Welcome to 2019 - Out of the box day

The 2019 school year started for Kaiwhare today and we have had a very exciting first day.  We spent time getting to know our new friends and class mates making connections with others in our syndicate.

It was great to share "The Treehut Treaty" a valuable story with an important message. This helped us to describe what we would like our classes to be like. It will help us to come up with ideas for our syndicate treaty too.

After morning tea, we worked collaboratively to talk about how we could look after the Chromebooks that we will be using for our learning this year.  We then opened our new chromebooks and explored  our new syndicate site. It was great to get up and running and we are really looking forward to sharing our learning with you on our blogs. Please check back regularly to see what we have been doing.

Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu introductions

Kia Ora,

This term we are looking more at blogging and we plan to share lots of learning as we get our individual blogs up and running.  We are part of the Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu blogging group where we will be working closely with three other classes around New Zealand to share and comment on the interesting learning that is happening.  As a start we have shared some google drawings of ourselves, some share what we like, others are developing skills so just show our names.

If you would like to find out more about us please check out our individual blogs on the side of the page.

Google map - connections

Today James introduced us to Google Maps as part of our cybersmart learning. We collaborated to create a shared doc that showed all the different places that we were born. As a class we are originally from some amazing places and it is pretty special that we have all come together as Room 8. Below you will see the map of the different places we are from. While creating this map it was really important for us to apply our cybersmart learning so that we did not share too much information. Next time we meet we will further explore our connections in cybersmart. We would love it if you could take the time to comment on our learning. You may even have a connection with some of the wonderful learners from Room 8.

Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu introduction, Round Two

This term we have joined a new Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu blog group. We are looking forward to using these blogs in our reading and writing programmes.  It means we will have a greater audience to share our learning and creations.   We are really working on positive, thoughtful and helpful comments and will use other class blogs to do this.

 You will find the links to our three buddy class blogs on the right hand side of our page in a blog list.

Below is a thinglink that has a small poster introducing each of the fabulous learners in Room 8. If you want to find out more about these awesome people, or connect with them, please check out their blogs at the side of the page too.  We love comments and feedback!