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.

Ssh! That's Too Private!

We are learning to understand why some information is private and why we as humans like sharing personal information about ourselves.

It is awesome to want to share things with others - actually it’s part of what makes us human (see the slide above).

What information shouldn't be shared online?

• Your full name

• Your address

• Your phone number

We practiced turning private information into personal information:

Personal vs Public

Cybersmart - Smart Footprint - Private vs Personal - Part 1

What information can we share online? Why is it important that we don’t share too much information? Who can look at the information we share online?

We are learning to choose which information should be kept private and which information is okay to share. 

Last week we looked at how you can find out information about someone. Cooper shared a whole lot of information in his story - he shared too much! We call the information that keeps us safe private information which means we don’t share it with others.  

Today we decided what information Cooper shared that made him unsafe. We split the information into private and personal information.

Here is our list of things that are private and should not be shared online:

• Your date of birth
• Your full name
• Your address

This information can be used to identify you individually.

As a class, we choose two celebrities and saw if we could find out any private information about them.

Here is what we found out:

Richie McCaw     

                       

1. He is 40 years old

2. He is 187cm tall and 107kg heavy.

3. His mum is Margaret McGaw and his dad is Donald McGaw

4. His wife is Gemma McGaw (Flynn).

5. He went to Lincoln University.

6. He was born on December the 31st, 1980, Oamaru district.

7. He went to Otago Boys High.

8. His agents phone number 020710105553.

Valerie Adams

1. She is 36.

2. She was born on October 6th, 1984.

3. She was born in Rotorua

4. Her full name is Valerie Kasanita Adams

5. She is 193cm tall.

Cybersmart - Smart Footprint - Sorting Information: Cooper vs Ruby

We are learning to understand the difference between private and personal information

Today we learned that we can find information from a range of sources within texts provided.

We read about Cooper and Ruby and worked out what information we can find out about them from their books.

We can find information from text (writing).

We can find information from images (pictures).

We can find information from video and audio (sound).

Here is the information we found out from reading Cooper and Ruby's books:

Ruby vs Cooper Information

We know more about Cooper from his story and discussed whether that was a good or a bad thing.

Frauline's Monkey Report