Meet students in Room 4 Kahikatea Hub

Welcome to the Kahikatea Hub.  This year our buildings are being renovated into ILE's.  At the moment 3 classes are being built.  We are in the 2 classroom hub and are waiting for our classroom to be turned into one big open space.  We have put together a little video of a brief introduction about ourselves.  Enjoy!

3D Printers In Our Classroom

I was in the class when two men came in and said, “hi we are Farshid and Baruk and we have 3D printers for you to trial.” I watched them set it up and pull out some blue and black PLA (plastic). The Baruk said “do you want black or pink” and I answered “pink”. So Baruk went out the door to get pink PLA. Then everyone came in and saw the 3D printers and we got into it. Farshid showed us a website called TINKERCAD and showed us how to make a design. We all took lessons to learn how to use it.

Our first challenge was to design our name using text. We had to make sure that the letters connected for it to print properly.  I learnt that in order for the design to work my design had to be sitting flat on the work plane.  If it didn’t the 3D printer would not print it would just hover over doing nothing.

I have enjoyed designing and printing. It has been fun and I have learnt something new.  I wonder if the school will purchase one of their own?

By Isla

Holiday Activity

I hope everyone is enjoying their holidays.  As we head into the 2nd week I have a small challenge for you.  Who is up for it?  I will send you all an email as well. To make this infographic I used an app called piktochart.  Here is the link  .  Hope to see some posts. Mrs P

Thank you Tania

This is a video for Tania to show how much she has helped us. It is also to show what we liked about the whole Learn,Create,Share model. So following that model she has shown us a lot of ways to Learn using digital technology. For Create she has introduced different websites that helps all of us create the way we want to. And for Share she has shown us how to use our blogs properly so that we can share with the wider community. Thank you Tania By Manveen

Part 2 How To Post A Comment On Our Blog

This is the second part of how to leave a comment. Come on parents we really want you to post more comments.

Learning Poplet with Tania

Thank you Tania for showing us how to use Poplet.  We have used it already since you have come to show us.  Today for writing we used it to help us record our ideas for Speeches.  

Our open class this morning

Thank you to all of those parents who came to our open class this morning we look forward to the parents who are coming this afternoon. The kids parents who  came had to watch a a presentation that some of the students had made. Teagan Sienna and Malaika took pictures and Sienna uploaded them and put them on a collage maker.

Room 4 Would Like To Invite You To Our Open Class Day On Wednesday 2 September

Designed by Sienna

Designed by Malaika

Designed by Micaiah


We have made some business cards to give to our parents to invite them to our open class day.  We will be sharing the Learn Create Share model with them and to show how confident we are in using Google Drive.  We look forward to sharing all our great learning.  

Our Top Tips for Leaving Quality Blog Comments

We are learning all about how to leave quality blog comments in Room 4.  We have looked at examples of quality blog comments and we have watched 2 video clips of students giving us their top tips.  We have used padlet to collaborate on what our Room 4 top tips are for leaving a quality blog comment.  Have a read through our ideas and feel free to use them when you are commenting on our class blog or our individual blogs.  We really appreciate positive, thoughtful feedback and encourage you to ask us questions about our posts too.

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