Badminton - Hit It PE programme

Room 16 Children enjoyed learning some badminton skills on the HIT IT programme last week. they also got some tuition in tennis showing enthusuasm outside in the cold.

Screencastify - We are all learners

In Room 16 we are all learners and teachers of others. Some keen Room 16 children found the Screencastify app themselves on the chrome webstore and introduced this fantastic and easy app to Mr. Bach (although technically it is an extension not an app). There is a link below that takes you to an education/technology blog that explains in detail how it works and how useful it can be in the learning process. Basically the app allows you to do a screen recording of anything you do on a web browsing tab or on your desktop so children can film as they explain their learning using Google chrome on a chrome book. You can add audio of yourself speaking and of any sound that comes from the tab. You can also add a video of yourself shown on a small screen in the corner of the tab. There is a further option to only video yourself speaking on a large screen.

Click Here for more details about screencastify.

You can find the screencastify app/extension to download to drive on This Link

HERE is a screencast of a maths whizz exercise that I created using many of the features.  Below I actually managed to embed it using the embed code - hurray!

Maths Whizz and Screenshots

The children have been going really well with their Maths Whizz work this year. Many of them are making excellent progress with their number and maths strand learning (such as measurement).
The children are motivated by progressing well and getting a green tick and earning points to buy things for their study on Maths Whizz. They have also been learning to take screenshots of an example of the activities they have been doing and uploading these to their blogs. Please look at your child's blog to see all the work that they have uploaded. Above is an example of one screenshot about measurement and above that the high achievers page showing those who have done the most work and those who have improved the most for the past week.

Statistics - Google Sheets

The children have been learning about statistics with Mrs Stevenson while Mr. Bach was on teacher release. This is an example of recording data and a graph that they created on Google Sheets.

Golden Time - Google Draw Native Bird Art

The middle school had a Google Draw native bird art competition for Golden Time last Friday. The children had to all download their drawings as jpg files and upload the images of their creations into the presentation on the middle school learning site.

Below is an example of the story writing some of the children are producing. This is written by Teuila, in year 3 who has been hooked into writing. You can see she is starting to edit her work and separate ideas into sentences. See the link below to see the sort of comments I make to go with some of the children's writing on Google Apps.
Writing Link

Story Writing

As a break from our report writing room 16 have been doing some story writing using the quick plan below. Using Mr. Bach's writing cards we think of a character with a few words to describe them, a setting, a special thing and a problem. Mr Bach is writing a class story below, which he is sharing as he goes and getting ideas from the children for the next part of the story.