Whakapapa Boards

Check out video about our Whakapapa boards we made with Miss Tito, as seen on PENN.

Titanic Movie

Class 6 tells the story of the Titanic for PENN.

Daydreamer - Manaiakalani Film Festival 2014

Class 6 worked very hard on their entry into the Manaiakalani Film festival for 2014.

Their movie tells the story of the random and crazy thoughts that one student had while daydreaming in class. Watch how he is able to use his daydreams to turn them into a great piece of work for school.

Please watch, and be sure to leave a comment.

Our Commonwealth Games Website

In Class 6 we have been working really hard this term so far to create a Website around the 2014 Commonwealth games!

Click here to go to our website.

Our website has information around some of the countries in the commonwealth games. We made quizzes using the information to test our readers.

Please go to our website and check them out!

Danielle's First class cabin on the Titanic

This is my cabin on the titanic. Have you ever been on a titanic. I have my own little private room and dinning room. My cabin is a first class and this is so expensive. As for my room it has details on my wall and my blanket. I have two little candle sticks above my bed to keep me warm and for me to see when it is dark. I have got my own table for me to eat alone and have some peace and quite.

Lorenzo's Flying Boat Advice Column

This is my F.B.A.C stands for Flying boat advice column and it is a problem David Franklin needs help because he is new to the field of coral-reef research.

Learning to screencast

Today in our MDTA PLG we were learning to record screencasts, so this was my first attempt at one.

This is a quick look at a typical weeks worth of group work in my reading programme. 

It should be noted that these tasks are not given to the students without specific teaching and scaffolding involved, in no way are these tasks just given to the students without any guidance.

In the first activity involving the list of questions, I mentioned that I was trailing something new and that there were more instructions than usual. These instructions were first explicitly given to the students by me, and I had scaffolded the students into how these questions were to be answered in a guided session. The instructions on the activity were more a reminder to the students.

Titanic Site

As part of our MDTA digital PLG work, we were set the task of building a google site that could be used to assist our teaching of the term 2 inquiry unit. As part of my teams "buoyancy" unit, I decided to create a site around the theme of the Titanic.

 <---------   Check it out here

So far our students are enjoying being able to go onto the site and explore (particularly getting to watch the sinking animations).  One student admitted to Mrs Burt that they had thought the site was a "proper website".

We have been looking at how and why the Titanic sank, and will be using the Titanic to help us explore some tricky scientific ideas.

Effective paragraphs

We have been creating our own writing rubrics to follow when we write.

In my group I have been thinking about what I need to do to write an effective paragraph. Here is a rubric i'm going to use to  reflect on my writing.

	1	2	3
Punctuation
Make Sense
Juicy Words
One Idea

Kotuku

Here is a sample of some of the work the Wekas group are getting up to in reading.




My trip to Houhora.

Maps in Maths

We have been learning about maps and coordinates in maths this week. 
Here is a map made by Rowana in class 7.
Can you solve it?

Map's.

Hi Here is a Map game Iv done in class figure out witch Shape you land on.Please leave me a comment.Enjoy.