Today we had our Year 2, 3 and 4 assembly. It was a wonderful assembly because we got to see lots of different learning activities that have been happening in classrooms.
Our class shared some of the 3D printed items that we’ve made over the last few weeks. We’ve shared many of these items via this class blog.
We’d like to congratulate Esther N, Alice, Toby and Esther W on receiving their student assembly awards.
Here is a clip made by Jesse and Akash to highlight our learning through the 3D printer project. (We didn’t get to see the whole clip at assembly).
On Friday we worked with Jasmine Miller our Aboriginal Education Community Worker to investigate different structures used by Aboriginal people – both today and in the past. Jasmine gave us a great description of the different structures that Aboriginals like to build if they’re living on the land, e.g. a wiltja, a humpie. She also showed different houses that Aboriginals live in if they live in cities, towns or on missions. These photos gave us a good insight into Aboriginal lives.
Then we went outside with Jasmine to try and create a model of a wiltja. We collected sticks, twigs, leaves, nuts and any other natural materials that could be used. Jasmine gave us some tips and advice on how we could put the materials together to create a wiltja.
Today was National Simultaneous Storytime day. This day is used to celebrate how much we LOVE reading and encourage everyone to read even more. It also celebrates Australian authors and publishers. Check out the website on the link above to read more about it.
The story this year was The Cow Who Tripped Over the Moon by Tony Wilson. We thought it was a great story and really enjoyed watching and hearing the story on our IWB.
We were also lucky enough to have Levi from Room 1 read the picture book to us too. We thought Levi did a great job reading to our whole class – he read really fluently, used expression and showed the pictures clearly to the audience.
After listening to the Cow Who Tripped over the Moon we created our own pictures describing different ways to get the cow over the moooooooooooooon! We used Doodle buddy, the Seesaw drawing tool or Book Creator app on our iPads to draw the picture and then wrote sentences to describe our pictures. Then we shared our pictures with our families using the Seesaw app.
We also used air server to beam our items onto the IWB and share them with the class. You can see our iPad screens in these pictures. We had some very creative ideas to get the cow over the mooooooooooooon – trampolines, spring loaded boots, rockets, canons, catapults – just to name a few.
What did you think of the story? How would you get the cow over the moooooooooooooon?
Today we held the first Year 2, 3 and 4 assembly for Term 2. It was a great opportunity for us to see the work that each class has been doing – there were lots of art work, poster and writing shared.
We also saw which students received an assembly award.
Our class shared the latest art works that we’d created. We drew and painted clowns last Friday and shared them today. They on display in our classroom if you’d like to pop in and see them.
Congratulations to Ben, Paige, Amity and Lara on receiving their awards – it’s wonderful to see you so engaged in your learning.
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO ALL OF OUR WONDERFUL MUMS, AUNTIES, GRANDMAS/ NANNAS OR SPECIAL WOMEN IN OUR LIVES
On Friday we went shopping at the Mother’s Day stall that is run by the CPS Fund Raising group. We went with our buddy classes and had a great time carefully choosing gifts that our Mums would love. There were lots of things to consider: what our Mums like, the favourite colour, what are their hobbies that we might be able to buy something for…just to name a few ideas.
It’s always lovely to see and hear the conversations amongst our students – they really do try to make very careful choices that their Mums will just love.
These photos are just a snapshot of our shopping trip.
We also need to use our Maths skills for checking prices of items, working out if we have enough money and how much change we should get.
We also made some cards and a small present for our Mums during class time.
We have continued our learning journey with using the 3D printer as a part of our learning. We are using the Maker’s Empire app to create different models. We’ve been experimenting with our design skills to create a variety of different models.
Our first challenge was to design a logo that represented our class – who we are, where we are, our class values.
The second challenge was to design a desk name plate that could also double as a name badge for each student.
Our most recent challenge is to create an a-MAZE-ing maze. This happened to be good timing as Maker’s Empire has announced a maze competition – which we plan to enter.
Here’s a clip to give you some technical tips for creating a maze. We’re using ‘Cogger’ part of the software to design our mazes, after using ‘Shaper’ to create our other models.
We’ve also been coaching our other Year 2 classes so that they can start designing models for their classes too. Then we’ll be working with different classes around our school.
It’s been such an exciting time in the classroom – we love to watch our designs being printed. WE’ve also been investigating how 3D printing is used in real life too -we’ve been quite fascinated to see how 3D printing relates to everyone around the world. Stay tuned for further 3D printing updates and we continue to use printing in a purposeful and creative way.
This term Craigburn Primary School has won 2 3D printers as a part of the Maker’s Empire project in schools in South Australia. We have the smaller printer in our classroom and the printer for larger projects is in our school Library.
The first challenge for our class was to create a design that reflected our class and our values.
Here is our very first print job – Jesse’s 3D design. He made a very detailed design and we all loved seeing it. We can’t wait to see the other designs that our class members come up with.
We are continuing our learning about place value of numbers as a part of our Maths programme.
Last week, and into this week, we’ve been playing the Banker’s Game – we started with bundling pop sticks in groups of 10 and have now started using MAB equipment to further our learning.
The Banker’s Game is one way to learn about the value of digits in a number depending of their position in the number.
We’ve been playing either by ourselves or with a partner. Each dice roll is counted out using ones, when the column totals 10 it is exchanged for a long (group of 10) and then when there is 10 longs they are exchanged for a flat (group of 100). There is no limit to how high the game can go – just keep rolling that dice!
Watch Lara playing the Banker’s Game – you’ll see her counting and adding numbers, adding the new dice roll to her total on the board, exchanging groups of 10 in each column and then counting her new total.
We’ve been working hard to learn how to use different forms of technology in our daily learning activities. Our school uses iPads in every classroom through embedding them into our daily classroom activities.
We’ve been experimenting with different apps in our learning, such as:
reading online in Daily 5 reading activities with Ziptales and Sunshine Online
Word Wizard for phonological spelling tasks
Chatterpix – a fun way to make pictures tell a message
Popplet – mind mapping tasks
Bee Bots for coding and programming
Book Creator – creating books to show our learning in different areas
Seesaw – to share our learning with our families
Scratch Jnr – coding
Garageband to create original music pieces
Number Pieces – looking at place value of numbers using MAB equipment
Explain Everything – creating presentations about different topics.
We’ve also got a Stickbot kit for green screen filming of stories that we create and a Little Bits kits to see how to create circuits to make wheels turn, lights go on/off, buzzers to buzz, fans to spin and lots more.
We’re about to start using Maker’s Empire to plan, design and create objects that relate to our Inquiry programme. We’ve just started designing and learning how to use the app. Stay tuned for posts about our 3D products.
What’s your favourite form of technology to use and why?
