Tag Archives: Technology

iStop Motion Movies

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Throughout this term we have been developing our narrative writing skills. We’ve looked at many different ways to write a detailed, interesting and exciting narrative story. We’ve looked very closely at the different features of a narrative story.

We’ve written stories and published them as word documents.

We’ve written digital stories using iPods and iPads using the app StoryKit. Some of these have been published on our English page.

Next we planned stories to use in a claymation creation. This planning is called storyboarding. Then we made our backgrounds (the setting), created the characters using plasticene and then filmed our stories using the iPad and the iStop Motion app. We’re publishing these onto our class You Tube channel. This is a private channel so only class members can see it.

To celebrate our stories we had a popcorn and movie afternoon. Each group took turns to tell us the outline of their story and then played their movie.

We thought it was wonderful to see how creative every group was. We gave each group some constructive feedback – what we thought worked well, what could have been improved and as a whole class talked about what we could do next time.

Here are some photos of our sharing session ( ok – lots of photos – they were too good to leave any out!!).


Have you used claymation to create movies?

Can you give any tips that we might be able to include next time?

Bookweek with our Buddies

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On Friday we wrote stories with our older buddies. We used the app called StoryKit and started writing our own stories. First we discussed and shared our ideas and then typed the story onto the devices. We started adding pictures and will add our voices this week.

Here are some photos from our first writing session together.

We will post links to the stories as they are finished.

 
Bookweek – Buddy Storywriting using iPods and iPads on PhotoPeach

 

New Devices

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Our whole school has recently bought lots of new iPods and iPads for each class to use. We have 5 iPods and 5 iPads to use to support our learning during class activities. We are sharing these devices with all of the Year 2 and 3 classes. We’ve loved having extra devices to use. Check our blog page listing the apps we love to use – you may like to download some for yourselves.

 

Buddy Class Activity

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Over the last two weeks our class has worked with our older buddies on a Design and Technology project. Our task was to design and make a chair for a teddy bear. The structure needed to be stable and to be able to hold the bears from our class.

We had lots of great ideas and a huge amount of fun working with our buddies to create many different chairs – most were very successful at holding a teddy bear.

Here are the finished chairs. Thanks to our buddies for their support and guidance – we love working with you.

 Buddy class activity – Make a Chair for a Teddy Bear on PhotoPeach

Easter Egg Rolling Championships

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One of our Easter activities was the “Egg Rolling Championships” with our Year 6/7 Buddy Class.
Our task was:

  • Design a ramp that will roll your boiled egg as far as possible.
  • You can only use the materials provided – newspaper, cardboard, paper, cardboard cylinders, plastic rods and low melt hot glue guns.
  • Each group needed to provide a design of their ramp and had 45 minutes to finish their ramp.
We held the rolling event on the court outside the Year 6/7 building – we thought a basketball was a great surface to roll eggs on!

Here are the 2012 Egg Rolling Champs – Will and his buddy. Congratulations boys on a HUGE ramp!!! A great team effort!

Here are lots of photos of our creating and making session and then the rolling event.

Egg Rolling Championships on PhotoPeach

What do you think of our ramp designs?
There were a lot of points to consider as we made our ramps – the higher the further the egg would roll!