ANZAC Freeze Frames

This friday, after our ANZAC Assembly we spent some time reading (The Bantam and the Soldier) and discussing what life in the trenches would have been like. We have seen a lot of time this week looking at photographs from the Gallipoli Campaign so today we used our knowledge of drama elements: space, and focus to create a series of freeze frames.

Make a comment below and tell us what you think of our freeze frames. Can you see the different parts of trench life we showed in our freeze frames? 

ANZAC Reading

Here are some interesting links related to the ANZAZ reading for the 'Judy Blume' group and anyone else who is interested in reading more about the ANZACs.

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/mascots/first-world-war-mascots
This site discusses 4 dogs that were mascots during WW1

http://ww100.govt.nz/pigeons-of-war
This site explains how pigeons were used as messengers during the war.

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/video/bess-horse-great-war-story
This contains a video and article detailing how horses were involved in the war. It also gives information about Bess one of four horses that returned to NZ after the war.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/dogs_in_world_war_one.html
This site describes the many uses of dogs during the war. They were involved as messengers, sentries, casualty support and scouts.

Maths strategy lessons

Check out what Jaimee and I created this afternoon in maths. Watch this space - there wil lbe plenty more of this next term...

Maths Groups - what does it all mean?

Check out where our new numeracy group names come from:

NATO phonetic alphabet

iConnect Art update

I was really impressed this week with the positive attitude and artistically articulate students in Halberg (try saying that ten times fast....). Check out the progress on our mixed media digital portraits:

Blogging!

On Fridays, we have 'modules' where each class has three different lessons with three different teachers over the day. Fridays are quickly becoming favourite day - jam packed with new learning and energy!!

I am teaching an Communication, Collaboration and Blogging unit. Over the past three weeks we have investigated how we can communicate online and how to do that responsibly and appropriately. All of sprint have practised logging into their google accounts and managing their folders and, in Halberg, their own blog.

These blogs are set up as part of each student's google account and provide a 'sharing space' where students can publish work, share ideas and connect with others. So far we have learnt how to log on, make a new post and insert a picture.

The links to our blogs are on the left hand side of this blog (see Student Blogs) and will only 'go live' once we have drafted and checked our first posts. Please have a look and make a comment on our work so far.

Our next step is to work on commenting... watch this space.

What is a citizen?

Where are you a citizen? What makes a good citizen? What are citizen's rights and responsibilities? What is a digital citizen? These are some some of the questions we are going to explore for the rest of the term. 

Here are some helpful links to get us thinking: 

Be a digital citizen - watch this video and record some of the key ideas and key words. Write a comment with what you find.