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.

Playing Games

Today we adding to the stories we started last week in our Cybersmart lesson.  We added a 2nd and sometmes a 3rd scene so that our sprites could play a game together.

Scratch Jnr is an app on our iPads and you can download the app for free and use it on android tablets as well. You can use Scratch Jnr to program your own interactive stories and games. When we are doing this we are learning to solve problems, design projects, and be creative by using our computational thinking.

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

 This week is Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. We are practising greeting each other in Te Reo Māori.

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we created a story with 2 sprites meeting each other and greeting each other in Te Reo Māori. This is the start of our stories. We will continue with them next week.

We used Scratch Jnr which is an app on our iPads and you can download the app for free and use it on android tablets as well. You can use Scratch Jnr to program your own interactive stories and games. When we are doing this we are learning to solve problems, design projects, and be creative by using our computational thinking.

Here are 2 of our stories so far...

We Love Poems

 We love poems! We have a poem book so this week we recorded ourselves reading some of our poems.

Here is Jazmin's poems...

Tongan Language Week

 Room 7 love poems. Today they read a poem called "Mālō a lelei" for Tongan Language Week.

Here is Room 7 reading it together for the first time today.

We are Readers!

Room 7 love reading. We read every day. Today in our Cybersmart lesson we recorded ourselves reading our books that we read last week. Some of us worked in pairs because we could read the same book.

We took a photo of the page and record ourselves reading each page. We used Explain Everything to do this work.

What is your favourite book?

Here is Cole and Taylor-Rose reading their book.

Puppet Shows

This week in our Cybersmart lesson we carried on making puppet shows with our reading books.
Some of us worked with a buddy like Cole and Maycee. Here is their work.

Abiya worked on her book about "Dad's Snore". Here is her work.

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu

We have been in a Manaiakalani Programme called "Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu". It means - I write, you write.

We share our learning on our blog and other classes come and read our blog posts and comment on them.

We have got Room 3 @ Glen Innes School and Rūma Kererū @ Hokitika as our blogging buddies.

Here we are reading and commenting on blogs. We like looking at how many visitors we have had to our blog.

Puppet Shows

 Here are some more of our Puppet Shows.

To find out how we made them read our blog post here.

"No More Cupcakes" by Emmie and Juniper

"No More Cakes" by Ruby

Puppet Shows with Explain Everything

Today we were making puppet shows in Explain Everything.
We used a book we could read.
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 Frankie and Alayna's work. 
Can you see how carefully they cut around the characters?
Have you read this story? It is called "Dad's Snore".
 

Holidays by Room 7

We started our term 3 Cybersmart work by recording a part of the holiday that we liked.

We had to draw our name first using the pen tool in Explain Everything. Lots of us can do this really quickly now.

Then we drew our picture and recorded our voice.

Here is some of our work.

 Maycee and Chelsea

Chloe and Emmie
 

Matariki - by Izis

Today with Mrs Torrie we used the camera app on the iPad again.

We remembered how to use the drawing tool and 

write our name in different colours.

We also had to remember how to use the lasso tool so we could just have us in the photo.

When we got a photo of Matariki we recorded our voice.

Here is Izis' work.

Monsters in Room 7

On Friday we made monsters.

We made our Monsters with coloured paper.

Then today in Cybersmart with Mrs Torrie we used Explain Everything on the iPads. We used the camera app in Explain Everything to take a photo of our Monster.

We gave our Monster a name.

Bubble Sewing

We have done some Bubble sewing.

We have put them up on the wall with our Bubble Art.

Cybersmart Lesson

Today some of us worked with Mrs Torrie.

We used Explain Everything and used the drawing tools.

We wrote our name in different colours.

Playdough Song

We love doing the Playdough song. We have to freeze when it's time. We have to listen carefully. This is a picture of us being a blob of playdough, we come to life later and dance around the room.

Bubble Art

We started our return to school by creating Bubble Art.

We had to blow bubbles in the cups and then put the paper plate on top to get the bubbles.

Some of us made patterns with red and green bubbles.
It was a lot of fun blowing the bubbles. Although there was dishwash liquid, water and food colouring so we had to be careful not to suck it in!

Welcome Back to School

Today we returned to school and started the day with School Assembly on a Google Meet. 

We could see all the other classes on the screen.
We were looking forward to seeing our friends again. We could go on the playground, go in the sandpit and be active.

Here is an update on our learning and activities from Week 2!

Distance Learning Week 1

Room 7 have been learning at home while New Zealand is on Level 4 of Lockdown due to Covid-19.

We get our work from Mrs McConnachie. 

She puts it onto our class site here.

Then we send her photos and movies of what we have done.

Mrs Torrie has made some comments.
Mrs Torrie comes into Room 7 every week to teach us how to be Cybersmart
and how to us our iPads.

You can leave comments on our blog. We would love to hear what you think of our work.

Here is some of our work...

Where on the map is Room 7?

We had a comment form our blogging buddies - Room 3 @ Glen Innes School.
They said they had looked on Google Maps at our school.
They wanted to know which room we were in.
Here is a screenshot from Google Earth showing you where our classroom is.

Room 7 2020

"Today we took a photo of all of Room7" said Jazmin.
"We walked to the soccer field and stood by the gate" said Issac.
"We had to say underpants together when we had our photo taken" said Maihi.
"We had to run back to class after the photo" said Koby.

"Some of us sat on the gate and some of us stood up" said Jazmin.
"We walked down to the gate" said Maihi.
"We had our hats on because we are Sunsmart and an Enviro School " said Koby.
"On the other side of the gate is the native plant area and the creek" said Isaac.

Today's authors: 

Jazmin, Koby, Maihi, Isaac

Nau mai, haere mai

Welcome to our class blog.

We look forward to sharing our learning with our school,

our whānau and friends everywhere.