What does a digital citizen have to think about?

This week, we have started discussing what it means to be a citizen, particularly in the digital world.

Today we are going to use an interactive quiz, to refresh our memories on some of the issues we have to think about when working in the 'digital world.

Here's the link: Privacy Pirates

How do you learn?

We are going to use this survey to get to know our class AND learn more about statistics and data-gathering.

Here is the summary of responses so far: How do Halberg learn best?

What graphs are used to display this data? 

What did you learn about your classmates?

What could we do to improve Halberg for our learning style? 

Thanks to studyladder for the idea and questions.

iConnect with Citizenship

This year our inquiry theme is iConnect. It's a clever sentence starter for "I connect..." 

We started the topic by trying to connect these hexagons. I think we did a great job about linking together these ideas and concepts.  For the rest of the week, we are going to work on 'iConnect Digital' or "I connect as a digital citizen" 

The book with no pictures by B. J. Novak

We read this book yesterday in our first reading session for the year. Here is a video of part of the book being read by it's author B. J. Novak.

There is more than 1 way to read a book:

Pass the Pep Talk

Last year some of us learnt about being bucket fillers, this year it's all about the pep talk. The definition of a pep talk is above but I think the best way to describe it is to hear one: 

Apart from being funny and good dancer the kid president has some pretty cool things to say:

If life is a game, aren't we all on the same team?

Don't stop believing unless your dream is stupid...then you should just get a better dream. 

What will you create when you make the world awesome? 

This is our time.

We can cry about it, or we can dance about it. 

You were made to be awesome.

Do you agree with what he says?

What would you say to someone in your pep talk? 

Can our A+ goals be good pep talks? 

2015: A change is as good as a holiday!

Nau mai Haere Mai

You might have noticed a few changes... over the next few days and weeks I (Whaea Alice) will be changing quite a few things around on the blog - including it's name! It's almost the start of a new school year and we will have so much more to share and show on our blogs this year so I'm making some space.

Luckily this blog is not like my teacher's cupboard and it's never too full and I don't have to throw anything out!
Team Truffula  if you are looking for our WOW work page or your Kids Blogs, the links are now at the bottom of the right hand column under '2014 Pages'.

See you all soon,

Whaea Alice

Our Book Recommendations

Here are some of the books that didn't make it onto our padlet a few weeks ago. Check it out for some holiday reading:


Team Truffula's Book Recommendations 2014 on PhotoPeach