changes in hub 3

Hi everybody this term we have been using different things like google docs on the computer, google calendars, google sites and emails to help us in our learning. Recently we have been using google calendars to know whats happening through out the day. We think that google calendars are very useful because every time the teacher wouldn't have to tell us what to do so we can get straight into it. But sometimes when you look at your calendar, the teachers only get to fill in what you're doing in the morning.

By Meg and Edwin

Skyping Wisconsin (St. John Vianney)

Yesterday morning we rushed into school early to meet with some of our blog buddies, a school in Wisconsin called St. John Vianney.

Here's Dasha to tell you more about it!

We all came to school very early and it was quite amazing and exciting to see how many people were there.  They asked us a lot of questions (some of the ones we were going to ask) and next time we're looking forward to asking our questions because we ran out of time.  There were a lot of students in that class and I was amazed that in grade 6/year 7 they switch teachers for each class.  We don't do that in New Zealand until year 9!  It was neat to talk with people with American accents because I have a Canadian accent.

We had a really great time but sometimes it was a little hard to hear people because we all talked at the same time.  We loved Skyping with St. John Vianney and it was interesting to hear how differently they do things at school (some things are the same though with our lives, like the music and the movies we like.)

By Dasha

Thanks St. John Vianney for all of your comments on our blog - we think you ROCK!  (Miss H)

Presentation tool: Sock Puppets

Hi everyone,

Today I was reading Mr Beehre's blog and he shared an ap called Sock Puppets - I had a play and I'm in love with it!

How do you think we could use this ap?  Take a look at Mr Beehre's post to get a rundown of how to use it (he's done such a great job explaining it that I'm not going to!)

Shuffling virus update (it's spreading!)

Hi,

This is the expansion of the old Spongebob Shuffling dance!  I has spread through more of the hub... where might it spread next?  We'd love to see your dancing movies so please leave a comment with the link!

Thanks, from Damien H and Matthew

Keen to join the 100 Word Challenge?

It's very exciting that we're each able to choose our own writing focus this term!  I came across this tonight and thought it might be an exciting addition to your timetables - it wouldn't matter too much if it fits with your selection or not as I'm sure you'll have a little spare time in your timetable to fit it in.

Each week the 100WC blog puts up a prompt for you - sometimes a sentence, other times a word or two, or it could even be a picture.  You spend the week writing (100 words max, so it's only quite short!) and then we post your writing to our blog... we also let their head office know each time we've posted some writing and they come onto our blog to check it out and comment!  You can connect with other students overseas too and see what they've done with the same starter.

This could be a great way to build on the creative writing that we started the year with.  If you'd like to know more, take a look at 100WC and leave a comment below!

Don't forget the comma!

Remember the post we put up a month or so back?

Well, here's a fun little video to show what the difference between 'let's eat, Grandpa' and 'let's eat Grandpa' is... amazing what one comma does!

Thanks to 'The Skinny' for sharing this.

Have a look around our hub!

Hi everyone,

This is a photo for those of you who have heard of our blog or school but haven't actually seen what our hubs look like...

It's a panoramic photo which means that you can look around the whole space by clicking and dragging.

Have fun exploring!

From Paton