Cheetah Description, By Ebony

Ebony has used iMovie on the iPad to publish her description of a cheetah. She chose all the images and created the movie all by herself.

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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

Wearing a Seatbelt

This week we have been writing explanations about why we wear seat belts. We have been publishing our explanations by making little flip books. Today Ebony and Mariam decided to use Little Bird Tales on the iPad to make short videos of the explanations they wrote. 

Mariam modified her explanation topic by writing an argument about why seat belts should be made of softer material.

Pirate Movies

As part of our poetry unit, Avalon and Ebony both wrote excellent poems about pirates. Today they had a go at making movies on the iPad (using iMovie) using their poems and pictures they had taken from books. Here are their movies.

Here is Ebony's poem:

A boat, a sword, a skull, 
A treasure chest below the sand,
A shark waiting for a prisoner,
A bomb on a fake boat waiting for some crew.
So would you want to be a pirate?

Here is Avalon's poem:

Thieving Pirates

 I spy a pirate in their pirate ship,
their boots, their eye patch, gun and sword.
They're coming to my ship to steal all my treasures and gold.
They got here before I could hide all my gold.
The battle began and went on for days,
but finally, one had a dead skull.
It distracted the other pirates and all were dead.
We stood in victory!

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.

Bee Popplets

We have been exploring some apps on the iPad. Today the Frogs reading group used Popplet to show what they learnt from a non-fiction text they read called Honeymakers. Click on the popplet to get a closer look.

Popplet by Ebony and Andrei

Popplet by Dennon and Sam

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?

Exploring Narratives on Puppet Pals

Room 5 have been talking about the features of narratives. Ebony, Rory and Dennon have used their new learning to create a story on the iPad using Puppet Pals. Their story had to have a brief introduction, a problem and a solution at the end.

This is the first time the children in Room 5 have used Puppet Pals and they would love some feedback.