TILTS-Technology In Learning Together at School

10 – All the SameWe’ve been learning about Space in the universe

Things we have learned about The Sun:

* it is our closest star

* it has lots of layers

* it has a core that is shaped like a sphere

* it has a radioactive layer

* it has gravity

 * it has spots

* it is covered by hot gas

01 – occidental nemesisStage 2 are learning how to blog. They have their own brand new blog, but they’re going to practise on this one!

Students are in a small group to learn- they’re going to find out how to put pictures, movies and other things onto their blog. After they learn this they will be able to teach others in their stage.

Stage 2 have been reading ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ by Roald Dahl in Literacy Groups.

We’ve learned about conjunctions and lots of new vocabulary. We’ve been using a strategy called ‘Text To Self’. This means you learn to understand new words or ideas by connecting them to something you already know.

We’ve been doing this by playing matching games with others in our group, writing 10 second sentences and drawing 30 second pictures about the word or conjunction. We also act them out so we really understand what they mean.

We also looked at character traits of the main characters: Boggis, Bunce and Bean.

Check out our photos and see if you can work out what part of our lesson they are about.

One argument for our exposition

We Should Treat Machines Like Humans

An exposition is like an advertisement: you only read or hear about one side of the story.

Stage 3 read ‘Ironman’ by Ted Hughes. We came up with six reasons why humans should treat machines as humans, as a group.

After that we wrote an exposition with a partner. We used the arguments already written, so we just needed to cut and paste them into our exposition, which we completed using Comiclife.

Finally we wrote out our exposition as individuals.

This is what we learned:

* lots of new words associated with machines

* what ‘personification’ means (it means giving something non human human qualities, like saying that a chair had ‘legs so strong they could run to Campsie and back’ )

* empathy with a situation

* the structure of an exposition

* working with others to create  convincing arguments

* how to work with a partner to create an exposition

* how to work as an individual to create an exposition

* how to work between two or three different programs all at once on a computer

Have you seen any of our work on display?

What would you give it out of 5 for creativity?

Some things the characters in The Flood said:

Rachel said, ” Sam, I will help you get your toys out of the downstairs playroom! ”

Sam said, ” Oh no! Let’s save our toys from the downstairs playroom! ”

Spot said, ” I want to help get the toys out. ”

Mum said, ” Get your toys and let’s go! ”

Or they could have said:

” Sam, come and collect your toys! ” said mum.

” This is hard work cleaning,” said dad.

” I should go and collect my toys, ” said Rachel.

” Get into my boat and you can have dinner at my place,” said Andy.

” I will get a bone, ” said Spot.

” I want to pick up my toys,” said Sam.

Can you think of what YOU might say if YOU were stuck in a flood?

“Can you help me?”

“Help me clean the house!”

” I wish this didn’t happen!”

” I don’t like this weather!”

” I don’t like the muddy brown water.”

“This weather is terrible!”

” I remember when this happened before and we were stuck in Port Macquarie for one week!”

 

Last week Stage 1 made a movie about a big flood.

We were reading a book about a flood and decided to turn it into a movie.

After we watched the movie, we came up with a list of ideas to make it better next time. They are:

1. Use good faces- showing that something is happening

2. Be realistic – make it look like it’s really happening by showing feelings

3. Show the character- for example, if the character is a dog, they need to behave like a dog: bark, crawl on four legs and run and bite.