Our buddies at Bailey Rd School

On Wednesday 5th October 10 children from Kids with aView travelled to
visit the Year 8's in Room 13 at Bailey Road School in Mt Wellington.
Room 8 are our blogging buddies.  Even though they are much older than us they enjoy
visiting our blog and leaving us some awesomely written comments.
The Room 3 children weren't even feeling nervous
about finally meeting their blogging buddies they were just very excited!

WHAT AN AWESOME MORNING WE HAD!

WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO MAKE AUTHENTIC CONNECTIONS.

The Room 13 buddies were amazing so welcoming, helpful and patient.
We all looked at each others blogs, made some comments and got to know each other.
The interaction were wonderful moments to watch.
We were also introduced to some more new buddies - Room 2 a Year 1 class.
Now we had 3 new buddies each!
At morning teatime all the children shared a yummy morning tea and went
off to play on the playground.
After morning tea the Bailey Road buddies showed us around their
art exhibition - it was artrageous!
There are so many talented children at Bailey Road.

Thank you so much for our enjoyable visit.

This is Bailey Road Room 02's wiki.

For some more awesome photos of our day click this link

Kids with a View visits Bailey Road School photos

Poetry Recital - Year 1 Winners

The criteria for our Poetry Recital
* Immediately captures your attention
Delivery
* Voice clarity/pace
* Volume
* Posture/eye contact
* Personality/enthusiasm

Here is Krishant reciting "STEVE THE SUPERHERO"

Krishant was placed second in the Year 1 Poetry Recitals.

Congratulations Krishant - Amazing job!

Here is Sienna reciting "WORMS"
Sienna was placed third in the Year 1 Poetry Recitals.
Congratulations Sienna - Awesome job!

Phonics Phones

Room 3 was really lucky enough to have one of our parents donate 25 "phonics phones".Thanks Darren.Phonics phones are PVC piping that acts like a telephone.Room 3 use them during SSR, reading group time and writing time.The children do not need to speak loudly but can hear themselves clearly while speaking.The phonics phones are particularly wonderful during writing time as the children can hear themselvessounding out tricky words that they are attempting to phonetically sound and spell.The sounds are more prominent and accentuated enabling the children to more easily spell words as they sound.During reading time a group can go off (in the secret garden or other secret space) and read into a phonics phone,hear themselves clearly and at the same time not disturb others working.The phonics phone also improves their focus and ability to stay on task.
(Look Preps K and S it was wacky hair and wacky hat day!)

Have a Great Holiday Preps S and K

Our Quadblogging buddies from Melbourne, Australia are now on holiday for 2 weeks.
BUT
that doesn't mean you can't visit their blogs and leave them some comments.
PLEASE VISIT THEM AND SAY HI

Mrs Swann's Class - We Love Learning - Prep S
http://preps.global2.vic.edu.au/

Mrs Kennedy's Class - Learning Together - Prep K
http://prepblackburnsouth.blogspot.com/

What is a Blog?

Gina - 5 years old, explains in her words what a blog is.


Room 3 children can you please 
add a comment explaining what you think a blog is.
Or
You can use Voice Memo on the ipods to record your answer.
Please email it to me when you have finished your recording.


You can also find Gina's video on the Comments4kids blog.
Comments for kids is a way for students and teachers to find blogs to comment on to get their own posts commented on.


We think this is a great honour - well done Gina!

http://comments4kids.blogspot.com/

Testa, Spalle, Ginocchi, Pedi

Our Quad Buddies from Australia made a video too!

Don't they sing brilliantly!

We think quad blogging is great fun

because we are sharing so much learning!

St. Luke's learn Italian at their school, so today their Italian teacher, Signora Senzo, helped Prep S and Prep K sing 

'Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes' in Italian!

Here are the words:

Testa, spalle, ginocchi piedi, ginocchi piedi.

Testa, spalle, ginocchi piedi, ginocchi piedi.

Ho due occhi, un naso, la bocca, e due orecchi.

Testa, spalle, ginocchi piedi, ginocchi piedi.

Testa, spalle, ginocchi piedi, ginocchi piedi.

Testa, spalle, ginocchi piedi, ginocchi piedi.

Ho due occhi, un naso, la bocca, e due orecchi.

Testa, spalle, ginocchi piedi, ginocchi piedi.

Can you work out what the words mean by following the actions of the song?

Maori names for pet stick Insects

Stoke Bishop Primary asked us to come up
with some names for their pet stick insects.
First we watched some Youtube clips about
stick insects so we had some prior knowledge.


We decided to choose Maori because we are New Zealanders 
Maori is one of our National languages.
We hope you like it.
Please leave us a comment.
What do you think about our choices?




Waka, Rakau, Parauri, Kakariki, Haka


Let's learn Te Reo Maori - how to pronounce Maori words
To listen to Maori pronunciation click the link

Maori Body Parts Song

Maori Body Parts Song

Mahunga, pakihiwi, puku, hope, waewae

Mahunga, pakihiwi, puku, hope, waewae

Mahunga, pakihiwi, puku, hope, waewae

Taringa, whatu, ihu, waha

Head, shoulders, tummy, hips, legs/feet

Ears, eyes, nose, mouth

We made this video for our friends at 

Stoke Bishop Primary in Bristol, England

Blackburn South School in Melbourne, Australia

Kathryn Winn Primary School in Kentucky, USA

We hope you like it!

 

VERY COOL

Watch and listen to our blogging buddies

The Rockets from Room 2 at 

Maraekakaho, Hawkes Bay

read out our comments that we blogged to them.

They are such good readers!!

 

We love comments on our blog!

10,000 party - Watch the video

 

On Friday we had a 10,000 party. Anya’s dad brought a giant balloon and some ice-blocks. We had music and everyone brought some food. At our tables we had party blowers and we made party hats. We had 10,000 people visit our blog. Room 8 made us a piñata and we hit the piñata and all the lollies came out.

By Benny

Did you know what my classroom did on Friday? We had a 10,000 party and when we had it we had music. It was like a disco! Do you know why we had it? It was because we had 10,000 visitors to our blog! Do you know who it was for? It was for kids! I liked the piñata because it had lollies in it.

By Gina

Last Friday Room 3 had a party because we had 10,000 visitors to our blog. I had dairy milk and I wore a party had and I blew a party blower. We had music and it was fun.

 By Jack

On Friday we had a 10,000 party. Anya’s dad bought a congratulations balloon. We also had a piñata. Do you know what we ate? We ate food like cakes, sushi, popcorn, dairy milk, sprinkle bread. We made our own hats.

By Aum