Kidscafenz Term 3

Wow - the time has come to have another cool KidscafeNZ.  We have all our science movies from Term 2 to share and a few fractions tutorials.  I have uploaded some of them already!

Check these out:

Kidscafe #1 (Term 1)

Kidscafe #2 (Term 3)

Our own Kidscafe day will be in Week 9.  I am looking forward to it!

#Kidsedchatnz - Twitter for kids: Gaming

Out class has not been inbvolved in the Twitter-for-kids #kidsedchatnz this year but last year we did.  The topic for conversation this week is GAMING!  I know some of you will want to take part.

The 'Chat' takes place during Daily 5 on Thursday 2-3pm.  Before you participate, you will need to do some preparation.  Take a look at the questions and the challenges.

1. Complete one of the challenges.
2. Prepare a 'Tweet Sheet' answer for one of the questions.

If you have completed these tasks by Thursday then you will be our Tweeters!

But first let's play some games! 

Before you take part in Kidsedchatnz this week try to do at least one of the following:

Tasks:

• Spend some time in class playing any game (online or traditional eg, Minecraft, Scrabble, Monopoly, Once Upon A Time).
• Build your own game and play it.
• Reinvent a game.
• Fill in the Google Doc for types of games you play in the classroom?
• Art of gaming - produce a piece of art that celebrates gaming.

When you do a task make sure you take some photos or videos to share with other classes during the chat.

Questions for this week:

Q1. What are your favourite games and why?

Q2. How does gaming help with your learning?

Q3. What qualities/values/skills have you learnt from gaming?

Q4. How many learning games are being used in your classroom and which of these are the best to play?

Q5. What makes a game fun, interesting and educational?

Q6. If you could reinvent a game, what would you choose to add or change and why?

Q7. Does your class use gaming to collaborate or connect with others children from your school or elsewhere?

Q8. Do you read books or watch videos about gaming, how does this make you a better gamer or learner?

Q9. If your teacher could introduce 1 game into the classroom, what should it be and how would it be used for learning?

Kidsedchatnz Topic: Sports

Prepare a couple of tweets for the session using the Tweet Sheet.  Take a look at this link to see what makes the 'Tweet of the Week'. 

The criteria for Tweet of the Week is:
- Did your tweet standout and was it interesting?
- Did your tweet get retweeted or favourited?
- Did your tweet include links, photos or video?
- Did your tweet help others to learn?
- Did your tweet use correct spelling and grammar?

Kidsedchatnz topic: Books

Wednesday 16th October - Topic: Books

This week's topic for Kidsedchatnz is Books. Check out the questions!

Q1. Do you like/dislike books? How often do you read?
Q2. Are books important? Why do people read them?
Q3. Tell us about your favourite book and why do you like it?
Q4. Books provide us with lots of new information, 
can you share with us something you have learnt from a book?
Q5. Can you please share with us any on-line/digital books that you like?

Check out this video for inspiration...

Check out the link to see the new macot and badges!  Do you think they should visit us at Springston Team Endeavour?  Mascot link here.

Tweet of the Week - it was us!

On Wednesdays we join in the Kidsedchat Twitter sessions with kids from all over New Zealand.  This week we tweeted about what makes a good teacher.  We makde lots of great tweets and shared our KidsAKO workshops.  Check out who won 'Tweet of the Week'!

#Kidsedchatnz topic this Wednesday - teachers!

Make sure you prepare your tweet during writing time on the Tweet Sheet.  What question are you going to answer?  Put your tweet on our tweet wall in the cloakbay.

Kidsedchatnz - topic for Twitter Wednesday!

SPAMMERS:
We will not be using our #kidsedchatnz hashtag anymore because of spammers.  They saw that we were trending (That is we were very popular and busy tweeting) so they added their own tweets that were quite rude.  As a result we are on the Kidswedchatnz list and can follow that way.  Only the people on the list can be seed so it will be safe.

Get ready to Tweet!
Have a think about these questions.  They are riught up our alley for this term.  Can you get a tweet ready for Wednesday?  Use the tweet sheet and think about adding a blog link or image too!


Kidsedchatnz website

Kidsedchatnz Twitter list

Twitter Kidschatnz topic for Thursday

Get your ideas together - try using a Tweet Sheet!

The topc of conversation this week is...

Homework

Q1. Other that reading, what homework would you like to do?

Q2. How important do you think homework is? And why?

Q3. What do you think would be the best homework to help you with your schooling?

Twitter focus Week 4: Reading

Welcome to our first official Twitter session on #kidsedchatnz.

This week we will be focussing on reading.

Q1: Why is reading an important skill to learn in school?
Q2: How can you become a better reader?
Q3: What are some of your favourite books you have read?

Choose a question to answer in your draft book.  Remember you are only allowed to use 40 characters - including punctuation.  You should include the hashtag #kidsedchatnz at the end so people know we are part of the conversation. 

Remember that lots of different schools will be joining in and reading our tweets.  :)