The Chicks Have Hatched!

 When we got to school on Tuesday we found that some of our chickens had hatched. Some were fluffy and some were wet. The wet ones had just hatched. We saw some eggs with cracks in them and little tiny beaks sticking out.

We took some photos and videos of the chicks in the incubator and made a movie about them. Some of us are taking chicks home with us.

Here are some of our movies.

Olivia's movie...  

Jack's movie 

 

Lachie's movie... 

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!