Blogger of the Week - Term 3 Week 2

Congratulations Jia from CTK for being this week's Blogger of the Week. Enjoy having Manu on your blog for the week.

Jia's Blog

Poetry Slam - Potential Professional Poets

Last week we had our first ever Ako Hiko poetry slam. We had around 30 entries and while I don't want to pick any winners, I thought I'd share some of the poems here. The highlights for me were seeing students work their way through the resources to have a go at new forms of poems independently and seeing students commenting on each other's poems. This included across school commenting and some comments from Kaitaia!

Thank you to all the teachers who supported their students. I think it is so important to keep providing new opportunities like this for our learners. And what an amazing way to get creative! The slide deck will stay on the Ako Hiko site over the holidays if you still want to have a go.

Richard @ WIS

Franny @ ODS

Siaki @ CTK

Poetry Slam!

To celebrate the end of Term 2 let's get creative and write some poems. Have a look at these slides for the instructions and some inspiration...

Blogger of the Week

Kia ora everyone!

Well done to all those who attended Student Toolkits online last week. I've been reading all your blog posts and it sounds like you've all learnt heaps of new skills!

I really like Daniel's WordCloud art. I've decided to use it (with his permission) to celebrate a 'Blogger of the Week!'

Every week I'll pick a quality blog post from an Ako Hiko blogger and that person will be the 'Blogger of the Week.' 

BUT! I won't announce the blogger of the week, instead I will hide Daniel's Ako Hiko manu (bird) in a comment on that blog. First person to see the manu will get a shout out on this blog along with the 'Blogger of the Week!'

Black Out Poem Challenge

Black Out Poem Challenge

Have a go at this fun, creative form of writing. If you post your own poem on your blog remember to leave a comment on this post with a link to your blog so other people can see it.

Potu 4 - Improving Blog Comments

This morning our focus has been improving blog comments to make them more positive, thoughtful and helpful. We looked at some comments on different blogs that needed some improvement. We then decided to give them an extreme makeover! Have a look at some of the comments we improved.

Jedi: 

Romena:



Steve:

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Krisina:



Thank you for viewing our post.

Matt - creating a turning paper plane

To create my paper plane I had a look at some of the examples and then decided to google the term 'create a paper plane that flies to the left'.  Youtube link.

Then I had a look at the supporting text that showed how to make the plane turn.  I folded the right wing a bit and trialled which then got it to turn to the left.  The video below shows my plane flying three metres and then turning to the left.

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Matt Riceman

Assistant Principal

Waikowhai Primary School