Dialogic Feedback

The feedback below shows an example of how dialogic interaction between learners helps encourage justification of responses. I am so proud of my students as this level of thinking is completely independent of any teacher input.

Student led Feedback

The feedback below shows how our Year 7 and 8's use 'learning talk' to help move each other's learning to the next level. It's wonderful to see what happens when students make connections to their learning.

Quick Quiz created by Asmah

After reading the text 'Shooting Through' Asmah has created a quick quiz for her friends to answer using Google Forms. These are great questions and I look forward to seeing the responses she gets.

Pah Nwee's popplet about Stars

Pah Nwee used his research skills to find out these facts about stars. Part of his challenge was to be able to tell us all about the information he had found out in his own words. He did a fantastic job of both parts of his challenge.

Asmah, Kapri, Samantha & Dontailan's Collaborative Paragraph

Asmah, Kapri, Samantha & Dontailan worked collaboratively together to create this paragraph using their research skills to help them understand some of our Topic words. I think they have done a great job!

The sun is the center of our Solar System. We live on the third planet away from the sun called Earth. Over time as the universe has been going through phases of change, scientists have sent astronauts on space rockets for the idea of space exploration expedition. Research shows, that we have eight planets in our galaxy and more than a billion stars. It takes twelve hours  for the Earth to orbit the sun on its axis, giving us daytime. Stars are luminous points in the night sky made of gas called hydrogen and helium which expand when gravitational energy compresses them. Did you know that when we join stars together it forms a shape in the sky called constellations? Have you ever been told that during daytime the suns rays scatters across the atmosphere causing us to have a blue sky. As the Earth orbits the sun on its axis, the moon is the satellite of the Earth. As the astronaut is up in space they use technology such as space probes to gather information about the environment around them, so scientists can use the information to get a better understanding of our aging universe.

Establishing our prior knowledge:

This term we will be looking at how the Solar System and our knowledge about the Solar System has changed over time. I'm excited to see what we find out if this is what Room 9 know before we start this term's learning journey.

Tuakana Teina time with Room 1

                                                     

ICAS Participants

Room 9's English ICAS participants. 

Fine's Animoto of the Junior Cultural Show

Fine has created this animoto to highlight some of the outstanding performers in our junior school.

Room 9 Winners!

Fantastic news Room 9! On Wednesday we took part in 'Read an E-Book Day' run by Overdrive in America. Lots of people all around the world took part in this and we were lucky enough to win a prize. 

Kyra, Shantay, Evan, and Efaraima's Research

This is a presentation about Tonga. It shows the importance that the tradtional foods have. Tonga has yummy food that I like to eat. e.g: Chop Suey. Please leave a comment.

Kapri and Jazmine's Research

This is a Prezi that Jazmine and I have done about China. It tells you what food Chinese people brought to New Zealand, Why they Migrated to New Zealand, What they celebrate, what they celebrate, facts about China and the street food.

Halatoa, Oh S'mar and Jacob S' Research

This aftertoon we presented a prezi to our class. It is about why Italians migrate to NZ, different celebrations and different foods.

Fine and Yvette's Research

This is a prezi my partner Fine and I created for Topic around India. Together, we presented our prezi. Our teacher said we spoke with a confident and clear voice. I hope you learn something from our Prezi.

Tim and Pah Nwee's Research

This is my Prezi about Japan. I was working with Pah Nwee and we worked great together as partners. We had to find some resources telling us Why Japan came to NZL, What Traditional food from Japan was introduced to NZL and what celebrations does Japan celebrate. We had to present this Prezi in front of the class and Pah Nwee and I was very nervous but we made it and Mrs Anderson was impressed with me and Pah Nwee. I worked hard and believe it or not this was my first prezi that I ever made with and without a partner.