#NZraAnnual2

 I am wondering if you think the Toffee Pop was missing in action on the NZ Biscuits and Slices Poster?  Let's have a vote here! Reply in the comments section YES or NO

Student Thoughts...... What are some of your learners thoughts? Readaloud  Isabella In Readaloud we have been doing a twitter chat. It is a time where we can connect and ask the author questions. Annual 2 is the book we are reading. It is a lot different from the other books we have read in the past. I have been finding the Readaloud super fun. Reflection Zane This week in #NZreadaloud we to a new story in the book we are doing. The book is called Annual2 and features a bunch of stories from NZ authors. We got a poster that had a lot of NZ biscuits and slices. All of the treats on that poster had made-up latin names. (e.g. shrewsbury → lickalda jamoffit, and the anzac biscuit → lestwee forgetum) My favourite made-up name on that poster would have to be the raisin biscuit → deceptus terribloides. We had a tweetdeck with Giselle Clarkson, the person who drew that poster. The poster is a ‘spoof’ of the New Zealand Commercial Fish Species poster that can be seen in some fish and chip ...

#NZraAnnual2 - Learners connecting and transferring ideas from 1 shared text.  In Rongokako this week we had a '100 Word Writing Challenge' based on the following question - What would you rather be beautiful or intelligent?  One of our learners Ethan decided to use a range of algorithms to help him share his thoughts - his inspiration .... last week's #NZra text 'Conversation Games' by Sophie Rea. I would rather be intelligent. "Why?" you ask.  Here is my algorithm Intelligent + good + job = cash flow. Having cash flow would mean botox and plastic surgery. Good looking + wealth = good wife and good wife = happiness. Happiness = more time, more time = ideas and ideas = money and if I still have more time that means even more money and more money = first trillionaire and, first tillionaire = fame. Fame = more people buying my products which means = even more money and, more money = first quadrillionaire and first quadrillionaire = history. And...guess what...

So the Toffee Pop was not included on the original poster! Do you think it belongs there?   Here is a collection of the tweets from this morning's chat with @giselledraws

Thanks to Anna Tate at St. Joseph's in Fielding for hosting 2 really energised chats last week. It really kicked off our #NZreadaloud for Term 2 in an exciting way. As you can see from Anna's welcome tweet, we had 37 people reply and introduce themselves. The kids' Tweets show they have taken on board the appropriate way to write a tweet when we are all using one class account. One thing we want to promote in our chats is the involvement of the teachers. As you can see from this example below, when we reply personally and finish with another question, we invite conversation which hopefully leads to deeper thinking and critical thinking. The BEST thing though is when the students understand that replying to someone is really what we want from a Twitter chat. As you can see from the examples below, one question results in a response which can then be responded to by someone else who then asks another question. This is the exciting stuff! The example below shows how when WE pu...

  There are Conversations and then there are CONVERSATIONS Hello, my name is Kurt and this other guy next to me is Oliver. We think that the Conversation Game text is really interesting because you get to hear stories and learn about how to make good conversations with someone. By playing this game, we will also learn how to ask good questions and dig in deeper to see how people are feeling. This really helped us because when we converse with each other we often ask how the other person is feeling and after reading the text we realised that we are not  always really interested in the answer.   So if we ask a question of someone and they say good we should ask another question to strike up a conversation and then listen to the answer, really listen. This text also helped us to be more aware of what each other are saying, so now when people say “I’m good.” We say, what do you mean by “good?”  Then this continues and opens up the conversation.   This is w...

Here is a connection that one of our classmates made with his family after reading 'Conversations Games' By Sophie Rea 🎮🃏  Play The Game! 🃏🎮 A reflection on how the game went for me. "The questions I asked based on the text sparked conversations for my family and myself. I began the conversation by asking a question of my family at dinner time. It started the conversation based around each others day.  It was good because we could connect with each other about our day. We had a good long conversation over dinner and we had a lot of conversations throughout the time at the dinner table. After dinner, I felt like I connected with everyone at the table. We started to sit on the couch and continued our conversations before we went to our bedrooms to do what we normally do. We watched a movie then played on the Nintendo Switch together as a family. It was really fun and now we do this nightly because we all enjoyed it.  This was the first time we had conversations about ou...