Netbook Learning with Ms Aireen and Room 7 at T.P.S

Press play to find our how netbook learning looks like in our classroom with the use of our classroom site. We hope you enjoy our movie!


Netbook Learning with Ms Aireen and Room 7 at T.P.S from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

I hope you have fun watching the movie that Room7 at T.P.S have created. ENJOY!!!

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My Netbook Reflection

Netbook Reflection

WALT record what learning on our netbooks this year has been like, what we have enjoyed, what has been difficult, what has been interesting

P	M	I
Felt excited when we first got our netbook	Forgetting password	being able to email other people
Typing instead of handwriting, learned how to type	Netbook freezing all the time when you really need it.	learning how to post comments on other people’s blogs (thoughtful, positive, helpful)
Easy and fast to use google docs	Mouse doesn’t work	Putting docs into different folders
We get to have our own blog, to share our learning with the world	When battery runs out	people come to visit us to see us using our netbooks
Get to comment on other people’s work, giving advice and feedback	Internet connection doesn’t work	watching interesting clips on youtube, manaiakalani
Researching new things on the internet	Having a netbook is a really huge responsibility for me to handle and it is annoying.	share work with teacher
Creating projects on google docs, presentations on Tux Painting and having a little playing around on the tux to make a picture to go on your blog.	You can’t go on any websites like where you post photos on it so other people can see it and comment on it. But the teachers and the principal care more about our safety than our knowledge of our social networks.	making/editing movies I think my netbook is interesting because it has all these things that I would like to know more about and some things that I can find out about it might be very interesting to me.
I get to play games when I have finished my work early.	We don’t get freetime on our netbooks sometimes when we finish our work really early.	Getting to know my netbook as if it were a real  person.

Start here:

At the start of the year Room 6 was very lucky to get black, shiny, brand new netbooks! I felt very excited when I first got my netbook,  I had to be careful with it because if I dropped it I would have to pay a lot of money for it to be fixed and back to normal again.

I have really liked making my own projects on my netbook and posting them on my very own blog on the internet. Who wouldn’t want to have a netbook to use for their learning and to help them with their education? Having a netbook is a really huge responsibility.

Some small problems have been happening like the computers internet freezing and the computer is slow and I’ve had my computer refreshed.  

It has been really interesting using my netbook because I got to know where all the settings were. We also got to go on Manaiakalani and see some movies that were made by our school and some other schools.
My netbook has helped me with my education because I can research things that my teacher wants me to and it is fast for me to finish my work because I just have to type the words instead of write it in a book and ending up with a sore hand.

If I could take one guess about my future, it would be that when it is 10 or 20 years time the knowledge that I know now could help me build a better future for me and for everyone around me by inventing electrical wardrobes and robot butlers. If that was me in the future I would have to be a fully schooled person to have a job as an internet business person, who earns a lot of money by inventing new social networks or websites, instead of being a High school dropout who works at  a rusty old restaurant as a waitress or waiter.

My Buddy Interview

Buddy Classes: Room 1 / 6 - Wednesday 21 November

WALT: interview our buddy from Room 1 and post it on our blog.


This afternoon we met with our buddy class, Room 1.

My buddies name/age:
Arizona Angel Cooper
Age:6

This is a picture of my buddy and I:



My buddies favorite subjects at school:

• Reading Posters, Stories
• Maths
• Spelling
• Topic

My buddies favourite things to do on the weekend:

• Play at the park
• Go to Rainbows End
• Going to the Pools
• Playing Handball

An interesting fact about my buddy is:

She is a unique person who can hula hoop for more than a hour, sing beautifully, has an awesome personality and is my little sister.

The Amazing Structure of a Hydro - Power Dam

WALT write an explanation including a definition, description and conclusion (of how a Hydro-power station works)






A hydro - dam is an amazing structure that makes electricity from water!

Firstly you build a dam to block the river.Water then builds up behind the dam.This is called reservoir.

Water then goes through the intake.Then it rushes to the penstock.
Then it rushes and hits the turbine and the electricity goes to the generator and then travels to houses and cities.

After the water hits the turbine it goes and rejoins the river. 

Hydro - Power is good because it is renewable.

My Trip to the Museum

On Wednesday 29 August, Glenbrae School students were leaving the school at precisely 9:00am in the morning to go and visit at the Auckland Museum. When we had nearly reached the buses, my class and Rm8 had to squash in the smaller bus altogether. Also, some of the students in Rm7 were allowed to have the larger bus all to themselves. Once we arrived, we waited for the Museum teacher to give us instructions on when to go in. The first area that we visited was the Natural History. I saw some big figures of the dinosaurs that once lived at least 200 billion years ago. The most interesting thing that I saw was a glass box full of insects, from the giant cave weta to the smallest cockroach in the world. Next, we went to the Volcanic Area. The best part of the Volcanic Area was going inside this fake house and watching Lake Taupo erupting before my eyes. Most of the students in my class were screaming like as if it was the end of their poor young lives. When we came out of the house we went and explored down through the hallway to a place with information on sea creatures. The most exciting creature was this giant crayfish that was lying in the corner in a pool of a huge glass salt water container. There were some little crabs scuttling around on the floor of the pool of water. Then we made our way to the Wharenui, down on level G. When we arrived we went through some rules with one of the Museum teachers. We then had to remove our shoes to show respect when inside the Wharenui. After about 2 minutes we were asked to stand up and join in in a kapa haka. The lady said that Rm 8 were the best at the kapa haka so far. But after we performed the haka I was sure that we were the best after our mean haka (as in good). Then we all packed up ready to go back to school and go home. The End!