Green Screen

Last week in Taku Time we had a green screen workshop. I introduced the students to the app Green Screen by Do Ink, which is a very easy and accessible app for students to experience green screen.

The hardest part of this workshop was getting the photos to include on the green screen background and none of the classroom. Students had to work with the size, position and angle of the camera in order to achieve quality looking results.

I think the class did pretty well, have a look below and let us know what you think!

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M&M Maths

In maths we have been looking at statistics. We have spent the week completing some M&M investigations. We asked the question - what colour appears the most in my M&Ms?

The students started by completing a tally chart with the amounts of each colour in the packet. This introduced some new learning around how to use tally marks and allowed us to practice our counting in 5s skills. And of course, once we had created out tally charts we got to eat the M&Ms!

Next we used the tally charts to create a pictograph. The class impressed me with their ability to use the tally charts to support them with their pictographs and they created some great results. We then used these pictographs to answer some questions and analyse the data. I believe it is important for the students to get equal experience in creating graphs and also in understanding what the graphs are showing them.

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Narrative PBL

 

In literacy in Room 10, the students have been undertaking a project to write narratives to give to the students in Room 1. Mrs Waaka in Room 1 wrote a letter to us requesting the class to write some stories to boost their class library. We used this letter as a starting point to learn about narratives and their structure.

 

The students have been reading narratives, breaking them down into character, setting, problem and solution. We have also practiced writing narratives using this same structure. The students have developed a good understanding the structure through being immersed within this.

 

This week we visited room 1 to talk to the class about what kind of narratives they like to read. We used their answers to our questions to help us to plan our own narratives. I was impressed with the students and how they have used the answers from the questionnaires to influence the stories they are writing.  

 

Room 10 spent the rest of the week writing their narratives and we are on track to complete them on Monday. Then the students will publish their stories and on Thursday we are sharing them with Room 1.