Today has been very full, we have had lots of fun though. We started off in the morning by writing our Harris Burdick narratives. We had lots of great descriptive ones and a few of the students in the class shared their stories. Afterwards we had maths. We had morning tea, then when we got back in the class we read silently for about 10 to 15 minutes. We then did literacy, Mr Chadwick gave us a story written by a boy called Robert. It was about Wood Pigeons. We highlighted the bits we liked and then wrote them down on a mini whiteboard. Then the whole class, including Mr Chadwick wrote a criteria for success for our reports. After that we went to the library to return books and get new ones out. There we met with our buddy class and played a game. After lunch we did inquiry and then played a game against Room 22.
Nana and Kirsten.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Monday 17th March
This afternoon we went on two websites. One was about a Victorian robot invented in 1893, it was a site written by Paul Guinan. We went on another website which was a website that asked a question, Was there really a Holocaust?. It was written by Dr. E.R. Fields. We explored both websites and tried to find out four questions about the websites. The questions were,
What is the message of these sites?
Who is the author? Does the knowledge of who the author is change your perception about the website?
Is there any new learning? What are your first impressions of the sites?
We then watched a video about Year nines in London going on these websites and getting information and learning about these sites. Then a computer expert came and talked to them, and explained how the website is not safe, they were told to take a deeper look at these websites and they found out who wrote these sites. They found that a few of the sites that they had been looking at weren't true, and one of them was a racist site. The message of this was that not all sites are what they say, and before you go on a site take a deeper look at it, who it is written by, what it is about and if it's safe.
Nana and Kirsten.
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