Story Making on the ipad

The Alien's Have Landed - By Kaia and Solomon



Kaia and Solomon have independently:

- choseen a paint and draw app. to draw a picture plan of their story
- created an appropriate title for that story
- planned an oral presentation
- recorded and checked their recording was up to their standards (using fotobabble)
- saved and e-mailed their story to people who they thought would enjoy their work.

Great story making, and co-operative working!

It's hard to plan an oral story with someone!!

Story Making on the ipad

Zach and Caitlin independently;

- chose a paint and draw app. to draw a picture plan of their story
- created an appropriate title for that story
- planned an oral presentation that included a beginning, middle and end of an narrative
- recorded and checked their recording was up to their standards (using fotobabble)
- saved and e-mailed their story to people who they thought would enjoy their work.

Great story making, and co-operative working! I'm impressed!

Ipads to record why we like to come to school...

Mia, Kaia and Beatriz independently:

- thought of something that made school fun for them
- took a photo of it (or her)
- chose stamps that they thought matched their thinking
- wrote down their thinking and reasons
- arranged all those elements on the page, including size, font, rotations etc
- saved and e-mailed them to someone they believed would enjoy their thinking


WOW girls!! You sure made good use of your independent literacy learning time!

This is what LC16 thinks SHOULD have happened in the Three Little Pigs!!

We Are Learning To:


- reflect on characteristics of different characters in fairy tales and offer opinions
on a better way to act/ react
- break down a story in a story map flow chart
- write a script for the characters
- design costumes and props that suite the story
- plan what the characters would be doing in the photos
- take the photos that we planned on the story map
- put photos into Photo Story 3
- add voice overs on the slides with character voices
- edit our voices so we were happy with them
- test if music was a good idea for our story
- tested some transitions to see which ones looked good for our story
- decide what voice over to use for the title
- save and put on our blog!!

PHEEEEWWWWWW!!!

RUGBY WORLD CUP !!!

YES!! We made it to Rugby World cup!!

Click on the link below to go to 'Ruggerland' for games and activities to enthuse you for the cup!!

GO THE ALL BLACKS!!!

http://www.ruggerland.co.nz/

Ipads for Learning

On 7th September there is a parent evening being held to demonstrate how technology is enhancing the learning of your children at Riverdale School.

Below is a slideshow that will be running during a 'workshop presentation' that I will be hosting, on the learning and curriculum links involved when you child uses e-mail to communicate his/her written thoughts.

I am looking for a couple of children who's parents are attending, to demonstrate how we use the ipads for e-mailing, as part of our written language programme. If your child would like to participate and you will be attending, I would love to hear from you as soon as possible.

Thanks for all the support, through your written e-mail responses, that the children receive. It makes a great deal of difference to their motivation to have an authentic audience to write to.

Dinosaur Day

We read a poem/song that taught us some new vocabulary!

- extinct
- carnivore
- herbivore

then we designed our own dinosaurs.

We are very proud of them. What do you think??