Videos for our Epals in Texas - How We Play!

The class brainstormed, storyboarded, filmed and edited these videos using the iMovie app on the ipads.  While we prefer the mac version for it's extra features and editing tools, the ipad version is quick to use and the video footage is easily accessible.

As we having been emailing our Epals in Texas, we thought we'd show them our playground and some of the games that we play.


How We Play Handball from Room 9 on Vimeo.

How We Play Hoopster from Room 9 on Vimeo.

How We Play Gauntlet from Room 9 on Vimeo.

How We Play Bullrush from Room 9 on Vimeo.

Making our own Hacky Sacks

Last week our student teachers Miss Smith and Miss Singh helped us to make our own Hacky Sacks using just balloons and rice.  You would think that we would make a big mess, as we sometimes do, but the plastic bottles acted as a funnel - so not much mess made at all!

Watch this space for some examples of our instructional writing.  You'll be able to follow our carefully written instructions word for word, and make your own Hacky Sacks to perfection - well that's the plan!

Instructions by Amber

Amber and Thailand

Amber's blogpost

Well, this my thrid blogpost and this time it's not a powerpoint it's about, that I'm going to Thailand in the hoildays and I'm really exicted I'm staying at a hotal called "charba"and it has the cooliest the really pool and yummy thai food and I'll share one of my favourite thai dishes (by the way it's called thai red chicken curry) this is my recipe below:

Dissecting flowers

It's always great to clear up any misunderstandings or misconceptions during a science lesson - flowers have petals not pedals - those belong on a bike! I'm sure glad we cleared that one up.

For our first exploring session, we used magnifying glasses to look at a variety of flowers that Mrs Watson kindly brought in to us.  We considered and discussed questions that got us really taking a closer look and tapping in to what we already know about flowers or what we think we know!

For our second session we kicked off with a class brainstorm sharing our knowledge of the different flower parts.  It was apparent that we knew flowers had petals, a stem, stamen and stigmas and pollen.  That's all the parts right?  Well so we thought, until we compared our brainstorm with a labelled flower diagram.

Take a look at our pic collages (ipad app) of what other flower parts we discovered as we carefully dissected our flowers:

Some of our favourite vids :)

An inspirational video to get us out of a rut!








Thought-provoking videos on sustainability:


Arboraceous from The Outlook for Someday on Vimeo.



Renno from The Outlook for Someday on Vimeo.




The Bin Mistake from The Outlook for Someday on Vimeo.

We ran our Senior School assembly today...

...and did a fantastic job!  So much more confidence since our production!  Big ups to Room 9 for presenting your parts with confident voices and looking up at the audience occasionally!

A super shout out to our Techies - Amber and Jack who set up our sound system and laptop.  Amber made sure our video and projections were timed perfectly and Jack's job was to ensure the volume of the mic and video were ear friendly!

Our newsreport crew - Holly, Jack and Amber through a video clip, introduced Room 9's learning "news report" style and set the tone for our assembly as a reporter/interviewee situation.

Our gymnastics experts Emma H, Maya, Kobe, Toby and Nathan C deserve a special mention for showcasing their skills:
forwards rolls, forward straddle rolls, dive rolls, backwards rolls, backwards straddle rolls, handstands into forward rolls, back handsprings, back flips and a round off into a back hand spring!  Just to be specific!

Ka mau te wehi Room 9!



Here is our opening vid - we like the music - Gold by Owl City.




As Good As Gold from JB on Vimeo.

What famous event happened on your Birthday?

With the help of Google's brain and the instant magic of VoiceMail, a few Home-Learning enthusiasts sent me these tidbits:

Recording by Amber

Recording by Devon

Recording by Emma M

Recording by Maya

Recording by Jim

Historical or Current Figures we Admire

One of our powerpoint experts has been at it again! This time sharing her thoughts on Nelson Mandela. Enjoy :)

Nelson Mandela - My Hero from Educ8JB

Wonderless Alice Production

Wearable Arts

Last Friday 3 classes took a trip to the museum to check out the Wearable Arts Exhibition.  While we couldn't take photos of the costumes, we were able to take photos of the fabulous head pieces we made to show off under UV light.

Through this activity we learned there are many different techniques we can use to change a plain piece of paper (+ sellotape & scissors) into a funky piece of wearable art!

Also having seen the costume exhibition and delving more into what the inspiration was for some of them, I think we are ready to see where our collective creative minds will take us.

The UV glow moment!

Exercises to Energise

The words on the page start to blur, our eyes narrow and our eyelids droop, slowly, slowly they close... until we find ourselves staring at the inside of our eyelids...  Wake up!  Time for an Energiser!

Here's an example of an energizer that Jack and Joel got us right into:



A Class Energiser... from JB on Vimeo.

Drab to Fab - our painted desk for the Cultural Festival auction

 

Sharing my culture with the class by Amber

Michelle (my mum) came in and helped me share my culture with room 9 (I think they enjoyed it!).  My family comes from South Africa.  We bought some foods (billtong, cooked sisters, and super C's yum!).  We talked about Nelson Mandela he was in jail for 27 years and was fighting for his freedom and for black people to vote. We shared some stories about snakes under the bed. I also made a powerpoint about African Animals which you can see below. 

By Amber

African Animals by Amber from Educ8JB

Captured moments - Waihi Trip

Our expert photographers from Room 9 and 10 were hard at work, taking turns to snap away...

Here are some of their fabulous shots: