The Ins & Outs

This week’s hands-on homework task is to design and make a healthy Smoothie! Since we are focusing of healthy living this term I thought this would be a fun task to do. 

To complete the task you will need to record on your blog the ingredients and also include photos of you making the smoothie.

So what are you waiting for! Get creating cool, yummy, smoothies!

This week’s hands-on homework task is to download, play and create your own 4 pictures, 1 word puzzle.

4 pictures 1 word is a puzzle based game that you can download for free at the app store. The puzzle contains 4 pictures that have something in common and you have to figure out what it is!

I want you to have a go at the game and then create your very own puzzle. You can create your own one using any app you like (Comic Life, Educreation, frame magic etc..). Make sure you don’t answer the puzzle as we will try and answer them in class. When you have finished make sure you put it on your blog

So what are you waiting for? Get downloading and get creating!

This week’s hands-on homework task is to create a Haiku Deck about all the things you have learnt from your Mum! Since this Sunday is Mother’s Day I thought this would be a great task. 

Also Haiku Deck are running a contest where the best Haiku Deck about things they have learnt from their mum wins an iPad Mini! How cool is that! Create a cool Haiku Deck and win mum an iPad Mini! If you want to learn more about the contest just click on the picture below.

So what are you waiting for? Get creating!

This week’s hands-on homework task is an ANZAC Day assignment. What I want you to do is research ANZAC day and present your findings in a poster. Your poster could include information about when and what happened, maps of locations, photos and general facts about ANZAC day.

Where are you going to find your information? Well there are tonnes of fantastic websites on the internet that you can use. Below I have include my favourite ANZAC website. Make sure you check it out, it is brilliant! 

When is your mini assignment due? Well because this is the last week of the term I am going to give you until the end of the holidays to hand in your assignment. When you have finished you can e-mail me your assignment so I can mark it.

So what are you waiting for? Grab mum and dad and start finding out all about ANZAC day!

This week’s hands-on homework task is to interview someone using the Puppet Pals app. Puppet Pals is my favourite all time app and I thought this would be a good way to get everyone using it.

So who are you going to interview? Well the app allows you to make your own puppets so I guess it’s your choice! The only condition is you must ask and answer at least 5 questions.

When you have finished your interview you need to export it into I-Movie and put it on your blog.

When does the task have to be completed by? Well because it is a short week so I am going to give you until next Wednesday to complete it. That gives you exactly one week and it can be handed in just before we go on our Marae visit.

If you don’t have an iPad you can take home one of the school ones. So what are you waiting for! Get creating with Puppet Pals!

This week’s hands-on homework task is to complete some home baking! Baking is a fun activity to do at home and it teaches you different maths skills like measuring and fractions.

I thought this would be a great task as Thursday is Olivia’s last day and we are going to have a shared lunch to say goodbye!

So what are you waiting for? Get baking and don’t forget to bring in only up to 5 pieces!

Rolling, rolling, rolling down the river… or hopefully floating. This weeks Hands on Homework task is to design and make your own boat to race in an end of week competition.

What do you need to do? Well, the answer to this is simple because you can do almost anything to ensure you assemble your own boat. It can be made of anything and everything and on Friday, we will have a race in the school pool! 

Good Luck!

This week’s hands-on homework task was to make an easter egg using a hard boiled egg. Check out the students who took up the challenge!

This week’s hands-on homework task is to make a 1 minute movie using I-Movie. I-Movie is a fantastic Apple programme that can be used on your computer or your IPad. We make lots of movies in class so I thought this would be a great way for you to start learning how to use the programme. 

Your movie can be about anything you want and when it is finished you need to put it on U-Tube (You can use the class account).

So what are you waiting for? Lets get making movies!

Last week’s hands-on homework task was to create an Avatar. Check out what 4.5 came up with!

This week’s hands-on homework task is to join our class Edmodo account and complete your first Edmodo task. Edmodo is a website that provides a safe and easy way for our class to connect and collaborate, share content and access homework. We are going to use it throughout the year to connect with each other and other classes around the world. 

To join up all your need to do is click here and full out the sign up form. You will need a group code which I will give you in class. Once you are signed in there will be a task on Edmodo for you to complete.

So what are your waiting for? Sign up and join our Edmodo account!

This week’s hands-on homework task is to create your own avatar! An avatar is an on-line identity of yourself to use when you comment on blogs and use the internet.

Below I have listed a number of fantastic websites you can use to create your avatar. The idea is to be as creative as possible.

This task is compulsory for the whole class as everyone needs one for their blog. So what are you waiting for? Lets get creating!

This week’s hands-on homework task is to come up with a name for our new class! Last year I picked the class name but this year I thought it might be cool if the students chose it.

I will collect up all the suggestions and on Friday we will vote for the best one.

So what are you waiting for? Get creative and come up with a new class name!

This week’s hands-on homework task is to write a letter to Santa Claus! Christmas is only a few weeks away so I thought this would be a fun task. 

What are you going to put in your letter? Well if you click on the picture below it will take you to a website which will help you!

So what are you waiting for? Get writing to Santa!