We had the most incredible day learning about space with AnneMarie.
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Five children from Kāhu won a competition run by Christchurch City Council, as part of their ‘Enliven Places Project’ for lighting up the city in winter. Their winning designs will be projected onto footpaths and public spaces in the city for 2 months. As part of the competition each child won a $100 voucher to spend in the city centre. The children’s winning designs can be seen in the following places over the winter:
Harry - Worcester Street close to Cathedral Square (June – August) Sethumi - Worcester Street close to Montreal Street (June – August) Ciara - Worcester Street close to Cathedral Square (August - October) Fiona - Worcester Street close to Montreal Street (August - October) Evie – Rolleston Avenue, between Worcester and Hereford Streets (August - October) In Kāhu we have been learning about space. We have enjoyed increasing our understanding of concepts related to space. We combined our space knowledge with some digi tools we have been exploring. We chose a space concept and a digital tool we wanted to use to demonstrate our understanding. There are so many concepts and so many different ways of presenting information being used. Check out these photos of our work in progress, we will update with our finished product later in the week. We are incredibly proud of the independence the children are showing as well as their willingness to rework and recreate when they can see ways to improve their learning. We are impressed with the level of self and peer reflection and feedback we have observed as well as the collaborative way the children have participated in this task. Check out this great video made by Lachlan that gives you some top tips to improve your Stop Motion skills
Kāhu 13 spent a lot of time learning about WW1, and trying to understand what life might have been like for the soldiers who went to war and the families they left behind. We wrote letters to a soldier at war, after reading the fabulous book "Jim's Letters". We then 'green-screened' the letter, imagining how exciting it would have been to receive news from home. We hope you enjoy our movies.
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This term we are discovering how the stars can tell us stories. We are discovering lots of fascinating legends and ways the stars were used in the past.
Kāhu 11 have listened to some stories from StoryTime from Space. We loved watching out of the windows of the International Space Station while the astronauts read stories. This inspired us to write our own stories that have a space theme. We could write about anything that appealed to us. Our focus was
Dear Kāhu 11 WOW! It sounds like you have a great project underway. We would love you to share it with us when you are done! We have a team heading up to the ISS in July - we could share some of your stories on that trip. Please send me your questions and I will see if an astronaut will answer them. Let’s limit it to 5 of your best, thoughtful, science based questions! As for images, the first thing you can do is go to the www.nasa.gov website and do a search for images of the ISS. There are a ton of them. You and also watch the European Space Agency tour of the ISS: https://m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/International_Space_Station/Highlights/International_Space_Station_panoramic_tour If you wan to try the Google Street View from the ISS go here and see if you can find your community! https://www.google.com/streetview/#international-space-station/ This one is for your teacher. You may want to consider applying to the ARISS program for an amateur radio contact with the crew on board the ISS. It is an amazing experience that the whole school can build on. Their link is:https://www.ariss.org/submit-a-contact-proposal.html We are so excited and this is inspiring our writing even more! We are writing great stories and publishing them in the way we think is best for our story. Then we will send a digital copy to Storytime in Space and see what happens! We felt so proud of everyone running the cross country. The weather conditions certainly added to the adventure! Congratulations to everyone and good luck to our zone runners. After we wrote articles about Tory the Lucky Tortoise we created a short clip using the green screen. We imagined we were a news boy or girl from the war times. We filmed ourselves standing on a street corner trying to sell our paper. This was lots of fun. We had a chance to try out using a tripod. We also tried hard to improve our voice projection and acting skills. We reflected on our last green screen to remind ourselves of what we thought we could do better. This time we were much better at keeping the camera still - the tripod helped a lot! We experimented with filters by importing our green screen into iMovie. We also added music that we thought was fitting for the time period. We also had to use screen recording to be successful. Our next goal is to try to remember to film for just a bit longer than we think we need to avoid cutting our voice off. Here are some more of our newspaper articles. Check them out in our hub too - they look great and reflect some very talented writers at work. We have spent time learning about the significance of ANZAC DAY. We have read Torty the Lucky Tortoise and discovered how Torty was saved and had some incredible adventures when he arrived in New Zealand. We have written our own Newspaper reports and used Story Visualiser to publish these. We have then used teabags to make our newspaper look old. Next we have written a short script for us to use as a News Boy/Girl selling our newspaper on the street corner in wartimes. We have used the green screen to create effective, short clips. Some people have even added sound effects. We have appreciated having a tripod to help make this easier. We will add our clips later but check our our great newspapers. |
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