Dragonflies

 When we were studying the river, we had a poem for the week about Dragonflies.

This week in our Cybersmart lesson we completed this Explain Everything project about Dragonflies.

Listen to the class read our poem together.

Here is Mack's work. He knows lots about Dragonflies.

And here is Olivia's work. She also knows lots about Dragonflies.

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu - Nō hea koe?

Nō hea koe? 
Where are you from? 

We are in a Manaiakalani programme called Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu. 

We have got 2 blogging buddies. 
We take turns at reading each other's blogs and commenting on the posts.

Here are our 3 schools. 

Have you been to the places where these schools are? 

St Mary's Catholic Primary School is in Tūranganui A Kiwa/Gisborne.

Matawai School is in Tairāwhiti. 

Wigram School is in Christchurch | Otautahi.

Let's fly over New Zealand and find the schools.

River Visit

 We went to Korte's Creek to look at the river and all the things that live and grow there.

We used Explain Everything on our iPad to make a project about our visit. We drew the living things we found. We took photos of some of the insects we found. We used the lasso tool to cut around the image. We recorded our voices to tell you about our images. 

Here is Ollie's video. He has used a very clear voice. 

Ka pai tō mahi Ollie!

This is Me

 This week in or Cybersmart lesson with Mrs Torrie we used our iPad camera to take a selfie. Then we edited the image and drew on it to give ourselves sunglasses and sunhats for the summer.

Then we added the images to Explain Everything and recorded our voice. What a lot of work we did today.

Here is Indie's work. 

Room 1 2021

This is Room 1 of Matawai School.

Our teacher is Mrs Fisher.

Every Monday Mrs Torrie comes and we learn how to use our iPads.

Today we made a project about the building.

They are building two new classrooms.

When they are built Room 3 and Room 4 are going to be demolished and 

they will be move into the new classrooms.

Things I like

 Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were leanring how to find images that we are allowed to use. We saved the images and then we made a movie with them. 

Here is Kyle's movie. He likes lots of things. What do you like?

Sunsmart

 At Matawai School we have to wear a sunhat in term 1 and term 4. We all have school hats to wear. Our hats hang up in the corridor when we are not wearing them. As well as this we sit in the shade to eat. We took photos of each other eating our lunch in the shade. We took a photo of a place we like to play as well. 

Here are some of our movies about being sunsmart. 

Editing and Labelling Photos

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were editing photos. We took a selfie and used the editing tools on our iPad. We were able to use filters, draw with a pen and found the magnifying glass. That was a lot of fun!

Then we put our photos together in Explain Everything. 

We had taken a photo of your "Spud in a Bucket" yesterday so we learned how to label the photo in Explain Everything.

Here are Ruby's photos...

Maths Quiz

Today we created a Maths Quiz in Scratch Jnr.

Scratch Jnr is an app where we can  program our own interactive stories and games. While we are doing this we are learning to solve problems, design projects, and express ourselves creatively. 
We use our computational thinking to design a digital outcome. We have to test our code to make sure our sprites do what we want them to. If they need fixing we are "debugging". 

Scratch Jnr runs on an iPad or an android tablet. Click here to download the free app.

Today we had to think of a maths equation then create 2 incorrect answers and one correct answer. Then we had to code it so the player would know if they had chosen the right answer. 

Here is Angus' work. This is a screen recording so it is not interactive but it shows how the quiz works.

Storytelling with Scratch Jnr

 We have been creating stories in Scratch Jnr. 

We had 2 sprites in our story and they were greeting each other then going to play a game. We had to code each sprite to move, to talk and to wait. Some of us could make them bounce! 

We had to make 2 different scenes and code the story to move to the second scene. We had to code and test our story as we worked on each sprite and each scene.  We had to debug if the sprites did not do what we wanted them to. 

Reading

 This week we practised our reading by recording ourselves in Explain Everything.

We took photos of the pages so you can see what we were reading. 

Here is Mack's reading...

Here is Mana's reading...

Creating with Shapes

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were learning how to make shapes with shapes.

We worked out how to draw a triangle using the free draw tool in Explain Everything. It was tricky because we had to join the corners.  We put an image as a background as well.

Here is Lachie's house. Can you see which part of his house he used a triangle for? I like the way he added a letterbox as well.

 

Puppet Show

Today we were crating Puppet Shows from our reading book with Explain Everything.
We had to take photos of the book and use the scalpel tool to cut out the characters.
Then we made our characters talk and move.

Here is Mack's Puppet Show. 

Can you see how carefully he used the scalpel tool? 

Ka pai to mahi Mack!

Kawa of Care

Today in our Cybersmart lesson with Mrs Torrie we went over our Kawa of Care.
We thought about how we look after our iPad and the things we do when we are using them.
We took photos of a buddy doing the right thing and we recorded ourselves.
We had to say what the Cybersmart thing was that they were doing.

Here is Angus' work.
Can you hear his voice? He is speaking very clearly. Ka pai Angus!

Creating Animations

Today in our Cybersmart lesson with Mrs Torrie we created animations in Explain Everything.

We made the objects move with our fingers 

and we recorded our voices at the same time.

Here is Hunter P's work.

Explain Everything & recording our voice

This week we worked on recording our voice.
We had to take a selfie by turning the camera around.
We had to make sure our shutter button wasn't on the same side as our camera.
We had to use the lasso tool to crop the photo.
And then when we got our photo on our page we had to record our voice.
What a lot of new learning for us all!

Cybersmart with iPads

Our new iPads have arrived.
We have to remember to only use the iPads with our photo and name on it.

Being Cybersmart - Hug Hold & iPads

We use our Hug Hold when moving around with our iPads.

We were taking photos of round things in our class.

We had to move around lots so we used our Hug Hold.

Creating in Explain Everything

We were being creative in Explain Everything 

when we worked with Mrs Torrie on Being Cybersmart.

This is an app we can use for lots of things.

Today we were drawing in Explain Everything.

Being Cybersmart

We have started our work with Mrs Torrie about Being Cybersmart.

Today we worked on taking quality photos 

with the Camera App on our iPads.

We had to take a selfie as well.

Then we had to take photos of 5 round things.

We found lots of round things in Room 1.

Taking photos with our iPads

I wonder what these learners found to take photos of?