Our FavouritesThings

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were leanring about the sorts of personal information we can put online. We know that we must keep private information to ourselves.

We also learned how to do a safe search for images on our iPad. We had to make sure we were using the tools to look for "Creative Commons" images. We saved the images and then made an iMovie with them.

Here are some of our movies. Do you like some of these favourites as well?

Luca's favourite things...

Jayce's favourite things...

 

Britta's favourite things...  

Josephs' favourite things...

Kapa Haka & Movie Making

 Last week we went to the Kapa Haka festival. We have been practising lots and pots.

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we found photos we liked, saved them to our device and then imported them into iMovie. We videoed ourselves talking about Kapa Haka, our favourite part and how we felt when we were preforming. 

Here are some of our movies...

Being Sunsmart & Movie Making

 We are leanring how to be Sunsmart this term. We all wear hats at school and our school has shade sails over play areas so we can sit and play safely. What do you do to be Sunsmart? 

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we used iMovie to create movies about "Being Sunsmart".

Here are some of our movies...

Sun Safety

We are learning how to be Sun Smart in Room 4...

 

Pop Art

This week were were creating our own Pop Art with the camera app on our iPad. We know that smart learners create original images and media.IF we create it - we own it and can use it anywhere.

We started by taking a selfie. We had to learn how to duplicate our selfie 3 times. Then we used the editing tools in Photos on our iPad to make 3 versions of our selfie.

We found out how to draw on the photo, add text, add shapes and the really fun bit of adding a magnifier.

Here is Nivayah's collage with her 4 photos. Can you work out how she has changed each photo?

Here is a collage of Jackson's 4 photos...

Dr Seuss Week

To celebrate the end of Term 3 - Room 4 have been having a Dr Seuss Week! We are reading and listening to a whole lot of his books and using them as motivation to do some Artwork.

 

More Spring Pictures

Spring Pictures

We used patty pans and coloured paper to make our Spring Pictures. They make our classroom very colourful and Springy!!

Arts Week at Makauri School

This week Room 4 have had an opportunity to try lots of different activities with different teachers during Arts Week. It has been lots of fun!

 

Commenting on Blogs

 This week we were leanring how to write positive, thoughtful, helpful comments on blogs. We have practised on our class blog post about Daffodil Art.

We had to find the blog post, tap on "Reply here" and then use our microphone to dictate our comment.

Fairy Tales in Scratch Jnr.

 This week in our Cybersmart lesson we were using Scratch Jnr to code a Fairy Tale.

Scratch Jnr is a free app for your tablet or iPad where you can program your own interactive stories and games. While we are doing this we are learning to solve problems, design projects, and express ourselves creatively. Have you used Scratch Jnr. before? We are all new to using it and we were all able to make our first page of our project. 

This project will take us more than one lesson to do. 

Here is Xavier's work so far...

Room 4 Science Experiments

This week Room 4 have been doing some of the Science Experiments out of their Shared Book - 'Kitchen Scientist'.

Daffodil Pictures

 On Friday we made daffodil pictures with Mrs Breen to celebrate Daffodil Day -

                 

                                                                                

                    

                       

            

They look beautiful and make us think of Spring!

Counting by 2

 Do you like Maths? Room 4 does! Today in our Cybersmart lesson we solved some problems by counting by 2. 

We used Explain Everything and had to solve the problems by making the picture to go with the problem. We had to copy, paste and duplicate the images to make the pictures.

Here is Jayce's work from today.

Goldilocks and the 3 Bears by Ella

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we continued to make our puppet shows in Explain Everything. 

Ella made hers about Goldilocks. Can you see how she put in a background on her pages? 

 Here is the start of her puppet show...

Fairy Tale Puppet Shows

Room 4 have been reading fairy tales. And today in our Cybersmart lesson we started making a puppet show with a fairy tale we know. What is your favourite fairy tale?

We used Explain Everything on our iPads. We made puppets with the characters in the story. We had to learn how to use the scalpel tool to cut carefully around the characters. Then we recorded our voices and moved the characters like in a puppet show.

Do you know who else uses a scalpel? If you have been to hospital and had an operation you will know.

Here is Luca's work from today. 

This is a work in progress. Room 4 will finish these during the week. 

Is That an Earthquake?

Have you read this book?

We read it last week in Room 4.

Do you know what to do in an earthquake?

Nivayah does - look at her work from today.

Making Patterns

Today in our Cybersmart lesson with Mrs Torrie we were learning how to make patterns with shapes.
We had to repeat the patterns in Explain Everything. There were some shapes already on the page and we had to make the pattern underneath. It had to look exactly the same.
We could do it really quickly by duplicating the shapes using the Inspector Tool.

Here is Hunter's work.
Right at the end he made his own pattern. He remembered how to use auto rotate. Wow!

Kawa of Care - Cybersmart lesson

Today is the start of term 3.

We went over our Kawa of Care today to remind ourselves 

of how we look after our iPads.

You can read our Kawa of Care here.

Then we used Explain Everything to show what we 

remembered about our Kawa of Care.

We worked in pairs and took photos of our buddy doing the right thing for our project.

Do you use an iPad?

How do you look after your device?

Here is Tylar's work. 

Here is Nivayah's work.

Matariki Creations

We used Explain everything to create a Matariki picture and story.

Some of us remembered how to use auto rotate.

Here is Nivayah and Tylar's work.

Tylar recorded her voice and had auto rotate on. Can you see her stars spinning in the sky?

Matariki

Today we created Matariki pictures on our IPads in Explain Everything. We made parts of our pictures move by using either Rotation or Animation.

Wintery Snowmen

Mrs McPhail did some art in Room 4. Here are some of our Wintery Snowmen...

Rainy Day Art

When Mrs Breen was in Room 4 we did some Rainy Day pictures ...

Matariki

Today in our Cybersmart lesson with Mrs Torrie we did some learning about Matariki.

We listened to the legend of "The 7 Fishes".

Then we worked on the Explain everything project at our own pace and could use the slide viewer to choose which slide we would do.

Here is some of the work we did today.

Do you know the 2 gods in the legend?

Here they are labelled on this slide

Animations

Today we learned how to create animations.

We used Explain Everything on our iPads to do this.

We had to remember how to record our voice.

We had lots of fun making the last slide with a photo of ourselves. To do this we had to remember how to use the camera app, lasso our photo and then add it to our side.

Here is Alanah's work

Here is Hunter's work

Gallery Walk

When we were nearly ready to finish our Cybersmart lesson today we shared our work on our iPads in a "Gallery Walk".

This is where we walk around and look at everyone's 

work on their iPad.

then we stand next to some work we like and we say something "thoughtful. positive and helpful" to the person who created the work.

Claude Monet Art

This week we are finding out about the great Artist Claude Monet and using his ideas to do some of our own Artwork.

WINTER

This week we have been talking about Winter - what causes it and why we have it ...

Winter Art - Catching the Snowflakes

We used pastel and crayon to create pictures of ourselves catching snowflakes in our mouths.

New Look Room 4!

This is Room 4 with our 2 new friends.

Friendship Week

Friendship Week in Room 4

Our First Day Back At School After Lockdown

Back to School

The Gruffalo Week

The Gruffalo Week

Mother's Day Activities

Room 4's Mother's Day Activities during Lockdown

Room 4 Google Meet 2

We enjoyed getting together for a Google Meet again today. Everyone brought their favourite soft toy to share.

Room 4 'At Home' Bee Learning

Some more Lockdown Learning

Room 4 Google Meet

Today we had a Google Meet to say hi to our Room 4 friends. 

It was great to see everyone!

Daily Challenges

Our Daily challenges from when we were in Lock-Down

Learning during Lock-down

Some of our learning while we are at home during lock-down.

Autumn Leaf Art

We used autumn leaves to create Leaf People.

Bikes

We are finding out all about our bikes as we get ready for our Triathlon on Friday.

Today we all read this book.

Our Class

This is a photo of our class.

Photographing 5 Green Things

We used our iPads outside.

We had to remember to use the Hug Hold as we moved around.

We had to find 5 green things and take photos of them.

Editing Photos on our iPad

We have been learning how to use the camera app on our iPad.

We took a selfie by turning the camera around.

Then we found out how to edit our photo.

Do you like our sunglasses?

Kawa of Care - Hug Hold

We are learning how to use our iPad with Mrs Torrie 

every week in our Cybersmart time.

Here we are showing how we look after our iPad.

How do you look after your device?

My Family

Room 4 have drawn their family.

Who has the biggest family?

Who has a family like yours?

Are you the oldest child or the youngest child?

The Caravan Family

We read this book in Room 4.

We have made a collage picture of our story that we wrote about the book.

Have you ever been in a caravan?

Tiaki in Room 4

Do you know what tiaki means?

We have been thinking about how we will show tiaki, or guard and foster our class in 2020.

Tiaki is the base of the longer word kaitiakitanga.

A kaitiaki is a guardian.

Morning Circle time

Every day we start by sitting in a circle and sharing our news.

Everyone has a turn.

If we do not have anything to say we politely say 

that we do not have anything to share today.

How do you start your day in your class?

Nau mai, haere mai

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We look forward to sharing our learning with our school,

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