Voicethread - The Jabberwocky

You can work on this Voicethread if you want. Just ask me for the user name and password and off you go.

Blogging rules and etiquitte

Keep safe:

• Do not use last names.


• Do not give too much information about yourself. For example write "I play for a local soccer team." Do not write "I play for the Hamilton North Junior Rugrats soccer team."


• Never give out your address, email address or phone number.


• Do not post photos of other people without teacher approval.

Write Quality comments:

• It is OK to disagree with the author of a post but when writing a comment always give a reason why you disagree.


• One word comments are not useful. Explain yourself and give constructive messages.


• Make compliments to the writer of the post in an interesting way that makes them feel special. Even ask questions.


• Make relevant comments to the post you are writing about.


• Always be considerate of others.


• When writing a post it must be put to draft before posted so that your teacher can conference with you. Read the comment or post allowed and edit before saving as a draft.

Some ways we can begin our comments:

• Your post made me think that...


• I discovered/learnt...


• This makes me think....


• Your post made me form an opinion about...

An opportunity to develop what you want to know about

I am always keen to find new ways of learning and teaching, even though time does not always allow. I have decided just tonight while writing and checking out how I would introduce this blog to you that what is important is that this blog becomes useable for you. SOOOOOO!

Tell me what you might be interested in learning about next term. Topic studies, areas that interest you. Be as clear as you can. I want you to know though that when you pick something you are interested in there will be investigation work, there will be writing and reporting, there will be reading, there will be technology use and creative arts.

This is an opportunity for you to tell me what you want to do next term and I will see if I can make it happen. Every teacher is being asked to develop something that they can teach the students of all classes on a rotation. Like 3 times a week. If you give me some ideas of what you might be interested in learning about that would be good. For example what sort of science things would you like to investigate? Do you want to know more about certain kinds of computer software and hardware?

Coming to the end of term one 2011

Man am I tired. Then I realise that there is still 2 and half weeks to go in this term. Today I listened to some of your frustrations about our class like people coming over to other people's desks and just starting chatting or the class being quite noisy and making it hard to concentrate. I wonder if you can tell me some of the things you have learnt this term about yourself, your classmates or about the world. Teachers like to hear the good stuff. So add your comments to this post. How many of you would be interested in setting up blog conversations with another class from another school? Let me know through this blog.

ANZACS

What's it all about? What significance does this day have to me? What does it actually mean? These might be some questions you have asked yourself or others and yet you still have not got an answer. Remember what we talked about in class about researching and asking good questions? Now it is your turn to put that into practice. Here is a small video from my families trip to Ypres in Belgium. What feelings do you think about as you watch it? what might it be about?

No 'God Save the Queen' at ANZAC enrages monarchists - National - Video - 3 News

No 'God Save the Queen' at ANZAC enrages monarchists - National - Video - 3 News

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Stop Motion Animation

As part of our learning this term we are going to develop some strategies about keeping fit and healthy and being responsible for ourselves in this area. I thought of an interesting way to share with others what we think being fit and healthy is all about and what it might look like using stop motion animation. Here is a video to get us started. From this video we will plan, design and make our own videos in groups of four to show to others and hopefully encourage them to get fit.