Taniwhas & Ladders

Student Teachers!

Today Zara & Mairi taught Room 9 how to use Storybird.  The girls taught themselves how to use the Web 2.0 writing tool with only a 'wee' tiny bit of help from me!  I was amazed at their wonderful teaching skills!  They were very confident at standing in front of the class, explained how to do things clearly and confidently answered questions from the class.  Above is one of their stories they have created on Storybird.
The big dream by Zara9 on Storybird

Global Classroom

The Global Classroom now has a wiki space!  We will be making contributions to the our wiki page over the next 3 weeks:

https://globalclassroom2011.wikispaces.com/Room+9+in+Nelson+NZ

Check out our page and other school's pages from around the world!  

What can you find out about other schools?  Read the pages from other schools and post a comment to this blog post to tell me 3 facts you have learnt about another country!

Against All Odds - Inquiry Learning

As part of our inquiry we have been finding out about human explorers and adventurers, and animals that live in extreme places like Antarctica.  We decided to carry out an experiment to find out how animals keep warm.

Solo taxonomy science

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Key Competency: Thinking

Against All Odds

 
Our first step into researching for our inquiry context 'Against All Odds' was to watch videos about extreme places in the world where humans explor and have adventures and wildlife need to adapt and survive 'against all odds'.  We linked this to our work on Solo Taxonomy and the key competency:  Thinking.  Watch the Voicethread above to find our the type of thinking we have been experimenting with :)

Here is a rubric we created to explain how we are thinking for this inquiry so far.  In the above Voicethread you will hear 3 different types of thinking.  Can you spot them?  This is our first experiment with using a rubric for thinking.  We hope you enjoy it :)

(by Miss Watts)

How we use e-learning in our classroom