A strip of Aotearoa

Road safety

Constable Julie came from the Glen Innes Police Station to our school to teach us about road safety. Road safety is important because you might not see the car and get hit but when you learn road safety you will no if a car is coming. We learnt how far it takes a car to stop. It wasn't easy because we didn't have a long enough ruler to measure the distance, instead we used our legs. I enjoyed learning how to be safe and how long it takes a car to stop.

Positive blogging

I have been learning about writing good blog comments.We have been using helpful words on our comments and making sure our punctuation and spelling is correct. Our teacher had to check our comments to see if we managed to write a good comment or not. Like when I posted on Tamaki Intermediate's blog when they were having a breakfast I made a helpful comment to made them feel happy. I made a connection by sharing what I know about good breakfasts.
We have been sharing our learning with schools in Manaiakalani.We have tried to make a connection with our comments. I like it when I put thoughtful comments on blog posts because it makes a person feel proud of there learning .I really like doing good blog comments because if I do a good blog comment they will write something good that I have done on my blog. It helps me to learn more ideas than I had before.

Here is my comment from Tamaki Intermediate's blog.

Food label checks

I was excited! Today Room 7 went to Pak'nSave to learn about the food labels. We took the bus there, the bus was really nice and warm.First we went to  look at the cereals.We looked at the weet-bix  because we thought it was really healthy.We checked  the back of the weet-bix box on the food label.We found out that it had a low sugar.

Next we went to look at the Molenberg bread.I was surprised that  Molenberg was really healthy because I thought that it was not healthy.
The Molenberg sugar level was only 2.8g and the energy was 902 kj.
Before we went back to school we got a $60 voucher from Pak ‘n Save.
With our $60 voucher our class is going to have a healthy lunch together.

Positive comments for blogs

This term I have been learning how to write  good blog comments on different blogs.We have been making lots of comments on other schools blog.The difference it has made is I know how important  it has been to practise writing before I copy and paste on the blog.

I enjoyed posting on different post because they might also comment on my post.
It has been challenging  to connect with the other people's blog post but I think I have improved.
Here is a comment that I have left on a blog.I've been positive and specific.






    

Gabriel

This term we have been learning about making a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment on peoples blog's. We know our comments are good when we write something positive about their blog post or make a connection by sharing something similar  

 The difference it has made is it's been really really good for us to practise improving our learning. We have enjoyed writing  blog comments because it also helps other people to connect and be interested in our blog. The most challenging part for me is remembering how to spell the words correctly.   It's important that my comments make sense.

In this comment I tried to be positive about Joan's swimming

My Dream

My name is Christian Patrick Eliza and I am from Tongatapu Nuku’alofa. I have one sister and one brother and I am the eldest. I turned 12 on 17 April 2012. The only thing that is amazing is that when it was 2011 I turned 11 and now it is 2012 and I am 12 ! So it keeps on going on and on. My mom has her birthday in July and my Dad in November. We live in Glen Innes. My grandpa used to be a commando for the Tongan police. My goal is to be like him one day. He loved being a policeman because he wanted to follow his grandpa's footsteps. My mom and dad were born at the    Vaiola Hospital. My favourite colour is blue and I really enjoy Mcdonalds.

I am interested in a singer called Michael Jackson because I have been one of his fans since I was little.

I really want a Rugby Scholarship when I finish college or University. When I was about 5 my dream was to be a future All Black. I still have that dream. I play for a club called University Rugby Club and that's where some All Blacks started playing when they were little. In my future I would like to see robots as our equals because they can do all the boring everyday jobs. That means I can get on and do the really exciting stuff in life.