Room 2 Haiku's

 We are learning how to write Haiku's today. We know that Haiku's are focused on a theme. We also know that Haiku's have three lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables and the last line has 5 syllables again. 

Below is Mr. Knox's example haiku.

Knox Family Christmas Haiku

The family laughs.

Scoffing food, opening gifts.

Together once more. 

Crazy Cartoon Character

We are learning to insert a Google Drawing image into our individual blogs and to write a quality blog post.

We watched the re-windable learning video, followed the instructions to create our Google Drawings cartoon person and/or animal then learned how to download it as a png image.

Some of us managed to work out how to add a cool background!

Here is an example cartoon character that Mr Knox created:

We are also learning to reflect on our learning and write a quality blog post. Sometimes using 'starter or stem sentences' helps us do that.

• We were learning about

• I found it easy to...

• I found it challenging to ...

• Next time I will…

• A question I have is...

Room 2 Newspaper Articles

 This week we have been writing news articles in Room 2.

We are really happy with our writing and want to share it. Here are the first few pieces of writing.

Tyler's Article

Swayzee's Article

Lochi's Article

Kaia's Article

Camp Photos

 Our Taranaki Camp.

Description

We went on an awesome camp last week. We were frustrated that we couldn't go up to Waitangi but we had a lot of fun doing things with neat people around Taranaki.

We played with the Taranaki Bulls, went skating, go-karting, and even had a sleep over in Room 2 and the Library. We also combined with Marfell Kindy to clean up our community. 

Let's Learn How To Write Awesome Blog Posts

 Let’s learn to write awesome blog posts

Every time you post on your blog, you are adding to your digital footprint. Great blog posts should help you connect with readers to share your learning. Fill in the table below to practice writing a blog post. You will need to check with your teacher before you publish your post on your blog.

Great blog posts have:
Title Grab the reader’s attention	Writing a Perfect PEEL Paragraph
Learning What have you been learning about?  Why did you learn this?	We have been learning how to write a PEEL Paragraph. We know what each letter stands for and we wrote a success criteria for how to write a PEEL Paragraph. We wrote about the whio bird.
DLO How can you show what you have been doing? Screenshot? Photo? Video? Drive?
Reflection How did your learning go? What went well/didn’t go well What you enjoyed/didn’t enjoy and why	It was great we did a whio paragraph as a class! Everyone was interested in the whio's. We learnt quite alot about the whios. Everyone got at least three of the PEEL paragraph sentences correct.
Question What do you want your readers to comment on?	How do you think we went?
Label Which folder of your drive would this work go in?	Cybersmart. Writing Paragraphs. PEEL

A Picture Tells A Thousand Words

We have learnt about private and personal information, what a digital footprint is and that sharing is okay as long as it is smart.

We are learning that images give away information too. We can alter these images to make them smart and not give away our private information. 

Here are some images we altered:

What spaces in our homes are not smart places to take a photo that is being shared in different places?

• Bedroom
• Bathroom

How Big is Your Digital Footprint?

<insert an example beach scene or footprint here>

We are learning that everything we look at, click on, upload, download, comment or share leaves a footprint.

We used History (Ctrl H) on our Chromebook to look at all the places we have been online in the 24 hours. 

We placed icons of these websites on the beach and used footprints to mark our trail.

This represented our digital footprint for the last 24 hours.

• Every-time we go online we leave a trail.

• Footprints online are called a digital footprint.

• We need to make smart decisions about what we share online.

• Our digital footprint will be online forever.

• If we are not sure we don’t share and check with a trusted adult.