Scratch Junior

Room 4 Year 1's have been learning how to programme this term using Scratch Junior.  They have used their high frequency words from their reading books and have made an interactive activity for other junior students to learn these words too.

Room 22 worked with Room 4 as buddy support to help them to finish their activity, especially with the recording part.  Scratch Junior is now available on Chrome so Room 22 will be downloading this onto their chrome books and looking at how we can use it to build an activity for a junior class.

Room 22 were not allowed to take over the iPad, rather needed to guide their younger buddies and keep them on track with what they were trying to achieve. 

Where in the World map

Our World map is up - look how may connections we have around the world. 

Arataki Cup Challenge

Week 8

Arataki Cup with a difference...  A Technology Challenge in our groups to make a kite. 

Materials:
Newspaper
Cellotape
String
White paper

The teachers were giving group points for teamwork, participation, talking to each other, and cooperation.  The team with the most points and the most successful design after the flying day (windy day in Week 9) will win this challenge.  Watch this space next week to see which group will be the most successful! 

Grid Drawing

As a follow on from the drawing in our Self Portrait art, this week we explored Grid Drawing.  These are the remember to's we are working towards: 

Week 8/9/10 Term 1

IALT draw using the grid draw technique

Remember to:

•      Use co ordinates
•      Draw one box at a time
•      Look at the size and shape within each box to copy accurately
•      Look for the detail to copy in each square
•      Have the same size grid paper to copy onto 

Where in the World?

Our journey around the world has continued this week.  Lines of latitude and longitude were useful for locating the countries on the map as we learnt how to create a key and write a fact file.  So far we have asked questions to find out information about Denmark, Philippines, South Korea, China, Taiwan, India, Romania, Japan and Samoa.   

Anika's mum made a Romanian cake for us to try. Our reaction .... YUM!  Thank you Anika's mum! 

  

LOGO

Through Google Classroom, Room 22 have had two assignments over the past 10 days. The first was home learning to explore Turtle Academy    https://turtleacademy.com/      This was learning how to programme a turtle to move around in certain shapes and directions.

Basic commands we learnt

Forward              fd
Backward           bk
Pen up                pu
Pen down           pd
hide turtle           ht
show turtle         st
right turn            rt
left turn              lt
clear screen        cs

The second assignment used Terrapin to apply the learning.  We had to programme the turtle to make 5 shapes, use jing to capture the image on our screen, then insert on to a slide as evidence of our learning.

We will have a link to our individual slides on our blogs once we have completed this assignment in Week 8 of Term 1.