Ancient Egypt

This afternoon we started note taking about the daily life of a group of people in Ancient Egypt. We are learning to find main ideas, quote sources and put notes in a mind mapping programme called, Mindnode.  From there we will write a draft report in our offline "brick" draft book. When this has been conferenced we will use this information we have gathered to create an animation comparing this person to life of a similar person today.

Welcome NZ Quadbloggers

We are the focus of the NZ Quadblog for this week.

1. Here is a link to the survey form we have put together for our buddy classes around NZ.
2. Here are our class blogs for them to comment on. We have one class blog and then each boy has his own blog. Each boy's picture shows his interests.

Here are our current Quadbloggers blogs:

http://frankleyroom112013.blogspot.co.nz/

http://koraunui6.blogspot.co.nz/

http://ppsc2.blogspot.co.nz/

Quadblogging is where four classes join together to comment on and exchange ideas and look for ways to take the classroom beyond the four walls. Each week, one class becomes the focus of the other three classes and their pupils try to write comments on the blogs of the other classes.  Making good comments (poster here) is a Digital Citizenship skill.

This is our third Quadblogging experience. Some work better than others as it depends on how many comment pupils get from the buddy classes and any technical difficulties that you encounter along the way.

A Story Told

This afternoon we had three stories from a wonderful seventy year old lady. From the story about silver paper up the nose and how it got out, then acted out house that Jack built and told us about the boy who went to steal the chocolates while the shearing gang was in action. What a disaster but the dog was able to help.
We finished with two limericks.
Get your son to tell you more. Pictures by Sam.