Grade 6 SA / Sydney Project

The Grade 6's will be communicating with a Year 6 Class in Sydney Australia next term.

They will be discussing how we live in our cities, democracy, government, and various aspects of our lives in our countries.

The platform we are using is Edmodo. Edmodo looks very similar to Facebook, but it's for schools. Only teachers who can add students and there can be no private communication between any students.

The teacher creates the group and the teacher leads the students in joining the group.  So far, the Year 6 Class have added their Voki avatars to introduce themselves, we have gone to watch and listen to their introductions, and commented on them.  When we come back in the new term, we will create our own Voki Avatars and post them to the group.

We are looking forward to a great Term 2 together!

Everyone busy listening, reading and introducing themselves.

Excited about the project!

it's a girls school?  Whaaaatttt??  

Mystery Skype

Our Grade 8's have been doing map work this term and we have finished up the term with a Mystery Skype chat.

A "Mystery Skype" is an appointment between the class and a guest from an unknown location, who meet at a designated time, and the class, using 20 strategic "yes/no" questions, have to find the city that the guest is from. They work in groups using Google, Atlas's, Globes, whatever they need.

Yesterday they had a practice round with a guest who was from the Western Cape and they managed well, but they were warned that the "real thing" today would be more of a challenge - and it was.

Our guest was from Bucharest in Romania. The first 5 questions they asked him, he answered "no."  This had them on the back foot since they had bargained on at least one or two being a "yes" to continue their questioning.  After the initial shock wore off, they recovered well - and a coupleof great thinkers rose to the fore in searching and questioning initiative.

All-in-all, it was a great experience, we are thrilled to have the technology to be able to do these activities and to be able to speak to teachers and classes around the world.

Our Mystery Guest watching us as we try to locate him!

It was a challenge - but we did it!

Well done Grade 8's!

Maths Fun!

Whoever would have thought that Maths could be FUN!

The Grade 6's have had lots of fun in math as we look at BODMAS.  If you are not sure what that means, ask one of them!

SA Museum Outing!

The Grade 3's went to the S.A Museum to learn more about our heritage. We learnt some very interesting facts about the San and Khoisan people.

We had a lovely picnic in the shade of a huge, old Yellowwood tree! What better way is there to end a lesson on "heritage", than to climb one of our National Symbols!

For all the pics, pop over to our Facebook page in the Grade 3 - 2103 album! Enjoy!