Monday, 20 April 2015

Dawn Parade

The X-Men read Dawn Parade by Philippa Werry. They then had to use the information in the text to describe Leo and his dad's experience during the dawn parade.


Thursday, 2 April 2015

Eli and Arav's Inquiry

Here is Eli and Arav's Inquiry presentation. The boys wanted to learn how to make movies. The first video shows them experimenting with stop motion animation.


This next video shows their completed stop motion animation. The boys drew some of the characters, created the background, filmed and edited their movie all by themselves. Enjoy


After creating a stop motion animation the boys then wanted to learn how to use I Movie to create a movie trailer. Please don't watch this in the dark!!


Torres' Inquiry

Here is Torres' Inquiry presentation.

Israel's Inquiry

Here is Israel's Inquiry presentation.

Samarah's Inquiry

Here is Samarah's Inquiry presentation. GOOOOAAAALLLLL!!!!!

Sherlyn's Inquiry

As part of our Inquiry the children of Room 5 were given the opportunity to learn for themselves a new skill or gain knowledge in an area of personal interest. Here is Sherlyn's presentation of her inquiry research. Enjoy

Tangrams

In Geometry today we learned about tangrams. The tangram is a puzzle consisting of seven flat shapes, called tans, which are put together to form shapes. Here is an example of some of the shapes we made today, Do you know what they all are?