Look at Our Pictures

This week we drew dinosaurs using Kid Pix. Can you name some of them?
Look at some of the special features we drew on our dinosaurs.
By Tahnee

By Thomas

By Ofa

By Talia

By Soobin

By Simon

Matthew

By Rio

By Michael

By Isabella

Maggie


Rio


Soobin

What has Rio made from a box?

Not a Box

We recently read a book called "Not a Box"
We used our imaginations and thought of what the 'box' below could be. The pictures were drawn on a programme called KidPix by the children.

Look at this picture...

Believe it or not, it is not a box...

Look carefully, can you see the 'box' in our podcasts?

This is what Talia, Tahnee, Sanha, Rio and Matthew think it is...

This is what Ofa, Miguel and Maggie think....


What do Joel, Eden and Angelina think?

Paper Plane Fun!!!

An exciting experience was created to motivate children for writing...
Watch this movie and look at the fun we all had.


Enjoy the cinquain poems we wrote after we made and flew paper planes. It was a fun experience shared by the whole class. We thought of some exciting words we could use in our poems. Listen to the adjectives and similes we brainstormed together as a class.

Eden, Matthew and Bea read their cinquain poems.

Tahnee, Rio and Chalmers share their poems

The Sporty Bear Cub's Problem. By Rio

This is a narrative written by Rio.
After listening to the story, see if you can you answer these question.
What adjectives did he use to describe the hole?
Why was the bear confused?
Who was in the hole?

Finding Ways to Classify Our Toys

This week we looked at how we could classify the toys we had in the classroom. The children used a programme called Inspiration to classify their selected toys. look to see how the children have classified their chosen toys. Click on the pictures below to make them bigger and get a closer look.

Chalmers

Joel

Rio and Esuru

Michael

Thomas

Esuru

Photos of Our Favourite Toys

Rio, Jun-Ki, Esuru and Bea took their own photos of a favourite toy and then labelled some of the special features on Kid Pix. Look at the adjectives they have used to describe their toy.

Rio's car

Jun-Ki's Lego

Esuru's Hot Wheels

Bea's frog

Our Favourite Toys

This term our inquiry is Toys Over Time. We will be learning about how toys have changed from the past till now.
This week we used the class digital camera to take photos of our favourite
toys. We learned to 'zoom in', 'zoom out' and to focus our photo.
Listen to our podcasts about our favourite toys.

Cinquain Poems by Matthew, Eden and Rio

Matthew, Eden and Rio have recorded their cinquain poems about their Wild Things

Our Swimming Carnival

Last week the Juniors had their swimming carnival. Listen to these recounts by Rio, Reika and Tahnee.



How well did you listen?
How fast did Rio swim ?
How did Reika describe the water?
What felt funny for Tahnee?

Our Friendly 'Wild Things'

In music and drama we have been exploring moving like a 'Wild Thing' . We explored stomping, slithering, sliding, crawling and prancing.
The children also designed their own 'Wild Things' on a programme called Kidpix.
Click on an image to make it bigger and see the expression on our faces! We had fun doing this. Keep watching, there are more pictures to come.

Chalmers and his 'Wild Thing'

Rio doing a wild rumpus with his 'Wild Thing'

Miguel having fun with his 'Wild Thing'

Joel and his 'Wild Thing' are having fun

Bea is stomping around with her 'Wild Thing'

Matthew looks more scary than HIS 'Wild Thing'

The 'Wild Rumpus'

Imagine doing a 'wild rumpus' with wild things.... Look at our pictures done by blue screening.....
Click on any picture to make it bigger and see the expressions on our faces.
Bea
Rio
Esuru

Poems about Ourselves

We wrote poems ourselves and what we like doing. The children recorded these themselves using a flip video camera. It was our first time, some of us were feeling a bit nervous.......
Sophrana and Matthew

Rio and Chalmers

Using Wordle

Today some children explored using 'Wordle' on the computers. We thought of adjectives to describe ourselves. Look at the ones done so far...keep watching this spot there are more to come!