Using the Thinking Hats to Discuss the Eyjafjallajokull Volcanic Eruption in Iceland

This afternoon the two of the Pod 2 Digikidz, KCS and GV worked with Ms F and the Pod 1 Digikidz to do some thinking about the volcanic eruption in Iceland. We watched a video from youtube showing some of the action from the eruption:

Then we looked at the thinking hats and decided the red, black and green hats were the best ones for us to use today. We are learning to use voicethread so we practised recording our ideas with this WILF: feelings about this situation, negative points about the situation and ideas about what people can do to try and solve the problem. We looked at some photos by Martin Rietze and we uploaded these to voicethread then recorded our ideas:

Weekend Photostories

We thought of ideas about things to do at the weekend and made a wordle of our ideas.

Then we practised taking good photos and made some photostories with our Digikid buddy.

WALT: Take clear photos.

WILF: No blurry photos, Camera held still with 2 hands, Wearing the lanyard to stop the camera being dropped.

We also tried to add music, transitions, audio narration and different coloured fonts to make our videos interesting. What do you think?

By KND and EK

By HO and CA

By PM and AL

By KCS and GV

Last 2 Photostories - Phew!

The children from Rooms 5 and 6 really enjoyed working with a Digikid who helped them to make their own Fauna and Flora slideshow. See if you can spot examples of Fauna or Flora or both in our Photostories. We tried very hard to make them interesting with different coloured words, tranisitions, background music and our own voices! What do you think everyone?

By KCS & E

By EK and I

The rest of our Photostories!

By HO and E. We were able to find some different type of flora in our school. Can you suggest where we could look to find some different fauna?

By GV and R. We found examples of fauna and flora but we don't know if they are all native to New Zealand. Did you notice we used adjectives to add interest?

By PM and E. We tried really hard to type key words and then tell an oral sentence about our photographs on our own.