Tuesday 4th July

Digitals Dynamos Afternoon

Yesterday some of the Senior Room students ran a Digital Dynamos afternoon. James, Lucy, Maddie and Julienne ran two workshops each. The rest of the students booked into the two workshops that interested them. There was a lot of experimenting and problem solving with each of the programmes that were on offer. The children attended workshops on Bitmoji, Sploder, Tagul/Word Clouds, Incredibox and Soundstation Studio, Spritebox, Code.org and Stop Motion Animator. It was a very successful afternoon and we hope the students can now teach others about the apps and programmes they were learning about.


Digital Dynamos on PhotoPeach

Wednesday 23rd November

Technology

Over the past couple of weeks, the Middle Room have been very busy with our technology. We were given a brief that related to our inquiry topic of “Watch us Grow”. The brief was to design and make something that helps things grow. To be successful we had to design something that:

• Can be used in the garden
• Helps things to grow
• Is our own design
• Doesn’t cost a lot to make
• Works properly
• Is interesting
• Can work independently on this
• Doesn’t take a lot of time to complete

We have been really engaged in our work and have been working very hard to get these completed. Have a look at some photos of us busy creating our designs. We can’t wait to show everyone our finished projects!

Girls painting their designs. 

Courtney decorating her worm farm. 

George drilling holes for his worm farm. 

Cooper filling up his bird feeder. 

Boys helping to saw the wood needed fro a planter box. 

Cooper helping Maddie with her bird house. 

Flynn helping out on a planter box. 

George is layering his worm farm. 

Nic is making a container to grow wheat.

James is filling up his worm farm.

Friday November 27th

Pull Apart Afternoon

Last week at the working bee, there was a big clean out of some cupboards in the school with some old electrical equipment being found. This gave us the idea of having a 'Pull Apart Afternoon'. We invited students to bring along any old electrical items to 'pull apart'. This initiative tied in nicely with our current technology unit. There was lots of banging, smashing and pulling at our afternoon of pulling things apart. The students had a great time and found out how things worked with there being lots of great discussion around how and why things work.

See some photos below of our afternoon:

Getting into the hard drive!

James and James about to get down to business!

So many things to pull apart!

Lots of engagement with the pull apart afternoon.

The girls busy getting things pulled apart!

So many things to break apart!

The keyboard is getting destroyed and a toaster is getting hacked into!

Wow, we have broken into the inside of the printer!

A hammer means serious business!

Thursday November 26th

Technology

We have been busy completing our technology unit with the Junior Room. Our unit was around following the technology process to create a finished product, which was a christmas card. We did lots of learning about what cards are most effective and put lots of thought into the planning and design of our cards before we made them.

Here are some photos of us working on our cards:

James working on his card.

Children busy working on their cards.

Busy busy! And very focused!

Hot glue gun action!

Tuesday August 11th

Reading Can Dos
Check out some more of our finished Space Presentations from our reading can do's in term two.

Friday August 7th

Friday!

Today we worked with the year 5 & 6 children and the Junior Room.  Miss Ward taught us how to use PicCollage on the iPads and in pairs or groups of three, we made advertisements for the Small Schools Cross Country that is on next Wednesday.  We really enjoyed working together and Miss Ward was really impressed with how focused we were!  Keep an eye on the school Facebook page for some of the advertisements we made, as we had to vote for the top six to go on the page (one a day), leading up to the Cross Country on Wednesday!

Check out the photos below of us working together and some of the advertisements!

Freya and Bree working hard.

Everyone working hard together.

Students were really focussed!

Good work everyone!

Tayler, Georgia and Leah-Rose working well together.

The year 5 & 6 boys working with the Junior Room boys to make their collage.

One of the advertisements that was made on PicCollage.

Another advertisement that a pair made.

Wednesday July 29th

Reading

Last term we had reading activities based around our inquiry topic which was Space.  Check out some of the powerpoints below that we had to create as one of our independent reading can dos.

Thursday July 2nd

Space Week!

Today we shared our Explain Everythings and Book Creators that we made about our fruit aliens. There were some neat stories created and Miss Ward and Mrs Ramsay are so impressed with how well everyone's skills are developing with technology. The Junior and Middle Room children worked really well together and have been extremely engaged all week for our space activities. Well done everyone!

Check out some photos of us sharing our work on the Apple TV, below:

Cooper and Lincoln sharing their Explain Everything.

 Nina, Maddie and Rylee sharing their Explain Everything.

Freya and Bree sharing their Explain Everything.

Georgia and Libby sharing their Explain Everything.

Tayler and Esther sharing their Explain Everything.

Tristan and Iara sharing their work.

Matilda, Caitlyn, Savannah and Taylor presenting their Book Creator work.

Hayden, Courtney, Emily and Julienne presenting their Explain Everything.

Nic and Charlie presenting their Explain Everything.

Tayden and Jacob presenting their Explain Everything.

Tuesday June 23rd

Maths

We are so enthusiastic about our maths learning in our classroom.  Being on task and completing our learning is something we are getting really good at.  We are also getting good at teaching each other what we are learning, how clever are we?!

George busy doing his maths work.

Maddie, Julienne and James doing their maths work that was dropped into their google drives maths folders.  Miss Chapman is their maths teacher and she wasn't here yesterday but she could still provide them with the work they needed by dropping it into their drives.

Esther, Bree, Georgia and Taylor teaching each other their new maths strategy.

Cooper busy working on his maths work.

Courtney doing her maths work through her google drive.

Wednesday June 3rd

Reading Activities

Please find below some more google slideshows and google drawings of police that we created as part of our reading activities from term one.  We had to finish these in the first few weeks of term two.  Now we are busy working on space activities for our can do's at reading time.  

James's policeman.

Maddie's policewoman.

Tuesday May 25th

Reading

Last term we had to make a google slide show about what we would do if we were a Prime Minister or Principal for a day.  This was one of our reading activities and tied in with our inquiry topic of Rules, Laws and Protocols.

Here are some of our finished slideshows:

Monday May 25th

Our New Police People!

One of our reading tasks last term was to create a new police man or woman on Google Draw.  This was to do with our inquiry topic Rules, Laws and Protocols.  Check out some of our awesome creations below:

 

Taylor's Policewoman.

 

Savannah's Policewoman.

 

Tayden's Policeman.

 

Nic's Policeman.

 

Bree's Policewoman.

 

Georgia's Policewoman.

 

Cooper's Policeman!

 

Iara's Policeman.

Esther's Policewoman.

Julienne's Policewoman.

George's Policeman.

Morning Programme

Today it is very chilly!  There is lots of snow on the hills and it is cold outside.  We all managed to get to school and are carrying on with our learning in our nice warm classroom.

For morning programme today James showed us how to make a paper plane for how to.
Iara talked about her Dad and how he is her hero.  He is her hero because when she was born she was very weak and had low blood oxygen.  Her Dad talked to her and told her life is worth living and held her leg while the doctors worked on her.  What an awesome hero, you are very lucky to have a Dad like that Iara! 

James introducing his topic for morning programme.

He had a cool book with paper plane formats in it.

Getting ready to make his plane.  

Starting to make his plane.  In the box is a whole heap of other planes he has made.

Explaining to the class what to do.

James with the finished product, well done!

Iara speaking about her Dad being her hero.

Iara had the whole audience hooked in.