Learning how to create a digital badge with Nicola Minehan

This is my first attempt at making a digital badge, looking forward to our Year 6-8 students giving this a go and seeing what type of badges they would like to create for their learning achievements. This was a ton of fun to do really quick and easy as well as being able to use your creative flair👍.

Remembering what goes into a Quality Blog Post

Voki

I think this activity was neat because it was an interactive way to remember how to create a quality blog post by using voki to customise an avatar with lots of choice and fun creating.  Tauira had a great time doing theres so here is one of my own

Preparing for Samoan Language Week

Our Tuakana (Seniors Y7-8) are learning to do a Sasa to perform for the rest of our kura. They are using scheduled times as well as their own break times to practice. What are you doing to celebrate your Samoan community at school?

First Day at school for Alert Level 2

Today was the first day at Kura during Alert Level 2. We have spaces between our seats and have our own spaces in class. It seems very strange compared to what school has been like for us all. We are sanitising, ensuring we have great hygiene habits in and out of class and staying connected to our peers online also.
What does your akomanga look like?

Kei te ako mātou - Identify private and personal information

Stepping up Lesson completed - looking forward to tamariki sharing their Blog learning to identify private and personal information in our Smart Footprint

Blog Treasure Hunt

This was an interesting activity, here is my one there were 2 I couldn't quite find but what a great learning space for this class to share in. I hope you had fun doing yours too!

Portrait Art

At the beginning of Term one, students had an Art focus, they wanted to learn how to sketch a face. They decided to work on creating a digital version of Portrait Art. Students used PicsArt and were asked to create and choose 2 styles using their photograph. The final piece was to sketch with pencil the remaining part of the portrait. Many students wanted to challenge themselves with sketching the more difficult parts of their portrait and practice sketches in their frames. Final pieces to come