Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas 98 Strong Streeters and your families,
I hope you are having loads of fun and looking after each other.
A holiday tip from me - go and try the new Margaret Mahy playground out - it is the best playground I have ever been to! We definitely need to have a class get together there early in 2016.

Enjoy your celebrations, whatever they may be,
Love Ms Saxon.

What Children Want in a School

• Lots of play areas
• Colour!
• More grass areas
• Technology learning areas
• Windows in between classrooms
• Lockers that work better
• Outside learning spaces
• Outdoor areas within indoor classrooms
• Vege gardens
• Art room
• Science lab
• Being able to use council field
• Rugby posts
• Outdoor and indoor relaxing areas with beanbags etc.
• Mezzanine floors with storage underneath
• Computer lab

Permission for our Pool and Picnic Day

Please find below a copy of our Pool Day notice.  Has your child returned it?  

Are you able to help on the day?

Notice for Peer Mediators

Pizza Party for: Peer Mediators.

Happening: Thursday lunchtime

Where: Room 17.

Urgent Request for Parent Help

Hi Lovely Parents.  We need at least two more parents to help supervise at our swimming day tomorrow.  If you could please email Iona or Tamara asap if you can help out that would be great.

Steaching Brilliance

"Miss Rait, I don't know how you teach us, it's so tiring!" said one Steacher to me after giving teaching a go today.  It's always nice to be appreciated.  Perhaps parents should try swapping roles with their children over the holidays to receive new found appreciation.

Check out the learning in action.
 

Thinking Skills

"You live in the year 3001. You get into a time machine and go back into the past. List what you see."

Who can think really cleverly???

• Cars on the ground
• Myself writing this
• Nothing - world hasn't yet existed, or I haven't yet existed
• Animals that are currently extinct
• Myself getting smaller
• My parents when they were little
• Myself disappearing
• Trees
• Humans are extinct, but you were on a rocket to the moon and are the only survivor
• Ranger's hut
• Mr Callaghan
• IPhone 6
• Shark
• Jesus
• T-Rex eating someone else who time traveled to the same time
• Making of Earth
• Great Grandad at war
• Dinosaurs becoming extinct
• Future jobs
• Warmer weather thanks to global warming
• New NZ flag
• Clean water
• Debris land
• Miss Rait's great, great, great grandma
• High buildings because of over-population

WeLearn

This morning we participated in the first ever WeLearn Workshops. This was where students from our syndicate had put themselves forward to be able to teach their peers about particular learning apps.
The apps chosen were
Explain Everything
QR Codes
Tellegami
Google Slides
Animation and Green Screen
Green Screen
Book Creator
Prezi

It was a huge opportunity for these children to be leaders. They did so with great skills! Last week they prepared their presentation to be ready for today's session. Many commented that it was really tiring being a teacher, especially when the children didn't listen to them!

All the children in our syndicate came back to class before lunch with many new skills and a great excitement about their learning.

Toby (who was star of the day in Explain Everything!) - "I learnt how to make the animal talk and make a video too. It was very fun!"

Holly W - "I enjoyed doing the QR Code treasure hunt. We ran round to different codes scanning them, they then gave us a clue as to where the next one was. The winners got medals!"

Jaksyn - "I learnt how to change backgrounds in Tellegami and to give them different voices. I just got it at home and now I know how to use it properly."

Aleesha - "I learnt how to put an animation onto a green screen. I loved learning how to do the stop motion animation."

Braxton - "I learnt how to add youtube videos onto Prezi. I really enjoyed making our own Prezi and choosing our own topic. It was great fun."

Sam - "I learned about how to add shapes and colour in Google slides. I enjoyed getting to choose my own topic."

What an exciting learning day at St Martins!

Win a White Christmas with More FM

Follow the following link to get us in to win!!!

http://www.morefm.co.nz/Win/WinaWhiteChristmasatyourschool..aspx

MindLab Holiday Programme

Ben Reid has passed this onto us for any children who may be interested that the MindLab by Unitec has opened its doors in Christchurch.
It sounds like an exciting opportunity for some of our amazing

 http://themindlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SHP-DEC-JAN-CHCH-7.pdf

http://themindlab.com/booking-christchurch/

 

Prezi Presentations are Pretty Perfect

Today we have been using Prezi to publish our scientific reports. Check them out below, we are pretty impressive!

Steachers

This morning we found out who the steachers are going to be for WeLearn.

GREEN SCREEN AND ANIMATION-
Steachers: Grace Opie and Isabella P
Support Crew: Fergus, Jessica H and Lara


GREEN SCREEN-
Steachers: Annabel and Finn
Support Crew: Fritha, Annika and Tama


QR CODES-
Steachers: Lucia and Leo
Support Crew: Isabella and Daniel


EXPLAIN EVERYTHING-
Steachers: Keegan and Mya F
Support Crew: Rose and Jayden


TELLIGAMI-
Steachers: Finley and Emily
Support Crew: Dom, Cara and Ellah


PREZI-
Steachers: Rebbeca and Jessica F
Support Crew: Stella, Jimmy and Connor


BOOK CREATOR-
Steachers: Lewis and Rauri
Support Crew: Alexander and Tristan


GOOGLE SLIDES-
Steachers: Dilkee, Emma and Levi
Support Crew: Paris and Michaela


We hope that the steachers are successful with their teaching.




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