Kapa Haka iMovies by Room 6

 Last week we has our Kapa Haka performances. Usually we go to the Showgrounds and perform on the stage for everyone to see.

Because we are still under Covid-19 restrictions we couldn't have an audience and we had to do this at school. 

Here are some of our movies we created with photos from the day.

Kapa Haka Junior School Performance

 You can watch our Kapa Haka performance here.

St Mary's Junior Kapa Haka 2021 from Sarah Kirkpatrick Photography on Vimeo.

We Are a Green Gold Enviro School

 Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were celebrating being a Green Gold Enviro School.

Our job is to look after the compost and empty our scraps into it each day. We all have turns.

We went and took some photos today and created an iMovie to show some of the projects we have done at our school. <Lots of us could do the whole thing without any help from others. 

How do you look after the environment?

Her are some of our movies. The creator's name is at the beginning fo their movie.

Celebrating Me!

Today we were using iMovies to create a video to celebrate some of the things we are good at and the things we are proud of this year in Room 6.

 We used iMovie. We made titles to start our video. We added a Picture-in-Picture (PiP) video of ourselves to the title. We took photos of your work to add to iMovie. 

What are you proud of this year? 

Here is some of our work. Their names are in the title of the video.

Being Sunsmart

We are a Sunsmart school! 
This term we have to wear our hat outside every time we go out of the classroom. 
We all have our own hat. 

Our hats protect us from the UV Rays of the Sun.

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we used iMovie on our iPads to create a video about Being Sunsmart.

What do you do at your school to be Sunsmart?

Watch our videos to see what else we do at our school to be Sunsmart.

Term 4 - Welcome back Mrs Lemaire

 Miss Armstrong is moving to Room 11 in Term 4.

Mrs Lemaire is returning to Room 6

Sticky Question #2

 Last week we started learning about how to comment on blogs. We published our comments. Did you see them all? Some of our whānau commented as well.

This week we are practising again on our own class blog and we are going to answer another sticky question. 

We have to be positive, thoughtful and helpful.

We have to write it like a letter and we must remember to add our name so we know who wrote the comment.

Which one would you like to do? And remember to tell us why.

Sticky Question

 This week we are learning how to comment on blogs. 

We have to be positive, thoughtful and helpful.

We have to write it like a letter and we must remember to write our name at the end.

We are going to answer this sticky question today to practise commenting.

Which one would you like to do? And remember to tell us why.

Blogging Competition Results

 We have finished our blogging competition.

Here are the final results...

Toroa

Today we were learning how to search for images on our iPad and 

then insert them into Explain Everything.

We searched for Toroa because one of our blogging buddies is Team Toroa in Wigram.

We used Dictation to help us search.

We found some really great photos. 

Here is some of our work.

Museum of Transport & Technology

 We went to the Museum of Transport and Technology to look at all the old things there.

We made an iMovie about our trip. 

We had to learn how to save photos from Google Photos and then use them in iMovie. 

We learned how to make a title slide. 

We recorded our voice as well. 

Blogging Competition Update

 

Museum Trip

As part of our Inquiry unit on The Past, The Present and The Future, Room 6 took a trip to the Museum of Technology. We had a wonderful time exploring all the olden day treasures. There were heaps and heaps of things to look at. These are just a few of the things we saw.  Hudson was super excited to find a soap brand with his name! 
 

Toroa

 One of our blogging buddies is Toroa Year 1 class at Wigram School.

We asked them what Toroa meant and they sent us a reply...

Kia ora Room 6,
Thank you for your comment and questions about our learning. We have learnt lots of things about Toroa. 

• They mainly live around New Zealand. 
• They are white and black birds with a yellowy beak. 
• They can fly really fast. 
• Toroa eat small fish and squid and can live for up to 60 years! 
• Their wings can be up to 3 metres wide.

We wanted to see how wide their wings are so we measured 3 metres on the floor with some students. We found out that 3 metres is as long a 2 and a half children.

Have you ever seen a Toroa?

Blogging Competition Update

 

Past & Present

 We are studying "Past, Present and Future" at school this term.

We looked at how things have changed over time and found some images of them. 

Have you got any old-fashioned or vintage technology at your home?

Here is Tai's work...

Here is Jazmine's work...

 

 Here is Scarlette's work...

Spiders

 We have been learning about Spiders.

What do you know about Spiders?

How many different kinds of spiders do you know?

Here is Charlotte's work on spiders

Take a look at Scarlette's work on spiders.

Welcome to Leo

 We welcome Leo who has joined Room 6 this term.

Blogging Competition Update

Last week we started our blogging competition. Here is an update.

How can we get more people from other countries to visit our blog?

Blogging Competition

Room 5 and Room 6 are having a race to see 

which class blog can register the most visitors 

and 

the biggest number of countries that the visitors come from.

On our class blogs we have a globe which counts the countries 

and a counter to keep track of the page visitors.

We will update the scores each week on the class blogs.

Click through the slides to see our scores from this week.

The Holidays

Today we used Explain Everything to create a video about our holidays. 

We learned how to do an image search in Explain Everything and to use dictation for the search terms. Then we inserted text by using dictation as well. We included food we ate, places we went and activities we did. 

 Mrs Torrie called us Explain Everything experts today because we could open and new project and rename it all by ourselves. Then at the end we could save our project to our Cybersmart folder in our Drive. Ka pai! 

What did you do in the holidays? 

by Chelsea

ByLenore  

By Georgie  

by Rafael

Patterns

 Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were using Explain Everything again. 

We were learning how to draw shapes, fill with colour and duplicate to make patterns. We duplicated the shape by using the Inspector Tool. That meant we didn't need to draw the shape again and they were exactly the same.

After making our first pattern some of us had a go at creating our own patterns with different colours.

Here is some of our work.

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 around New Zealand and find our schools.

Earthquake Drill

Today we practised what to do when we feel an earthquake. Everyone knew to make a turtle! Kai pai room 6.

Kawa of Care

 Room 6 have been working hard on being Smart Learners and following the Kawa of Care 
when they are using their iPads.

Here is our Kawa of Care so far. We will add to it as we talk about the other things we need to do.

Who Am I?

 Today we were learning about only using our first names when we are using our devices.

We were using our iPads and had to take a photo of ourselves. 

Then we wrote our name in many colours. 

Then we had to record ourselves saying our name. 

We had to remember to start recording and stop recording!

We have worked on our Kawa of Care and know how to "hug and hold" 

when moving around with our iPads. 

Here we are walking with our iPads to put them away today.

Singing in Room 6

 We love to sing every morning. 

We are learning lots of new songs in Room 6. 

What songs do you like?

Here is a photo of us signing this morning. 

The song is on the screen for us to follow along with.

Welcome to Room 6 in 2021

Kia ora koutou! Welcome to our Room 6 blog for 2021. 
We are a lively bunch of learners who will be using iPads to Learn Create and Share. 
What do you like learning about?
How do you share your learning?
Here is our class with our teacher - Mrs Lemaire.