Friday, August 24, 2012

Room 17 Daily 5 this week..

Here we are enjoying our Daily 5 Literacy programme.Reading, doing word work and writing.


 

 
 Here are some of my displays - I have a board with ideas for Working on Writing - write a: letter, report, biography, autobiography, review (book or movie), postcard, Wanted poster, poem, twitter post, wiki work, comic, book, card.  I have included an example and instructions on how to be successful.  The children have loved the ideas and prompts and this week I have had a far bigger variety of work being produced for this section of the programme.



I have started our Daily 5 roster, with magnetic dots to show which activity the children have completed on the day (this is just a double-check - I have found that generally the children are VERY responsible and enjoy the independence of choosing the order of their activities so much that they want to do them all.)
We have also started displaying our CAFE strategies (thanks people from Pinterest) and the children are loving having a very particular focus to work on.  We have started a Vocab page on our wiki that the children working on this strategy can add words as they come across them, either at home or at school.  My aim is to have them work on these during Word Work - adding definitions, synonyms, adding a picture to represent the word and writing a sentence with the word in it.
Other ideas for Word Work are: Spelling City, word finds, cross words, hangman, cloze activities - these are all implemented on either the computer or on the iPads.
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  1. Room 11August 30, 2012 at 9:22 AM

    Dear Room 17,
    Thanks for finding us on the literacy shed and leaving a comment on our blog (we have commented back to you on our blog).
    Wow you guys have got cool i-pads we wish we could have some. But instead we have got some netbooks (which are little laptops). Also at our school we have i-pod touches and a teaching station (interactive whiteboard) with a mobi pad that connects to our teachers laptop.
    How did you create your wonderful iPad art and how did you come up with the idea? Were you experimenting with your iPad's or were you learning about different artists?
    Did you put the camera on and then turn the iPad around so that you could see your face to create your artwork?
    From Room 11 at Vardon School

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    1. UnknownSeptember 1, 2012 at 9:39 PM

      Hi Room 11,
      thanks for visitng!! We are loving our new iPads - we've only had them for almost two months now - so quite new!!
      We were just playing around with our iPads for our art - we got the idea from Pinterest (I think). We tried taking the photo of our faces by ourselves, but it was too tricky, so in the end we did it with a buddy. It is harder than it looks!!

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  2. Room 11September 20, 2012 at 9:27 AM

    Dear Room 17,
    It would be fun to make art from your I-pads. Have you mastered taking photos of yourselves using the I-pads yet?
    What else have you enjoyed using the I-pads for?
    From Room 11 (Vardon School)

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