Sunday, August 26, 2012

Reading Webquest Week 7, Term 3


Read the information on this great website (click on the picture above)

  
Follow each of the tabs, then read, visualise and think about those topics.

Finally, answer these questions in your reading book. 

1. How were the Greek Gods different to mortals?
2. Describe Zeus' family
3. What happened at Greek temples?
4. Where did dead Greeks go?

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Using QR codes to bring our stories to life!

I recently read on "Chartchums" of a teacher in the US who was using QR codes to share children's oral language with parents. I thought that this might be a great idea to try in Room 7 with our Greek Legends storybook.

After publishing their story for the class book, children were then able to record their story using Vocaroo, an online recording app. Simply by clicking the QR code generator in Vocaroo, and printing off the resulting code, we can then attach the code to the story. Anyone using a smart device (Phone or tablet/ipad) can open up our legend book, scan each code and read the legend, whilst listening to the author read it out loud too!

Many children have finished their legend and their recording, so come on into Room 7 and have a read and a listen. Don't forget your smart phone!


Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Olympic Teams

The Bahamas

Chile

We have been meeting in our Olympic Teams this week learning about our 'adoptive' homeland for next weeks Muritai Olympics.

Mr Dobson has been hosting The Bahamas and Chile.





Thursday, July 26, 2012

Term Three Newsletter

Hi Everyone,

There is a new newsletter for the term just posted, it can be found here:

http://newletterblog.blogspot.co.nz/