Sunday, October 19, 2008

Literacy Interactives - Rimu

Use this link for this week's interactive.  We'll be practising our spelling skills and how to read certain blends.

BBC Bitesize Literacy

Maths Interactives

Here are some games we'll be using to help us learn analogue and digital clocks and reading temperatures.

Telling the time game

Changing from 24h time to regular

Quiz on telling time

Temperature quiz

Have fun!  Don't forget you can also use these at home during your homework time...

Printing Your Scrapblog!

This link will take you to a video I've made on 'Jing'.  It shows you how to download your poster on scrapblog so you can print it at home. 

Have a look and watch it again if you've missed a step.



Monday, October 13, 2008

Camp David Link

Who's excited about our Camp David trip in week 3? Here's the link to our Camp Blog. Thanks Mr McCallum!


Sunday, October 12, 2008

Scrapblogging!

This week we'll be making a 'scrapblog' of ourselves. It will be on a topic of your choice, as long as it's about you! It could be your holiday, your favourite sports or after school activities or even a showcase of your skills!

Go to scrapblog to begin making yours. Here's an example of one I made on a similar site, over the holidays.

Mission On

Here is a link to the 'Mission On' website. It focuses on the things that develop our physical wellbeing, one of the four parts of Hauora. Can you name the other three?

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Week 7 Olympic Awards and Social Targets

It seems that our Olympic blogsite, that managed and informed the students about the tasks, was a great way for the students to access at school AND home.
We will be continuing this type of programme during the weeks of production practices. Watch this space for another Ms Currie special to do with animals!
These programmes are a great way to develop self management and we will be discussing what we can all do to improve at this 'Key Competency'.

Some of us in Room 12 have some room for improving when it comes to our social skills. We have started working on a 'social target' that may be our next step.
We first discussed (in groups) all the things we sometimes do wrong, the things we should instead and then we rated them from hard to easy to do.
This helped us group them into four levels. Each student has chosen one to work on next and will assess themselves at the end of each day.
Below is an example of one brainstorming sheet.
Here's our list of level four targets to achieve. We think these are some great high level thinking examples!