WHO ARE THESE?

Are these new members of 1M?

NO!

These are just some of our WeeMees - a virtual image we have created of ourselves.

Can you guess who's who?

Keep watching our blogs. Each will have a WeeMee soon!

STORYBOARDING SUCCESS

Today we started planning for the 'superhero' stories we are going to create in Comic Life.

Before we started, we looked at comic books and comic strips in the paper.
We saw how the story is set out in panels and it's often a 'conversation' between the characters.

We also looked at the storyboarding the big kids did at 'Kids Connect' and watched their finished 'comic life' movie.

Now we knew 'how' to storyboard. All we needed next was our story!

We collaborated with a partner on creating the pictures and the text.
Mrs M and Mrs R were 'blown away' by our clever planning.

Here's just a few of the exciting comics coming your way soon.
The adventures of SUPER GIRL - will she succeed in getting others to 'co-operate'?

Water Girl - when water's being wasted, it's Water Girl to the rescue!

Will Waterman stop the evil Flameman from encouraging others to play with fire?

We had so much fun but there's more to come!

Stay watching for our finished stories in Comic Life.

OUR ANIMOTO TASK

Here is the Animoto we made for the Voices of the World October task. It is of our national anthem .

GROWING WITH GROWING PATTERNS

Today our room was a 'patterning paradise'.
We had so much fun patterning, that we patterned for hours!
Mrs M couldn't stop us. We didn't even want to go out for Snack!

We were investigating GROWING patterns and we amazed Mrs M and even ourselves with what we discovered!
Can you work out the rule for each of these patterns?
Can you represent each pattern with a number pattern?
Can you apply the rule to tell what comes next?

Pattern 1:

Pattern 2:
Pattern 3:

Pattern 4: this one's tricky but if you apply the rule, you should be able to work out the starting number, even though you can't see all the blocks.

Pattern 5:

Pattern 6:

We kept this number pattern going all the way to 99 and we didn't have to keep applying the rule because we found a shortcut - a pattern in the pattern.

1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 _ _ _ ....

Can you keep it going? Can you see what we saw?

LEAVE A COMMENT.

WE'D LOVE TO KNOW YOUR ANSWERS!

LEARNING PODCASTS

We've had fun playing with our new ipods this week.

We're learning how to create our own podcasts about our learning.

Here are Johanna and Tierney's podcasts about their patterns.

You can listen to them at our new LEARNING PODCASTS site!

UPDATE 22/10: The Education Minister listened to these podcasts today and was very impressed. We hope you will be too!

MATHS WIKI

This week, we made our first contribution to the PRIMARY MATHS WIKI.

We are collaborating with some other Year 1 and 2 classes from Canada and America.

All of us are posting pictures of what we have been learning about in Maths.

We have started with PATTERNS - patterns in the environment and patterns we have made.

Take a look at what we added at PRIMARY MATH.

OUR SUPERHEROES

Earlier this week, we were being ACTIVE INVESTIGATORS, gathering information about SUPERHEROES - what they do and what they look like.

Today we were DESIGNERS AND CREATORS as we drew our own SUPERHERO.
We had to think of an issue in our school, community or world.
Then we used everything we've learnt about SUPERHEROES so far to help create a SUPERHERO to fight this issue.

Here's Jacob's idea for GREEN BAG MAN - a SUPERHERO who makes sure you use environmentally friendly bags when shopping...


and Flynn's FLAME MAN - who stops people, especially children, from playing with fire.

You'll be seeing more of our SUPERHEROES later this term in a COMIC LIFE story.

THURSDAY WORD WALL FUN

Every Thursday, one of our Word Wall activities is to put our Word Wall Words for the week in 'alphabetical order'.

Lately Mrs M has been challenging us to order more than 5 words.

Today we ordered 10 SUPERHERO words!

Here are the words:

Superman, Batman, WonderWoman, Flash, Robin, Thing, Spiderman, Mr Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Hulk

CAN YOU PUT THEM IN ABC ORDER?

HAVE YOU SOME OTHER WORDS FOR US TO PUT IN ABC ORDER?

WHAT DOES A SUPERHERO WEAR?

We have continued to investigate SUPERHEROES.

Today we looked at their costumes.

Here's what we found out.

Most SUPERHERO costumes have some or all of these:

• a lycra bodysuit


• a symbol - either a letter or thing


• a cape


• boots


• belt


• underpants on the OUTSIDE


• mask


• headwear


• armbands


• tools or weapons


• and they're usually colourful

We each took a SUPERHERO and labelled the costume.

IF YOU THINK WE'VE LEFT ANYTHING OFF OUR LIST, PLEASE LET US KNOW IN A COMMENT.

WHAT IS A SUPERHERO ?

This term we wanted to learn about SUPERHEROES because we liked what Mrs M did with the kids at KIDS CONNECT.

We thought of all the SUPERHEROES we knew and had a discussion about what they all had in common.

We think a SUPERHERO -

• fights evil / does good things
• comes to the rescue when people's lives are in danger
• stops bad things happening
• stops people doing the wrong thing
• cares for others
• is brave
• is strong
• has super powers

WE know SUPERHEROES are not real. We asked ourselves WHY were they created?

CAN WE BE LIKE SUPERHEROES?

The message is always EVIL NEVER WINS. We think the authors want us to see how important it is to be good and care for others and our world.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

DO YOU AGREE WITH OUR DESCRIPTION OF SUPERHEROES?

WHY DO YOU THINK SUPERHEROES WERE CREATED?

Leave a comment to tell us what you think a SUPERHERO is and why.

KOALA LOU and COMIC LIFE

We have been reading KOALA LOU, Mem Fox's beautiful story about LOVE.

In the story, Koala Lou doesn't think her mother loves her anymore because she no longer says
"Koala Lou, I DO LOVE YOU!"
So Koala Lou decides to enter the gumtree climbing event at the Bush Olympics. She thinks that if she wins her mother will love her and once again say..
"Koala Lou, I DO LOVE YOU!"
Reading about Koala Lou training for her event got us wondering.

What other events would be at the Bush Olympics?
What other animals would be competing?

In pairs we chose an Australian animal and thought about how it moved and behaved. Then we could imagine what event it might compete in.

Next we imagined what training the animal would need to do.

We drew five pictures of the training in Kids Pix.

Then we chose a template in Comic Life and placed our Kids PIx pictures into it.

Last, we imagined what the animal would be saying and added some speech bubbles.

Here is the Comic Life slide that Johanna and Tierney did.

Do you have any ideas for what animals and events could be at the Bush Olympics? Leave us a comment.
We'll try to put your ideas in Comic Life.

OUR FIRST DANCING CLASS

We had our first dancing class today and it was really fun. We started learning a dance that we will perform at the end of the term. Here's a little look... Do you recognise the music? Leave a comment if you know what movie it's from.

AUNTY DELMAE'S VISIT

Today Aunty Delmae came to our school. She is our adopted aboriginal elder.

She is a singer, painter and poet and she is known all around the world.

We are lucky to have her as our adopted elder.

Aunty Delmae sang us one of her songs. There weren't any words.

We closed our eyes and we had to imagine something in nature.

Here is what we imagined...

DANCING FUN

1M, seeing as dancing classes start tomorrow, I thought you might enjoy this video.

Mrs M :>)

MRS M's a GRANDMA

Here she is 1M... what you've been waiting for!


Meet my beautiful little granddaughter Aurora or Rori for short.

She is just perfect!

Have fun and look after Mrs DL tomorrow and I'll see you on Thursday.

OUR RESPONSE TO JOHANNA'S QUESTION

Johanna asked a question about our new friends in Canada.

She asked:

Are they in the English or the French speaking part?

We didn't know, so we 'googled' it and we found out

they speak English.

The French speaking part is on the east side and the children in Moose Jaw are more in the middle.

OUR VOKI!!

After lots of fiddling to add the audio -
here it is 1M!!




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MAKING OUR VOKI

Today we had the task of making a voki to introduce ourselves to the other schools in VOICES OF THE WORLD.

First we 'looked and listened' to all the other vokis. Some we could understand and others we couldn't.

We liked the voki from the little kids in GREECE. They sounded cute.

Next we started our voki. We had to:

* choose a character - we chose an animal.

We changed the colour of it's lips and skin and gave it sunglasses.

* choose a background - we found a photo in Google, saved it to the network, then tried to upload it, but it wouldn't work

* choose a player - we had to choose the badge

* record our audio - it wouldn't let us record on the voki, so we recorded our audio in Garageband. We said :

"Hi, we're the 1M Gems from Brisbane, Australia and you're listening to Voices of the World"

but guess what?

It wouldn't let us upload that either!

We tried many times but it just wouldn't work.

We hope Mrs M can solve the problem!!

WELCOME BACK

We're back for the last term of the year and it's going to be a REALLY EXCITING term!
We have a new class member too - welcome NOAH!

When we came into our room, the first thing we saw was all the computers...we now have 11 altogether!!

We wanted to get on them straight away!

Some of these computers are on loan to us so we can do our podcasting project but

there are 2 brand new macbooks that are ours to keep and the ipods come next week!

After talking with Mrs M, we decided that we want to use 'SUPERHEROES' to help us learn about narratives.

We will be making our own comic strip in 'Comic Life' and when they're finished, we can watch and listen to each others' stories on the ipods.

How cool is that?

WE CAN'T WAIT TO GET STARTED!

THE NEW MRS M?

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VOICES OF THE WORLD

1M, we are going to be part of this worldwide, collaborative project - VOICES of the WORLD.
This exciting project was created to unite children around the world using voice and sound.

Each month we will be given a task to create an audio file that will become part of a VOICES of the WORLD podcast.

The September task was to use a VOKI to introduce yourself in your own (native) language. Everyone had to say...

'Hello, we are from (school) in (country) and you are listening to

Voices of the World'.

Here is one of the vokis already created

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and you can listen to the September podcast from the player below.
Do you recognize any other languages being spoken?




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You can view all of the VOKIS at the VOICES of the WORLD wiki.
We are too late to have our voices included in the podcast, but when
we've created our VOKI, it will be added to the wiki.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT BEING PART OF THIS PROJECT?

MEET OUR NEW BUDDIES

Hope you're all having a wonderful holiday, 1M!

I have some exciting news!

When we return to school, we will be welcoming some new friends into our room.
Our new buddies are Mrs Cassidy and her Year 1 class in Moose Jaw.
Where's that you ask?

You can see where we are on the map below. Click and drag with your mouse
to find out where Moose Jaw is.

Did you work out what country they're in?
Leave a comment with your answer.

If you think of any questions you'd like to ask them, you could leave them in a comment too.

They also have a class blog.

You can see what's happening in their classroom from the link here.

Enjoy the last few days of your holiday.

See you Monday!

Mrs M :>)