Still Life Break Through.

WALHT: draw what we see and add shading. 

Story Telling

Today we've put out learning into practice by using the iPads to record our voices and drawings at once.  Last week we learnt how to use DoodleCast and this week we recorded our stories.  Some of us talked about the school fair and others decided to use the prompts to help us get started.

Those of us that had time, listened to our stories, reflected and had a go at making them even better.

How do you think we went?

Reflection: "I want to try again.  I say the same thing over and over"

"I did good because it was the best story I've ever done on DoodleCast.  I could find a quieter space next time"

 

"My next step is to try not to say 'um' and 'I got', use some new words"

"Next time I could make a better story by adding different colours and making the story a bit longer" 

"Next time I would go somewhere quieter and maybe find out a way to make it less squeaky"

"Next time I could do some more talking"

WALHT: Give and receive feedback in writing

Today we gave feedback to each other in our writing.

We talked about sharing the things that we liked and suggesting a next step or two.  We decided that feedback is a really exciting thing as it reminds us of what we did well and helps us in our learning.

We also looked at the WALHT ('We Are Learning How To...') and tried to decide if the learner focused on this.

Here's Mrs Chant's example for Griffin:

listen to ‘Griffins feedback’ on Audioboo

Here we are sharing some of our feedback:

Griffin feeding back to Isla:

listen to ‘Griffin for Isla’ on Audioboo

Brodie feeding back to Aaron:

listen to ‘Brodie feeding back to Aaron’ on Audioboo

How do you think we went?

Sharing our stories in different ways

Today we had the choice between creating a real story or an imaginative one that involved swimming at school.

We chose to either use Clicker Docs or DoodleCast on the iPads and collaborated with others.

Here's Hailey and Isla listening back to their story...

  

Then they reflected on how they went.  They decided that they did a good job of remembering some important information and also talking and drawing at once.  They also decided the their next step is to ensure they don't talk over each other.  

What do you think?

Beatrice, Keira, Lily and Madi worked together to create this story - they're still having a think about their reflection.  What do you think they did well?

Look at all this awesome thinking, collaboration and reflection!!

Designing a Duck Feeder

Today in reading one of our groups designed their own duck feeders based on the book they've been reading, "Bread for the Ducks".

Here they are to tell you about them...

Feedback on our Re-tell

Today Madi, Jim, Isla and Bella re-told their story in their own words.  We recorded it on this video so that we could watch it back and give ourselves feedback.

Here is the video:




We thought we did a good job of:

• Collaborating to re-tell the story
• Collaborating when someone needed help (team work)
• We spoke clearly
• We looked at the person who was talking
• We used with pictures to help us remember it

We thought we could improve on:

• Giving all the information (like, saying they were going to the park)
• We could use one or two words from the story to remind us - but we don't want to read all the words.  "If you look at every page and read all the words, you'll get too slow and tired" - Jim

What do you think?

Making play dough for practising our list words.

We made some play dough together so that we could use it to practice our list words during literacy time.  It's just another great way to help us learn our words. They enjoyed taking turns and measuring out the ingredients. We had a hard choice what colours to make but in the end they decided amongst themselves.

Baking day!!

Look at our baking! Thank you to Mrs Atkinson and Helen for all their help!

Break Through Week 8, Cooking Group

Concept - Philosophy for Children using The Very Hungry Caterpillar

What is change ?

A little egg lay on a leaf ....

A tiny hungry caterpillar looked for food....

He changed and grew big and built a cacoon.

After a few weeks he was a beautiful butterfly.

Constable Pete came to LH1!!

Hub 1 learning about how to get ready in the morning

Some of our learners thought it might be useful, to make a movie for new learners to Stonefields School, about how to get ready in the morning before school.