Kapa Haka Videos in Canva

Today in our Cybermsart lesson we were lenring how to make a video using photos. 

 Firstly we had to look at the Google Photo Album shared with us that has got lots of photos from our school's Kapa Haka day.  We searched the photos and download the ones we liked. We needed 3 or 4 photos. 

Then we uploaded the photos into Canva and added them to our pages in our video. 

We had an audio file to choose from. Either the boys haka or one of our waiata. We didn't quite finish them so we will finish these on another day. 

Kapa Haka Performance

 You can watch our Kapa Haka performance here.

St Mary's Junior Kapa Haka 2021 from Sarah Kirkpatrick Photography on Vimeo.

Don't Fall For Fake

 Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were thinking about scams and phishing and the ways that people online try to get things like your password or personal data.

We looked at some online information and had a tug-o-war. We did this digitally on a Jamboard.

Here are some of the ideas we had to think about then decide what to do...

Being Sunsmart

Today we were talking about how we are sunsmart at St Mary's School and thought of 3 or 4 important messages for others.

We created a GIF in Canva. We learned how to make our first page and then duplicate it so our formatting was easy to have on other pages. 

We learned how to format text, add backgrounds, find our school logo and shield, change the colours of texts and elements and how to animate elements. 

Here is Macey's GIF. Do you think she has good sunsmart messages?

Playing Games Online

 Today in our Cybersmart lesson we looked at a video of 2 friends playing a game online together.
In the video they made smart decisions  about how to play and who to play with. 
We then brainstormed our ideas on how to keep games fun and friendly on a Jamboard.

What games do you play online? 

Who do you chat with while playing online? 

What keeps your games fun and friendly?

Here are our ideas ...

Bug Hotel

This afternoon was spent redoing our bug hotel. We took it apart and checked to see what bugs had found a home. We found lots of ants, spiders, centipedes, cockroaches, 3 slugs, 1 snail and 2 caterpillars. Then we put the hotel back together layer by layer adding shells, driftwood, sticks, leaves and other pieces for the bugs to make their new home in and a safe place to have their babies. Check out our photos below!

Sunsmart Video by Marley

 Today we did some more work on our Sunsmart videos.
We added animations and audio to make our video really eye-catching and to have "sisomo". 
Sisomo stands for sight sound and motion.

Here is Marley's video. Does he have sisomo?

Being Sunsmart

Our school is Sunsmart! 

This term we have to wear our hats whenever we go outside our classroom. 

Do you have to do this when you are at school?

We do other things as well to be Sunsmart at school.

We are creating videos in Canva to show this.

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we started creating our video.

We talked about design like using 3 colours and no more than 2 fonts.

We also talked about backgrounds that show the messages clearly.

Cricket

Today we had Joey from Northern Districts Cricket Association come and teach us how to throw, catch and bat. We had lots of fun practising these skills.

How To Be An Upstander

 This week in our Cybersmart lesson we were thinking about how we can help others 
and be an upstander rather than being a bystander.

We made a new Google Drawing ourselves in our Google Drive, renamed it and made sure it was filed in our Cybersmart Folder. Then we designed some important messages about being an upstander.

One important thing to do is to take a screenshot and email it to trusted adults. 
Mrs Torrie's inbox was full of your screenshots! 

Here's a sample of what we emailed...

by Jethro

Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori

 This week in our Cybersmart lesson we were using Mote to record ourselves.

We sorted numbers and other kupu by listening to a Mote. 

Then we used Mote to record ourselves.

Here is some of our work...

Week 7 Online Learning

 Here is our online learning for week 7. Please check it out and leave a positive comment.

Week 6 Online Learning

 Check out Room 5's online learning.

Week 5 Online Learning

 We recently went into lockdown so we have been doing our learning online. Check out our work below!

Online Learning

On Wednesday, we went into lockdown. Here is some of the learning we did at home. Our reading was done on Sunshine Classics and we did maths on MathsBuddy.                                              

Check out our animal reports and prayer spaces below.

Maths Quiz

Did you know it is Maths Week?

This week in our Cybersmart lesson we made a maths quiz in Google Slides. 

We had to make sure we knew the correct answer. 

We linked the slides so that you know. when you got it right and could go to the next question. 

We also linked the slides so you know when you got it wrong and you could try again.

Are you a maths whizz? 

Try some of or quizzes.

St Mary's Mini Olympics

Today we had our school Mini Olympics. We started the day with an Opening Ceremony where we marched through the school waving our flags and holding our signs. Then we started competing in different tabloid events like chuck the chicken, flip cup, soccer, an obstacle course, hula hooping, target throwing, tug of war, bench ball, giant connect four and horse riding. We all had so much fun and enjoyed being Olympic athletes for the day!

Matariki Kites

We have been making Matariki kites. We learnt about warm and cool colours. We read a book called the Seven Kites of Matariki and then made our own kites. We used dye and blended the colours together so there weren't any hard lines. We then chose silhouettes that reflect the time of Matariki like a man and a woman harvesting and whānau spending time together.

Sticky Question

This week we are learning how to comment on blogs. We are going to answer this sticky question today to practise commenting.

We have to be positive, thoughtful and helpful.

We have to write it like a letter and we must remember to write our name at the end.

How would you answer this question? And remember to tell us why.

Blogging Competition Results

 We have finished our blogging competition.

Here are the final results...

Thank you so much to everyone who visited our blog and left comments. 

We are so excited!