Numeracy Project with Auckland University Students

Numeracy Project from our Auckland University Students

We were fortunate to have a group of five students from Auckland University design a compact numeracy website for one group of our Room 8 learners. 

We really enjoyed listening to the instructions which enabled the students to work at their own pace and to 'rewind' the learning if they needed to hear it again!

Below you can see Ollie and Giannina working out their answers and the group working on their iPads and the big screen.

Animations in Explain Everything

Today we learned how to make things move on the screen and talk and record so it makes a video.

We had to learn how to record our voice.

It was tricky talking and moving the object on the screen 

at the same time.

Here is Lily's work...

Learning about the Letter 'P'

Today we were learning how to download 
Explain Everything to our iPads.

We did the letter 'P' today.

We used our stylus and held it like a pencil.

Investigating our New Virtual Reading Rooms

This afternoon we took some time and investigated the new independent reading tasks in our virtual classroom! We used the iPads and found our class site on the home page then navigated to the reading page then into the sight words, read aloud stories, sing-along sight word activities and listening stories. We used our headphones as WOW without them our class was pretty noisy!

We think we will be able to do some of these activities by ourselves as independent reading activities! Here are some photos of us learning on our iPads today.

Celebrating the Birthday of our Church - Pentecost!

Pentecost

Last Sunday we celebrated Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came down onto the Disciples. It came as flames of fire and hovered over the disciples heads. We made our own flames of fire headbands and talked about how we are blessed to have the Holy Spirit in each one of us!

Abel thought God was magical for the flames not to burn the disciples - then we thought maybe the words "all-powerful" were better!

Here we are with our bands of Holy Spirit fire!

Room 8 Photo

We are Room 8 at St Mary's Catholic Primary School.

We live on the sunny East Coast of the North Island.

We are all New Entrants.

We love learning on our iPads.

First Day Back and Loving It!

Room 8 kids are back in class and having a great time being together after a long time being apart!

 We got out the bricks and blocks, the dinosaurs, the train sets and we reconnected through play!
                                                We also did some reading and word work!

 Fenn and John were creating with the blocks                                      too!

 Giannina and Lily were making wonderful              creations with the lego!

 Ollie and Abel were shopping in the classroom and designing a blocked off corner!



 Eli and Seb were having an amazing dinosaur adventure!

The big blocks were a huge hit with Crystal,   
                           Elijah and Vinnie!





               Fiske found the train set and was having a blast!