Christmas Wonderland

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! We will be back next year, blogging from a new classroom with a different look. I look forward to it. A big thank you to everyone who has read, followed or commented on the Tree of PRIDE in 2013! Have a great holiday and hope to see you sometime in 2014.

Our last post is inspired by a task set by our Twitter friends, Palmy Kids. Some of the students used Minecraft, others found their own app to create with.



Here are our Christmas Wonderlands!


Christmas Wonderland from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

Tweeting Adventure

This is what the Twitter chat looked like (click to enlarge)

On Friday at 12, we connected with two classrooms through a quick Twitter chat. Cameron and Nikitah J volunteered to be our tweeters and they did a fantastic job representing @Room16Parkvale. They were chatting with @Rm1HNS from West Auckland and @Room2Smarties from Whangarei. Here is one minute video capturing Cameron and Nikitah on Mission Control.

Tweeting Adventure from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

Before we chatted, we had started discussing and generating our own ideas about adventure learning. We had looked at this video from  NZ Adventure Learning which happens to be Simone Gentil's blog, who is the teacher of Room 2 Smarties. Her students certainly knew what Cameron and Nikitah were talking about! The video is taken from the movie Up.

Pen Pal Letters Arrive in the USA!

Room 121 showing off our letters to them!

Room 121, our pen pals from Mrs Allen's class in the USA recently got our letters. They were so excited! Click on the link to check it out.

Some Room 121 students also tweeted from their class twitter account awesome tweets about their letters. I wonder if Room 20 should have a class Twitter account?

We can't wait to receive our letters!