Cybersmart – Kawa of Care

Today, in Room 9, we had a visit from Mr Hughes – a facilitator from Manaiakalani. We talked about all of the amazing things that computers can do, what they can help us do, and even, what some of the cool things we might like to learn to do on them are (like coding for example!)

After that, we learned about the Kawa of Care. When we start using our chromebooks we will need to sign the Kawa of Care; this is an agreement between us, our parents, and the school. We talked about the different responsibilities we need to agree to.

Based on these agreements we started to put together a poster! Each student was asked to write a prompt for Gemini; we learned how to write a prompt, that adding detail is important, and understanding how powerful it can be if we use it the right way!Using these prompts to create images we put them together to create the awesome poster you can see below

Once we created the photos Mr Hughes put them together in a poster for us. You can check it out below.

Thank you for visiting Room 9’s blog – follow along to see what other awesome things we learn this year!

Fake images

Today we had a lot of fun creating fake images. We took a photo of ourselves and used Remove.bg to remove its background. We then created our fake images by following the image challenge Mrs Tofa had set on our learning slides. Our images were created in Google Drawings and and imported into our slides.

Here are Kalisi’s slides with her images.

Unicycle Challenge

Malo e lelei

This is the story of some incredibly brave students from Glen Innes Primary  School who set out to face the ultimate challenge – riding unicycles! They faced challenges, practiced hard, and never gave up. Through this journey, they discovered what it truly means to be determined and resilient. We do hope that you would take up that challenge too.

Quality blog comments: movies

Today for our Cybersmart lesson, we revised our lesson about quality blog comments but this time, we were commenting on movies. The annual Manaiakalani Film Festival is happening soon and it was a good opportunity for us to watch some movies from last year’s film festival and draft some comments.

The Manaiakalani Film Festival is an annual event this happens in Term 4. School in the Manaiakalani cluster submit movies to be played at the Sylvia Park Hoyts Cinemas. All schools go and watch the movies during the day and in the evening, there is a special night session for selected movies. It is a exciting time for all the students especially when they see themselves on the big screen. At school, the students will comment on the movies because they are posted on the class blogs.

Here are Skylar’s slides from today’s lesson with her comments on the three moveis we watched.

Creating quizzes in Google Form

Our class had a lot of fun today creating Google Form quizzes. Mrs Tofa gave us a short reading test last week in Google Form. We were able to see our score at the end of the test. Then we had to come up with an idea for our own quizzes which we created this week.

We all managed to create a quiz and sent it to our classmates to complete. The quizzes we created were about different topics. Some of our students did countries, food, sport and other topics of interest to them.

Creating our quizzes was fun. Mrs Tofa showed us step by step how to create them. We also have our learning slides to help us when we forget the steps.

Volleyball with the cops

      

Today, the 16th of August we had some visits from Glen Taylor and Ruapotaka . The cops came to play against Ruapotaka and Glen Innes against Glen Taylor. The cops were excellent! After they had the first round they swapped and by that time we were playing soccer, soccer was super fun because we won!!  Once we were finished playing soccer the schools started their second round and this time Glen Taylor was against the very good cops, and Glen Innes played against Ruapotaka. This was entertaining to watch on Friday and I really really hope that the cops and different other schools come to play against the cops and GI.

THE END

By: ‘Anamalia