Gala prep

We have started creating our magical wands to sell at the Gala on 19 September. We put hot glue onto chopsticks and then painted them. They're looking pretty fantastic!!

Abracadabra!!!

Happy birthday!!

Happy birthday today to Liam!!

And I think I forgot to post Jade and Josh's birthday pics so here they are!

 Happy belated birthday Josh!

Happy birthday Jade!!

20 minute Tuesday

I love how my class loves to read!!! We have "20 minute Tuesday" every Tuesday after lunch where the children get 20 minutes of uninterrupted reading of a chapter book.  By Year 5 one of our reading goals is to be able to read silently for 20 minutes. I think  everyone in our class can confidently check off that goal!! 

Fractions and Movies

Today we learnt how to make stop motion movies while demonstrating a fact about fractions.  Here are some photos of us at work. Finished movies to follow below.

Link to YouTube Stop Motion Fractions movie

The Stop Motion app we used is available for free on your iphone or ipad.  It's super easy to use!

Cross country

A great day for a run and a wee bit of mud!

Congratulations to Ben for placing third! Well done Ben!!  An added bonus to his win was being congratulated by All Blacks' Keven Meleamu. 

Fractions

We are learning how to write improper fractions as mixed numbers. 

Collaborative problem solving

Today we were put into random groups and given the task to build the tallest free standing structure using only newspaper and 1m of tape. Parinaz, Emily and Jade were the most successful! They spent a lot of time working on the base before building up which proved to be a perfect strategy!

Clay practice

We are getting ready to create our clay masterpieces but first we spent some time today practicing.

Story Boards and Movie Making

Today we learnt how to write a story for a movie using storyboards.  We looked at a sample of one that someone quickly sketched to begin to plan their movie.  Then we looked at one that more detail had been added to both in pictures and words.  We also talked about how Disney and Pixar use storyboards in their movie making process.

We talked about how we would create our first storyboard that had place for three pictures. We talked about the first box being about the two characters in our movie.  The second box was for the setting that we would create using items from around the room or outside.  The third box was for the problem or conflict in our movie. 

Once we knew the task, we were randomly put into groups to come up with our storyboard.  We also had to assign our roles - who would be the camera person, who would be the sound person, who would be the puppeteers. 

When we were finished making our movies and they had been uploaded and viewed as a class, we took some time to reflect on what made a good movie and what we could have done better.  

These are our reflections about our movies:

• team work - we have to work together as a team
• make sure that the volume on the microphone is correct
• put the actor in the middle of the screen
• careful with camera work because of the case getting in the way
• make it the right length - not too short and not too long
• don’t get your fingers in the way of the camera
• the movie doesn’t have to be perfect
• have a storyboard to plan
• have a good setting
• sometimes there were other people's voices in the movie
• sometimes people were in our movie in the background
• in another movie we would like to choose our own characters, settings and groups

And here are our movies!  Enjoy!

The Jungle Adventure by Tobey, MacKenzie, Jack and James

https://youtu.be/_C_oZOVRysE 

The Great Dino Chase by Tony, James, Daniel and Liam
https://youtu.be/RlNq-ImnE9s


The Missing Giraffe by Amelia, Chloe, Emily, Parinaz and Judy
https://youtu.be/vPI0rgBKz3k


The Transforming Ball by Charlotte, Maria, Jordan and Ben
https://youtu.be/OOWMN6qjd7M


The Angry Elephant by Jade, Brad, Blake and Michelle
https://youtu.be/coZeqjvjUjg


The Lion That Never Gave Up by Juliet, Chelsea, Oscar and Andy
https://youtu.be/BtjemK2YjSo

Movie Making and Collaboration

Today we learnt how to use iMovie on our iPads. We were divided into groups decided by the card we were given from a deck of playing cards, so our groups were made up randomly. We are learning the importance of collaboration and working in many different groups and not just with our friends.

In our groups we had to decide what we would do for our movie. Our success criteria were that we needed four photos with writing on them as well as 2 - 4 action video clips. We had to put our movie together and add music. It couldn't be longer than 2 minutes. 

We definitely had fun collaborating and learning how to make movies!

Click on the links below to view our movies or watch here.

Tony, Chloe, Judy and Chelsea make their first movie
https://youtu.be/lTIELNPrwj4 

Oscar, Andy, James and Tobey make their first movie
https://youtu.be/WQRGBqo7s9g


Juliet, Emily, Jade and Parinaz make their first movie
https://youtu.be/bNM4tQq3s74


Michelle, Blake, James, Amelia, Jordan make their first movie
https://youtu.be/SEpSuwvMxDU


Jack, MacKenzie, Charlotte and Maria make their first movie
https://youtu.be/t6jNhzGy5pM


Liam, Ben, Brad and Daniel make their first movie
https://youtu.be/UN9aVZxKYM0

Scratch

Today Mr Crowhurst came and taught us how to use Scratch which is a coding programme. Coding is like learning how to write a good book. We all know how to play computer games but we don't know what goes into making those games. Coding teaches us that.  We are learning how to programme our 'sprite' to make a rectangle and a triangle. It's harder than you'd think!!