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.