ANZAC Day

At 2.30 am on 25th April, 1915 the ANZACs arrived at Gallipoli in ships. 2015 marks 100 years since that date - a date of great significance to both NZ and Australia. 

This week our Kidsedchatnz chat is all about ANZAC Day. 

Flipped Challenge 1  

Your mission is to build the ANZAC landing: Gallipoli Peninsula

You could use Minecraft for this, build it out of lego or any other materials you would like to use. 

You may like to include: 
ANZAC Cove
Beach line
ANZAC fleet
Trenches 
Row boats
Lookout Posts 
Russell's Top
Shrapnel Gully
Russell's Top
Tracks
Main huts

Flipped Challenge 2 

There are lots of amazing ANZAC stories out there. Your challenge is to create a book review of your favourite ANZAC story. Get creative and think outside the square. You can do this any way you like! Inspire other children to read your favourite ANZAC story. 

Here are the questions for this week:

Q1. What have you learnt about ANZAC Day in your class? If you have recreated the ANZAC landing you can share this now! 

Q2. What does ANZAC day mean to you personally?

Q3. Do you have any extended family that fought in Gallipoli? What stories can you tell us?

Q4. How does your school and/or family celebrate ANZAC Day?

Q5. Do you think ANZAC day is important? Should we celebrate the day? How else could ANZAC Day be celebrated?

Q6. There are lots of great ANZAC books and stories out there. Which is your favourite and why? Share your book reviews! :)

Q7. Why are poppies sold before and on Anzac Day? Why was the poppy chosen and what does it represent?

Q8. How did the Anzac biscuit originate? Do you have a favourite Anzac biscuit recipe that you would like to share?

Q9. Have you ever been to an ANZAC Day celebration? What happened and how did it make you feel?

W8 -Sports

This week's topic is based around Sports...

Week 7 Food and nutrition

This week our questions are all about food and nutrition. There are some activities you may need to do before Wednesday. Have fun!

1. Why do you think it is important to eat healthily?
2. Take a photo of your lunch box if you can and share it with us. How many healthy items do you have? How many pieces of waste do you have? eg glad wrap
3. Does your school have a garden? What grows in it? Do you get to eat any of the food grown? What do you do with the extra produce?
4. Do you grow food at home? What do you grow? What would you like to grow?
5. Have a look at three nutrition labels on food in your kitchen. What information can you learn from these labels? This link may help you. How to read food labels.

6. Find a recipe (from home or google) that uses your favourite fruit or vege.
7. Create a menu that you could serve your family for tea that is healthy. If you cook this meal this week, share some photos of your family enjoying it. (Remember to ask permission to share photos of your family!)
8. Name the main food groups and examples from each group. This link may help you! Nutrition Foundation
9. Look at this picture. Discuss with a buddy an alternative to another unhealthy choice.

Tweet of the week - Inventive Thinking

Awesome week everybody!

There were well over 1400 tweets again this week and it seemed like there plenty of classes from last year, as well as a few new ones.

It was great to see that the quality of tweets continues to improve as everyone keeps learning how to write better responses and people begin to form conversations between tweeters. Conversation is what this is all about.

I loved a lot of the tweets this week but things were moving so fast that I haven't replied or favourited all of them. Lots of inventions were discussed and I loved the thought that a toothbrush, torch and clothes were important but this one should definitely be created:

My other favourites for this week were:

Tweet of the week goes to....

Well done Abby, you've got a great attitude to learning! 

See you all next week.

Inventive Thinking, Creativity, Passion & Talent

This week's topic is about your creativity, passion, talent and inventive thinking.

Part of the chat is flipped so make sure you watch the Kid President's

YouTube clip on how to be an inventor. You may also like to physically create or just draw a picture of something you would invent to make the world more awesome. There will be an opportunity for you to share your inventions during the chat. 

    Teachers, you may also like to watch the 'Creativity Takes Time' YouTube clip yourself and do this mini lesson with your class. 

1. What are your interests, talents or passions?
2. How do you get to learn about your interests in the classroom? Give us an example. 
3. Do you think it's important for children to have time each week to learn about something that they're interested in? Why?
4. What is the world's most important invention so far? How does it affect your life?
5. The Kid President wanted to invent a Catuum Cleaner. What would you like to invent to make the world more awesome? *Opportunity to share a photo via a tweet here. 
6. The top 10 jobs in 2013 didn't exist in 2004. What jobs do you think there will be in 10 years time?
7. Inventive thinking requires taking risks, being curious and thinking skills. How do you do this in the classroom?
8. Is creativity important? How can we encourage creativity in the classroom?
9. Sometimes we get stuck with our learning and have to problem solve. What does good problem solving look like?

@Reidteachnz will be your moderator and I hope that you will all be using the great digital citizenship skills you discussed last week.

See you Wednesday at 2pm.

Tweet of the Week - Digital Citizenship

Thanks for a fantastic chat. Lots of great ideas shared, and clearly some excellent learning focussed on Digital Citizenship.

Congratulations to Hunter of the @Room1Wonderers.

Your tweet was simple, but seemed to say it all. Superb.

Thanks for joining us once again.

See you next week.

Juliet Revell

Digital Citizenship

The questions for this week's Kidsedchatnz are all based around Digital Safety or staying safe online. It is sometimes called being a good digital citizen or cybersafety.

Before taking part in this week's chat please try to look at the following resources.

 Digital Safety Video

QUESTIONS

Q1. What do you think it means to be a good digital citizen?

Q2. How can you be safe on the internet? What should you do if you see something uncomfortable online?

Q3. Why is meeting someone online different to meeting someone in real life?

Q4. What is Cyber bullying? Why is it wrong?

Q5. What is a digital footprint and why are they important?

Q6. What are some important things to consider when taking part in Kidsedchatnz?

Q7. How can you keep your computer safe? What is a computer virus?

Q8. Who teaches you about staying safe online? What are the best ways for learning about online safety?

Q9. Should school’s be using social media in the classroom and why?

Q10. Write a sentence, poem or short story using the following 3 words: Danger, Alert, Sensible

I look forward to seeing you on Wednesday at 2pm! Stephen

Tweet of the Week

Wow, what a fantastic first Kidsedchatnz for the year! We had a massive turn out with over 1,000 tweets recorded between 18 classes! It was also great to see lots of new classes taking part! 

The quality of the tweets were fantastic for a first up effort! So who won Tweet of the Week? Scroll down to find out!

Some Classes that took part!

So who won Tweet of the Week? Watch the video to find out......

First Kidsedchatnz of the Year - Back At School

Welcome back to kidsedchatnz! We hope you had a wonderful summer holiday and have had a fantastic few weeks back at school!

Our first kidschat is about being back at school. Please watch the video below before taking part.



Here are the questions:

Q1. What was the highlight of your summer holiday and why?

Q2. What do you like about your new classroom? What don't you like?

Q3. Describe your current learning environment. What would your ultimate learning environment look like?

Q4. What are you looking forward to most this year and why?

Q5. What do you need to improve this year? What are your goals? How are you going to achieve them?

Q6. What would you like to learn about this year?

Q7. What are the things that drive your learning? What are the things that block your learning?

Q8. Describe your 'Dream Teacher'!

Q9. Kid President said, "Wouldn't it be cool, if we all could be cool". What are you going to do this year to be cool?

Q10. Write a short story, poem or sentence using these 3 words: Bright - Sweat - Goals

See you on Wednesday at 2pm, I can't wait!

2014 Reflection - What Has Stuck With You This Year?

What has stuck with you this year?

Welcome to the last KidsedchatNZ for the year.

These questions were written by Grace and Maddison of @MahoraRm15 and Mathias and Bianca of Room 10. Mathias and Bianca worked on these questions in their lunchtime. 

Ka mau te wehi team, you are awesome!

Questions:

Q1: What was your favourite subject this year? Why?

Q2: What things do you like about your teacher? Why?

Q3:What was your favourite inquiry topic this year? Why did you choose it?

Q4: What was the hardest challenge you faced this year? Why?

Q5: What were your proudest moments as a learner this year?

Q6: Have you done anything this year that you want to share?

Q7: What are you planning to do in the school holidays?

Q8: What do you want to improve in 2015?

Six Team @MahoraRm6

Thanks for chatting with us this year! 
We hope you have a safe and happy holiday with your whānau and friends.

Miss Revell and Six Team

NB: The super cool reflection posters are from Margdteachingposters - click the link to find them.

Tweet of the Week

Thank you everyone who took part in today's Kidsedchatnz! You rock! And would you believe Kid President himself joined in! How cool was that! Definitely a Kidsedchatnz highlight for me!

So who won Tweet of the Week? Well here are the tweets that stood out for me!

And Tweet of the Week goes to.....

Thanks everyone, see you next week for the final Kidsedchatnz of the year!

W8 - 20 Things We Should Say More Often!

This week's topic is based on Kid President's Video '20 things we should say more often'. We did this topic last year and I really enjoyed it so I thought we would do it again. I have added in a few new questions.

Before taking part please watch the video below!



QUESTIONS

Q1. Which is your favourite of the "20 things we should say more often." Why?

Q2. Create your own phrase to add to this list. Why do you think we should say this more often?

Q3. Do you agree with Kid President when he says it's okay to disagree, but it's not Ok to be mean? Why?

Q4. Kid President's number 1 thing to say was 'Something nice'. Can you tweet something nice to someone?

Q5. Kid President believes in using good manners (Please, Thank you and Excuse me). Do you think manners are important? Why?

Q6. Can you think of something that someone you know says a lot? (Teacher, parent, friend) What is it?

Q7. Do you think the Kid President is awesome? Why?

Q8. How many Kid President You Tube clips have you watched? Which one is your favourite and why?

Q9. What will you do to make the world more awesome? 

Q10. Make a sentence, story or poem using the following words: Awesome, Thank you and Corn Dog! Remember to be creative!

I look forward to seeing everyone on Thursday! Stephen (@PalmyTeacher)

Tweet of the Week!

Happy birthday Kidsedchatnz! Thank you everyone who turned up today to mark this special day! It was awesome to see everyone celebrating and having fun!

Here's a few videos and fun photos from the day!

So who won Tweet of the Week? Well here are the tweets that stood out for me today!

AND TWEET OF THE WEEK GOES TO......