Literacy Tasks Term 1 Week 2

 

Super Learner Super Tasks	Justice League	Avengers	Guardians
Novel Study To allow you to conduct an in depth study into your chosen novel and the authorTo think critically about the novel: character, setting, plot To identify and analyse themes, problems, conflict To make inferences (read between the lines)	Novel Study Questions	Novel Study Questions	Novel Study Questions
Newsademic	Newspaper El Capitan Climb (Page 9) Activity	Newspaper Macedonian Tomb (Page 4) Activity	Newspaper Terror Attacks and Unity Marhces  (Page 1) Activity
Recording Sheet	Check List	Check List	Check List

Interface Awards Results- Runner Up

Well the results from the voting for the Interface Awards ‘Best Teaching in ICT’ came through on Friday and we are RUNNER’S UP!!!!!

Number 2 in NZ is pretty awesome!
We get a certificate and this logo to display on our blog, and we have been asked to write an article for their magazine as well!

Hopefully our games have inspired you to try and make your own ones. We would love to see them if you do.

Interface Awards 2014

Woohooo

Last Friday we found out that we are one of 5 finalists for the ‘Best Teaching in ICT’ award through Interface Magazine for our ‘Does Gaming Help You Learn’ games that we worked on last term.

Teachers from all over NZ entered and we are in the TOP 5!!

Your teachers and people in your school can vote for us here: http://interfaceonline.co.nz/interface-awards-2014-vote/

Voting closes on 19 November so get those votes in quick!

We will keep you posted on the results!  Fingers Crossed!

Wellsford’s Got Talent -Room 3 item

Room 3 is busy practicing for our class item for Wellsford’s Got Talent on Friday 7 November.

We are dancing to 3 songs- That power by Will I Am, Anaconda by Niki Minaj and Turn Down for What by DJ Snake.

Here are the links for the moves we are learning if you want to try, and check back here after the 7th to see a video of our performance!

Turn Down For What- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFoylH3Lcnw

Anaconda- http://youtu.be/HArrJBPkBbk

That Power-  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9HC3slop4

Maori Language Week

The end of Term 3 is always Maori Language week and our annual House Haka Competition.  Competition is always really fierce with the houses practicing every day and competing hard during the competition.  Sarah Walsh and her wonderful team created Korowai and other decorations for all members of the houses to wear.

Well done to Rimu for finally breaking their drought and taking out this Year’s competition.

Roller Mills Tournament

Three of our boys, Rawiri, Rocky and Javarne were selected to take part in the Roller Mills Tournament this year.  Roller Mills is the most prestigious tournament for under 13’s in the North Island.  They competed against 9 teams over a 5 week period in venues around the North Island, often travelling as far as Tauranga and Kerikeri.

Their team was Northland and they won 2 games and came fourth overall.  The training was really tough and they had to train 2 times a week and often had to stay overnight at venues that were far away.

Well done Boys!  You make us really proud!

Sports Exchange

At the end of Term 3 Wellsford participated in a sports exchange at Kaiwaka Sports grounds and competed against schools like Otamatea, Tinopai, Ruawai, & Matakoe.  We took a Rippa team, Netball team and a soccer team.

We smoked them!  Our Rippa team won every single one of their games and took out the Rippa trophy, Netball also won all their games and took out the Netball trophy.  Our awesome soccer team also did really well and came in third.  It was a fantastic day, organised by the Year 12’s at Otamatea High school as part of an NCEA credit.  We all had an awesome day.

Photos to come.

Does gaming help you learn?

As you know we have been working hard on completing our games and testing our subjects as part of our science fair experiment on ‘Does Gaming Help You Learn?’.  Our testing is complete and our data has been crunched and the answer is YES!!  Every group showed great increased in knowledge after playing their game, with one group event testing a huge 20 people just to make sure!

Now its your turn!   Take the quiz and play the games-Just click on the picture for the game. Sound off in the comments with your thoughts.  We love our games and hope you do too!

Troy- by Nick and Rhys

Dr Snow’s Adventure- by Jemma, Bella and Skyla

Quiz:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16f1kjAe3esNLAKvCBAkSXgCpKfNUNwUm3k_xpu46Ttg/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

 

Tangaroa’s Adventure- By Jordan and Rawiri

Quiz:  https://docs.google.com/a/wellsford.school.nz/forms/d/1FL63_OWEdPbP2mMhGV94cJB95jehIWh33C0WEdU8FsA/edit

 

Ernist the Owl- by Tayla and Julianne

Quiz: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18PtEudHvgJU9-wjAx6MSfp9JM70y5q2XdBg7Tf31tfo/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

 

Israel’s Adventure- by Georgia, Aiden and Ethan

Quiz:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zSJyBsWpqUeJw_-jLPRRmlM5wSNNLHQiZ2UY6xEBdsc/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

 

 

Guy the Skeleton- by Jessica and Reuben

Quiz: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12a7sc_fR3t1IFKsv17JekfYaD055z8CmhJXsjxgDI0Y/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

 

Jamie’s Ice Adventure- By Tamara and Abbey

Quiz:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FhRZx8EQ46sEnr4WOs46T2ZjcBs_c549c2Mbsz5hKJg/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

 

Duesko’s Challenge- by Dominic, Rocky and Waiata

 

 

 

 

Emma and Mr Wiknkie’s Grand Adventure- By Phoenix and Teigan

Quiz:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QfVxJR7vkzdgZXcMEe5vFINA5vMVAmsQfa1Z0OznGeo/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

 

Indiana Jones vs dinos- by Jarod and Chenoa

Quiz: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bQgAfAtlZbJwQHYv2MWXDd3G3WdG1iNldKxoExGfwJ8/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

 

Bobby’s Adventure- by Javarne and Vince

Quiz: https://docs.google.com/a/wellsford.school.nz/forms/d/19DVwuU7AHxTLN41CohVOjyhqwQlAeIeT3ObkA57hiE0/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

 

 

Dr Evil’s Adventure- By Mya, Chontae and Victoria

Quiz:  https://docs.google.com/a/wellsford.school.nz/forms/d/1NU9uOWpcZks0ygDeG6tRPJQoxJR3jJ6xYa8lgDHsDyU/edit

Gamefroot

This term and last term, Room 3 has been planning, designing and creating their own online game as part of their Science Fair unit.  They are making these games specifically to teach people something.  Some games are about bones, some are about the Eiffel Tower and heaps of other topics. We used gamefroot.com and sploder.com to create our games. They will be testing players before and after playing their game to see if they have learned anything by playing it.  Our science fair is in week 4 so we are really busy trying to finish our games and create our quizzes to test our players. Here are a few screen shots of some of our games.  We will be updating our blog with links to the playable games when they are finished.

Check out this one that is almost done:  http://gamefroot.com/games/guy-the-skeleton-1/

 

The Mayor visits Room 3!

At the end of last term, the Mayor of Auckland, Len Brown, visited Wellsford School and stopped by our classroom to check out what we have been doing this term and to award our very own Georgia with the Sir Peter Blake Young Leader Award.

This award is for young people who show extraordinary leadership and recognises integrity, determination, team skills, and the ability to work hard and have fun.

Georgia receiveda prize pack and had an article in the paper- http://issuu.com/the.star/docs/1414197mm/32