Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Yesterday Miss McLeod's reading group finished reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Today we did a Padlet to record our ideas about our favourite part out of the entire book and why. See this below.

Have you read the book? It's quite different to the movie. What is your favourite part?

Truth or Lie? Can you guess?

Wow! I can't believe that we've done 3 weeks of online learning!

In Miss McLeod's writing hangouts, we've been learning how to write comics using a programme called Pixton. In our first lesson (3 weeks ago) the children got to create their own avatar. Their avatars all got added to our 'class photo'. (See below)

We've now made 3 comics and each week we've learned new tricks and got better at making them. This week we made 'Truth or Lie' comics. The task was to create a  talk show in a comic with the guest having to say a truth and a lie and the audience (blog readers) need to work out which is the truth and which is the lie.

Here are some below...see if you can work out which is the truth and which is the lie in each!

Cameron's Comic

Ella-Pearl's Comic

Jed's Comic

Sophie's Comic

If I could talk to a snake, I would ask it...

Today in reading with Miss McLeod (online), we read chapter 2 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It's called the Vanishing Glass.

After we read the chapter, we played another Kahoot and then we did an activity where we had to think about what we would ask a snake if we could talk to it.

Here are the questions we would like to ask...

What would you ask a snake if you could talk to it?

Online Learning- Day 1 with Miss McLeod

What a fantastic 'first day' of Term 2- learning from home.

I had a lovely time connecting with all the children who joined for my writing and reading sessions and my Q & A/ check in session. It was so great to see all of your happy faces and I look forward to tomorrow!

Here is a screenshot of some happy faces from my writing session.

Today in writing we begun making a comic using Pixton. Stay tuned for some finished products on Friday!

For reading my class really enjoyed listening to me read Chapter 1 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Then we played a Kahoot (with some teething problems). It was lots of fun.

Congratulations to our top three scorers! 

1st place: Lucas

2nd place: Jayden

3rd place: Jed

 

Close behind was Cameron and Cole!

Remember if you missed our learning hangouts for today- these are recorded and uploaded to our Google Site.

Update from Miss McLeod

Hi everyone!

I hope you're all keeping safe inside your bubbles at home. In my bubble at home, it's me, Riki and sometimes Cash and Ava (my step children). They are still allowed to go between our house and their Mum's house as long as that's the only two points of contact.

I've been keeping busy and I've now finished my second puzzle! I forgot to take a photo of the first one I did. It's a Destiny Wasgij puzzle. This means that the puzzle you're doing is actually different to the one on the cover. A Destiny Wasgij is what the scene would look like in the future!

This was the cover on the box.

This was actually what the completed puzzle looked like.

Unfortunately, there were 3 missing pieces! Can you spot where the missing pieces are?

Google Hangout

Hi everyone!

It was so awesome to see all of your happy smiling faces this morning on our Google Hangout- especially because we were expecting to not be able to see you all!

My favourite part was hearing about what you'd all been up to! I love that most of you are continuing some form of learning from home! I especially impressed with those of you who are all updating your blogs regularly as well.

We miss you all and will organise some more Google Hangouts for after the holiday break. Remember though, that you can still email us if you have any questions and we will reply as soon as we can!

A little reminder for your next Google Hangout to make sure you are not in your bedroom- remember your cybersmart lessons!

Keep up the great stuff you're doing during this time everyone!
- Miss McLeod

Writing

With Term one now into full swing, we are pretty much back into our normal programme. Here are some super snapshots of some children's writing from Miss McLeod's writing group.

Enjoy reading!

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The rugby players wait like a jaguar, waiting for the right time as the the ball speeds through the air, their arms reach high like a mountain into the blue sky.The players are reaching for the ball with persistence.As the ball gets snatch by the player in red the crowds roars with excitement. The teams channels their speed to go their fastest.As the red team charges to the goal the blue team catches up and right onto their tails.

-By Jed

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The rugby players position themselves as the ball comes hurtling towards them. The Red team catches the ball and there he goes running through the squishy mud with the ball in his hands. "oww" the crowd goes as he’s tackled straight to the ground he passes the ball as he goes down.

-By Lucas

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As the dew on the wet tree leaves drips on to the sweaty players heads, mud from the damp morning grass splatters up their tired legs. 

They can hear the cheering crowds voices echoing into the mysterious dark forest  and their yelling coachs deep voice. When they hear the mud squelch the players can hear them selves continuously puff because they are running up and down the damp playing field.

-By Sophie

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As the red team runs to their goal one of the players from the blue team tackles the player from the red team…

Now the blue team has the ball and they are heading towards the goal, he sees he is about to get tackled so he trows the ball and the red team tries to block

By Arwen

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