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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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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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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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

Funky Fun

The children of Tui Whānāu had an amazing day at the Baypark Tech Arena participating in the Funky Fun Day. They did a rotation of 5 different sports, touch rugby, soccer, miniball (basketball), hockey and relay races.
Thank you so much to the parents who volunteered to be team managers and/or transported our children to and from the venue. It was also lovely to have other parents drop in to support our teams during the day. The children gave 100% on the courts and we saw some talent shining through as well.

Here is a small movie of the day.

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