Operation Christmas Child

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Room 8 is taking part in Operation Christmas Child.  The aim is for our children to bring along a small contribution towards filling a shoebox for two children. One boy and one girl in the 5 - 9 year age range.  Below is a list of suggestion. It does not have to be expensive, just a contribution would be great.  We need to hand the shoeboxes back by Monday.

We are finalists in the MADE Awards

Room 8 entered our Magnificent Masks documentary into the 2013 MADE Awards. We are listed as finalists. You can see a list of finalists in all the different categories and details about attending the awards ceremony.

Well done us :-)

This week we made the Bay of Plenty Times. An explanation of the project as well as a lovely photo of 3 of our classmates with their masks.

Magnificent Masks

We have had a wonderful time with our Art Project, lead by our student teacher Karen Reed. We have been enjoying being able to play in paste, paint and all that terrific goo.

We put together an iMovie presentation documenting our journey. This was completed entirely on the iPad. Enjoy

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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.

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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