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.

Kawa of Care

This week in our Cybersmart lesson we went over the Kawa of Care. We watched a video about looking after our Chromebook. Then we wrote 3 important messages on a slide. 

We had to replace the image with a selfie using the camera app. We are getting really good at making sure our background is a good one and that we don't have any light behind us. We also used the Explore tool to find an image of a keyboard. We use the Explore tool because the images are labelled for reuse.

Here is Zebedee's work...

Here is Sofia's work...

Onesie Day

 Today we could wear our Onesies to school. It was a camp fundraising event for the senior classes. Here we are in our pyjamas and onesies. It was really cold today so they kept us very warm.

Have you got a favourite Onesie or pair of pyjamas?

Do you have dress up days at your school?

Visual Mihi

In or Cybersmart lesson with Mrs Torrie we created a Visual Mihi to represent the things we like or the things we are good at.

Here are our Google Drawings.

Visual Mihi

This week in our Cybersmart lesson we created a Visual Mihi.

We had to remember to only use our first name on our Google Drawing.

We had to represent 4 things about us without using words. 

We could put things that we like or things that we are good at. 

The images we used had to be labelled for reuse.

We used the search function in Google Drawings to do this so we could be sure that they were labelled for reuse.

Can you guess what these students like or are good at?

Our Class - Room 5

Kia ora, We are a group of Year 3 learners from Wainui Beach School. Our school is near Wainui Beach, near Gisborne. We like doing lots of different activities and LOVE learning.

Skateboard Designs

Today we were learning how to use the polyline tool in Google Drawings.

We traced over a skateboard and designed it ourselves so we have our own image.

Here is some of our work...

Our Digital Footprint and Google Drawings

Room 5 learnt about their Digital Footprint on the Internet. They made posters about themselves in
google drawings ensuring they put on the appropriate information.

In Google Drawings we were learning to: 

• insert Word Art
• replace image
• using the Camera app
• changing the colour of backgrounds, text and text box

Check out some of our work below:

Week 3: Home Learning

Check out Room 5's Learning the week:

 

Week 2: Home Learning Sharing

This is our work from our 2nd Week of Home Learning:

 

Week 1: Home Learning Sharing

This is our work from our 1st Week of Home Learning:

 

The Bomb by Sacha Cotter

We have been learning about using exclamation marks in our writing. We learnt exclamation marks are used to express a strong emotion. We drew our own bomb pictures and then put words or short sentences on our picture which could have an exclamation mark. Here are some examples below:

By Summer

By Sofia

By Moana

The Splash and Dash

Room 5 have been practising for our duathlon, The Splash and Dash. We have been meeting over at the reserve. We have to run to the swimming pool, swim around the edge of the pool, and then run back to the reserve. Our Splash and Dash Race is on Thursday at midday. Come down and watch.

Here are some photos of us practising:

 

Chromie the Chromebook Challenge

This week in our Cybersmart lesson we did the challenge that Chromie set us so that we could earn a certificate.

We had to click > hold > drag on our touchpad to move objects around and to resize them. We had to type text in the correct places as well.

Here is Carlos' work and his certificate. Carlos was very kind and helped others because he finished before lots of others. Thank you Carlos!

Sofia's Chromebook Challenge

This week in our Cybersmart lesson we did the challenge that Chromie set us so that we could earn a certificate.

Here is Sofia's' work and her certificate. Can you see how Sofia completed all the challenge?

Adding detail to our Writing

Room 5 have been learning to add detail to our writing to make it more interesting. We have been having a go at adding sentences about what a roller coaster ride feels like, sounds like and looks like. Here are examples of our writing.

We have created art to go with it. Come into Room 5 and check it out on the wall. 

SMRF It!

Our Cybersmart work with Mrs Torrie 

was to learn how to SMRF It!

We find the template on our class site and click on it.

We get a "Read only" version which we cannot use.

We have to make a copy, rename it and file it.

Here is Moana's work.

Kawa of Care & the Forklift Hold

This week we worked with Mrs Torrie on Being Cybersmart. 

We had to move around the room to take photos 

so we had to use the Forklift Hold.

Being Cybersmart and our Kawa of Care

This week we started our Cybersmart work with Mrs Torrie.
We created our Kawa of Care earlier in the term and now we are showing how we use it.
Here is some of our work from this week.