Swim for Life

Swim For Life is important because it teaches us what to do if we get into difficulty in the water. Living in Tairāwhiti we have lots of beaches, rivers and lakes around us. We also can have very hot summers so many kids spend the summer enjoying being in the water so it is important that our tamariki know how to be safe in the water.

Even though I don't get into the water because I am the teacher, I am watching the Swim for Life tutors teaching our learners so I get tips and ideas that I can use when I take a class swimming in our school pool in the summer.

All our learners enjoy the Swim for Life lessons, and they show our school values and learner qualities of resilience, confidence and perseverance as well as self manager each time they go to Swim for Life.

My digital learning object shows I can add text to shapes and embed the slides in my blog.

Quality Blog Posts

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were learning about quality Blog Posts. We started our blog post with some reflections on leanring. We embedded our "Exploring Blog" slides as well. We had to make sure our blog post had a title and labels before we published it.

Here is Matthew L's work...

Today I was learning to get information from other peoples blog posts.

My new learning was how to see other people's world map.

I enjoyed finding out new things about different people.

I found it challenging to write everything.

My digital learning object shows I can  read other people's blogs carefully,  find information and fill in a table.

Next time I would change everything the speed I did it at.

read more on Matthew's blog

Exploring Blogs

 Today I was learning how to find my way around a blog, and seeing where to find information about the person blogging.

My new learning was I found where the blogs  show you how many people have visited your blog as well as the  different countries the blog visitors come from.

I enjoyed reading the other people's blogs to find out a bit about them.

I found it challenging to remember to make a copy of the work first before I could start.

My digital learning object shows I can  read other people's blogs carefully,  find information and fill in a table.

Next time I would change how I got the information, it would be quicker to copy and paste the information I wanted rather than type it all myself.

Exploring Blogs

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were exploring blogs and looking for information on them.

We had to look carefully at the side bars to find information and statistics.

We scanned the blog description to find information quickly about the person, their school and their profile.

We looked at how many people had visited the blogs, how many different countries these visitors were from and how many blog posts they had done in 2019.

Have you looked at your blog statistics recently?

How do they compare with these one that Braiden found?

We could find information quickly from the blog description and "About Me".

Have you go this information on your blog?

Here's Charlie's work with the information found on the blogs.

Kawa of Care & Quality Blog Posts

This week in our Cybersmart lesson with Mrs Torrie we were working on quality blog posts.
We wrote reflections on our leanring in a new blog post.
We learned how to embed our slides into your blog using the HTML code.
Some of us were able to change the HTML code and make our slides fit into our post better.

Here is Kieran's blog post... 
Today I was learning about my kawa of care.
I enjoyed the survey.
I found it challenging to find how to click on what thing.
My digital learning object shows I can find images labelled for reuse, replace images with my camera app, insert shapes,
Next time I would change the back ground.

Read more on Kieran's blog here

Here is Hinter's blog post...
Today I was learning how to take care of our Chromebook.
I enjoyed putting the colours on the background.
I found it challenging to think of sa
My digital learning object shows I can find images labelled for reuse, replace images with my camera app, insert shapes,
Next time I would change nothing
 
Read more on Hunter's blog here

Kawa of Care Posters

In our Cybersmart lesson with Mrs Torrie this week we reviewed our Kawa of Care.

We then made a poster with 3 important things to remember.

We had to replace images on our poster.

One was a selfie and the other was a device.

Some of us had time to change the background as well.

Here is some of our work.

Kawa of Care Review

This week we started Term 3's Cybersmart lesson by reviewing our Kawa of Care.

WE watched a video about caring for our Chromebook then looked at our Kawa of Care.

We added some more to it with some new information from the video.

Here is our Kawa of Care