Our Filming Project

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Room 9 is making a stop animation movie called Neptune's Kingdom.  Stop animation is where you move a character a tiny little bit, take a photo, then move it again.  You have to this heaps of times! We are learning a lot about green screening, when you drop a different background into a movie.  We have only done it once before as part of the Flick it On film project.   One group has been filming one scene this morning.  Its takes a long time but its worth it.

E - Learning walkthrough

Today we are having teachers and principles from schools in Nelson.  Our class are teaching different
visitors the stuff that Miss Watts taught us. We showed other people our learning.  We had to teach others by using heaps of detail and explaining really well, listening to their ideas, being confident, sharing a smile and making their day. We were proud of what we achieved today!      

• how to green screen
• shared our learning in 'Flick It On'
• greeted the visitors
• making choices discussion
• bubbl.us
• Activating prior knowledge through drawing

Writing Exciting Adventure Stories

In Room 9 we have been writing stories.  First we read lots of stories and had lots of discussion about what was in each story and what made them great!  Then we had a go at writing stories with Miss Watts' help.  Today we brainstormed all the things we needed to make a great story!

Story Structure:

1. Title - a short bit of information about the story
2. Orientation - describe who, when, where and why (don't give too much away)
3. Complication - describe the problem, ask a question to create a climax
4. Resolution - solve the problem, describe a happy or a sad ending 

WOW words

1. Onomatopoeia 
2. Alliteration
3. Exciting verbs
4. Adverbs - describe how, when or where the verbs happen
5. Adjectives - describe what nouns (things/objects or people) look, feel or sound like

Use punctuation

1. Ellipsis... to create a pause make it exciting and create tension
2. Exclamation marks  - to make it exciting 
3. Full stops & capital letters

Type of sentences

1. Choose different words to start sentences
2. Short sentences to create excitement and tension
3. Long sentences to describe characters, setting, action, emotions, feeling (can be short)

Film Premiere

On Saturday night we went to the premiere of the Kids Can Film Festival.  We walked down a red carpet because we had made the movies!  The winners got to ride to the premiere in a fancy car. We felt proud of ourselves as we walked into the cinema.    We were a little nervous about watching our own films on the big screen but when we watched them they were amazing.  It reminded us of how much fun we had at the Kid Can Film Festival making them.  We felt really famous going down the red carpet.

Film Festival Fun

We have been learning to take different shots and we were having allot of fun. In this class there are three special kids who got chosen for the film festival and their names were Tyler, Madison and Charlotte.  We  were doing lots of fun stuff ! We were put in to different teams.  Madison and Tyler were in Hot Shots and Charlotte was in the Temeku Tuatara. Our theme to make a movie was change because we started off as normal kids and changed into film makers. Each team had to think of a different type of change to make a movie about. There were a lot of other studetns from other schools that we have made friends with.  When  Mrs. McRobert (Kellie) ask us what our favourite thing at the Film Festival, Tyler said making  new friends, making movies and having lots and lots of FUN! 

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Weaving with my aunty Nicole

On Sunday I went to my aunty Nicole, Bill and their little baby Leon`s house.  We did weaving with flax.  At first it was almost easy but at the end it was fun.  My brother Ben made a little cup, and Ben can put water in it so he can drink out of it.  My other brother Luke made a fish.  Luke put beads on it for eyes. My aunty Nicole  has a book of  all the things that you can do with flax. The book is the same as Mrs Paurini's.

Skip Counting With The Koura Team

We have been learning to skip count in 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s.  Skip counting is your times tables.  We have been using arrays to help us.  We wrote on our whiteboards 4 rows of 3 equals 12.  Then we swapped it around and did 3 rows of 4 equals 12.  We discovered it was the same answer!  Wow!



What is a good digital citizen?

A digital citizen is a confident and capable user of ICT

What does this mean to Room 9?

A confident and capable user of ICT means you feel comfortable using the computer.  Capable means you can do it easily!  Our class is good at blogging, using Skype, PhotoStory3 and Windows Movie Maker.  We also love using the iPad.  We can use our IWB and our class camera.  We are also getting good at sharing our learning on Voicethread with the world.

Comprehension Skills

We have been practicing our comprehension skills in reading lessons. One of the skills we practiced was called visualising. Our teacher read us a description of an animal. We had to listen and draw the picture that was created in our heads. Watch our movie to find out what creature we had to visualise.

Recorder

We looked at the role of Recorder.  We think that a Recorder would:

• Take photographs, videos or write down the team ideas

A Recorder would say:

• "Slow down, I can only write one idea at a time!"
• "That's a good idea, lets write it down."