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Friday, August 30, 2013

The Three Little Pigs.... or is it?

We are familiar with the story of the three little pigs. For homework this week we posed the question: Write and tell us how would the story change if there was a 4th little pig and what would he have used to build his house?

Lacey came back with:
Four Little Pigs

The 4th little pig made his house out of cake and candy.


The Big Bad Wolf ate his house and was too full to eat the piggies.


Thursday, August 29, 2013

Pukeko Magic

"What will they come up with next?" I hear you ask.

Bringing the colouring-in to life.

Today while we were waiting for everyone to finish the calendar art, some of us got to put together a movie about how we are able to make our pictures come alive.

It was all created on the iPad, except for the movie of the pukeko moving. We had to do a screen capture on the laptop using AirServer and then transfer the movies onto the iPad through iPhoto.

Enjoy our movie.

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Thursday, August 22, 2013

App Smashing

On the iPads you are able to use a variety of apps to create content.  Sharing mostly revolves around the camera roll which stores both photos and movies.  Here are some examples we have been using in the classroom

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Book Creator - iPad App

One of the creative apps we have been using is Book Creator. It is on the list of basic apps for 2014 BYOD (iPads).

This is a screencast of how this app works. It can be used to create all sorts of books including a project, travel journal, retell, narrative and much more.

Have fun with it.

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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Factions

We have been dividing objects and groups of objects using half and quarters. We have been using the iPads to demonstrate our understandings and explain our thinking.

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Monday, August 5, 2013

Maths - Working with Halves

Today we worked on the iPad again using Explain Everything.  The children recorded their explanations of how they halve objects and groups. This is one of the recordings.

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Maths - Fractions



We have been having fun presenting our understanding of basic fractions by creating these on the iPads. We showed whole and half using POW Strip Design