OUR BUDDIES

This afternoon we spent time with our Year Six buddies. It was only their second visit, so we were very excited and glad to see them. 
They helped us as we worked on the laptops and ipads and did our 'small moment' writing. They read stories to us and we showed them how to do MeMoves and The Banana Song. 
We made an Animoto to show how much fun we had. We can't wait for our buddies to visit again!



Does your class have buddies? What learning do you share together?

BIG CHANGES!!!!

If you go to our blogs and think you are in the wrong place...

you're not!

That's because many of our blogs have had a change of TEMPLATE!

The library was buzzing with 'oohs' and 'aahs' during our ICT time today.

Our Year 6 buddies were there to help us work on our blogs.

They showed us the new templates they had on their blogs

and we just had to have a new one too!

We were being DESIGNERS and CREATORS and COLLABORATORS as we worked on our blogs with our buddies with some of us even showing our buddies how to do things!!

Some of us were being SELF-DIRECTED LEARNERS by coming up with ideas for a post and putting the post up by ourselves. Have a look at Callum's 'Willy the Wimp' post and Patrick's patterning post.

Our buddies were amazed at what we could do!

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OUR OWN BLOGS!!!

Today some of the 1M GEMS moved into new territory with their blogging...the creation of their OWN blogs!!

Creating individual blogs for our digital portfolios was a goal we had set for NEXT term, so the children have been incredibly focused on developing the skills needed to blog independently.

Through learning from each other and inspiring each other, they have really taken charge of the creation and uploading of posts this term.

Our Year 6 buddies have been keeping an eye on this rapid rise to independent posting, so today they surprised us when they asked the GEMS if they'd like help creating their own blog folios...
and the answer was a resounding YES!


Having a blog folio is a way for each child to reflect on their learning- share what they know and can do.

The Year 6's, who already have their own blogs, helped the children with the basic design and layout of their blog folio as well as getting up an introductory post.

We aim to have all blog folios created in the next week.
Links to the folios created so far are under OUR LINKS on the sidebar.

The children are incredibly excited about this new phase in our blogging.
We are discussing the idea of running 'blogging workshops' for parents.
We'll let you know when we have finalised the details.

Mrs M :>)