Letter From Starship

Santa Challenge!

Ali's team won the challenge!

Last post!

Jasmine, Anqi, Olivia "It has been a brilliant year  in G4 and we hope we have a fantastic teacher like Miss Slater next year."
Matt, Cameron "We have really enjoyed being in G4 this year and having Miss Slater as a teacher. We wish everyone who reads this a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. PS I will miss EHS!"
Antony "G4 has been a great class to welcome the class into the senior syndicate."
Aimee, Savanah "It has been a pleasure to be in G4 this year and we hope that everyone in G4 will remember that cool times we've had together."
Max, Griffin "We would like to say that we've had a great time in G4. We have learned lots such as blogging, we have had fun times together. We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year."
Rohan "I would like to say that this year has been a great year and I have liked having Miss Slater as a teacher and I wish everyone a happy Xmas and a great New Year!"
Annaliese and Olivia "Well, we think this year has been good because we have learned lots of skills that we probably wouldn't have learned with another teacher. We hope our next year's teacher will be great too!"
Jayda "I would like to say that this year has been awesome and it was a pleasure to have you Miss Slater as my teacher. Merry Christmas and happy New Year!"
Rosemary, Sarah, Paige "We have really enjoyed being in Miss Slater's class and we will miss her next year. We hope our new teacher is as nice!"
Tom "I have liked Miss Slater because she has let us learn and have fun!"
Matthew, Dylan "We have liked having Miss Slater as our teacher this year because she makes learning fun and easy to understand!"
Ali "This year has been marvellous. I wish I had another teacher like you next year."
Leon "I liked having Miss Slater this year because we have fun rewards!"
Jamie "This year has been really great because we had a lot of fun with learning"
Isabelle, Harriet "We have enjoyed being in the class and we will miss everybody. Merry Christmas and happy New Year!"

Rimutaka Forest Park

Surprise!

Miss Slater has a surprise for everyone in G4 tomorrow - can you guess what it is?

It was a real Xmas tree!

Xmas - slideshow with music

Interface By Savanah and Leon

We made a PMI chart about the benefits and challenges about having a class blog. Some of the positive statements were:

- It show our families what we have been learning in class
- It has been like a diary for the year
- It improves our writing and reading skills
- We get to talk with other classes
- We have learned ICT skills like how to upload photos

Some of the challenges have been:

- Checking our posts and comments for sense and punctuation
- Making our comment interesting, not just saying 'that was cool' or 'that was fun.'
- Saying nice comments not mean ones

Some of the interesting things we said were:

- We won the interface awards
- People that can not read English can change the language on our blog.

We are really pleased to win the Interface award and we thank them for the prize, we are happy with joy.

We are very excited to win the award!

Click here to read about our amazing prize!

Interface Blog Awards By Matthew and Dylan

We entered the interface competition and by surprise we won the best blog in the country. When Miss Slater announced the message to the class, everyone screamed like crazy!!!!!!! Some people thought it was really loud! If you want a spectacular blog like ours, work hard and try your best.

Miss Slater recorded our reaction when she announced the big news!

Please complete

Please click here and complete the survey to have your say on our Inquiry themes for next year!

Talent Show!

The votes are in and G4 has decided to send Antony and Harriet through to the syndicate finals. Well done to the both of you!

Talent Show By Ali and Dylan

Today we had an amazing talent show. We never knew there were so many talented kids in our class. Most of the talents were marvelous, musical and exciting. The people who did performances were really resilient.
These are the people who preformed:
Antony, Rosemary, Anqi, Rohan did keyboard.
Harriet did the poi dance while hula-hooping.
Tom did tae kwon do.
Star did a poem that she wrote her self.
Isabelle did dance and it was probably the best dance I have ever seen!!!!!

Ukulele Performance!

Check out Harriet and Paige in their ukulele performance! Two talented musicians!

Homework: Family Photos

Olivia and Snowy the cat

Aurasma By Rosemary and Sarah

Today we used an app called Aurasma. This is how it works, first you film yourself or with a friend talking about your brilliant piece of work. Then you take a photo of a piece of work. After that you go into Aura, click your video and then it will automatically play each time you scan your work.

We could use this app for the following things:

- Showing our parents what we have learnt this year/term.

- Sharing our ideas and our work at assembly.

- We could take a photo of our writing then record ourself reading our writing

- We could take a video and talk about the science wall about lots of different bits and bobs

- Portraits how we made them

- Superheros why we chose them

- Talent show who we picked

- What people think of there work

This app is cool because we would learn to use another skill on the ipad and ipod.

Check it out in action below!!

G4 @ Capital E!

Photobooth and Photo Editing with our Buddy Class By G4

We sure had fun using Photo Booth and iPhoto today to capture interesting picture of us and our buddies! The winners of the photo competition would have to be Tom and Dylan! They used the effects on both Photo Booth and iPhoto very effectively!