Celebration of our culture

In New Zealand we have some unique ways of greeting each other - one way is saying our name, our parents names, our grandparents and our place of origin, including how we arrived in New Zealand and the mountain and water we identify with. All are ways of sharing with a group 'who we are', valuing our past and helping individuals to have a firm sense of belonging. Room 1 children have videoed each other saying the beginning of their mihi as part of their inquiry into their culture.

Room 8 Helping With Comic Life and Blogging

Today some kids from room 8 came to help us with comic life and using our blog .

Swimming!

We have already made big jumps in our swimming skills in just a few weeks. I think it helps that our buddies are all going for it so we give new things a go too. Here are some shots of us splashing around. Check out our stories we wrote to go with them.

iPad in Room 1!

We have an iPad in our classroom for the week and are enjoying finding ways for it to support our learning. We are creating a PMI (click here) chart to record our findings. (P=positives, M=minuses, I=Interesting points) and plan on writing persuasively to Mr Lovelock to get one in every classroom if our predictions that it will be a versatile, child size, easy to use, motivational tool to help meet our goals, are right! Watch this space for our findings!

Welcome to the parents, whanau and friends of the super-kids in Room1 for 2011. We have had a fantastic start to the year with team teaching happening between Mrs Forde and Mrs Polaschek while numbers build to open Room 2. We are beginning to look at a study of 'who we are'. A follow on from our last years topic 'where are we?' which explored space and where we fit into the scheme of things. To kick off our topic Room 1 ask that you pop an answer to our question below to help us explore what makes us unique as New Zealanders.

Who Are We?

We are New Zealanders. What makes us special?... at AnswerGarden.ch.

We can use our class blog to.....

Here we have explored the reasons we use a class blog in our learning. The children brainstormed and came up with lots of ideas including "to share our writing, cool things at school" and other things you may be interested in. They decided it was one way of showing you - our audience - what's in our heads and what we are learning. Other ways were by "writing it down, telling an audience through a 'microphone', on video, on skype or showing everyone by photos."

We can show our teacher on our blog. By Charlie

We can show our cool fort on our blog.

We can show our handwriting on our blog.

We can show our avairy on our blog.

We can tell our Q-Bear stories on our

blog. By Sophee

We can show our puzzles on our blog.

We can put our computer games on our blog.

We can type text on our blog.