Mrs Yollis #GlobalPal

Taranaki the Kiwi Adventures Continue

Thank you for your visit - it is currently the school holidays in New Zealand and our school students are on their summer break.  Our students will be back at school on January 28th for the start of the new school year.

In the meantime one of the projects that we've been involved with in 2016 was an exchange of mascots with different schools around the world.  We are currently hosting 'Foxy Jack' a Fox sent to us by Mrs Monaghan in the UK! We have sent 'Taranaki' the Kiwi to the USA were Taranaki is currently being hosted by Mrs Yollis and her class of students - and not only that Taranaki has just been on holiday to Hawaii...

Foxy Jack at Aroha's House

We've got a special guest in Room Three this week - all the way from Mrs Monaghan's Class in the UK in England - Foxy Jack, whose a visitor here at Auroa. As part of his adventures Aroha, one of our students took him home for the afternoon and took a series of pictures with Foxy Jack at her house and farm. She then created an imovie

Foxy Jack from myles webb on Vimeo.

Jamesen's Bald Eagle Research

As part of our #Global Pals project we've been looking at studying several different countries and animals for our friends from Mrs Monaghan Class in the UK, Miss Crowther and her class in Australia and Mrs Yollis and her class in the United States.  Jamesen (who is 'half' American) has been looking at the Bald Eagle.  Our favourite fact and one we didn't know was that its proper name is the 'Pie Bald Eagle' which means 'white' (in old English) and its name has been shortened to 'Bald Eagle' which is why a Bald Eagle isnt bald!  We are really excited to be part of this project and looking forward to can't wait for the arrival of our first visitor!

Taranaki the Kiwi's last Day in New Zealand

We're very lucky to be involved in some great projects this year - one of which is involved some amazing friends, some we've met before and some we're just in the process of meeting.    If you go to Mrs Yollis's amazing classroom and see this post you can see about one of the subjects heading our way!

However our first guest is leaving shortly all the way from England! Foxy Jack will be with Room Three shortly.  You can read details of the project here.

It was also our projects animals last day here in New Zealand.  Taranaki the Kiwi had his last day at Auroa Primary School before he travels the world.  Ashley and Aroha from Room Three created this slideshow of his farewell day!

Taranaki (1) from myles webb on Vimeo.

#CLRPoem: Blue Auroa Primary School Students Examples

We're loving the opportunity created by Catherine Monaghan from A Room With A View with her fantastic Twitter Hashtag for the #clrpoem.  Its also involving another amazing educator who were big fans of in New Zealand - Mrs Yollis from California.  

We're having a poem a week created by the students from Auroa Primary School to learn about Poetry and create some fantastic work of their own! This week we've been producing Blue themed poems - we were looking a 'Free' Poetry which some of our students really enjoyed.  Most of our students have published these on their own individual student blogs which you can see listed on the right hand side of this blog.

Harry's very excited to have just reached 1,000 pageviews and you can read his Blue inspired Poem here.  Caro's doing an amazing job with her blog - she was wanting 8000 pageviews before end of the year, but she's about to make it to five thousands already.   Have a look at her effort here.  Brody's not only one of the best posts in the world about silage, you can read his blue poem here.  Cruz effort is here.  Abby was best senior blog post of the week, you can read about her blue poem here.   Ashton used his farm as inspiration for his blue poem.  Jaydens effort with Blue is here.  Quade created a fantastic Blue Image - and here it is linked to his blog! Jorja created this wonderful effort - have a look at this! Mackenna's also been involved and you can read it here.  

A Great Holiday Project for New Zealand Students...

It might be the School Holidays at the moment but there's always an opportunity to learn. At the moment nearly half of the students from Room Three have posted during the holidays which is wonderful.

One of our friends, Mrs Yollis, has a new Poetry Project which the details of which are on her wonderful class page. The original idea and the start of the project came from another of our online friends, Mrs Monaghan from A Room with View You can read the details here.

Currently the project is 'red' however during the coming weeks all the colours of the visible spectrum are going to be covered.  'Red' is just the current theme, as it is suggested you could create a whole range of poetry based activities.

There are lots of suggestions of possible activities that you carry out.   You could create a couplet, triplet or a haiku.   You could save that into your technology and then you can either publish it onto your blog or bring it into School on Monday.




Have a think about how you could present it, what it might look like.  There is going to be a special prize for this for any students from Room Three who can complete the task during our School holidays and secondly we'll have a significant prize for the best effort.

We'd also like to thank all of University students from Southern Alabama who have been leaving comments on the blogs of the students from Room Three, Auroa Primary School.  We really appreciate the EDM310 feedback for our students and #comments4kids

Mr Tofts' Cup Challenge by way of the UK

We're always looking for examples and opportunities to collaborate with classrooms around the world.  Recently we were looking at Mrs Monaghan A Room with a View: Class Three.   They featured a fantastic video that mention Mr Toft and his class from Canada - where the original post was from.  We tracked it down, listening carefully to the instructions and have had a rehearsal today to ensure that we can complete the video/task in full tomorrow.   These images were put together by Kaiah, Meg and Brylee.