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