Instruction videos - Linking writing to real purpose

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

How to cross the road - By Honey, Legacy and Sage

How to do the Floss - By Felicity, Aiden and Liam

(They even got MRS G involved - LOL)

Stop Motion - First installment

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. 

Stella and Nerali

Sapphire and Laylah

Honey, Khloe and Ruby

Mesiah and Nick (Supported by Aiden)

Butterfly Life Cycle

Here is a presentation that Maia and Laylah created following the visit from the Butterfly Lady.

They researched their facts. 

Then decided what to write on each slide.

Next they added their pictures (and took pictures), to match what they were saying on each slide.

Finally they added their voices to each slide to make it more interesting.

They thought it was a shame that they didn't do this in the first term when there were so many caterpillars chrysalis and butterfly around our classroom.

Found Poems - Get NZ Writing

Here are some examples of Found poems that we created.  We looked them up and decided they were a bit like blackout poems.  Below are some examples of what we came up with.

To make them we had to start with a piece of text.  We decided that rather than using a newspaper we would use some of the story we had focused on last week.  And why not ... MONSTERS are ALWAYS a fun topic.

Second we spent time finding and circling key words that we liked in the writing.

Next we found words that would link our key words together.

Finally we spent time blacking out the rest of the words on the page.  

Maia                               Parani                           Ruby

 Kayelani                        Sara                         Charlee

 Liam                             Aiden                           Stella

 Laylah                            Olivia

Get NZ Writing Package

In Team Maunga we have been learning lots about writing letters and postcards this term.  This was leading us up to sending a package to a school in Stratford.  Here are some images of us getting our package ready to send.  Remember to ask us about what we should include in a Letter or Postcard (or ask us about how we use WETA for letter writing / Postcards.  For more information on this please look up other posts on this topic.

Preparing the postcards and messages.

Taking photos to explain the rock we included in our parcel

  Revisiting statistics work from the beginning of the year to work out how many siblings we have altogether.  We loved using Tally marks to help work this out.

 Researching who could lick their elbow (not all children have photos here so ask your child if this was them).

Working out who our tongue rollers were (again there were more children than we have images of here so ask your child about this).

 

 Sealing the package and Posting it at our Local NZ Post shop.

THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR THIS AMAZING EXPERIENCE WAREHOUSE STATIONARY!

Maths Statistics Inquiries.

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!

Greats and Grans

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.  

September Reading Certificates

Wow lots of Reading Certificates for the month of September.  The first 3 certificates (in green) are 120 nights reading.  This is outstanding.  Well done everyone!  Keep up the fantastic reading.