Jesus Ascending into Heaven

Today we have been learning about The Ascension. We learnt this happened 40 days after Easter Sunday. It was when Jesus rose up into heaven. He promised to prepare a place for people in Heaven.
We read this passage from St. John’s Gospel and talked about what each verse meant:

This YouTube clip also helped our understanding.

Using Google Drawing we recreated the scene of Jesus Ascending into Heaven. Some of us also included a quote from ACTS 1:11. You can see our drawings on our individual blogs.

Henri Matisse Art

This week we have been learning some new painting techniques.
First, we looked at the artworks of Henri Matisse. To find out more about him, read our individual blogs.
Then we talked about what still life meant. Next, we drew Miss M's guitar and a vase. After that, we painted it. We had to mix the primary colours (red, yellow and blue) together to create the colours we wanted. We also had white and black. We layered and blended the paint. We also used white to show light direction. After our paint was dry, we used black pastel to add details.
Here's Selina's finished work. You can see the rest of the classes on their individual blogs.

Enviroschools at Home

During Lockdown, we continued our Enviroschools learning. We repurposed old t-shirts into bags, and learnt about and made closed loops. We also learnt how bugs are actually very useful in our garden and created our own bugs from things we had at home. Finally, we read some statistics about what is being dumped into our landfills. The majority of it could have been recycled so we created posters encouraging people to recycle, reuse, reduce and repurpose.
You can read more about these by reading our individual blogs.

Coding

This term we are learning about Our Digital World. As part of this unit, we are also learning how to code. This is one of our lessons during Lockdown: 

You can go to our individual blogs to play some of the games we have made.
Here's some Flappy Bird ones we made:

Josh's Flappy Bird

Sione's Flappy Bird

Morgan's Flappy Bird

Maybe you could make your own Flappy Bird game and post it on your blog for people to play.

SHOUT OUT

It's great to learn new things and this weeks SHOUT OUT goes to someone who is always teaching us something new with every creation he makes. 
Last week he taught us about 'bowsprit' and 'forestay'. You'll know who I'm talking about if you've been following his blog. 
He is... 

'The Cardboard Creations Master, 

Master of all Masters'.

Go to his blog to see his newest masterpiece and find out what a bowsprit and forestay are. Remember he doesn't use a plan or template from the internet - it all comes from his own incredible brain!

Well done for being so creative and clever. Room 1s SHOUT OUT goes to...

Lockdown Learning

We have had some interesting things happen in our bubbles during Lockdown and we have also been learning some amazing things from the people inside our bubbles. Some students have even created their own masterpieces. 
Here’s a snapshot of some of these things.

SHOUT OUT

It's really interesting when we have online tasks that require some fossicking in garages. Everyone elses garages are always so much more interesting!
Last week, one of the Senior Syndicate tasks was to read Lighting the Sky with Raspberry Pi then head to BrainPOP (an online circuit construction kit) to create their own circuits by clicking and dragging wires, a battery, lightbulb etc onto their drawing board. Nothing at all to do with fossicking!
So if you read their individual blogs about this learning, you will gobsmacked to see someone who has gone to their garage and found cables to strip back, and everything else they needed to create their own electrical circuit with the help of their dad.
Well done for tweaking the task, showing initiative and making it your own...come on down....KYLAH!

Kylah does her online distance learning in her caravan (to keep away from her noisy siblings!)

April Reflection Newsletter

Today we reflected on our learning during April.
It has been different for us because we are in Lockdown and have been learning online from home.
Our digital learning objects show we can share our work with a friend so they can comment on it.
You can read our reflections on our individual blogs. Rememer to leave a postive, thoughtful and helpful comment.

Our Digital World - Making Circuits

We have been learning about Our Digital World. One of our tasks was to read an aticle called Lighting the Sky with Raspberry Pi then we went to a Circuit Construction Website and created our own circuits.
We had to use:

• wires
• batteries
• lightbulbs
• resistor
• switch

We could also use:

• voltmeter
• ammeter

Here is Kaylah's Screencastify of how she made hers:

Some people had electrical circuit kits at their houses so they used them.

In order for electricity to start flowing, we needed to make sure we made a closed circuit. Electricity is caused by tiny particles with negative charges, called electrons.

When a circuit is complete, or closed, electrons can flow from one end of a battery all the way around, through the wires, to the other end of the battery. Along its way, it will carry electrons to electrical objects that are connected to it – like the light bulb – and make them work!