Here is a cool movie that we created for our class assembly. Thanks to Nick our Sound man who made this movie possible and to Jake and Shiah our recording experts. We hope you find it as fun to watch as it was for us to make!
Also special thanks to Rico and Louisa from Team Moana who came over on Friday morning to learn how to use iMovie on the iMac with Mrs G. The results are amazing.
Here is a movie trailer that Emmanuel and Laylah made using IMovie. Videos used in this movie were recorded by Jake, Jayme and Mrs G. A great team effort.
Well done to our June 60 night certificate readers! You guys are AMAZING!
We love seeing you progressing in your reading and being able to move your plane around NZ (and the world) to show what level you are on in your reading! We love that you are so independent in being able to explain to visitors and your parents where you are, what your learning goals are, what you need to do to achieve these goals. Fantastic!
Well done also to the children who got their 30 Night certificates in June! Keep it up and you will go far!
PS> Thanks Jake for the great photography. Love that you take this on and just do it for our classroom!
This week in class we have had a shared book called Tails and Claws. It gives you clues about an animal and then it tells you what it is. So in writing we have been doing something similar.
Everyone has created some fantastic work. The focus has been on adding adjectives to add even more detail to our work. Some of us have moved onto publishing because they were so fantastic.
Initially we published some for our walls.
Then some of us decided to publish using explain everything. When we published on explain everything we decided that we wanted to use 2 different slides. One for our clues and one for our answer to make our work more interesting for people watching it. When we had put all the writing in, we recorded ourselves. The finished work is what we are most proud of. You can see a few examples below the pictures of our initial slide set up.
Well done Jake and Lucas on achieving your 30 night reading certificates. Jake with all the reading you have done last year and this year, it is no wonder that you have flown from NZ and are now flying around the world with your reading levels. Lucas you have made such fantastic improvements since you started in our class this year. Make sure you keep it up when you move on to your next school later this month!
Also thank you Jayme for being the photographer so we made sure we captured this achievement. Mrs S and I love having such independent students in our class.
Today we had were lucky to have Mr Bell come into our classroom to help us learn about the iMac. Jake and Ella were learning how to transfer images and videos from the iPad onto the iMac. Well done you two, and thankyou Mr Bell.
Along side this we also had a group of children learning how to use a tool called Thinglink. This can be use both on Computer as well as on iPad. We were using iPads today. Here are some links to ones children created today. Please bear in mind that this was a first attempt.
Well done Cody, Jake, and Ariana for moving to stage 4 basic facts. They all got 100% in under 3 minutes. They are now working on their green stage 4 basic facts rocket.
Today we had our schools Duffy Assembly. Mollie and Jake had to collect their books from the visiting musician who came to present this terms books. He played us some cool songs on his phone and sang for us too. He was very inspiring and we enjoyed meeting him.
At the end of the day we all got 2 books, so, we will have some great reading to do over the holidays. Mrs G said she wanted to borrow lots of our books for the holidays but we all were keen to take them home to share with our families. Mrs G made us a deal that we should email her photos of us reading our books in the holidays.
This week we were planning to do a cameo based around walking up Te Ahu Ahu but it was to wet to go so we created some Cameos based round us going for a walk in the bush area just beside our classroom. Mrs Gardiner gave us an example that encouraged us to think about what we could see, hear, smell, touch (and taste). Here is my published story.
Our writing goal today were to make sure we had spaces between words and missing lines.
