Saturday, July 24, 2010
Why Blog...?
A Blog is an on-line website where children can access, exchange and receive information from their teacher, their classmates and from other people around the world.
In Room 25, we can use the Blog to:
Share resources and access on-line learning activities
Share our work and learning
Provide up to date information on what is happening in Room 25
Keep in touch with parents and the wider world
It provides opportunities for us to learn outside the classroom
We can learn new ICT skills
It motivates us, it's exciting and fun!!
As you can see the Blog is an amazing tool which has huge potential to enhance our learning.
If you want to see a great youtube clip that gives a really simple explanation about blogging click on the link below and enjoy.
In Room 25, we can use the Blog to:
Share resources and access on-line learning activities
Share our work and learning
Provide up to date information on what is happening in Room 25
Keep in touch with parents and the wider world
It provides opportunities for us to learn outside the classroom
We can learn new ICT skills
It motivates us, it's exciting and fun!!
As you can see the Blog is an amazing tool which has huge potential to enhance our learning.
If you want to see a great youtube clip that gives a really simple explanation about blogging click on the link below and enjoy.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Guess what we did in the Holidays?
Here are our pictures of our favourite things we did in the holidays. We made a pop-out picture. Here are three stories for you to enjoy. Room 25 did lots of different things in the holidays.
In the cool holidays we went to Kelly Tarltons. First we saw the funny penguins. They had an ankle tag on their feet. We went into the cage of the penguins and after that we went back out of the cage and saw a plastic seal and an orca whale. When the orca got out of the water I got a shock! Then we went to a warm shop. I saw some sharks and fish rings and I saw some pearl necklaces. After we went to the shop we saw them feel the mantarays. When you look at them they really look like they are flying, but under water, and it looks like they have wings. They are so big! I loved going with my sister and my Mum because they love me. At the end I had a race with Amy, my big sister and got a picture.
Chloe
In the holidays I had a fantastic time at Irinej’s house. We played Playstation 2. We played a very cool game. In Star Wars you could turn into any character you want. Then we went upstairs to play with my jet ray gun. We shot Irinej’s sister and then we played with a light in the closet. We liked that. Then we played Lego Batman.
Shiv
In the holidays I searched on the computer and the biggest number in the world, it came up, with was a google plexian. It has 54,784 zeros. There are not that many seconds in your life! It even has a tag – it said biggest number known. 54,784 zeros made my printer print 7 pages! On the first page there are 1528 zeros! That means you can’t count to a google plexian. I think it is a gigantic number.
Jack
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Leadership by Room 25
At the end of last term, we explored what it means to be a great leader - we thought that only older people were leaders until we realised that if great leaders are people who guide, care, help others, are responsible, work alongside others and lots more, then we knew that we could also be leaders too. We chose 7 ideas that we thought were important for leaders to be and we made mini movies to show these. This is our first movie so we hope you enjoy - and we know we will get better at making movies.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Being part of a Community!
As part of our learning about bees, we were trying to make connections between how bees live as a community and how we as humans live in communities. Once we knew what would happen if one kind of bee didn't do their job, we had to think about what might happen if in our learning community of Room 25, someone didn't do their job. Our understanding of community was a bit limited so...
Ms McPhail decided it was time for us to experience what happens when someone in our classroom community doesn't do their job! On Monday morning she called the roll and then told us she was not teaching us today! WOW... WIERD... WHAT...! We sat there for a while before it sank in that she REALLY wasn't going to be teaching us. COOL we thought...free time! We jumped up and took off to do the things we wanted to do.
Some of us played on the computers while others grabbed paper and drew pictures. We made hearts and cards for Ms McPhail and we kept on looking at her because....well...things didn't seem quite right!
After about half an hour a few of us were wandering around the room looking for things to do. During the morning we got noisy, we got silly and we even did some things we knew we shouldn't like taking special paper to draw or write on and the worst thing was that during the morning there was a power cut and we had no computers! By lunchtime our classroom looked like a tip and our behaviour belonged in that same tip!
After lunch, we sat down in a circle to have some dialogue time on what had happened and why. Ms McPhail explained that what we had been through was a learning experience to show us what happens when someone in a community doesn't do their job, and how that affects others. We got to share how we felt, and why we had made the choices we did that morning.
It was interesting that most of us felt wierd, a bit strange, and a bit disappointed that we had not done any learning. Although it was fun having free time, we ran out of ideas on what to do quite quickly. We know we could have used the time better, but without someone leading us, we made some poor choices.
This lead into a deeper discussion about structure within a community and leadership, as well as what we need to do to have an effective community in Room 25, or anywhere else where a community operates.
Although we didn't get to do the normal kind of learning that day, we learned a whole lot of other things about ourselves and about working together as a community.
In term 3 we will get to explore this a bit more as we work with our Kakapo Community to create our story in the school production. Watch this space...
Ms McPhail decided it was time for us to experience what happens when someone in our classroom community doesn't do their job! On Monday morning she called the roll and then told us she was not teaching us today! WOW... WIERD... WHAT...! We sat there for a while before it sank in that she REALLY wasn't going to be teaching us. COOL we thought...free time! We jumped up and took off to do the things we wanted to do.
Some of us played on the computers while others grabbed paper and drew pictures. We made hearts and cards for Ms McPhail and we kept on looking at her because....well...things didn't seem quite right!
After about half an hour a few of us were wandering around the room looking for things to do. During the morning we got noisy, we got silly and we even did some things we knew we shouldn't like taking special paper to draw or write on and the worst thing was that during the morning there was a power cut and we had no computers! By lunchtime our classroom looked like a tip and our behaviour belonged in that same tip!
After lunch, we sat down in a circle to have some dialogue time on what had happened and why. Ms McPhail explained that what we had been through was a learning experience to show us what happens when someone in a community doesn't do their job, and how that affects others. We got to share how we felt, and why we had made the choices we did that morning.
It was interesting that most of us felt wierd, a bit strange, and a bit disappointed that we had not done any learning. Although it was fun having free time, we ran out of ideas on what to do quite quickly. We know we could have used the time better, but without someone leading us, we made some poor choices.
This lead into a deeper discussion about structure within a community and leadership, as well as what we need to do to have an effective community in Room 25, or anywhere else where a community operates.
Although we didn't get to do the normal kind of learning that day, we learned a whole lot of other things about ourselves and about working together as a community.
In term 3 we will get to explore this a bit more as we work with our Kakapo Community to create our story in the school production. Watch this space...
Friday, July 9, 2010
Welcome to Room 25s new blog!
In term 2 we have been learning about bees. We visited The Honey Centre in Warkworth to learn more about bees, watch bees in action, and make candles out of beeswax. We have written to bees thanking them for the honey they give us and we have written facts about bees.
We were learning about the similarities between bees and humans. There are lots of things we both do such as gather food(from different places of course), have different jobs to do (at home and at school) to keep things running well, and we eat and sleep. BUT... we get to play, bees don't. They are hard at work everyday!
We have explored what will happen in the hive if a bee does not do their job! It could be a major problem and one that would affect us and everyone on the planet so we are keen to help bees keep doing their job.
Below are photos from our trip to the Honey Centre for you to enjoy!
In term 2 we have been learning about bees. We visited The Honey Centre in Warkworth to learn more about bees, watch bees in action, and make candles out of beeswax. We have written to bees thanking them for the honey they give us and we have written facts about bees.
We were learning about the similarities between bees and humans. There are lots of things we both do such as gather food(from different places of course), have different jobs to do (at home and at school) to keep things running well, and we eat and sleep. BUT... we get to play, bees don't. They are hard at work everyday!
We have explored what will happen in the hive if a bee does not do their job! It could be a major problem and one that would affect us and everyone on the planet so we are keen to help bees keep doing their job.
Below are photos from our trip to the Honey Centre for you to enjoy!
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