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Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Kapa Haka Videos in Canva
Friday, 26 November 2021
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...
Thursday, 25 November 2021
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?
Wednesday, 17 November 2021
Playing Games Online
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.
Here are our ideas ...
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
Sunsmart Video by Marley
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?
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Being Sunsmart
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
How To Be An Upstander
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.
Mrs Torrie's inbox was full of your screenshots!
Here's a sample of what we emailed...
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
Maths Quiz
Did you know it is Maths Week?
Monday, 21 June 2021
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.
Monday, 7 June 2021
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!
Friday, 4 June 2021
Drawing with Lines
Today in our Cybersmart lesson we had a challenge to draw and only use 2 kinds of lines - curve line and polyline.
Here is some of our work from today...
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Today's Weather (M-S group)
Today we made a weather forecast for Gisborne. We learned how to add audio using Mote. Click on the audio button on the slides to hear the weather forecast for today.
Here is the students work from A-C (Split into groups so the slides load quicker!)
Look for other blog posts for the rest of Room 5
Today's Weather (A-C group)
Today we made a weather forecast for Gisborne. We learned how to add audio using Mote. Click on the audio button on the slides to hear the weather forecast for today.
Here is the students work from A-C (Split into groups so the slides load quicker!)
Look for other blog posts for the rest of Room 5
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
Favourite Food
Take a look at our work. We used Remove Background so we could insert our photo and it looks like we are floating over top of our favourite food.
We had to use the Explore Tool to find an image of food that we could reuse.
What's your favourite food?
Wednesday, 19 May 2021
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Visual Mihi
This week in our Cybersmart lesson we created a Visual Mihi.
We talked about delivering messages with images without any words.
We also talked about using images that are labelled for reuse.
Blogging Competition Update
Last week we started our blogging competition. Here is an update.
Last week Room 5 had lots of comments from friends and families around the world. We need to make sure we reply to them.
Thursday, 6 May 2021
Blogging Competition
Room 5 and Room 6 are having a race to see
which class blog can register the most visitors
and
the biggest number of countries that the visitors come from.
On our class blogs we have a globe which counts the countries
and a counter to keep track of the page visitors.
We will update the scores each week on the class blogs.
Click through the slides to see our scores from this week.