Me & My Favourite Things

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we talked about personal information that we can share online and private information that we should not share.

We also learned how to find Creative Commons images using our iPads so we could save them and use them in iMovies. We used the Tools > Usage Rights to find these images.

We put 3 of our favourite things into iMovies. Then we made a movie using our camera app on our iPad with us talking about our favourite things. In iMovies we could put the image and our movie together using a feature called "picture in picture". Wow! The results are stunning.

Here are some of our movies.

Being Sunsmart

Today we made movies about Sunsmart at St Mary's School. We used iMovie on our iPad. We started by taking photos of us being sunsmart. We added the photos to iMovie then recorded ourselves. Some of us were able to add a title to our movie and the author's names.

What do you do to be sunsmart?

Here are some of our movies...

Turning Photos into a Video

 We were using our edited photos to make a video in or Cybermart lesson. We have already used the photos to make a collage in Explain Everything so now we used the same photos again.

This time we used iMovie on our iPads. It was really quick to import our photos and then record our voice as well. 

Have you ever made a video? What was your video about?

Here is Nehoa's video. Can you hear his clear voice? Ka pai Nehoa!

 

Here is Leitu's video. She made 2 recordings in her video. Her voice is clear as well. Ka pai! 

Creating a Photo Collage

 Today we used our edited photos from last week and made a collage with them.

We made a new Explain Everything project but just had one page in the project. We renamed our project before working on it.

Because we had saved our photos to our Drive we could import them into Explain Everything.

We placed our photos on the page and made a colourful background for them. Then we had to save our work as an image into our Drive.

Phew! What a lot of steps! But we did it!

Here are some of our collages. Do you like the coloured backgrounds?

Creating Original Media

 Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were learning about creating original media. That means that if we create it, we own it and we can share it and use it wherever we want to.

We took a selfie using the camera app on our iPad and we edited it using the tools on our iPad. We had to duplicate our photo so our original one stays the same. On our duplicates we used the filters and found the "Noir" filter to make a black and white version. Then we found the Markup tool and used the Magnifier to make our eyes larger. This was a lot of fun.

We had to upload our photos from our iPad to our Drive as well. We are getting really good at doing this.

Here is a collage of Alatini's 3 photos...

Here is a collage of India's photos...

Maths Quiz

Do you like Maths? Room 6 loves Maths! Today we made a maths quiz in Scratch Jnr. 

We had to think of a maths equation then create 2 incorrect answers and one correct answer. We had to code it so the player would know if they had chosen the right answer. We had to also think of a kind way to tell the player that they had chosen the incorrect answer. 

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.

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

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

Insects Playing - Scratch Jnr

 Today we continued creating our story in Scratch Jnr. We added a second scene and coded it to change scenes. We put ourselves in a a sprite as well with our face in the sprite. we did this in the Paint editor and used the camera.

Here is Charlotte's story...

Here is India's story...

Stories in Scratch Jnr

 This week in our Cybersmart lesson we were learning how to create a story in Scratch Jnr. 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. 

Today we were starting a story with 2 sprites meeting each other. Here is JC's work. Can you hear how he has made the 2 voices different? Ka pai JC!

Bug house visit

This week we visited our school bug house as part of our inquiry unit on creatures!

3 Little Pigs Puppet Show

 We have been reading "The 3 Little Pigs" in Room 6. 

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we made a Puppet Show in Explain Everything. We had to remember how to take a photo and lasso only the bits we wanted. Today we learned how to use the scalpel tool to do this. We cut the characters out carefully like a surgeon. Then we animated our characters and recorded our voices to make the puppet show. We tried to make our voices different for each character. 

Here is Kymani's Puppet Show. Mrs Torrie made a video with it. Can you see how carefully he cut out the characters?

Kawa of Care

In today's Cybersmart lesson we went over our Kawa of Care.
One new thing we learnt was that we need to be careful when taking our headphone out of the iPad. We need to hold the hard plug to pull them out.

We used Explain Everything and took photos of a buddy using their iPad correctly.
We had to remember where to find the camera and how to lasso only the parts we wanted.

Here are some of the photos from our work today. 

Creating Animations

Today in our Cybersmart lesson with Mrs Torrie we were learning how to make animations with Explain Everything.

Ollie made all the things move and he recorded his voice to tell us what was happening. Here is his animation.

Cybersmart Lesson & the letter 'P'

This week we were leanring how to download our Explain Everything projects 

from the Room 6 class site onto our iPads.

We did some work about the letter 'P'.

Here is Leitu's work...

3D Shapes

We made 3D shapes.
We used out iPads and Explain Everything.
We took a photo of our shape and added our text by using Dictation on our iPad.
We talk into ur iPad and it types the words for us.

Adrian's 3D Shapes

 Isabella's 3D Shapes

 Laney's 3D Shapes

Cybersmart Lesson - Typing with our Voice

Did you know you can type using your voice on an iPad?

We can!

We look for the microphone on the keyboard and 

we say what we want to write.

The words come onto the page and then we can move them around 

and make them bigger and smaller.

Here is Charlotte's work...

Room 6 Photo

Here we are!

Room 6 love learning with their iPads.

We're learning how to use Eplain Everything.

Mrs Torrie calls us the Explain Everything Experts.

Our Lockdown Heroes

Today we were crating a medal for our Lockdown Hero.
We used Explain everything on the iPads to do this.
Here is some of our work...

Alison's work...  

Mia's work... 

Bouncing Eggs

Mrs Steele has set a science experiment for us to do.
Here are our bouncing eggs.
Have you ever tried to do this? How did it go?
What science experiments do you like doing?

Distance Learning Week 1 & 2

Here is some of your work from our first 2 weeks of learning at home.

Cybersmart - iPad care

When we return our iPads we line up and put them in the basket being careful to match the numbers.

How do you look after your device?

Cybesmart - the Camera App

We have been using the Camera App on our iPads.

We had to take a selfie.

Then we had to find 5 round things in our class to take a photo of.

What round things have you got in your class?

Cybersmart - Hug Hold

When we are using our iPads we must remember to use the 

Hug Hold when we move around with them.

Do you think we are doing it properly?

Cybersmart - iPad labels

We know that we should only use the iPad with our photo on it.

Our photo also has our name on it as well.

Nau mai, haere mai

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