Kia Manawanui Syndicate - Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu Collaboration Post

Good Morning Everybody! Today we had a special guest, our Manaiakalani facilitator, Ms Heather Collins. We were so excited to finally get our Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu blogging on the way but had to discuss our group norms first.

Ms Collins reminded us that as Cybersmart bloggers, it is important that our comments are reflective. Other than that it has to be positive, thoughtful and helpful. As a class, we had the opportunity to look at our buddy class's blogs to get a better idea of who they are. We really enjoyed this part as we got to share part of their learning journey thus far.

Next we put our teacher's typing skills to the test as we collaboratively created this blog by sharing our ideas and comments on a google doc. We found the google doc in our Cybersmarts Folder. The instructions were that we had to view and explore the class blogs of Group A and B. Thereafter we shared our comments with Mr Janse and had to wait for the green light before posting our comments.

We also had time to do a sort of scavenger hunt as we searched for the location of our buddy classes. Our buddy classes are in Christchurch and Greymouth. The last instruction was that we needed to do a reflective blog on what we had done today.

We thoroughly enjoyed this experience and can't for our next connection.

Kia Manawanui Clas Treaty by Alethia

Kia Manawanui Class Treaty 2018!

This year we had waitangi day and we learnt about the treaty of waitangi which made us make our own treaty for this class.We all went into 4 groups and came up with some rules for each rule which was:

1. Working in groups
2. Entering/Leaving
3. Online
4. In/Out Activities.

I was in the group making down some rules in the online section.I really enjoy making the rules with my team because how we got to show it to our class so they could disagree or agree.What I did not like was having to be stuck and thinking a lot but then we asked a teacher which was very helpful.

Here is a screenshot of the Kia Manawanui treaty and below you will see the students names that they signed below.

Feel free to take a look but don't forget to COMMENT below!.

IALT:

Reflect about our class treaty for 2018.

Setting Class Expectations - 2015

One of the ways to set a positive classroom culture at the beginning of the year is to encourage lots of group work that encourages students to negotiate, share their ideas and views, and interactive with each other during group discussions and learning tasks.

Students were encouraged to work in groups to set class expectations for 6 different categories.  View the Photo album below to find out about the 6 categories of expectations for the Kia Manawanui @ TPS.