On Tuesday Tanya came in to help us learn about Scratch Jr a coding programme on the iPads. This week we were learning to change the size and speed of objects. Then we showed how gravity affects objects. We are picking up the new coding skills quickly. Maunga Iti and Nui learn together and help each other.
We really enjoy Tanya's visits and look forward to the next one!
Every now and again Mrs G brings her iPad in from home. When she does we sometimes use an app called puppet pals. This is a great way to record stories and plays, however we don't have it on our school iPads. This week Mrs G came up with a way to replicate something like puppet pals on Explain Everything. Here are a few examples.
The First story was the play, The birthday cake that the Hovercrafts reading group had. They broke into 2 groups to record the whole story. Enjoy.
Part 1
By Honey & Nakita
Part 2
By Kaelan, Harvey & Rakai
Watch out for next weeks version of 'The Terrible Fright'. It was one of the books that the Water skiers read during the week. They really enjoyed starting to make this into a play as well, so WATCH THIS SPACE!
Here are some movies that the children in our class created based on what we have been focusing on in both writing and within our topic of keeping ourselves safe.
A small group of children work with Mrs G each morning as part of a group who are learning about how writing has a real purpose in life and on strategies that help them get their ideas down. Below are the videos they created as part of this groups focus. They asked some other children in the class to help them make their writing into a movie as they worked out this was something they would need help with.
First they came up with their instructions (morning focus and classroom writing time).
Next they asked buddies to help them video (or take photos) of each of these steps.
Third they asked Mrs G to help them put it into a iMovie.
Then they added their words.
Finally recording their words.
I'm sure you will agree these are fantastic examples of both writing and a real life application of writing for purpose.
How to wash your hands - By Bailey, Riah and Laylah
How to brush your teeth - By Sapphire, Brody, and Parani
This week we have been learning the days of the week in Te Reo. We have been learning the actions to go with it to help us remember.
So...
To help us remember the days of the week, we created a short movie that we can replay to help us.
Mrs G got Matua to help us work out how to convert this into a Matua/Whaea Says (like Simon Says) game which we hope to present at our assembly in Week 2. Thank you Frank, Liam and Cheyne for volunteering to take on this role in our assembly! It is a big one.
Here is the words that we will be using to help us practice our days of the week (as well as other actions that we use in our classroom on a daily basis).
We have been learning all about how to keep ourselves safe when using a digital device. See if you can hear some of the important things we need to do to make sure we remain safe on line. Check out our link to Hector's World.
This term we have been working hard on our Stop Motion Movies. We have created mini movies relating to nursery rhymes. Here are the first of our Stop Motion Movies see if you can guess what nursery rhyme they are about.
What a busy start to school we have had in Team Maunga. Mrs G has been working hard to establish new routines to make using iPads in our class easier and while she was doing this she discovered some Statistics work that we had wanted to share (but it got lost in our old system). So here it is
Children came up with ideas/topics to ask questions about.
Laylah continued on with finding out about how much plastic is brought to school in peoples lunchboxes. This showed that in Team Maunga we don't bring much 'plastic rubbish' to school, with many children in Team Maunga not having any rubbish at all. She found that in Team Awa there seemed to be more rubbish and in Team Moana there was LOTS.
So in Team Maunga we have decided to set a CHALLENGE!
We want to Challenge the other teams to beat us next time we do this survey. Lets reduce our rubbish and keep our school looking fantastic!
