Catching Up With Our Buddies

We love this story!

On Friday, we finally caught up with our super amazing buddy class, Room 3. They read their stories to us, we helped them to make blog comments, and in some cases we even created blog posts together. Check out the posts on Tracey's, Taylor's, Julius's, Zach's and Ezra's blogs!

I tried to capture the fun learning with the app Explain Everything. My slideshow has videos on it but they didn't upload to camera roll or YouTube. It is still great to listen to and I have included screenshots of the slides that had videos on them below the video.

Taylor is a great buddy!

Zach and Mason got us all singing!

Frosty Morning

What a beautiful frosty morning! Outside our window, the horses look very peaceful. The cold doesn't seem to bother them. I took a photo using the iPad app Font Candy. It was my first time using it. Need to have a few more plays!

Learning Buddy Panda

Here is the Room 6 Learning Buddy Panda. I created it using the Loupe app. It has all the learning buddy animals created by Room 6. Hover over the pictures to enlarge them. We had fun creating them. So far, we are being pretty good learning buddies and we will only get better.

Christmas Wonderland

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! We will be back next year, blogging from a new classroom with a different look. I look forward to it. A big thank you to everyone who has read, followed or commented on the Tree of PRIDE in 2013! Have a great holiday and hope to see you sometime in 2014.

Our last post is inspired by a task set by our Twitter friends, Palmy Kids. Some of the students used Minecraft, others found their own app to create with.



Here are our Christmas Wonderlands!


Christmas Wonderland from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

Room 16's India

Our India topic has been wonderful. We have been cooking Indian food with Inderpreet's and Hemani's mums. Imaan's mum has created real henna with most of the girls and also shared food. We have learnt about henna, the wonderful architecture and love story of the Taj Mahal, and really enjoyed the music and dance of Bollywood.

Poster by Elijah and Sam

In the last week of term, we are sharing our art in the Parkvale Arts Festival. If you scan our poster for the exhibition using the Aurasma augmented reality app, you will be able to watch our Bollywood trailer (which is also embedded below). Each class will have a poster featuring their own Aurasma for their arts display. All Room 16 students' Indian artworks also have a unique Aurasma video, which you will be able to scan at the art festival.



Room 16 About India from Room16 Parkvale on Vimeo.

Coming soon: Our Mahatma Ghandi movies (in two parts)!

Rufus Escapes

Today, I was lucky to learn together with lots of enthusiastic teachers and some wonderful students at Richmond School. We got to explore many ways iPads can be used to enhance learning.

One app we had a quick go with was Toontastic. Mrs Roil thought my attempt was very silly and dared me to put it on the blog... So here it is!

Explaining Subtraction Strategies

Subtraction Strategies from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

Yesterday in Maths, I used the iPad app Explain Everything as we were going through some subtraction strategies. It is a great app and this was my first go - I can see immediately it could be used in much more wonderful ways than I have here. In our class, we can also use AirPlay and put what is happening on the iPad onto our class widescreen. It's great how you can pause and play back learning and this app suits it very much.

Anyway, hopefully there is something in the captured video that you can play back to help you understand and use subtraction strategies. Thank you to Inderpreet and Tyrone for their contributions on the last slide!