The end of the year and on to new beginnings!

So, it's not only our Year 6 Graduates off to new and exciting adventures - I am also leaving Hay Park School.

I have had the privilege of being a part of this community for many years. Hunter spoke about the importance of Hay Park's community in her graduation speech and I have to agree - he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. It is the people.

To the Hay Park Community, I'd like to say thank you for allowing me to be part of your lives and to learn along side you all.

To our Hay Park students and especially McCahon Class I would like to encourage you with this whakatauki -

Ko te pae tawhiti whaaia kia tata, ko te pae tata whakamaua kia tina
Seek out distant horizons, and cherish those you attain.

Look for new challenges and be proud of what you achieve - you all have such exciting futures ahead of you!

Hei konā mai,
Kama

Year 6 Graduation - 2015!

Where has Term 4 gone?!
Yesterday we had our Year 6 Graduation celebration - thank you to everyone who helped us have a successful afternoon!

Our learning never stops! Go Evanjaline!

Imagine how thrilled I was when I saw Evanjaline had been posting over the holidays AND making connections with learners in other schools!

Here's her blog post about - Looking Over Our Cyber/Blog World Role Models!

Awesome Evanjaline!

What a great holiday so far, huh? Hey Blogging World, how has your holiday break gone so far? I love it but I do miss school! Since I was missing school, I had a look on some of the class twitter pages and found Mr Hopkins's Twitter page!

I went through some tweets and found a pupil that attends Tamaki Primary as a yr8 student. He currently has 360(!) posts in only 2015! I commented on one of the first three posts (currently) and thanked him for showing me that I can do better in posting in time because my encouraging Teacher, Mrs Kingston, is always telling us that your blog will eventually get boring if you give a long time to keep posting. If you want to know what I am talking about look at: http://tpswillyl.blogspot.co.nz/  His ideas are so incredible as the 'dollarnaire game' he had made! Thanks Willy! 

Mary's Blog Post: PB4L - Being safe in the playground

This is my video created by me ( Mary ).
This video is about how to be safe on the playground.
I uploaded this video on youtube other wise here is the link.
Mary's Video on how to be safe on the play ground.
I hope you have learnt from this video like as they say "treat others as they wanted to be treated".

A few highlights from our last day of term 2!

More fun with Stardome - with winning launch and flight (Evanjaline's blog post)

 Barev bolorin,

 Today we had some of the Stardome team come and help us fly our, mostly, student lead rockets. McCahon class, the class I am in, won the highest flight award which the video above shows. Nisha, Simeon, Arnav and I were the makers or engineers of the rocket. We also designed it and it was so awesome having our class room mates praise us. If you would like to see the actual rocket, comment down below and I will upload some close ups!

Thanks for posting Evanjaline! 
Her original blog post can be found here: Flying Rockets! 

Stardome Visit and Rocket Launches!

Yesterday our McCahon Engineers were put to the test. A select group were put in charge of the design and construction of our rocket.
Each class had a rocket to build and there was a prize for the rocket that had the best design and the one that stayed in the air the longest - which we won! Our rocket stayed aloft a full .5 seconds than our closest rivals!
So great work Evanjaline, Arnav, Simeon and Nisha - Nisha was also our official photographer - more photos to come.

Week 5: eLearning Parent Workshops (Ako Hiko)

Kia ora whānau!
This week we had our parent workshops which is one of the steps needed so we can take our Chromebooks home - thank you to all who came!
We had a challenge for our parents which they had to complete without any technology - it was pretty tricky!
The key message was about actively monitoring us when we're using any digital device and talking to us about what we are doing online.

More images from the 3rd March!

Flipping our lessons: Wk 3 T1

We've been flipping lessons in class and now we're using the iPads to share our learning and make our own tutorials.
Here are Evajaline's, Toma's and Hati's efforts!

This is my first Explain Everything video of 2015. This tutorial shows you how to use rounding and compensating when adding decimals. My two stars is that I loved that Explain Everything captured everything I drew on the Ipad and that I could change the colours I was first given. My wish for next time is that I stay still so that the speaker isn't blocked.

I think I did well, anyway, it was my first time! It was really fun playing around with Explain Everything on the iPads! I love learning about new tools on the iPods and iPads. The best part about this adventure was trying out the new ways of writing, erasing, colours etc. Technology is so great!

Star: I think I was good at explaining the strategy and it made it easier to understand

Star: I think it was simple and I did not make it difficult to see or understand what I was saying

Wish: I wish for me to get used to this app and learn to make my words more interesting and me sounding like I am more into maths

Hi my name is Hati. This my first video on my blog and it tells you how to use rounding and compensating I hope you enjoy it.

A bit of fun with Alka Seltzer Rockets

This term we're looking at Kitchen Science - the kind of experiments you can do with things you might find in your kitchen (or even bathroom!). 

This is a video a group of us made with Miss Kim.
After experimenting we came to the conclusion we  need to find better film canisters - the white ones with the lid that clips in would give the best seal, allowing the gas to build up and so a bigger POP!

We'll make another movie showing the results from round 2 of experiments and explaining the Science behind it all! 

Watch for the blooper reel after the credits!

Week One Done!

We've had a busy start to the year!

Miss Kim from Auckland University has joined us and will be with us in Week 2 and then 2 days a week for the rest of the term. We're lucky to have another teacher in our class who loves using digital learning tools as much as we do!

Here's a look at McCahon Class 2015.

We're in for an exciting year!

Welcome to McCahon Class 2015!

2 more sleeps! 

I hope everyone in McCahon Class have had a wonderful holiday and
that you're as ready for school as I am!

I'm looking forward to seeing all those fabulous smiles on Monday; hearing about the exciting places you went, the books you read and most importantly hearing how excited you are about your learning this year in McCahon.

Watch this short clip: what 3 words come to mind after viewing the animation?

It's going to be an exciting year!