could think of that would make the world more awesome. We watched a youtube clip about the inventions that the Kid President came up with. You can watch the video too, it's linked in one of our earlier posts.

Blue Skies tomorrow

Remember, we are going to Blue Skies tomorrow. What you need is written down in your Home Learning book, but here it is again just in case:

Wear: Mufti that you can run and move around in (sports shoes please)
Bring: sun hat, drink bottle with water in it, food, warm jacket
We will leave school on the bus after the morning roll and return by 3pm.

Kidsedchatnz questions for Wednesday's chat

Here are some of the questions that will be discussed on our next kidsedchatnz Twitter chat. You might like to record some of your ideas in your Home Learning book or prepare a tweet for Wednesday. Remember to start your tweet with @kidsedchatnz and it can only be 140 characters!

The next chat is about invention and creativity. We will be doing some work on this in class.


What are your interests, talents or passions?

What is the world's most important invention so far? How does it affect your life? 

The top 10 jobs in 2013 didn't exist in 2004. What jobs do you think there will be in 10 years time?

Is creativity important? How can we encourage creativity in the classroom?


Watch the Kid President talking about Inventing and problem solving:Click on the link below

Kid President Invents!

Room23's 1st half of term

Hello everyone I am Jamie and I am Millie. We have had a busy first half of the term.
On the first week of school room 23 made mini pictures of ourselves.
Mrs Hanson gave us a little person and we had to create it to look like us.

In week 3 we went to Aquagym. There were 4 groups in the little pool and 3 in the big pool I was in the big pool and so was Millie. We learnt a lot at Aquagym and got ourselves more confident for swimming sports.

At assembly we announced the leadership roles and deputy heads and head boy and girl Jamie and I
both got a leadership role. Our head boy is Will Easton and head girl is Niamh McKenzie. Deputy head boy is Jake Dickie and deputy head girl is Olivia Timbs.

Our class has been learning about Twitter and kids chat. We think twitter is very interesting and
we get to learn about other classes and were they are from. We did our first kidsedchatnz on Wednesday about digital citizenship. We have three followers at the moment.

Yesterday we had swimming sports the results were very good lots of people got into zones
 and we are very happy for them. Everybody that was there tried their best and had fun.

Thank you for reading.
by Millie and Jamie.

Blue Skies parent help

Thanks to those who offered to be parent help at Blue Skies next Tuesday 10th March. Sarah, Grant, Clayton, Bill and Chontelle, I have sent home a wee notice with your child, letting you know that you are down to be parent help. Please let me know as soon as possible if you are now unable to help so I can ask the next parents on the list. Thank you!

Swimming Sports tomorrow!

Please remember to bring your togs, towel, drink bottle, goggles, and food to school to take to the swimming sports. We are leaving around 11.30am and the sports start at 12.
50 metre races are first, then 25 metre races start around 1pm.

Those who are not going to the sports, please bring your togs as you will hopefully go swimming here at school. You will be working with Room 22 and Miss White.

Digital Citizenship

On Wednesday, we will be observing our first Twitter chat this week as part of kidsedchatnz. This week's topic is digital citizenship. You might like to discuss some of the questions below with someone at home. Feel free to record any of your thinking in your Home Learning book.

We hope to take part in our first Twitter chat sometime in the next few weeks.


Q1.What do you think it means to be a good digital citizen?

Q2. How can you be safe on the internet? What should you do if you see something uncomfortable online?

Q3. Why is meeting someone online different to meeting someone in real life?

Q4. What is Cyber bullying? Why is it wrong?

Q5. How can you keep your computer safe? What is a computer virus?

Q6. Who teaches you about staying safe online? What are the best ways for learning about online safety?

Q7. Should schools be using social media in the classroom and why/why not?