Welcome to 2013!

Bio Poems by Isabel and Anna

In the first week of school we wrote a poem called a bio poem, which is all about ourselves. We wrote a draft and then later we published them on the school laptops. We took a ‘selfie’ of ourselves using the iPad and then inserted them into our poems; we then had to alter the photo so they were black and white. Now they are on the wall looking spectacular.

Swimming by Nick and Pasa

Monday the 10^th of February was the first time we swum as a class. During the first lesson we showed Mrs Colliss our best swimming so she could put us into groups. Once we got back to class we came up with our group names.

1.     Sharks

2.    Stingrays

3.    Silver Sharks

4.    Clams.

On Tuesday we were in our groups and started to work on our breathing and our freestyle technique.  Tuesday was a great day because every single person remembered their togs!

 

 

 

Studyladder by Te Ahu and Tommy

We have started working on the website studyladder.co.nz. We each have own account, our username is three letters of our first name then some random numbers. Our password is a random computer generated word. We can customise our avatar and bedroom by earning points, you earn the points by completing learning tasks that Mrs Colliss has set for us. We are all excited to get on there and start earning points. This is part of our home learning and sometimes we will do it during class time.

About Us Posters by Ethan and Caleb           

One of our first activities this year has been our About Us Posters, these are posters all about ourselves. We filled out all our details on the posters (nothing too personal!). The types of information we included are our favourites, our family, hobbies etc. Using the iPad we took silly pictures and printed them out so we could insert them on our posters. At the top of our page there is a scroll, in here we wrote our name and decorated it. They are now up on our wall for everyone to read and learn about each other. Surrounding them are words that describe the members of Room 13.