Grade 1 painted like Claude Monet a few weeks ago. Did you see our paintings on a previous post? Well, we had some fun with a green screen. We took each students’ photograph sitting on a stool with a piece of green fabric behind them. Then with Keynote (a Mac presentation software, like microsoft’s powerpoint) [...]
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More Characters Talking
March 20, 2013 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Here are the rest of our animations. We hope you enjoy watching our videos. See our previous post for the first ten videos. What do you think of our Art Work? our animations? Do you have a favourite storybook character? Please leave us a message and tell us what you think. Harry the Dirty Dog [...]
Tags: Art·Media Literacy·Reading·writing
Making our Favourite Characters Talk
March 19, 2013 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
If storybook characters could talk what would they say? Continuing our Reading Week projects this week , as promised we are making our characters talk. We used an ipad app called iFunFace. We used this app to create our talking characters and then saved each one to the camera roll on the ipad. I also [...]
Tags: Fun·Media Literacy·Reading·writing
Skype Call with our Pen Pals
March 17, 2012 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade 2 has PenPals in Massachusetts. My sister, Kathy Tulp and I matched up kids in our classes and have been exchanging letters since January. My class has received two letters so far from their penpal. As a teacher I think that finding authentic purposes for writing is important. Students are excited about writing friendly [...]
More Folk Tale Stories
February 25, 2012 · 9 Comments · Uncategorized
Here are some more stories to listen to. Thanks to Talyssa’s Dad for leaving us an encouraging voice message on our new widget. Folk Tale 10 Folk Tale 11 Folk Tale 12 Folk Tale 13 Folk Tale 14 Folk Tale 15 Folk Tale 16
Our Own Folk Tales
February 18, 2012 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade two wrote their own folk tales a few weeks ago. They wrote a rough draft which I made a few editing corrections and then they recopied their best copy. They also made a cover/title page. This was our first piece that we edited and made a finsished copy. When we do this again we [...]
Feedback
January 30, 2012 · 8 Comments · Uncategorized
Room 102 loves to get feedback from our global blogging buddies. We love to hear and read comments from classrooms around the world. It is rewarding to have an authentic audience comment on our work. However, we also like having a personal digital portfolio as a safe and paperless place to keep our work. This [...]
Happy Mother’s Day
May 7, 2011 · 21 Comments · Uncategorized
This Sunday, May 8th is Mother’s Day. We hope that all you Mothers out there have a wonderful day, that you feel loved, cherished and appreciated. What was the best part of your Mother’s Day? We made cards for our Moms and we also wrote her a poem. Here is one of our poems. Check [...]
Making Global Connections with the Postcard Project
April 27, 2011 · 39 Comments · Uncategorized
Thank you Mrs. Leakey in New Zealand for starting this wonderful project. We have received 12 postcards so far and need to send a few more out this week. It is fun to learn something new from each card and make connections and new friends. I put together a short movie to show everyone the [...]
Blogging Challenge Results
April 19, 2011 · 18 Comments · Uncategorized
The Blogging Challenge ended on Friday, April 15th. Congratulations Everyone! Today we celebrated all our efforts by having cupcakes, certificates, candy and the 5 top commenters were taken to McDonalds. I kept track of comments each day for 3 weeks. We had a rule that only one comment would count per day. Everyone made at [...]
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