In class, our teacher has been showing us how important words are when writing so that our reader will want to keep reading.  I’ve been enjoying  learning about new poems. We have written a Limerick, Cinquain and a Diamante.  Have you heard of these poems before?  Which is your favourite one I have written?

Starter Patai – Does your brain get lazy when using AI to do all the work?
Yes if you think surface level, letting it do things without fact checking or using it to support what you are doing.

How does this relate to our tamariki? They are growing up in a space where AI is accessible, ‘solves’ all their problems and they are losing the ability to thik for themselves, any type of problem solving and even ability to remember simple things.

You use AI to quickly generate responses so you can manage workload. How does this support wellbeing? What long term skills are you developing?
Growing proficient at refining prompts – fact checking, editing etc… Critical thinking skills – needing to check where facts or figures are coming from.

Goblin.tools

Pic above ^^^
Can see potential uses  with students especially in my Big Picture class who are doing project based mahi.

Kuraplan report comment generator: This seems handy. Trying with a few kids now.

Must remember that AI are ‘synthesising information’ – taking evidence from what’s out in the big wide web and providing what it thinks we want. Need to tread carefully and not take everything as gospel.

This week we have been learning about Kirikiriroa Paa in reading groups. There are palisades, waka and huge gardens with whare.

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Today in my class I have made a slideshow about the recent national day if you didn’t know it was recently national Reese’s day. I enjoyed creating this slideshow and researching it. I found it hard to pick the photos to put on. Have you ever tried Reese’s.

Every Tuesday Saika comes into Room 6.  We learn about Japan.

Japan has hundreds of islands.  But there are four main islands.  There are heaps of places, Tokyo is one the biggest cities in the world!  Room 6 watched  a video about Japan and we asked Saika some questions.

I am looking forward to finishing the learning so I know more about Japan!

By Nate

Today I made these amazing poems, do you like poems? Because I enjoy writing them? Have you ever eaten a croissant?I think the reason we’re making poems is to make our vocabulary monstrous. I love making poems in room 3!

This week and last week Room 4 learnt about the Kirikiriroa Paa. Kirikiriroa Paa was were Hamilton city stands now about 126 years ago.

It was known to have great soil and it was above the Waikato River which made it easier to spot enemy waka. With steep river banks on one side and a swamp on the other. They made weapons, waka tools and palisades with the nearby trees.

I think I had fun and learned a lot, I would do it again.

Keira’s Blog

Over the past couple of weeks we have been writing poems for our autobiography we have wrote cinquains limericks and a couple more types of poems here are some of my poems.It was actually really interesting to learn that there are actually more types of poems i personally thought that there was only one variant of poem. Did  you know that there were other variants of poems.

Yesterday Room 4 went to the awa. It took 10 mins to get there. Room 4 carried rocks to trees and placed the rocks in a circle near the trees. I didn’t get scratched by the blackberry bushes. I almost got scratched but I didn’t. I went home with no shoes because they got stolen but I got them back the next day.

Have you ever been a scientist? This is a story about when I was a scientist. . .

How to be a Scientist

In order to be a scientist you have to hypothesise and look very carefully. You should also ask a lot of questions. E.g what is this, where is this, why is this doing this and can this do this, last time I was a scientist I was at the āwā and I asked can I pull out this weed?

To be a scientist you also have to collect information about what you are studying. When I was at the āwaI was looking after some plants which the year 6s planted about three years ago. Finally you have to action your plan.

I am very excited to go to the āwa next term. I really suggest that you go to an āwa!!!

On the Waitohu River trip we saw the water and had to climb the electric fences. The walk was about 1 km. We had to carry rocks and I was getting scratched and stabbed by the thorns. It was so hard!  We saw spiders under the rocks. I was carrying heavy rocks. The scariest part was me getting stabbed by a thorn.

Lachie’s Blog

Yesterday, Room 4 went to the Waitohu awa trip. I picked up one rock because we needed to put them around the trees to protect them from the weeds. I fell over and the spikes of the blackberry bush scratched my leg and it hurt.  I sat down with Mike and he cheered me up and made me laugh and he helped me up.

We walked back and when we came back it was home time and everyone went home. I was happy and sad because I hurt myself but it was interesting learning about the trees and water. The water was nice and the weather was beautiful.

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This week we finished reading Pocket Bear by Katherine Applegate.  Take a look at some of our responses to the book.

In Room 6 during our Cybersmart programme we have been learning to make posters with our top short cut tips.  Take a look …

Today’s session was really interesting for some of the resources provided and left me really challenged in how best I could look to incorporate some of the mahi in to my programme considering I am restricted to only 4hr per week with my Big Picture Learning class.

Starting the day off was something really insightful and actionable for me in my practice where one of our key speakers discussed how the shared pedagogy and ideal practice for all of us should be that our class sites are super accessible to our learners. One thing she said was about checking that learners can access your site in three clicks or less. Obviously anything more tedious to get through than this is going to mean that some learners just switch off before they can even attempt to find the site. So that’s part of my homework, checking that my site is accessible to everyone in the most obvious and easiest way possible.

One thing I did enjoy was there was some comparison on teacher timetable and although lots of it was talking about a week where you have access to a whole class for the majority of the week when looking at some things related to mahi trackers it was encouraging to know that I’m already using one of these and in a really meaningful way.

Something it did make me think of though is my use of accountability in the best way to actually ensure that people are following through with us. I know in the past because of time, or being out for various reasons, or just not getting around to it, that students can get away with not completing tasks with no consequences as well. I’m not sure whether it’s best to go punitive with callbacks etc or whether I can work out some kind of positive reinforcement/motivation for these guys.

Of the digital reading that they shared with us I enjoyed looking at Epic! It seems really handy to support some of the narrative writing, non-fiction tasks, language features activities that I know my class need the most support with. Being able to set up end of reading quizzes/assessments could potentially be an engaging way for them to support their learning. Something I need to spend a bit more time looking at.

The final activity we covered was one about rewriting a narrative. Interestingly it was something I did with my class a couple of weeks ago unintentionally. They had to find incorrect grammatical and spelling errors that I had intentionally placed in a small paragraph and then rewrite that paragraph in the most exciting way possible link to the example text I used with my guys a couple of weeks ago is below:

Matua Sam stood at the front of the room. The BPL class was very loud. He felt disapointed because nobody was listening to him. A student in the back was eating a sandwich secretley. Outside the rain, was falling heavaly on the roof. Matua Sam cleard his throte and tried to speak but the noise was like a roar. He thout about his cofee sitting on the desk it was cold now. He needed a stratagy to get their attention. Everybody was talking at once he felt like he was invisible. He realysed that he needed to be more confident if he wanted to succede today.

The 10 spelling errors are:

3 punctuation errors are:

My gangster as re-write:

Here is a slide of our latest Assembly.  The photos are taken by  Baden who is one of our classroom photographers.  Malaiah assisted Baden to create this awesome slide.  What is your highlight from Assembly?

We have been learning ball skills.  We have learnt bounce passes and dribbling.  I am not that good with ball skills but I am getting better!  One of the games we are doing is finding a partner and we have to dribble it down to the end of the court.  By Anna

A couple week ago our school ropu groups did art for the art gallary  and my group is tawa I had to take photo’s of it and we did it in rm 4 it was fun here are the photo’s of the art projects.

A few week ago the year 4-5-6 went to the hall and some Ōtaki canoe polo People came it was cool I loved it and it was amazing here are the photos!!!

Today we read about how ants communicate and for some it’s like Morse Code.

This would be how you would spell my name in Morse code  .._  .  ._..  ..  _._.  ._ _ _  ._

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