Jazz / Room 12's Blog at New River Primary 09-13

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Blog Comments Success Criteria

Over the last month we have been commenting on our friends blogs on the other side of the world.

We had these hints and tips to support us when writing comments.

However we still found we were making the odd mistake when we made comments.

So we looked at creating a success criteria.

We keep a copy handy by our digital devices so we can check in with our achievements when blogging.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Get to know who your classmates are...

Michael has written three things about himself on a
piece of paper, he then put it into the balloon.

Aidan has completed his balloon and Kaea is writing his three things about himself onto a piece of paper.

We placed the balloons in a sheet like a parachute.
We stood in a circle and Mrs Rolton flung the sheet into
the air to release the balloons.

Theissen found a balloon and popped it to reveal the
information about someone in Room 12.

We all read our mystery information and tried to
figure out who it belonged to.

Some mystery information was hard to solve so we had to
talk to people to help us eliminate who it was.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Learning Spaces Day One 2012

Tote trays for students who have a learning
space for the whole day

MSSR at the couch

MSSR at desks independently

MSSR at Learning Spaces

MSSR at desks in groups

Today the Room 12 class of 2012 had their first interactive discovery with learning spaces. Some of the students were excited at the thought of using tables instead of the traditional desks. However some were still keen to use a desk. Some chose to sit in groups, pairs or independently, as the day unfolded students chose to move around and sit on bean bags, stand at tables and make choices for themselves about where they could learn best for that particular learning moment. Wow - this was an amazing 1st day on our new journey of learning!

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Quad Blogging 2012

Quad Blogging is when we take turns weekly to visit and comment on blog pages from three schools around the world. We learn how to write a great blog comment using the following criteria...

This year we start quad blogging with the following schools

http://www.psdblogs.ca/cdaub/            Muir Lake in Canada

http://alexyear5.primaryblogger.co.uk/   Alexandra CP in Wales

http://bmeadow5t.wordpress.com/          BroadMeadow Junior School in England

Monday, January 30, 2012

Custom Glitter Text

iTeach: Room to learn

iTeach: Room to learn: CC image via flickr by Marcin Wichary I have decided to step off of the stage and remove my sage sash (say it 5 times fast...go!). In ...