Today we went on our end of year trip to Inflatable World (in the morning), the Rolleston Reserve (for our picnic lunch), and to the Selwyn Aquatic Centre (for the afternoon). It was an awesome day!! Thank you so much to our amazing parent helpers who came along with us to help.
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Mrs Jones introduced us to an amazing new app called Colarmix. We had to colour in some pictures and then we used the app on the iPad to make the pictures come to life and turn into 3D. Here is a little YouTube clip about the app. Here are some photos of us discovering what happened when we used the iPad on our pictures. You can get the App from the App store or Google Play store. This is the website: http://www.colarmix.com/ There are in-app purchases that cost money but there are free aspects (that's what we used today). In Room 12 we like to celebrate success. We have a wall dedicated to our achievements in our learning and assessments.
We have just put up some of our Term 4 results - the top 3 in each year level and the class overall, plus the biggest improvements since last term. Children love to share these with their parents. This term we have a Google Chromebooks as our theme for our learning goals. We made these on a Google Doc and then Mrs Jones put them on the computer screen picture. Today the NZ Army came to school for breakfast. They used our Kids Can cans of baked beans, spaghetti and fruit to make us breakfast. They let us sit in, climb on and ride in their vehicles. They even had some guns for us to try out. It was such a fun morning. The kapa haka and choir performed for the soldiers at the end. They said they were a bit scared of the haka! The lovely people from Snappz Apples gave us some free samples this week! Yummy!! Today was very exciting - we launched into Google Apps for Education and we have 15 Chromebooks to trial in Room 12. We all have our very own google account (email address) to log into our Google drive. Today we learnt how to check our emails, open and read an email, and reply to an email. Mrs Jones had emailed us!! Today we also found that Mrs Jones had shared the Room 12 weekly plan for Week 1 with us so we could see what is happening this week. We used Google docs twice today - to begin to write a recount of our school holidays, and to write (with the help of last terms evaluated goals) this terms learning goals. Mrs Jones showed us how she can check our work and check what we are up to from her Teacher Dashboard on her laptop. It was a very exciting day! In the recent school holidays I was fortunate to attend the ULearn Conference in Rotorua.
The ULearn Conference is an annual event for educators' to learn and develop, focusing on the latest trends and innovation in education from around the globe and includes renowned global presenters and speakers. ULearn provides the opportunity to network and connect with like-minded educators. Today for Ukelele Chelsea videoed us performing 4 of our songs, for Uke Factor. Paul is going to choose a winning class. |