Thursday 26 May 2016

Wednesday 25 May 2016

Bullying

This is shared writing by students in Nicola and Chrissy's base groups.

What is bullying?

Bullying is being mean to someone over and over again. It can happen online (cyber bullying) or face to face (either physical or mental). Examples of bullying are laughing at someone, punching someone or swearing at someone.

What can we do about bullying?

If you see others being bullied you could stick up for them or you could defend them. It is really important to say stop! When you are being bullied you could walk away. If the bullying continues you should tell an adult. Make sure that if you see someone being bullied you help them. It is not ok to be a bystander.

Be a proud person, not an easy target.



We did some role playing about what to do if we see bullying.

Rocky shore

Here's a video of us on our rocky shore trip! We had a lot of fun looking at all the different creatures. 



Sunday 22 May 2016

If You Learned Here Book Published...


If You Learned Here book is ready to download... 

We are so proud of all of our students for their contributions to the project. It has been fantastic to connect with other schools across the globe. 

They’ve hosted the book in Google Drive for downloading. Here are some tips for getting the book...
  • Download it on a computer.
  • If downloading on the iPad, be patient! After tapping the Download Anyway button, there is quite a delay before “Open in iBooks” appears.
  • For viewing on a computer, use Readium (for Google Chrome) or Calibre.
  • If the ePub format proves challenging, try using the PDF instead.

Saturday 21 May 2016

School Cross Country

Well done to everyone who took part in Cross Country today. We are all very proud of your perseverance. 


Spanish: Learning parts of the body

Yesterday we started to learn the body parts in Spanish. We will be singing this song throughout the week...




 

Please also check out Nicola's site. We will be making a collection of the songs that we learn in class https://sites.google.com/a/worserbay.school.nz/matarikiwbs/spanish

This is us recapping on our Spanish numbers:


Gracias Maria!

Thursday 19 May 2016

Helping Circle: Student Voice

Today we asked our students about the "Helping Circle"... 

This is what they said...


Kate: In the helping circle, you help each other. I find it helpful because someone is helping me.


Edward: The helping circle is cool because everyone lets everyone in the circle (everyone is included).


Leola: The helping circle is very good. By helping each other we put more detail in our writing. I ended up writing lots more.


Dylan: The helping circle is good as it helps you to learn new stuff and listen to other people’s ideas.


Adam: The helping circle gives me ideas. For example, if we had to write about fishing, other people might know more about fishing and they can share their ideas. Today I asked Ollie if I could piggy back ideas for my writing. He said, “yes”.


Hunter T: The helping circle helps me to spell words. I added more adjectives today.


Griffin: In the helping circle, I know that I can get a pencil and start adding onto my story. I gave Ridley advice to make his writing shorter. (The task was to retell a story in 4 sentences).


Izar: The helping circle helps me to write and helps me to concentrate.


Charlotte: The helping circle helps me to know what I’ve done and I can give ideas to people who don’t have ideas.


Liam: In a helping circle, you get to connect with different people and it’s interesting to see what they do in their writing. We can make changes or cross stuff out.


Jupiter: The helping circle is a good activity for people. It is a good way to learn new words that people use.


Kirsty: The helping circle helps me to listen to other people’s descriptive words . I can use them in my writing. It helps me to spell the whole of the word. Raffy helped with spelling today. I could help her too. She showed me how to skip lines.


Rim: In the helping circle, some people give me inspiration. They tell me their stories. While we are reading, we are correcting.


Ridley: The helping circle helps us to spell words we get stuck on.