Corliss Designs!

Creativity, Imagination, Language Skills, Computer Skills — all come into play in this Junior project. Students made their own stories around the theme of ‘Schools’ – they first planned it all on a storyboard, used Internet images filtered for reuse or created their own on Pixie 3 and then put it all together using Photostory3. Enjoy:

As part of Project Imagine-action, students in the Grade 3/4 class had been learning about Human Rights. They got a chance to explore this important concept and then they created posters for the school about human rights and how we can all be better human beings. As a culmination project, they created powerpoints about some Canadian Human Right Defenders. It is their first time using Powerpoint. Although these students are little (and it shows in their work), yet what they have learnt and produced is big!

Wilson Head

John Peters Humphrey

 Emily Murphy

Famous Five

Irene Parlby

Jules Deschenes

 Lester B. Pearson

Mary Two-Axe Earley

Nellie McClung

ROSEMARY BROWN

Willie o’ree

Grade 2 got creative this year while using the program Pixie-2 to create digital stories of their own. Some are about them, some are recounts of stories they have heard while others come purely out of their own imagination. Great job, kiddos! 

Waiting to go to the Park story

Titanic story

Waiting for Christmas to come

grand theft auto

My best weekend story

one halloween night

My princess story

My Best Weekend

Going to the Park

A ghost and five children

Scary Day

Dogs

Halloween Monster

I want a bike

Our Grade 5 students learnt about the Digestive System in a really neat way this year. They used Google Sketchup to create 3-D animations of the system. It was wonderful to see them maneuvering around the complex software to create meaningful, appealing animations. They then gave a tour through the system with screencasting programs – some liked ScreenR while most preferred Jing. On the side they were engaged in purposeful conversations about the topic using an online discussion forum – Pepper. It was amazing to see how technology can transform teaching and learning in some cool ways.

Here are some animation screencasts for you to watch and comment on, as you enjoy each student’s individual creativity and innovation:

AA Presents Digestive System

MS’s digestive system project

AR- Digestive System finally done

AS – Digestive System

HK presents the Digestive System

MK’s Screencast-good copy

MA – Digestive System

NK presents Digestive System Project

PA’s Digestive System Tour

SS – The Digestive System process

SR – Digestive System Screencast_

TL’s digestive system

TS presents the Digestive System

UI – Digestive system screencast

US presents DS

FD’s Digestive System Tour

AI talks about Digestive System

KJ – Digestive System

MB’s Digestive System screencast

ZL’s screencast good copy

The students in our Grade 2 class wanted to present the idea of responsibility to the rest of the school during an assembly. When they read the story of the ‘Little Red Hen’, they realized how important it was to be responsible and helpful. They created a digital version of the story in the computer lab and showed it to the school. Enjoy:

The Little Red Hen Digital Book

The Grade 1 students decided to teach their kindergarten friends how to count up to 20 by using pictures of things that they remembered seeing during the winter. Here is their digital Winter Number Book:

Grade 1 Number Book

Here come the Grade 3 and 4 students to tell you their thoughts about what they know about computers already and what they are looking forward to knowing as the year goes on. Check out what they have to say:

Computers - What We Know and What We Want to Know

While Mrs. Cies’ and Mrs. Brown’s Grade 1 classes were learning to be respectful, their teachers read them the story of ‘Beauty and the Beast’.  The students made connections to how the story has examples of respect in it. For the school assembly, they showed the school the following video made out of pictures that they drew about the story (using the program Pixie) read out loud in their own voices. So, turn up your computer volume and enjoy the story:

beauty and the beast

Our Kindergarten students have a clear idea of cooperation, it seems. They made pictures to show cooperation and then recorded a description of those pictures in the following video that they then presented at our school assembly:

Cooperation Movie

It’s time to learn about Sound, Grade 4s! You will be visiting the following websites to find out some information about how ‘sound’ works. If the words are too hard to read yourself, use the ‘Reader’ button at the top of your page.

At the end, you will be leaving comments to share what you have learnt. As usual, extra credit will be given to making connections with the world, other books or with your own life.

http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/Experiments/ExpSoundWaves.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/subsecrets/sounds.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/26585/?tqskip1=1

http://www.medel.com/int/show/index/id/60/titel/How+Hearing+Works

http://www.dangerousdecibels.org/virtualexhibit/index.html

http://www.sciencekidsathome.com/science_experiments/sound_box.html

Hi Grade 4s

 Please visit the following websites to learn more about Light and how it works. As you learn and do the activities, try to think of ‘how’ and ‘why’ something happens. When you’re done, leave a comment to tell us what you have learnt. Extra credit will be given for making connections.

 http://www.opticalres.com/kidoptx_f.html#ControlLight

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/10_11/see_things.shtml

 http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/color/

 http://www.kidzone.ws/science/colorwheel.htm

 http://www.lightwave.soton.ac.uk/experiments/experiments.html

 http://library.thinkquest.org/26162/?tqskip1=1

Focussing on the Corliss Value of the month ‘Responsibility’, the grade 2 students in Ms. Banu’s class decided to share some ways in which they are responsible. They created pictures of their responsibility acts using Kidpix in the computer lab. They then recorded their words using Audacity. The pictures and sounds were put together on Frames to create a class movie that was later shown at the school assembly as well. Check out these proud, responsible students:

Gr 2 ResponsibilityMovie

Mr. Bhogal’s Grade 4s decided to show respect to their teachers and to thank them for all they do, on World Teacher’s Day: Oct 5th. In pairs or groups, they wrote a few lines for a class poem. In the computer lab, they recorded the words and found some pictures to go with their words. Enjoy their presentation!

 Teachers’ Day Movie

Grade 2B is proud to have learnt some excellent drama words this year with Ms. Shori, that they are now going to be sharing with us. They have used Kidpix to draw and write and Voicethread to record their comments. Enjoy!

Ms. Sargent’s Grade 1 students were really excited about the Winter Olympics. They had been watching some parts of the games on their classroom projector and at home. In the computer lab with Ms. Shori, they decided to make pictures showing some of their excitement. We added some music to the slides (track titled “Goal” by George Wood taken from www.podsafeaudio.com). Here is our e-book for you to enjoy!!

Click here to check it out on the full screen:
Olympics Movie

Press play to watch movie on small screen:


FreeVideoCoding.com


The Grade 5 students in Ms. Hager’s class have just started to learn about Ancient Egypt. They are excited to share some new words they’re coming across. We worked for the first time on Voicethread for this assignment, so some students have only shared one word instead of two. But it’s a great try. Have a look yourself:

‘Tis the season to be jolly….!

Ms. Hager’s Grade 4/5 class has been working on creating a joke book for their class. They told their jokes colourfully on Bitstripsforschools.com. Here are their teacher’s top 8 picks. Share a good laugh with them.

Best jokes book

In Social Studies, Ms. Front’s Grade 5 learnt about how an ordinary bill becomes a famous law in the Senate. They then represented their learning through a comic strip created using the online program “BitStripsForSchools”, which helped their creativity come to life.  Below are their teacher’s top 5 picks. Now, don’t they really deserve an applause?

(If you can’t read some of the comics clearly due to their smaller size, you can zoom in by holding the CTRL key and + key at the same time until it is big enough for you! To go back to the original size hold CTRL and – keys together.)

The next one is called:

Here comes the next:

Another good one:

And here comes another that deserves to be here:

A grade fiver has put together a list of some animals that are kept as pets. What’s so unusual about it? Well, check it out and see for yourself which animals have made their way to this post!

unusual-petz

Ms. Shori’s Grade 1 Reading Initiatives group read the book The Lazy Pig (by Beverly Randell). They have captured the morning scene at the farm in their voices and pictures that they drew using the software Kidspiration. Enjoy the video clip!

the-lazy-pig

 Everyone likes dogs. This grade 5 student wants to bet though, that she likes them most of all! She’s got a bunch of visuals and some audio for you to check out the ‘cuteness’ of dogs for yourself.

dogs-are-mans-best-friend

 Grade 3s have learnt what happens in Urban communities as opposed to Rural communities. They’re all ready to share some facts with us in their groups. Go ahead, little friends with your honks and hoots, and chirps and moos! We’re all ears!

urban-rural