Room 17 2015

Time for some Christmas fun

Merry Christmas Room 17 to you and all your families!

I hope you have a wonderful, happy and safe Christmas and holiday together.

Best wishes, Kristen Oliphant

Click here to have fun visiting the North Pole and Santa

Junior School's Zoo Trip - 1.12.15

Making Melting Snowmen with our Buddies - 30.11.15

Chicken Licken Plays

First the group presented the play to the class.

Then they watched their performances and completed a P.M.I. about it:

P = positive M = make better next time (or minus) I = interesting

Then the children used the 'M' idea to create a goal for themselves to improve on the next time they performed the play.

Click here to watch the play with Rowena as the narrator (v2)

Click here to watch the play with Eden as the narrator (v2)

Humpty Dumpty Reading Activity - 10.11.15

Candy Floss reading group read a story called "Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty?"

Then they chose their own character and made up a reason why that person may have pushed Humpty Dumpty off the wall.

Finally each child had to do a self assessment to see how well they did this activity.

Goku's reason for pushing Humpty Dumpty by Ashton

Ashton's self assessment

Yoda's reason for pushing Humpty Dumpty by Dylan

Click to hear Dylan's self assessment

Beauty's reason for pushing Humpty Dumpty by Andrea

Andrea's self assessment

Goofy's reason for pushing Humpty Dumpty by James

James' self assessment

Our Assembly Item - 29.10.15

Use PicCollage to Retell - 28.10.15

'Gold Rush' reading group read the story "The Lion and The Mouse."

We worked in pairs to use the iPad app 'PicCollage' to help us retell the story.

Our success criteria was:

1) correctly order the photos to retell the story

2) use arrows to show the order of the photos

3) write a caption for each part of the story

4) check our retelling is correct

5) check our labels make sense

We can then self-assess our own work and give ourselves a score out of 5

to show how well we think we completed this task.

David and Ryley's =>

Oli and Coredae's =>

Valentina and Alex's =>

N.Z. Shake Out - 15.10.15

Using the 'ChatterPix' app - 13.10.15

We also learnt how to use the iPad app called "ChatterPix" to add a mouth to a photo of our chosen character and record ourselves explaining the reason this person may be guilty of pushing Humpty Dumpty off the wall.

Dylan using 'Chatterpix' to explain Yoda's possible reason for pushing Humpty Dumpty

Andrea using 'Chatterpix' to explain Beauty's possible reason for pushing Humpty Dumpty

Ashton using 'Chatterpix to explain Goku's possible reason for pushing Humpty Dumpty

Using 'ShowMe' to share our weekly poem - 12.10.15

Kenneth uses 'ShowMe' to identify 'ck' words.

Using the 'ShowMe' app at Reading time - 12.10.15

Lime Swirl read this book and could choose which follow up activity they wanted to do today.

They could either:
1) retell the story in their own words OR 2) describe what to do in an earthquake to be safe.

The children used the 'ShowMe' app to do this.