Friday 29 August 2014

Learning How to Use Storyrobe

Today we learnt how to use Storyrobe. In groups we played different maths games and then we made movies about them. We had to take photos of us playing the game. Then we uploaded to Storyrobe. Next we recorded our voice for each photo. Once we had finished we played the movie to check if we made any mistakes. Then we showed our teacher. Miss Gentil had to help us upload them to YouTube. 

Here are a couple of the movies we made today. 

By Hannah 


Thursday 28 August 2014

Learning How to Use Educreations

Today we learnt how to use Educreations. This is the first video we created. We have been learning how to use our addition facts to help us to solve multiplication problems. 



Is That an Earthquake?

Today I read Is That an Earthquake? I hope you like my reading.

By Josiah 


No, Skipper!

Today I recorded No, Skipper! I hope you like the story. 

By Josiah 


Adventure Learning Reflections Week 6

Every Wednesday we have Adventure Learning in our classroom. This term there are nine groups, learning about everything from Minecraft to Emperor penguins and how to speak Spanish. I'm so proud of everything that you are achieving Room 8. It's so exciting to see you all learning about topics that you're passionate about.

Here are our reflections from Week 6 


Wednesday 27 August 2014

The Ant and the Grasshoppers

This is my book for this week. I enjoyed recording my voice. I made a few mistakes, but then I recorded my voice properly after lots of practising. When I went to Mr T he said he was impressed and Miss Gentil said she was proud of me. I got a principal's award sticker from Mr T. I hope you enjoy the video.

By Josiah 




Tuesday 26 August 2014

Adventure Learning Planning Week 6

Check out our Adventure Learning plans for this week. There is lots of exciting learning happening in our classroom. 


Adventure Learning Week 5 Reflections

Here are our Adventure Learning reflections from Week 5. We use Padlet to write our reflections. 


Please note that all reflections are completed independently by the children and are not edited my the teacher. This is to show the progress that we are making with reflecting on our learning. 


Wednesday 20 August 2014

Minecraft in Adventure Learning

For Adventure Learning we are doing Minecraft. In our group there is Emily, Josiah, Brianna & Nicole. We are learning how build  houses and gardens. I built agarden from a Minecraft book. Here is a photo of my garden, compared to the one in the book.




This is the garden from the Minecraft book. 



This is the garden I made today. Have you got any ideas for how I could make it even better?


By Nicole 

Minecraft Survey

Hi! Our names are Rylee , Hannah and Duprey.
Do you use Minecraft in your class room? If your answer is yes we would love you to full out our form , here is the address. We would love to see all your answers. 
It will help if you could answer our questions.
The site is just below. Click the website and it will take you right to it. We have also sent our survey out on Twitter to get more answers. We're excited to see your answers. 


Here is the link - goo.gl/AmYM92







Our Blog About Emperor Penguins

For Adventure Learning we are learning about Emperor penguins. Today we created a new blog so we can share our learning about penguins with the world. I also made a QR code. When you scan it, it will take you to our blog. We are going to print the QR code and stick it onto the whiteboard. We hope you enjoy reading our blog. We would love some comments. What would you like to know about Emperor penguins?






Here is a photo of Emperor Penguins, from Wonderopolis. 


By Kyle 


Wednesday 6 August 2014

The Traveling Rhino Project

In Room 8 we are participating in the Traveling Rhino Project. There are five rhinos that are traveling to schools all over the world. The Traveling Rhino Project is about teaching children about rhinos and how we can save them from becoming extinct. We want people to stop poaching the rhinos for their horns. 

The rhino we are hosting in our class is called Lesedi. She has all over Australia and NZ. This is what she looks like. 





Today we explored the Save Our Rhinos wiki page. We learnt that there are five different species of rhino. The black became extinct in 2013 because people kept poaching. It makes us disappointed that people are doing this. The black rhinos had the biggest horns so we think that's why they became extinct first. People think that they can use the horns to make medicine to make people better, but it's not true. We are going to think of some ideas to try to help save the rhino and teach other people about why it's important. 

We read this story below. You might like to read it at school or at home.  









http://saveourrhinos.wikispaces.com/file/view/Ronnie-and-the-Rhino-Horn.pdf