A Spider's Web

The Ladybugs group read an article about how a spider forms its web. As a follow-up task, they had to present four facts from the story using Prezi. Here are their Prezis.

Disgusting Things

The Penguins reading group read a non-fiction book called, Disgusting. It is a book about animals that do disgusting things. As follow-up activity, the group had to make a movie about four new facts they had learnt from the book. They used iMovie on the iPad.

Here is Jessley and Stephen's video.

Here is Mariam and Avalon's movie.

Rubbish Rap

This week, we have been talking about things that have a negative impact on Earth. As part of our learning, our poem this week was a rubbish rap. We loved the rap so much that we decided to make a basic music video to go with it. Here it is.

Here is the original song.

Our Mathematics Learning

We have been looking at the different ways we can represent a number. We have been using the abacus, ice block sticks, money and whiteboards.

Some of the groups have been learning how to jump the number line. Here is a video of Jessley explaining this strategy using Educreations.

Here is Stephen explaining how to jump the number line using Educreations on the iPad.

Superhero Narratives

We have been writing narratives using a story arc to plan our stories. Our narratives have been based on the superheroes we created over the last few weeks.

We imported our superhero creations into Puppet Pals and published the narratives we wrote.

Technological Objects

As part of our learning pathways study, we have been looking at inventions. This week the children in the Kowhai syndicate had the homework task of bringing a technological object to school. They needed to describe its function and how it worked. 

Here are Jessley and Andrei talking about their objects.

Here are Ebony and Jaiden

A house fit for a Superhero

The children in Room 5 are Minecraft mad! We have been creating superheroes and Jaiden and Andrei have used Minecraft to create houses for their superheroes. They have taken screenshots of the most important features and made videos using iMovie.

Tree Man

Magma Man

Skateboarding

This term, we have been getting skateboarding lessons. Today Stephen and Jessley used iMovie to make a movie about the experience so far. They really enjoyed adding sound effects.

Superhero Descriptions

Flowers in a Vase

Last Friday, we spent the day doing some observational sketching and painting of flowers in a vase. We created some beautiful artwork.

Here is a slideshow of how we created our paintings.