Ducklings, By Aroha

Here is an illustration and report about a duckling, by Aroha

Future Playgrounds on Minecraft

As part of our Learning Pathways topic: Future Focus, we spent a big chunk of term 3 creating futuristic playgrounds on Minecraft.

We used our designs to create playgrounds on Minecraft, we then had to take screenshots of the most important features in our playgrounds and import them into iMovie. We then used iMovie to make movies about our playgrounds. 

Here are some of the movies.

Our cool minecreaft playground from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

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.

Superhero Descriptions

Prezi Colour Poems

A few weeks ago we wrote colour poems. We have used Prezi to publish our poems. Underneath each prezi, is an audioboo of the poem being published.

Life Education

Over the past two weeks we have been going into a special classroom called the Life Education Caravan. We have been learning all about being happy and healthy and we met Harold the giraffe!

Today during writing, we jotted down some ideas about what we had learned. Then we chose the most important idea to record on the iPad.

Here is a video showing what we learnt about the human body.

Here is a video showing what we learnt about feelings and being a good friend.

Poem and Speech Competition

At the end of last term, our syndicate held a poem and speech competition. All of the children in Room 5 are Year 3 so they were able to choose if they wanted to present a speech or recite a poem. Here is a video of the children from Room 5 sharing their speeches and poems.

The Lion and the Mouse

The Frogs reading group read the fable, The Lion and the Mouse. As a follow-up activity they had to retell the story using Puppet Pals on the iPad. Here is their movie.

We have been learning about Aesop's fables and how they have a moral or lesson to be learnt. What do you think the moral of The Lion and the Mouse might be?

Growing Poems

We have written growing poems about autumn leaves. Each poem had to grow in syllables. The 1st line has one syllable, the 2nd line two syllables and so on. Here are poems by Mara and Aroha.

Jack-in-the-Box

This week we have been enjoying some of Shel Silverstein's poetry. On Friday we illustrated one of his poems called Jack-in-the-box. Here are three of the best illustrations.

By Nox

By Koito

By Aroha