Blogging Buddies in Tuhi mai Tuhi Atu

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu is a Manaiakalani blogging programme where we have 2 classes as our blogging buddies.

We write on our blog so other classes can read and find out what we have been learning to do. They can comment on our blog. Then we read their blogs and comment as well.

Our blogging buddies are in different places in Auckland and Hokitika in New Zealand. Here is a map to show you. Have you been to Auckland or Hokitika?

Here is a virtual tour of the 3 schools to show you where our blogging buddies are in New Zealand.

Playing Games

Today we adding to the stories we started last week in our Cybersmart lesson.  We added a 2nd and sometmes a 3rd scene so that our sprites could play a game together.

Scratch Jnr is an app on our iPads and you can download the app for free and use it on android tablets as well. You can use Scratch Jnr to program your own interactive stories and games. When we are doing this we are learning to solve problems, design projects, and be creative by using our computational thinking.

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

 This week is Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. We are practising greeting each other in Te Reo Māori.

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we created a story with 2 sprites meeting each other and greeting each other in Te Reo Māori. This is the start of our stories. We will continue with them next week.

We used Scratch Jnr which is an app on our iPads and you can download the app for free and use it on android tablets as well. You can use Scratch Jnr to program your own interactive stories and games. When we are doing this we are learning to solve problems, design projects, and be creative by using our computational thinking.

Here are 2 of our stories so far...

We Love Poems

 We love poems! We have a poem book so this week we recorded ourselves reading some of our poems.

Here is Jazmin's poems...

Tongan Language Week

 Room 7 love poems. Today they read a poem called "Mālō a lelei" for Tongan Language Week.

Here is Room 7 reading it together for the first time today.

We are Readers!

Room 7 love reading. We read every day. Today in our Cybersmart lesson we recorded ourselves reading our books that we read last week. Some of us worked in pairs because we could read the same book.

We took a photo of the page and record ourselves reading each page. We used Explain Everything to do this work.

What is your favourite book?

Here is Cole and Taylor-Rose reading their book.

Puppet Shows

This week in our Cybersmart lesson we carried on making puppet shows with our reading books.
Some of us worked with a buddy like Cole and Maycee. Here is their work.

Abiya worked on her book about "Dad's Snore". Here is her work.