Sharing the Love Part 3 - Australia Edition

Today is the Australian Linky Love edition. You need to fill in the google form to show where you have left your comments.

First we have Red Hill Primary School in Canberra. They left a nice comment on our blog a few weeks ago. Let's repay the love.

 Next is 6RC in Sydney.

6 Gimmel 2012 is learning about Shavuot. Go and ask them a few questions.

You need to make at least 3 quality comments on 3 different blogs in 3 different cities by the end of the week.You also need to fill in the google form to show where you have left your comments.

There may be some prizes involved for the best quality comment, the most quality comments left by an individual student and also the student who comments on a class blog the furtherest distance away from Room 15! So far Nikki and Jade are in the lead.

Sharing the Love Part 2

Let's move outside of Tawa Intermediate today. A reminder that you  need to fill in the google form to show where you have left your comments.

Session 1 Room 24 @ TIS. Taradale Intermediate School in the Hawkes Bay. Room 24 have left some great comments on our blog so it is time for us to share the love.

Session 2 Room 5 @ Melville Intermediate is in Hamilton. The teacher, Mr Webb, left us some lovely comments earlier in the year.

Session 3 Hingaia Peninsula School is in Auckland opened this year. I'm a bit jealous of their green screen room. Are you?

Remember that you are representing yourself, Room 15, TIS and even New Zealand when you make comments so they need to be quality comments.

You need to make at least 3 quality comments on 3 different blogs in 3 different cities by the end of the week.You also you  need to fill in the google form to show where you have left your comments.

There may be some prizes involved for the best quality comment, the most quality comments left by an individual student and also the student who comments on a class blog the furtherest distance away from Room 15!

Sharing the Love Part 1

I''m really impressed with the quality of people's posts on their individual blogs. Some students have already received comments from their friends, family members, and even from student teachers in Canada!

Commenting is a really great way to gain readership for your blog and also contribute to other students learning. I really enjoy it when people leave comments on both our class blog and also the student blogs.

So this week your mission is simple. Go and share the love by leaving quality comments on other class and student blogs.

I will leave a list of suggested blogs for you to comment on but feel free to find other class and student blogs to leave comments. Remember that you are representing yourself, Room 15, TIS and even New Zealand when you make comments so they need to be quality comments.

You need to make at least 3 quality comments on 3 different blogs in 3 different cities by the end of the week. You also need to fill in the google form to show where you have left your comments. There may be some prizes involved for the best quality comment, the most quality comments left by an individual student and also the student who comments on a class blog the furtherest distance away from Room 15!

Today I thought we would start in our school with Room 13 and Room 2.

Room 13 students have been starts about commenting on our blogs so it is time to repay the love. You can find Room 13's individual student blogs by scrolling down Nga Hau Mahana.

I also think Room 2's twist ending poetry was pretty fabulous too.

Our Amazing Room 15 students!

We have some amazingly talented students in Room 15. Here we have Stephen performing in the TIS band at assembly.

Lachlan our supertexpert also gave the school a run down on TIS's revamped website. Awesome work guys!

Speed sharing

Room 15 spends a lot of time reading.

Some students have already 10 books since the start of term! To help us find interesting books to read, our class had a speed sharing session. In the session students were paired off. They had 30 seconds each to sell the book they were reading to each other before moving onto a new pair. Popular books in our class at the moment are the Hunger Games and the Geronimo Stilton series.

What's your favourite book to read? How do you find good fit books?

Stephanie

Our Submission to the Digital Learning Inquiry

Our class made a submission to the Education and Science select committee Inquiry into 21st century learning environments and digital learning. The class decided to make a video submission on YouTube. We hope that the committee enjoys our submission and that we change some MPs minds about learning.

di

Camp 2012 - It's coming

Hi First Fifteen
Over the weekend a group of teachers went to Mount Holdsworth, the venue for our school camp, on a reconnaissance mission. We tried out all the amazing activities on offer and have a fantastic feature film coming your way.

In the meantime, check out the amazing trailer for camp.

Favicon Fun

Nate's awesome Favicon

As part of Room 15's Inquiry Unit on cyber-citizenship we spent this afternoon creating favicons.

Favicons are the small logos see on the top tabs of the internet browsers of websites.

Because each student of Room 15 has their own individual blog, we spent today making our logos.

In order to be successful, we decided that favicons needed to not have much detail, have contrasting colours and not have extra pieces of paper attached to them so that they can be easily scanned.

I now have the job of scanning and uploading all these favicons to the student blogs!

Reading, reading and more reading

Hi Class Welcome back to term 2.

Brad and Stephen modelling read to others.

This week I started to read the Hunger Games. One of my friends recommended this book to me as all three of her girls enjoyed the series. Even though I usually read non-fiction books, the Hunger Games has rekindled my love of Science Fiction.

Science Fiction books are often set in different reality, so the genre really makes you stop and think about human society. For those of you who enjoyed Percy Jackson series, you might be interested to know that the author's inspiration for the Hunger Games comes from the story of Thesus and the Minotaur, figures from Greek mythology.

 The book is set many years in the future in a country called Panem. The title of the book, The Hunger Games, refers to are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 from each of the 12 districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death. The Hunger Games follow the journey of one the competitors, Katniss Everdeen.

Katniss was not initially selected for the Games but volunteered in place of her younger sister. I wonder what the significance is of choosing teenagers for the battle rather than adults and why Katniss would volunteer to take the place of her sister.

 The book was easy to read and the fast pace of the story kept me wanting to read more or even read the last few chapters before I I finish the rest of the book (which I often do when I love a story and what find out what happens). I had been reading the book on my train trips to and from school and got about three quarters of the way through the story before I lent the book to Courtney to read. I hope she finishes it quickly so I can find out what happens! Helen mentioned that there are two more books that follow on from the Hunger Games. Does anyone know what a series of three books are called?

 This week I also read Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen. This book is the story about a boy whose plane crashed in the wilderness and he is forced to survive a harsh winter by himself. I have started this book a class read aloud because the story is so gripping and Paulsen is a prolific writer. I am hoping this book might lead a few more students to discover more about  this writer as Gary Paulsen has written a number of books about Brian.

 Ram asked me what was the first book I ever read. I can't remember which book was the first one I read, but I definitely remember my favourite childhood book it's called Bears in the Night. Many years have passed since I last read the book but I can still recite the story of the seven little bears who climb out of bed, out the window, through the woods, and up Spook Hill!

 How has your reading been going?

 Stephanie

To an awesome first term...

Hey team what an amazing first term. As this slideshow, shows we had an amazing term.

Untitled from Janine Tito on Vimeo.

How did your go in achieving your goal?

What have been some highlights of the term?

What are some things you need to work on for next term?

Stephanie