We are very excited because Miss Ale in Argentina has invited us to participate in a collaborative voicethread project with her Grade 6 group in a couple of weeks time. Today in class we practised using voicethread and we made a quick class newsletter. Great fun!
To view a full page of this voice thread please visit the following link. http://voicethread.com/share/588997/ (When you are there, click on the full page icon to the left of the closing cross. To obtain an even larger full page view in Internet Explorer click on View/Full screen).
Friday, August 28, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Grade 4&5B participates in a TV advert!
Our school was recently involved in an advert and some of Grade 4&5B's students were in the advert. Here is is!
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Mrs Geel visits - from the USA
We had an exciting visitor from the USA today – Mrs Geel, who teaches Grade 3 at Dutch Nek School in New Jersey. (Her outgoing class was linked to our class. They interviewed their grandparents after hearing about our project and they wrote comments in our blogs). We had a great time hearing about schools in the USA and how they operate. Mrs Geel brought a lovely children’s book along about President Barak Obama, as a gift from her class to our class. She read portions from it and showed us how Barak Obama’s parents and grandparents stressed the importance of education when he was growing up. Thank you for a wonderful visit, Mrs Geel.
At the end of her visit the class broke into spontaneous song singing a song they had just learned in drama!
At the end of her visit the class broke into spontaneous song singing a song they had just learned in drama!
Our new 'Keeping-in-Touch' club
We have started a new project as we continue with our blogging journey … it is called the Keeping-In-Touch Club. We have found out the names of all the new immigrants to our school in the last year, whether they be refugees from other parts of Africa, or families that have moved to South Africa for work purposes. The class has linked with each one, and is helping them to create and maintain blogs in the hope that this will enable them to keep in touch with their extended family and friends back in their original countries.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
A video about our Senior Citizens project
We have loved getting to know our senior citizens and teaching them to blog. We enjoy inviting them back at regular intervals to catch up on news and show them what we're doing in our blogs. (This is an ongoing project.) Here is a short video about our project.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Collaborative stories with sound!
Well, we are taking our story-writing to new heights by adding narration to our collaborative stories! (This is still an experiment but a very exciting one). The first person in the circle group will be reading aloud the collaborative story. The first story is one of our class collaborative stories, the second one is a two-nation story written with Miss Ale's classes in Argentina and the third one is a 3-nation story written with Miss Ale's classes in Argentina and Mr Millward's class in Canada (Don't forget to click on the full-screen tab on the bottom right of the story.)