Week 15 - Part 1: Inside The Classroom

As all of you are aware last week the ODE was big feature of Week 15 and no doubt your child slept well on Thursday evening.  Here is a brief outline of what the students were doing whilst at school with an ODE special post to follow once photos have been compiled.

Mathematics

Iba and Lalaine working on Mathletics.

As well as activities within the classroom, we have be using Mathletics and Khan Academy to explore fractions, decimals and percentage.

Our focus last week was:

• Fractions and decimals on a number line.
• Simplifying fractions to the lowest form.
• Comparing fraction with the same denominator and related denominators.
• Recognizing equivalents between fractions, decimals and percent.
• A look back at converting units.

The tweet below featured Nanami who created a tutorial on Explain Everything and shared it with her class to teach them one of the above concepts.

Y6 student using @explainevrythng & @googledrive to create, share & teach her peers math concepts. #kicslearns pic.twitter.com/UJN16Y7sko
— KICS Year 6 (@KICSYear6) December 1, 2014

Language

The students have been continuing to work on their non-chronological eBooks.   The majority of the students are now in the final stages of the writing phase which focuses on editing and revisiting writing based on peer and teacher feedback.  Alongside this we have been exploring text features of our eBook which includes:

• Cover
• Title of contents
• Subtitles
• Glossary
• Images and captions
• Use of audio
• Font type, size and colour
• Hyperlink images used (as an alternative to bibliography)

Once the eBooks are completed the students will export this in video format so that it can be shared by using either a QR code or Aurasma.

UOI

In small groups the students have been working on their radio promotions advertisements for the upcoming Arabic Evening.

Using their iPads the students were asked to create an audio script detailing what was to be spoken and how.

Task requirements:

• The radio advert needs to be at least 30 seconds in duration.
• Be in two languages.
• Have at least one sound effect.
• Use music either throughout advertisement or to open and close.
• Answer the what, why, where, when and who questions.
• Engage the audience through use of voice and interactions between speakers.

Roving around the groups as they worked on this mini project it was clear to see them fully engaged and intrinsically motivated to create a successful promotional radio advertisement.