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

Inference

Yesterday, Room 9 read a book called 'Big White and Little Red Hen'. Miss Watts asked us to make our own chicken inferences. Inference means looking between the lines and explaining why you think that. You have to get clues from what your read in the book. This is Braedan's inference:

I think Harriet will send Little Red to Tiegal if she continues to make a mess. I think Big White feels happy because Little Red shared her nest.

This is Trent's inference:

I think harriet will send Little Red to Tiegal if she continues to make a mess. I think this because Big White cracked the eggs that Little Red laid but Harriet does not realise this. I think Big White feels happy when Little Red lets Big White share her nest and saves from the fox.  Big White stops being mean to Little Red.

Tapa Cloth

Personalize your own free picture collage

First we folded the paper into 16 parts. Then we looked at different designs and use the ideas to do our own designs. We did this in pencil.

Our Green Screen Problem Solving!

We had a few problems with the green screening! We had to fix the problems.

1. We had a green tuatara and it blended in with the green screen
2. We couldn't use any yellow objects on the green screen

We didn't give up! Miss Watts helped us solve the problems. She played around with the photos and background for us.

Next time we green screen we will need to use different colours for the characters (except yellow!) When we make stop animation we will need to make small movies and then add them to the background of the green screen.

Flick It On

Our class has been learning to green screen for a project called Flick It On. First we made a story about heroes. Then we turned it into a storyboard. After that we took pictures and imported them into iMovie. Finally we edited it and made it into a movie. We learnt how to be camera people and animators. Animators move the models a little bit and the camera people took the pictures. We had to take hundreds of pictures!

Listen To Our Stories!

Watch this space! This week we will record some of our adventure stories. We hope you enjoy listening to them!

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)

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