Term 2 Here we go!

 Kia ora koutou,

Welcome back to Term 2!  This week in our iPad cybersmart learning time, we were using Explain Everything to show how creative we are.  We thought carefully about what we enjoyed doing during our school holidays, and how we could use our Explain Everything to show this using photos, images, shapes, colours and our drawing tools.  Then we can video ourselves sharing what we enjoyed so much about our holiday activity.

Here are photos of us creating.  We love sharing our learning on our class blog.  

Taking photos on our iPad

 Today Room 7 were learning all about taking photos on their iPad.  To take really clear photos we need to:

- get the cover out of the way

- put your iPad in the right place

- take a photo of your best face

- use your knees to help keep your iPad safe and steady

 - rotate your iPad so the camera is up the right way

- keep your iPad still

If we take a blurry photo we delete it and try again.  

Look at what we have been up to!

Kapa Haka

 Last week we went to the Kapa Haka Festival. We have been practising and practising. We all loved it! 

On the day we had to get dressed ready to perform. Can you see what we had on our faces? 

Here are our movies about Kapa Haka. 

 

Sunsmart Place to Play

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we continued making movies about Being Sunsmart. We took photos of sunsmart place to play and talked about them. 

We used iMovies to make the movie. We added ourselves talking using the "picture in picture" feature in iMovies. Some of us remembered how to add titles that we learned last week. 

Where do you like to play? 

Here are some of our movies...

Being Sunsmart

 This term we have to wear our hats at school whenever we go outside - even if it is cloudy! We all have a hat to wear. The brims make shade to protect our faces, necks and ears. We worked in pairs to make a movie showing where we eat at our school. We have a big shady area called the wahinui where we sit and eat. 

Do you wear hats at school? Do you have a sunsmart place to sit and eat like us?

Here are 2 of our movies. We took photos of each other and used iMovies to make the movie.

 

Editing Photos

This week in our Cybersmart lesson we were leanring how to edit photos on our iPad. We took a selfie then used the editing tools to change or add to our photo. Some of us used filters, some of us added speech bubbles and some of us used the Markup tools to draw on our photo.

Here are some of our photos...

 

Blogging Buddies in Tuhi mai Tuhi Atu

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu is a Manaiakalani blogging programme where we have 2 classes as our blogging buddies.

We write on our blog so other classes can read and find out what we have been learning to do. They can comment on our blog. Then we read their blogs and comment as well.

Our blogging buddies are in different places in Auckland and Hokitika in New Zealand. Here is a map to show you. Have you been to Auckland or Hokitika?

Here is a virtual tour of the 3 schools to show you where our blogging buddies are in New Zealand.