Shared Writing

This week we did some shared writing in partners. We looked at a picture of two teachers at our school and we wrote a description about them. Here is an example of one, written by Asafo, Dakshesh and Soileti.

Learning About Animals

Mrs Lee came to teach us last week and she showed us some cool things we can do with Google Slides and You Tube. First, we had to pick an animal with our group and find a video about it on the You Tube Channel, All Things Animal TV. Mrs Lee showed us how to embed the video into a Google Slide, so that we could have it in our presentation. Then we wrote some facts that we found out about the animals. Have a look at some of the slides we made:

By Han, Paris and Koringoa

By Dakshesh and Soileti

   

By Bradley, Samuel & Trey

Writing

Here is the writing that we did this week after we had put the pictures in order. Remember, we hadn't read the story before we did this. We hope you enjoy reading them.

By Han & Koringoa

By J-Lynn, Jalais & Dizaliyah

By Ryley, Asafo & Soileti

By Sunday & Paris

Making a Story

Today in writing Mr Davidson gave us some pictures from a story that we haven't read. We had to work in teams to put them in order (it didn't have to be the right order, it just had to make sense). Then we came up with a story for the pictures. At the end of the lesson we started writing our stories on the chromebooks. We haven't finished them yet, but check back later this week to see what we've written.

Writing Publishing

Last week some of the Gorillas and Orangutans had some time to publish their writing from earlier in the term. They each picked a piece of writing and typed it up on Google Docs using the Chromebooks. They added a picture as well. Mr Davidson printed them out and we're going to put them up on the wall. Have a look at our work:

Computer Programming

Last week we started learning about computer programming. We all started a course on the chromebooks using a wonderful website called Code.org. We did a little bit of practice since then and had another go today. It was really fun because we got to do some problems with Angry Birds.

If you want to try this at home, follow the link HERE. You will need to get your secret word from Mr Davidson (send him a message from THIS page) if you want to sign in.

Putting Pictures in our Publishing

This week, Mr Davidson showed us how to put pictures into our documents on Google Drive. It was pretty easy. We even learned how to change the size of the picture.  Have a look at some of our work. Now we know how to:

- make a new document
- change the name of our document
- change the font, the colour and size of our words
- put a picture in our document and change the size

Learning With the Chrome Books

This week we started learning with the Chromebooks. Mr Davidson taught us how to find our student folders and make a new document. We all typed our name and the alphabet. Then we changed the name of our document to the date so that we would know when we did it. We were very clever and some of us remembered how to change the colour of the words. Have a look at some pictures of us working and our work: