Beginning our year with the ‘Kawa of Care’

Kia Ora, welcome to the first post for the Te Waka Ako syndicate this year. We have had an exciting start to the Term and have been very busy across different learning areas. This year we are a syndicate of three classes, with students across Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6.  We all have access to Chromebooks to support our learning and the beginning of the year is a great time to remind ourselves of the important ways we can look after our devices.  To start this process, we worked in collaborative groups to sort statements, deciding which ideas are relevant ways to look after our Chromebook.

Once we had these ideas organised, our challenge was to create a DLO (Digital Learning Object) poster to remind our classmates and ourselves of the ways we can look after our precious devices. The examples from Hauraki class are shared below in a slideshow that Hauraki shared with the Waikowhai School community during their first assembly of the year. Have a look at what we think. Can you think of any other ways to be Cybersmart and follow the Kawa of Care?  Please leave us a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment! We would love your feedback.

Our Term 3 Showcase Evening for Parents.

This is a quick post about the Showcase Evening we ran for all our parents in Week 10 of Term 3. We had an awesome term of learning and creating. In Inquiry and Reading we learnt about New Zealand disasters both natural and caused by human er

ror. In Maths we worked hard in the areas of measurement and multiplication/division. In Writing we looked at description. For each of these areas we created work that we could share with our parents as a display when they came to visit on the night of our showcase. 

Each family bought some ‘nibbles’ dinner to share and everyone really enjoyed having food while they walked around checking out their own child’s work and other students’ work.  Students had created a range of items to show their learning. There were models, newspapers, paintings, collage artworks, scrolls, stop motion digital work, websites and more.  Check out some of went down with these photos.