Being A Learner: Using Devices to Support Our Learning

This term the Kakano Teachers want to incorporate the iPads and computers more into their teaching and learning programmes in Term 2.  We have dabbled in Term 1 and are excited about the students enthusiasm and the opportunities that the devices provide.     

Please ensure that the home apps that your child has on their iPad are suitable for school and are age appropriate.  

For the students who are bringing their own device can they please have the FREE apps listed below.   

Apps:

• Pic Collage - great for creating and sharing learning
• QR Reader - accessing websites safely
• iMovie (comes free with iPad)
• Blogger - A Google tool
• Dropbox - A place to store files
• Mathletics - A programme that the school provides a free subscription for
• Reading Eggs - - A programme that the school provides a free subscription for
• Lark - great for creating and sharing learning
• Wonderbox - an exploring and creating app designed for young children
• Chatterkid - Oral language, sharing our thinking and creating app
• You Tube - a place to support our learning
• Google Suite - Chrome, Classroom, Slides, Docs, Drive, Sheets, Gmail, maps

Great Apps which cost that we will be using on the class iPads which you may choose to purchase:

• Explain Everything
• Easy Blogger

Here is a picture to help you find the apps:

Here are the Google Apps:

2016 in Room One

Room One will open once Room Two is full.  We are hoping this will be early Term 2.  In the mean time Miss Collins and Mrs Tizzard will be teaching in Rooms Two and Three.   

Please visit these class blogs to see what our Kakano Learners have been up to.  

Ka kite ano!  

Being A Learner: Beach Education

On Monday 30th November Rooms One, Two and Three went to Beach Education at Waimariri Beach.  We learnt how to be safe at the beach, what a life guard does, how to slip, slop, slap and wrap at the beach.  After lunch we went into the water to practise what we learnt.  The parents were wonderful and went in the water with the teachers.  We loved our trip to the beach!