Christmas Fun

 Do you know how to say Merry Christmas in other languages? 

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we learned how to do a Google voice search to find 5 ways to say Merry Christmas in different languages. We had to put them into a table and make sure we had the language and the translation. Did you know that you can do a Google. search and sometimes you can listen to what it sounds like?

Here is Eleanor's work from today.

Don't Fall for Fake

Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were learning about phishing and scams. Do you know what these are.

Here is some information for you.

We made a poster in Google Drawings about 3 things we can do if we spot phishing or scams.

Here is Brooke's work.

Here is Waylon's work.

Real or Fake

 Today in our Cybersmart lesson we were looking at images and deciding if they are real or fake. 

We created our own fake photo of us doing something impossible at school. We took a photo outside and made it into the background. Then we took a photo of ourselves. We had to think about our pose. We used an online tool called Remove Background so we could put the 2 photos together.

Here is Zoe's image.

Here is Ianthe's image.

Pop Art

 This term we are looking at media, what it is, how it is constructed and how we can change media online. We have to ask ourselves when we see things online if we can trust it? And the other question we must ask is "Is it real or fake?"

Today we changed a seflie and made pop art with it.

Here is Cooper's work.

Here is Eleanor's work.

Commenting on Blogs

 This week in our Cybersmart lesson we were working on writing blog comments. We were writing positive comments on Room 6 @ St Mary's blog post on their Scratch Jnr projects.

We used the Dictation accessibility function on our Chromebooks. This allows us to speak and Chrome will type our words for us. It made the job a very quick one. This is also called speech-to-text.

We had to remember to say who we were so Room 6 knows where the comment shave come from. We hope they will reply to us.

Here are some of our comments...

Space Race

 We have been learning how to use Scratch on our Chromebooks. We have started making a Space Race project. This might take us more than one lesson to do. 

Have you used Scratch before? Scratch is an online coding platform where you can create interactive stories, games and animations and share them across the world. We are creating a story about Space because we are studying Space this term.

Here is Zebedee's work from the first session...

Here is Eleanor's work from the first session...

Karakia

 Every morning we start our school day with karakia. We have a karakia for Wainui Beach School. 

Here we are saying karakia this morning to start our new day of learning.