Waiata - early days

We are learning to perform action waiata and respond to simple commands in Te Reo.
We thought we would use Ms Daniels's laptop to record our early attempts and then record us again later to see how much we improve.
It was great fun seeing us live on screen and we all wanted to be at the front.

Enjoy your day with Mrs Watkins, Room One

Have a great day Room One, I know you will show Mrs Watkins what a fabulous group of learners you are - I can't wait to see your art work. I am looking forward to sharing everything I learn at Conference with you!
Arohanui
Ms Daniels

What is a Digital Citizen?

Before we could work out what a digital citizen is we discovered that we didn't know what "Digital" meant.
So.....
We searched magazines and found pictures to make a collage of our own digital citizen.
We think digital might include:
- sewing machines
- robot
- electronic toothbrush
- dishwasher
- digital clock
- digital camera
- dvd player
- computer
- laptop computer
- cell phone / texts
- digital watch
- i-Pod
- i-Phone
- T.V.
- CD player
- x-ray
- interactive whiteboard
- email
- playstation
- x-box
- nintendo
- video camera
- microphone
- singstar

How do we grow great citizens?

Our 'big' question this week - "What is a digital citizen?"
Stay tuned to channel 5K Kura Kid TV:

Visit our Writers Blog

Our Writers Blog is up and running, please click on the link to the left and check out our very first pice of published work for 2011.

Introducing our Avatars

We have taken time to create our own unique avatar. We are going to use these to label our work, travel up our writing rocket, and tag our online work. We are talking about why sometimes it is safer to use a drawing or symbol to represent us rather than a picture of who we really are. Stay tuned as we explore these ideas more...

Can you pick which drawing belongs to each of us?

Word of the Day - "gloomy"

Gloomy
It is an adjective, so it describes something.

Here are our cool sentences:

Joshua felt gloomy after the evil wasp stung him on his ear.
 - Joshua

Gigi bit a huge hole in my swimming ball which made me feel gloomy.
- Brendon

The seagull was feeling gloomy because it landed on a fishing hook on the rocks.
- Bronlee / Shianne

The milk taker was feeling gloomy after its two front tyres popped from the sharp rocks on the roadworks.
- Jacob / Lilashqui

Kura Kids never feel gloomy because they are good citizens.
- Devonte / Conor

Word of the Day - "swoop"

Swoop
Our word of the day came from our shared book, Flat Stanley.
It is a verb, which means it is a doing or action word.
Here are some of the sentences we came up with using it:

The bird swooped through the air.
- Joshua / Jacob

The aeroplane swooped like a bird.
- Ben / Chloe G

The eagle swooped speedily down to snap up the squid.
- Ben / Chloe G

The magpies swoop down trying to attack us.
- Conor / Rion

The flying dinosaurs flew up in to the air then they swooped back down.
- Sean / Brendon.

The hawk swooped down to pick up the baby bird from the road.
- Bronlee / Shianne

Awesome Adjectives

We are learning to use adjectives in our writing but first we had to learn what 'Adjective' meant.
We worked out that it was a word that described something, so we learned that:
  Adjectives are Describing Words!

Please visit our "Adventures of Flat Stanley" blog!!!!

Flat Stanley  the 'Kool' Kura Kid had his very first adventure this weekend. On Friday after school he headed home with Ms Daniels - to check out what exciting things he got up to please click on the link to Flat Stanley's very own blog.

Meet our starting line up of fantastic learners

Have a great year R. 1

Welcome back to school for 2011. I know you will have a great year of learning.

As you are becoming a digikid this year you may like to e-mail Mr Cowie in Doha (p.cowie@wclschools.org) to find out what it is like to live over the other side of the world.

I look forward to seeing your learning progress on your blog.

Mrs Clark