Room 5's ideas about why kids should blog.

Kids should blog to communicate with other people who are not with them at the time.- Christian and Toby.

It's fast and fun. It gives you a chance to use our Avatars. You can save movies and maps that you have made.  We can share our thoughts and ideas with more people. - Ashlea and Sophie.

You can reflect on other people's work and ideas. You can read other people's comments. You can find out what is going on and what is new. You can dialogue/communicate with friends and family in other parts of the world. We can practise our writing. - Charlotte and Aalyana.

So kids can get used to using electronic communication. It gives us a chance to share stuff about our school. - Troy and Brandon.

So you can blog your friends and family. We can comment on our friends work. We can see our work online. People can blog us and we can see the blogs of our friends and family. - George and Karl.

We should blog so we can reflect on our learning in the past. Ivy and Jenny.

Kids should blog to keep in touch with other people. You can also practise your typing and get faster. We should blog to keep up with technology. Matt and Fraser.

You can share jokes. You can show that you have a R.I.C.H. heart. It gives us a purpose. You can find out how people are feeling- Shanae and Adelle.

So you can keep in touch with people who visit you from other schools or countries like Caitlin from Avenue School in Belmont U.K. How are you Caitlin?By publishing our work it gives us a reason to write. We can take risks when posting comments. We can ask questions and get answers from people outside of our school. You can communicate with the class even if you are off school sick or on holiday. Paris and Tristan.

We can comment about our learning. Mitchell and Oliver.

So we can make friends in other parts of the country or world. Jack and Ashton.

Blogging gives us a global audience for our work, it means we can get positive feedback from others. Room 5.

We are now into Term 3 and getting ready for our part with the Kiwi Community in our school Production. We are also looking forward to our visit in week 3 to Auckland Zoo when we are hoping to have a chance to talk with an Operation Nestegg expert.