11 Flags...

Yay, we have collected 11 flags as of today. It's exciting to think that people from Korea, France, USA, England, Brazil, Fiji, Canada, Myanmar, Australia and Poland have visited our blog in the last couple of weeks. Why are they looking at our blog? and How did they find it?
Do you know someone in another country you could send an email with a link to our blog on it?

http://room4kahikatea.blogspot.com/

OUR FLAG COLLECTION

Mrs Mills recently told us that she uses our blog when she is out and about teaching blogging to other classes at TIS, Greenpark and Tauranga Primary.

The weekly bloggers have been doing a great job posting interesting posts. The interviews have been a popular way of getting the voice of our class members.

Well, if you close-up on the revolving globe, you will see lots of green dots from lots of different countries around the world - meaning that we now have an international audience!

I have now installed the flags widget so that we can start our own flag collection. Whenever someone in another country visits our blog, we get their flag in our collection.

So far we have flags from NZ, England and another country?? with a red flag and a blue and white section at the top left (200 points for whoever is first to come tell me what country's flag this is - with proof)

I sent an email to a friend in China with our blog link so that we might be able to get the flag of China. Do you know people in other countries you could email too?

Our goal is to get flags from 20 countries.

Check it out

It's been great to see the page view counter going up daily with the number of people who are checking out the Room 4 blog over the holidays. At the time of this post our counter is on

...currently in 3rd place in the unofficial TIS Blog War Counter Competition

 with the TIS Sports Blog in 2nd on 969

and the TIS Food Tech Blog in 1st place and into double-double digits on 1044

Here are some of the great things you can do right now on the Room 4 Blog...

feed the Room 4 fish

check out scans of the amazing homework done by Room 4 students in Term 1 and leave a comment by the one you like best

watch some short vids of the Kahikatea House Swimming Sports Egg & Spoon Race

find all of the helpful links you need to get started on your Science Fair in the holidays (on the right hand side of this page)

and remember you can subscribe by scrolling to the bottom of the main page to receive an email everytime a new post is added

Thanks for visiting!

Blogging features we liked

When we looked around at other people's blogs to get ideas, we needed a way to keep a record of the features we thought looked good and might want to put onto our blog.
We took snapshots of those ideas (Command-Shift-4) and put them onto a Keynote mindmap along with a web address so that we could go back and find the features we liked without too much trouble.
We converted our Keynote slides to jpegs and here is a Quicktime movie of our mindmaps.

River can do blog

Blogging

Mrs Mills came into our room and taught us about Blogging.  We learnt what blogging was about and we learnt some blogging features.