Water Fun

Just a few pictures to remember our day.

Thinking Tools

Desk Move

Group of 4  in the same desk locations as last week
This week you choose!
Criteria - 2 boys and 2 girls per group.
Desks moved by 9am.

PMI
This is a thinking tool that helps us to think about the Plus - Minus - Interesting ideas about lots of different topics.

Did you have a good long weekend?

Create a page in your learning journal to consider (think about) the Plus - Minus - Interesting points for the long weekend.

5 minutes own thinking - then share ideas with a buddy.

Plus	Minus	Interesting

Values - Honesty

The current values group focus is Honesty.

Let's make a short film about honesty to show at assembly on Thursday.

Let's make a time-lapse like the cooperation film we made.

Step 1.
Write the title HONESTY in the middle of the page
add lines
then colour the page from the middle out
as you take turn to create this
finish these sentence starters in your journal

Step 2.

• Honesty is...
• When people are honest it...
• People who are honest... (make get)
• It's better to be honest because...
• Honesty makes people feel...

• Dishonesty is...
• Dishonesty makes people feel...
• Dishonesty can cause...
• In the end dishonesty will...

Step 3. 

If we take a photo of the finished artwork

and use it as the back ground for a puppet pals video,

we can add comments and ideas

as well as text to tell what honesty is.

Step 4.

Then to finish we can put the films together using imovie.

Step 5.

Someone might even be smart enough to think of a poem or song that they could make using Garageband!

Group Experiment Week 11

Week 11 Working Groups

Your challenge is to work together during our writing and reading time to work towards creating content to be added to your blog.

The computers and iPads will be shared evenly between the boys and  girls groups.

The Editors are in charge of how these resources are used.

You will need to organise your time, work together, check your work, share the computers.  Each blog posting must have some writing that explains the posting and your thinking about it.

What writing are you working on at the moment that could go on the blog?

What other ideas have you got for publishing on the blog this week?

Boys Blog

Editors – Charles, Rainer,

Sub editors – Preston, Fraser

Girls Blog

Editors –Tayler, Sarah D,

Sub editors – Annabel, Ellie

Computer helpers – Kate, Gracie, Angus, Sarah T

Everyone needs to try to complete one piece of written work and one other idea.  What will you try to do?

Writing Ideas

·       Poems and  stories

·       Instructions – Explain something

·       Cartoons – Picture book

·       Speech

·       Report – File of facts

Blog Ideas

Blog Content:

stories, cartoons, drawings, videos, photographs, puppet pals, videos, time-lapse, music, inventions, monsters, robots, pets, a group item that eveyone completes, report, sport, science, magic tricks, origami instructions, photograph and read a book, make a book come to life with puppet pals, 

Olympic Review

Here are the two videos we made today showing our thinking about our Olympics learning.

What do you think now?

Make a comment at the bottom of the blog posting

NB.  The boys and girls groups both started with the same outline plan and then added items, pictures, words and ideas of their own.

Watch closely and you might notice a little runner going across the page!

Now start thinking!
You've worked with this process twice now.
What ideas are you starting to get about how you could use this process to show your ideas, learning and thinking?

Weekend Review

Circle Time

1. Sit in a circle on the mat
2. One person speaks at a time
3. Wait your turn - be patient

• Something I did at the weekend (include some details)

• Something I learnt - thought about - found out about

Cooperation Video

Everyone in the class contributed to this time-lapse film

Questions about this project

What did we need to do to be able to create this film?

What where the steps we went through?

(What was the process we used?)

What worked well?

What didn't work?

What would you do differently next time?

Let's Remember Manners

Are manners important?

Why?

Reasons?

Do you show respect?

How?

Observation Skills

Do we always see everything that we think we see?


Do we miss things?


Do we always get the story right or do we sometimes make a mistake?


This video is a test of your observation and awareness.
Watch closely.


PS.  If you have seen this video keep quiet about it:-)

Circle Time

Everyone sit in a circle
Take a turn to speak when you are holding todays object
Wait patiently for your turn
Listen respectfully to what others have to say


Sentence starters


I want to say thank you to  _ _ _ for...
I want to say well done to _ _ _ for...
A problem I have had is ...
I want to say sorry to _ _ _ because...
A mistake I  made this week was ...
This week I was successful when...


I want to say well done to everyone who represented our school and took part in the zone cross country and the primary school duathlon this week.  Aria, Annabel, Fraser, Ellie


I also want to say thank you to everyone who has worked so well on their writing this week.  I especially want to thank the people who have been brave enough to share their ideas with the class:
Charles, Colin, Luke, Josh, Sarah D, Kate, Preston, Gracie, Ellie, Jessica, Ali and Cormac.  Have I missed anyone off the list?


This week was successful for me because I got to read so many people's stories.  I felt really proud of all the busy work going on in the class and the great original ideas that people were trying out with their writing.




PS.  Have a great weekend, but watch out for this creature if you go swimming at the beach!

Search and Rescue

Today we learnt how to make a simple stretcher by using our clothing.


By sliding some poles into the arm holes of your jersey you can make an emergency stretcher to rescue an injured person.