Modern learning environment furniture

Room 16 has just acquired some new furniture for the class, which has been designed for the digital modern learning environment. Gone are all the old style individual desks in exchange for large flat desks, ergonomically designed chairs, bean bags, tall flat top desks, children's low arm chairs, benches and generally more floor open floor space to spread out. The children can select from a range of options that best suit their individual preference for focusing on their learning using the chrome books. Group and class teaching is still undertaken, but a lot more individual help at each child's chrome book is becoming the norm.

Mary MacKillop Feast Day - Friday 7th August

Click on this link to see a lovely Photopeach movie made by Mrs Dunkley and Room 4 students about Mary Mackillop Feast Day

Sequence map using Solo

Look on your child's blog to see examples of work they have posted there. Your child's blog is his or her digital portfolio and will contain both assessments and tasks completed throughout the year. They all know how to access it online. I will post an extensive comment on each blog portfolio twice during the year. Look out for examples of work such as the reading presentation above, on sequencing, that your child should have posted recently.

Book for Maori Language Week

The children were able to create a book for Maori language week on a Ngai Tahu site.

Prayer Cards - Room 16

Room 16 children created their own prayer cards to be laminated and given to parishioners at mass on Sunday. They needed to copy and paste their own slides on to our class presentation.

Screencastify

Here is another screencastify, about four minutes long to explain to the children the steps to go to in order to make a digital picture book using the Storybird Website. A link to the screencastify was embedded on the children's learning site so that they could access it at any time from their chromebooks if they got stuck and the teacher was not around. Very powerful!

Concept - Cycles - Room 16 Padlet

The Concept for Term 3 at St Mary's is Cycles. The Middle School are looking at Cycles of Time.
Below are some ideas that all the children posted to a Padlet about what they thought Cycles were all about.

Created with Padlet