Mrs Miller and I are delighted to see 4 of our year5rc students nominated in the Edublogs Awards for 2011 or Best Student Blog.
Check out the complete shortlist here.
Congratulations to Angie, Dawso, Tess (Green Zebra) and Esha
Please take the chance to vote for one of these students. Vote here.
Blogging has been an exciting adventure for them. Thanks to all of you who have helped them make the shortlist.
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Year 5 have been very involved in Maths lessons this term. Their job was to create a movie that would teach a maths concept to other students. Topics were selected, ranging from graphs to Roman Numerals. Students worked in small groups to create a short film, then take it on tour to our quadblogging buddies. They had to plan a trip around the world, calculate time and distances then leave comments on the quadblogs. It has been a very engaging and interesting project for the end of year. Some teams found that being a teacher is not so easy, teaching needs to be clear and simple to get the message across. Our finished movies have been posted to http://studentmathmovies.wikispaces.com/ Thanks to Mr Avery for creating this fabulous site.
Today was the day of Maths Film Festival. 8 films were nominated in the category of Best Film. These were viewed and students voted in Edmodo.
And the winner is…..
Pascal’s Triangle by Sophie and Nat year5rc from Pru Thomas on Vimeo.
Congratulations to Nat and Sophie!
The Peoples Choice Award goes to
Sammy, Paris and Taylor for their film about Chance
Paris Sammy Taylor Chance year5rc from Pru Thomas on Vimeo.
5M were lucky enough to enjoy two art lessons with talented a art teacher. They considered the work of Sidney Nolan and his series of art works on the life of Ned Kelly. Enjoy our slide show which outlines the process each girl went through to create her artwork. To see the finished works pop into reception.
Sidney Nolan inspired artworks on PhotoPeach
Thank you to all the parents who took the time to respond to our survey and write us messages regarding Year 5. If you have not yet completed your ‘homework’ the survey will remain open for a while yet.
This post is for the girls to answer. Mrs Thomas and I would like to know how you have found Year 5. Especially what you would change.
SO, if you were the teacher what would you change?
What would you add and what would you take away?
What did you enjoy and what did you dislike?
What should you have had more of and what less of?
Try to remember right back to last January when you arrived for the new year several centimetres smaller and in shiny shoes. Let us know so that next year can be even better for the current Year 4 students
As Year 5 nears its end for the class of 2018 it is good time to reflect on the year’s learning. This is a worthwhile habit that we have encouraged the girls to reflect on all year and now, as part of this fortnight’s homework, your daughter will be asking you to read this blogpost, leave a comment, and answer a brief survey.
Mrs Miller and I hope that we have offered your daughter a safe and happy learning environment, rich learning experiences in which your daughter has been encouraged to be more independent and a sense of belonging in a (usually) cohesive peer group. When difficulties have arisen academically or socially we hope that we have helped assist your daughter by encouraging resilience, persistance and practical methods for solving problems. We hope that we have encouraged your daughter to explore ideas, to think of others and above all to be kind and respectful. As well as to work well in a team, to begin to look outside the familiar and to develop good habits for life long learning.
We are also interested in your perception of how we are communicating to you. Do you enjoy reading this blog? Have you read the notices coming to you via edmodo? Are you now addicted to Twitter? Are you hoping your daughter continues to blog next year? Have we challenged you to think and learn in new ways?
We welcome your comments about the year that has been Year 5 for your daughter. Please feel free to raise issues of concern as well as satisfaction. Some particular areas for comment would be learning experiences, student progress, work habits, learning support for individual needs, parent involvement etc… Please feel free to comment via this blog or, if it is more suitable, an email to Mrs Miller or myself would be fine.
The issue of homework is always a vexed one for students, parents and teachers. We are always striving to achieve the right balance. We would very much appreciative your feedback about homework via this brief survey. Please click on this link. Click here to take survey Thank you for your support and assistance.
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WOW, what a great day we had on Monday. the weather was perfect, the lifeguards were too and we hit the surf. Enjoy our animoto about our trip to Manly for our surf education day.
Thanks so much to everyone who has responded with your thoughts relating to our post about using mobile devices in the classroom. Mrs Miller and I have been most impressed by the logical and well-reasoned arguments that many of you have raised.
Your responses show me that you are developing excellent critical thinking skills, and are looking at all sides of the argument. I also really like the way that you have read each other’s replies and used that to extend your own thinking. Everyone raised really clear points and was able to support your thinking with examples.
It was also great to have a few parent comments because often adults have quite a different perspective. It was also clear to me that lots of you had discussed this at home which was great.
This issue of mobile devices in schools is very topical at the moment. Sometimes it is called BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and is seen as the move away from 1:1 laptop programs (like we have in Year 5 & 6). It will be very interesting to see where this develops in the future and what happens at our school.
Photo by Dan Callahan Creative Commons licence
Why not ask friends and family at other schools about what is happening in their classrooms? Do they use laptops, ipads other devices in their classrooms? Are they provided by the school or do they bring their own?
Let’s continue the discussion
Many educators these days are arguing that mobile phones and other digital devices such as i-pod touches and i-pads should be allowed in classrooms. They say that school children should be able to use their devices to learn with and from. Many of the conferences I have been to this year, have had speakers argue that students should be allowed to use their digital devices in school. That schools should stop banning them and instead they should use them to help students learn.
Why not ask your parents their opinion on this? Mrs Thomas and I are always looking for ways to help you learn better, do you think having a digital device in class would help you learn or stop you learning?
We are learning about life on the goldfields.
That miners lived in tents when they first arrived.
That the first houses were made of wattle and daub.
That the first gold miners ate possums, they then made clothes from the skins.
That they wore socks for over a year at a time.
We are all safely in our nice motel style bedrooms at the Bathurst Goldfields after a good journey through the mountains via Jenolen Caves. We took a tour of Lucas cave which was both educational and interesting. In a while we will be off for dinner followed by a night of Colonial Style bush dancing before bed.
Our rooms are nice, four single beds, ensuit bathrooms and a T.V! All the girls happily buzzing around burning off energy after the bus trip.
We hope you have enjoyed reading our tweets and viewing our instagram pictures. If my upload works I will add a picture to this post.
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