Term 1 2013

Finally! What a busy term we have had in Room 13. We had awesome weather and wonderful camp for 3 nights and 4 days at Karakariki Christian Camp. The class is busy doing post camp work and have written poems, thankyou letters, made camp brochures, prioritised their favourite camp activity and are about to make 3D trioramas. After Easter the plan is to book time with the new ipads and use some of the amazing apps to produce camp related blog posts. Groups will start by working on power points, photo peach, glogster and whordle activities.

Reflection 4 December

Where do I start? I have struggled with making regular posts. Not only did the computer challenge me with issues, also I did not make it a habit to go on to my blog. It was great to get 4 netbooks in my room in Term 4. This added to the 2 extra desktops giving Room 13 a total of 8 computers to use. It has been great to give the children work to do on the computers, either as an individual or in pairs. This has allowed us to make more regular blog posts also. The children have enjoyed coming to school early and using the netbooks/ computers to play interactive topic games. I am looking forward to making more use of the interactive whiteboard, computers and netbooks in my room next year. It will be valuable to set up group stations, rotations and specific follow up activities.

Shake out

Room 13 are participating in the Nationwide earthquake simulation on Wednesday 26 September at 9.26 am.

Interwrite comment

I enjoyed our interwrite session. It was great to learn how to cut and paste photos. I also found it useful to be able to use word documents on interwrite. I managed to get all the checklist marked off. Try this site it is great for more able spellers. TAKE ON THE TEACHER http://www5.scholastic.co.uk/static/mgm/mgm2.swf

Term 3

Finally reset password and back up and running. Term 3 is well and truly upon us and is shaping up to be Student Led Conferencing, Wacky Olympics, my class assembly in week 8 and production in Week 9.

ICT GOALS FOR TERM 2

I am hoping to make good use of the interactive whiteboard and incorporate activities into our daily program.

Term 1 reflection

Hasn't the term flown? Only just over a week to go. I have really enjoyed learning from the class techsperx about flagging, glitter lettering and verifying. I am pleased to have our document saving hiccups all sorted. I am enjoying learning about the interactive whiteboard and 'playing and exploring' how we can use it in the classroom.