Mrs Crain's Procedural Writing Task for Room Three

At the end of last month to finish off procedural writing in class Room Three asked our learning network for suggestions of instructions that we could follow to complete a task. Mr Crain, a teacher from Iowa, USA went out of her way to help up. She produced a Google Slide about how to make a Transforming Star complete with each of the steps and a series of pictures that explained each step. Yesterday Room Three took up the challenge and spent a block following her instructions to complete the task. We used our prior knowledge as well because we had two students who have completed the task before. We used additional media too for the students who were having a bit of difficulty we found instructional videos to guide us through the process. Our students had a whole lot of fun and we able to evaluate the procedural writing from another teacher in another country and we enjoyed the challenge of the task. Thank you Mrs Crain. Mrs Crains Procedural Writing on PhotoPeach

Auroa Primary School Collaborating Worldwide

We've been very excited by the collaboration that we've been developing with Mrs Kriese's Class from Austin Texas. This has come as part of our involvement in the Global Blogging Challenge which was from Mrs Crain in the USA.

 This term we are looking at 'Relating to Others' and its been fantastic to receive feedback and network with students from other countries. Our students have only recently started their individual pages but already three have past the 1,000 page views mark.

One of the best parts of the collaboration has been for our students from rural New Zealand to expand their knowledge as digital global citizens.  Prior to our collaboration with Mrs Kriese class our knowledge about Texas was very limited.  Some of our students even thought that New Zealand (as a country) was bigger than Texas (as a state) in terms of population and size, we now know that this is not the case!   This coming week we're going to be completing our investigation into Texas, continue to participate in the Global Blogging Challenge and look forward to continue our networking.