Yesterday we contributed to a VoiceThread about Sir Edmund Hillary. Ms Hellyer at Tradale Intermediate created it and her class Rm 18, Mr Lietze's class (Year 6s from Tauranga) and our class have all shared our ideas about the attributes that made Sir Edmund Hillary special. We have also thought about how we could be like him and have set goals for ourselves based on these attributes. We drafted our ideas first, then recorded ourselves reading them outloud onto the VoiceThread . You can click the play button on the VoiceThread below to hear our contributions and see what children from other schools have added. Rm 18 are going to add theirs soon and some other schools might add things too so check back and see. Our recordings are attached to the cat picture (Mrs McGhie's cat Merlin)and are scattered all through the VoiceThread . We were really excited to be able to hear our voices and think it's pretty cool to be working on a shared project with these older children.
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
The Busiest And Most Exciting Ten Days Ever!
This is our first official blog post. We shared our ideas and sentences and Mrs McGhie was our scribe and typed it up for us.
When we first started school we were a bit nervous. A few days after starting school we did heaps of Maths tests. We also did a 100 word spelling test... phew! Soon we realised that our teacher was really cool and fun (Mrs McGhie thinks we're really cool too). We have only been at school for 10 actual days, but we have been super busy and feel like we have been here for months. We talked about our ideal classroom and also about what we have to do and what Mrs McGhie has to do so that we can learn as much as possible. These are the charts we created that show all our ideas.
We have been lucky enough to get to go to the Life Education caravan twice. In the Life Ed caravan we can learn about different topics and every time we go we learn about something different. Life Education is part of our Health curriculum.
When we walked in for the first time we came into a small room and Corine started to talk to us about the human body and friendship. We got to watch a video about the smartest robot in the universe called Ozone. Ozone was quite impolite and grumpy - he hasn't learnt his manners yet. The second time we went we learnt about bullies. We found out that if you are someone who is a bully then you are not a brave person quite often. Corine taught us to use our WITS
Walk away
Ignore
Tell someone
Say "I" statements
There was also a giraffe called Harold. Harold had made up a song and showed us the video of him singing it. He went to Wellington to make the video. Harold made us laugh because he asked a girl in our class on a date! We're only 9. Harold told us some really funny jokes like "Why didn't the skeleton go to the party? Because he had no BODY to go with". Corine shared information about a special helpline for kids called Kidsline and also one for text bullying created by Netsafe. We only get to go every two years and when we go to Intermediate only some people will get to go again as it depends which school you are in.
On Monday we were lucky enough to go to MERC ( which stands for Marine Education and Recreation Centre) as part of our Outdoor Ed programme. There were lots of different activities like archery, abseiling, rock wall climbing, raft building, surfing, kayaking, body boarding and canoing. We were put into different groups so we all got to do different activities.
Some of us had to build a raft and try it out in the ocean. Some people even got to jump off the raft into the water. We also learnt how to tie different knots to keep our raft together like the reef knot and a figure of eight. You had to be careful to make sure that the raft wouldn't break.
Rock climbing and abseiling were the safest activities at MERC because you are all attached to ropes and harnesses and the adults are holding on to you and keeping an eye on you. (Our instructor said they were the safest). The rock climbing and abseiling walls were 8 - 10 metres high. There was one rock climbing wall where you got to climb across the wall - called the "Bouldering Wall" and you had to have a spotter for safety.
Canoing was the hardest because your arms got sore. Canoing was really fun because we got to go out really far and some of us jumped off the canoe ( we had life jackets on).
When we were doing surfing we learnt how to stand up and some of us had a paddle race. We saw what looked like an old pirate ship it had lots of sails and masts.
Kayaking you got to go out into 3 metres of water. You got to stand up and kayak around. You also got to jump out of the kayaks and try to get back in. Some people hooked up to another kayak with wires and got towed along as they paddled. We had to lean over the edge of the kayak and try to kiss the water! Some of us fell in.
All of the instructors at MERC were really nice and we had an awesome day. While we were waiting to go to our next activities some of our instructors put on some music... it was really loud! We also want to say a BIG thank you to all the parents who came to help.
We have been really busy, but we are learning heaps and are having a fabulous time.
When we first started school we were a bit nervous. A few days after starting school we did heaps of Maths tests. We also did a 100 word spelling test... phew! Soon we realised that our teacher was really cool and fun (Mrs McGhie thinks we're really cool too). We have only been at school for 10 actual days, but we have been super busy and feel like we have been here for months. We talked about our ideal classroom and also about what we have to do and what Mrs McGhie has to do so that we can learn as much as possible. These are the charts we created that show all our ideas.
We have been lucky enough to get to go to the Life Education caravan twice. In the Life Ed caravan we can learn about different topics and every time we go we learn about something different. Life Education is part of our Health curriculum.
When we walked in for the first time we came into a small room and Corine started to talk to us about the human body and friendship. We got to watch a video about the smartest robot in the universe called Ozone. Ozone was quite impolite and grumpy - he hasn't learnt his manners yet. The second time we went we learnt about bullies. We found out that if you are someone who is a bully then you are not a brave person quite often. Corine taught us to use our WITS
Walk away
Ignore
Tell someone
Say "I" statements
There was also a giraffe called Harold. Harold had made up a song and showed us the video of him singing it. He went to Wellington to make the video. Harold made us laugh because he asked a girl in our class on a date! We're only 9. Harold told us some really funny jokes like "Why didn't the skeleton go to the party? Because he had no BODY to go with". Corine shared information about a special helpline for kids called Kidsline and also one for text bullying created by Netsafe. We only get to go every two years and when we go to Intermediate only some people will get to go again as it depends which school you are in.
On Monday we were lucky enough to go to MERC ( which stands for Marine Education and Recreation Centre) as part of our Outdoor Ed programme. There were lots of different activities like archery, abseiling, rock wall climbing, raft building, surfing, kayaking, body boarding and canoing. We were put into different groups so we all got to do different activities.
Some of us had to build a raft and try it out in the ocean. Some people even got to jump off the raft into the water. We also learnt how to tie different knots to keep our raft together like the reef knot and a figure of eight. You had to be careful to make sure that the raft wouldn't break.
Rock climbing and abseiling were the safest activities at MERC because you are all attached to ropes and harnesses and the adults are holding on to you and keeping an eye on you. (Our instructor said they were the safest). The rock climbing and abseiling walls were 8 - 10 metres high. There was one rock climbing wall where you got to climb across the wall - called the "Bouldering Wall" and you had to have a spotter for safety.
Canoing was the hardest because your arms got sore. Canoing was really fun because we got to go out really far and some of us jumped off the canoe ( we had life jackets on).
When we were doing surfing we learnt how to stand up and some of us had a paddle race. We saw what looked like an old pirate ship it had lots of sails and masts.
Kayaking you got to go out into 3 metres of water. You got to stand up and kayak around. You also got to jump out of the kayaks and try to get back in. Some people hooked up to another kayak with wires and got towed along as they paddled. We had to lean over the edge of the kayak and try to kiss the water! Some of us fell in.
All of the instructors at MERC were really nice and we had an awesome day. While we were waiting to go to our next activities some of our instructors put on some music... it was really loud! We also want to say a BIG thank you to all the parents who came to help.
We have been really busy, but we are learning heaps and are having a fabulous time.
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