Great New Zealand Book Journey

Room 15 has been exploring different New Zealand Writers. Where they come from, and what kinds of stories they write. We have taken on the Hell Pizza Reading Challenge (reading 7 books to earn a free pizza each week). We then created either a promotional poster, a one-shot-video for a favourite book or a 5-fact poster for an author to inspire others to read and find out more about New Zealand writers and artists.

Click on one of the student blog links (along the side) to find out more about the books and authors everyone explored.

Room 15 – Different SMARTS

This week in Room 15 we have been learning about how we are all SMART in different ways. These aren’t limited to people who are good at reading, writing or maths skills.

The eight different ways people can be SMART are: People (Interpersonal), Body (Kinaesthetic), Word (Linguistic), Self (Intrapersonal), Picture (Visual/Spacial), Nature (Environmental), Musical, Number (Logic) Smart.

We answered a short quiz to figure out what elements of each SMART area we were, and worked out the main categories we most identified with. You can be more than one category, and many of us were up to 3 or 4 categories. Our adults Mr Malcolm, Whaea Sally and Whaea Amanda also completed the quiz to see how different we all are.

Mr Malcolm then created some visual charts to show the different areas are represented across our whole group.

We created Character Profile Sheets and researched famous people and careers that goes with each SMART category, then we personalised them to show how we are each different. We printed them out for the class wall and for our blogs.

What kind of SMART category do you most identify with?

What are some kinds of ways of doing or activities help you to learn best?