Christmas Fun

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were learning how to use our iPads to find images on the web that we can reuse. We had to use the search tools and select creative commons. We could use dictation as well to enter our search items which was a lot quicker than typing the words.

We searched for Christmas images to use as a background. Then we used a green screen and recorded ourselves talking. When we created our movie in iMovies we were able to use the green screen affect. That meant that we could be added to the background without the green screen appearing. 

Our green screen was made of plastic tablecloths pinned to the wall and a reading lamp to light the area. Here is Clem ready to be recorded in our green screen. 

Below are some of our movies. You can see more of our movies on our class site here.

Kapa Haka

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we made movies about Kapa Haka. We learned how to save photos on our iPad so we could use them in iMovies. We put titles in and some of use were able to add our title on a coloured bcakground. We recorded our voice in iMovie to narrate our Kapa Haka experience. Here is Dev's movie. Here is Clem's movie.

Me and My Favourite Things

 Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were learning about private and public information. We talked about the sorts of information that we can share online. 

Then we made an iMovie with 3 fun facts about ourselves. We learned how to do a Google image search for Creative Commons images. We used a feature in iMovies called "picture in picture". 

Here are some of our movies. 

Story Writing in Scratch Jnr

We have been creating stories in Scratch Jnr. We have chosen 2 sprites and written the story in Scratch Jnr as well. We had to use coding blocks to make them move and to change the scene.

Have you used Scratch Jnr? It is an app that you can use on your tablet or iPad. It is free to download here.

Here is Faith's story...

Disco Beebots

 We have been working on our computational thinking with Beebots. 

Have you used Beebots before? Do you know how to make them move? We used them in class on these grids on the floor and programmed them to move.

We had fun having a Disco with our Beebots.

Tiggy Touch in Scratch Jnr

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we made our sprites have a game of Tiggy Touch. 

We learned how to make the diver sprite look like us by inserting our face into the diver. We learned how to record our voices so we could make our sprites talk. 

Then we l put in the code blocks so they didn't talk at the same time and we used the motion code blocks to make the sprites move.

Here is Archie's work from today...

Under the Sea

Today we were learning how to use Scratch Jnr on our iPads.

Scratch is a coding app that we can use to be creative.

Today we made an underwater scene and added sprites.

We had to make our sprite move in a square.

We have done some computational thinking in class already on creating algorithms and today was a way of creating algorithms to make our sprite move. We had to test and debug lots to do this.

Some of us were able to make 2 sprites move and it looks like they are having a race. 

Here are some screen recordings of your work...

Liukou's Scratch Jnr sea sprites

Alex's Scratch Jnr sea sprites

Voice Typing on our iPads

This week we are learning how to use commas.

We had to make lists in Explain Everything and use commas to separate the items.

We used the microphone on our iPad keyboard to start voice typing. We have to speak clearly.

Matariki

Today in our Cybersmart lesson with Mrs Torrie we listened to the legend of "The 7 Fishes".

Then we did some learning about Matariki in Explain Everything.

We could choose which slides we wanted to work on by using the slide chooser. 

Listen to Isabelle as she practised saying 

the names of "Te Iwa o Matariki". 

Cybersmart Lesson

This week in our Cybersmart lesson with Mrs Torrie we were learning 

how to download Explain Everything projects 

onto our iPad from the class site.

We did some leanring about the letter 'P', some dot-to-dot joining 

and following patterns.

Colossal Squid

We are learning about Colossal Squid.

Today in Explain Everything we drew a submarine and then drew the propellors separately so we could set them to auto rotate. 

Unfortunately when we save our work the propellors don't spin.

Some of us drew an underwater drone that goes deep into the ocean 

to study deep sea animals. 

Here is Ella-Mae's work:

Colossal Squid

Room 5 are studying the Colossal Squid.

We have found out lots of interesting things about them.

Today in Explain Everything we drew a colossal squid and added a background. Then we added clip art of drew other animals that the squid eat.

Here is Orohena's work...

And here is Amalie's work...

Week 3 Sharing Slides

Have a look at what everyone got up to in Week 3.

Week 2 Sharing Slides

Have a look at our Week 2 Sharing Slides. What a busy week you have all had!

Week 1 Sharing Slides

Have a look at the learning Room 6 did at home during Week 1

Ella-Mae's Explain Everything Project

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were learning how to record our voices.

We also had to remember how to take a photo  and use the lasso tool to crop it.

Here is Ella-Mae's work from today.

Be sure to watch right to the end as she tells us about the lighthouse picture in their class
and what it means to her.

What do you like doing in your class?

What is your favourite book?

Isabelle's Voice recording in Explain Everything

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were learning how to record our voices.

We also had to remember how to take a photo and use the lasso tool to crop it.

Here is Isabelle's work from today.

Be sure to watch right to the end as she tells us about the lighthouse 
picture in their class and what it means to her.

What do you like doing in your class?

What is your favourite book?

Be a Frog

In the mornings we are like a frog.

This helps us focus and get ready for learning.

What do you do to get ready for learning?

Cybersmart with iPads

This week we started our Cybersmart work with Mrs Torrie.
We looked at a video about looking after our iPads.
It was like a safety briefing on an aeroplane.
We all knew about the hug hold and could show how to do it.

Explain Everything & iPads

This week our Cybersmart work with Mrs Torrie was to create an Explain Everything project 

with photos that we have taken and cropped.

Do you know what a lasso is?

We had to use the lasso tool to crop our photo.

Nau mai, haere mai

Welcome to our class blog where we will share our learning.

We look forward to sharing our learning with our school,

our whānau and friends everywhere.