Newspapers

Newspapers

For Inquiry this term we have been studying  a certain event in history that we selected ourselves. One of our tasks that we had to complete was to make a newspaper report on our event. The whole class had done this previously in groups of about four about the Fire of London so we all knew what the newspaper needed to contain. Integrated with our writing we wrote a News Report and a Letter to the Editor. We enjoyed the challenge of taking ourselves back in history.

Click Here to see Ella’s newspaper!

Click Here to see Danielle’s newspaper!

Today 70M have been learning about Claymation. We learnt that it is any animation done using a character, or characters, created out of clay.

Our Maker Space teacher showed us how to make clay move by taking a lot of photos and making them into a video using IMovie. It was lots of fun working together and building up a story in a creative way. It was amazing how many photos we had to take. We had a lot of laughs when we shared them with each other. We enjoyed being creative Our next aim is to build onto what we learnt today and create a Mathematics teaching video for our Multiplication and Division strategies.

Friendship isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things. 
Our little things are our little Year 3 and Year 4 buddies. Our time with them is so special.

Hi this is Harriet, Georgina and Ella here. This term one of our inquiry projects is to make a keepsake that we will hopefully be able to keep forever. We are pretending to make prototypes for Google and Facebook incase the Internet crashes. Everyone is very thrilled about this project and we all have very unique ideas.
Please feel free to have a look at our Animoto.

Top Tips - Is there a digital divide amongst the elderly?

In Inquiry we have been looking at Digital Divide and the question, ‘Is there a divide amongst the elderly? If so can we narrow the technology age gap?” We created a questionaire and interviewed our Grandparents. This was great fun spending special time with them. We asked them if there was a digital area they needed help with. From these results each us took action and created a ‘Top Tips’ video for them to use at home. We had a huge variety of requests for assistance with either laptop use or cell phones. We really enjoyed learning alongside our Grandparents. Lots of laughs and many funny stories. 

Maya and Maddie 

Enjoy Ella's 'Top Tips' video

Hi!

It’s the Funkiest Monkeys of the Funky Monkey reading group here!  For reading we have been looking at graphic novels!

So far we have read:

American Born Chinese

American born Chinese is about a Chinese-American boy struggling to fit in at an American high school. His story is linked with Danny, an all-American boy, whose cousin Chin-Kee’s annual visit is ruining his life, and the Monkey King, who just wants to join the ranks of the gods. We found this a really strong, interesting book and liked the way the ends tie up, just enough to let you decide the small details of the end of the story. 8/10

Anya’s Ghost

Anya’s ghost is a great novel about a not-so-popular teenage girl who’s life just gets worse when she falls down a deep hole to find it haunted with a ghost who died 93 years before. She seems friendly but is there more to her than meets the eye? This is a highly recommended graphic novel - you must read it! 9.5/10

Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl is a hard hitting Graphic Novel which is great for someone that likes a bit of complexity and a bit of fun. It is hard to read at first but don’t give up, It does get better. Some strong Sci - Fi action and some interesting characters. Artemis Fowl is a great Book/Graphic Novel.    7.5/10

Ella, Georgina, Reilly, Lucy

Year 7 UNESCO Visit

HiYa! It’s Georgina and Ella here!

Yesterday we went on a UNESCO trip (UNESCO stands for United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organisation) We went to St James school and helped film their preparation for a Kids Can Cook competition.

They prepared a welcoming Ceremony and let’s just say… WOW,  It was amazing and included the Samoan and Maori cultures as they sang songs in those languages, lots of different children sang solos.( There is such a musical talent at that school) There was this one child who was only 7 yrs old and she left us speechless… just think when she’s a superstar on TV in 10 years time we are all going to go: “Hey, that’s that kid that sang for us ten years ago! Wow, she is even more amazing now… how is that even possible???!!!” See we told this school had the X - factor, didn’t we ? ( Rhetorical question )

They made us lamb wraps for lunch (which is what they are cooking for the Ellerslie competition) they are delicious wraps with a twist. Because their school is 95% Samoan they decided to make a healthy Samoan dish. It included peanuts, lamb, salad, chilli and lettuce. They put all the fillings in the lettuce  and wrapped the lettuce up. Cecilia and Prescott (the kids that are doing the competition) taught us how to make the wraps which was really cool! They were eager to share their cooking skills with us, which was great that they showed so much enthusiasm!

All in all, the day was lovely and the school had a fun, bouncy atmosphere and the kids were all eager to get involved and meet us. It was nice seeing the contributing factors to make the Salad wraps so lick-your-lips-delicious and seeing how much the school was involved with their gardens.

               

 It was a Great day! Thank you St James.

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