5M's Stop Motion Animation

In Creative Arts we are making a Stop Motion animation using Lego figures.
Each group of students has been given a separate Lego set.
Our task is to make a storyboard which tells us a story.
Then we created backgrounds, prepared the characters and began taking the photos for the Stop Motion movie.

We are using the Lego Movie App to animate the images.

Success Criteria for 5M's comments:

• Challenges and how you overcame them
• What you enjoyed about this project
• How well did your group work together?
• What would you try differently next time?
• If you could choose any topic or story for your next stop motion project, what would it be?

5W's Personal Learning Projects

For the first half of Term 4, 5 White were exploring many different subjects as part of our Personal Learning Project. Our task was to select any topic we were interested in and find out more about it.
We were not allowed to just use Google and our iPads for the entire time. We were encouraged to enjoy our personal learning and create, design, paint, build, or whatever we wanted to do.

Some of the topics we explored included: electrical circuits, armoured vehicles, water filters, solar power, buildings, balloon powered cars, remote controlled cars, car design, mailboxes, jewellery making, a water feature, martial arts, marble tracks, magnet maze, Rube Goldberg machines, bird house, bird feeder, floral maze, seed experiments, model soccer field and a model tennis court!

Such variety from just 1 class!

In the comments section you can find out more from each class member about their Personal Learning Project.

5W Students - make sure you check our success criteria before you add your comment: 

• Technical language
• Vocabulary
• Problems/challenges and how you overcame them
• EDITING!!!!!!!!!
• Picture, labels
• What did you learn about this topic?
• Why did you choose it?
• What would you select next time?
• What did you learn about yourself as a learner?

5M talks about Google Slides

Tell a student in another class about Google slides.  

Use the comments field on this post to:

• Describe some features of Google slides that you like or don’t like
• Discuss why it is a useful tool for learning - include an example of how you have used this App for your own learning
• Give your top tip for users who are new to Google Slides

Make sure you:

Write a paragraph at least 3-4 sentences. 

Check your spelling and punctuation before your post your comment.  

Look at the slides you created previously in the post to help you comment:

http://year5chisholm.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/year-5-crowd-sourced-book.html

If you have time you could provide some feedback on other people’s comments.

5W reflects on using iMovie

Recently you all created your SMARTPHONE ADS using iMovie and shared them on a blog post. 

Today in this blog post we invite you to share with students in another class about your new iMovie skills by making a comment on this blog post. In your comment you could:

• Describe some features of iMovie that you like or don’t like
• Discuss why it is a useful tool for learning - include an example of how you have used this App for your own learning
• Give your "top tip" for users who are new to iMovie

REMEMBER - 

• Your comment should contain at least 3-4 sentences 
• Check your spelling and punctuation before your post your comment. 
• If you have time you could provide some feedback on other people’s comments. Remember to be thoughtful when you make comments because,
  
  

Getting a comment can be like receiving a little bouquet of flowers  a surprise present, or a letter in your mailbox: a real treat! SO NOW it's over to you!

5G talks about Google Slides

Tell a student in another class about Google slides.  

Use the comments field on this post to:

• Describe some features of Google slides that you like or don’t like
• Discuss why it is a useful tool for learning - include an example of how you have used this App for your own learning
• Give your top tip for users who are new to Google Slides

Make sure you:

Write a paragraph at least 3-4 sentences. 

Check your spelling and punctuation before your post your comment.  

Look at the slides you created previously ( see below) to help you comment:

If you have time you could provide some feedback on other people’s comments.

5 Maroon completed an open-ended maths task recently which involved using the Book Creator App to keep a log of their working and to prove and explain their Mathematical thinking. The task also required use of the iPad to find out information needed to complete the task.
It would be interesting to hear what you thought of completing the task using this app and did it help your mathematical thinking in any way using the iPad?

Wonder

This book deals with some very confronting issues and scenes which the main character, Auggie, faces on a daily basis. Are there any scenes in the book that stood out for you?

Counting by 7's

What are your thoughts about the novel Counting by 7's so far and what do you think about the main character Willow Chance?

Which SMARTPHONE will we convince you to buy?

Year 5 have also been considering what their ideal SMARTPHONE would be like. After critiquing ads from various Smartphone companies such as Apple iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy they have now created their very own SMARTPHONE video advertisements.

Before creating their ads the students viewed and discussed some typical ads for modern smartphones as Mentor Texts to identify :

• Some of the features of smartphones and also the techniques used by the advertisers to promote their product. These included: 
• Use of persuasive language ; 
• Use of descriptive and technical language; 
• Matching of images and text; 
• Use of visual codes such as the use of colour; offers and demands; 
• Making smooth and consistent visual transitions within  ads. 

In creating their own ads the students:

• Wrote scripts and created storyboards and then proceeded to learn to use the full iMovie (not iMovie Trailer) for the first time. 
• Learnt how to locate and attribute creative commons images
• Created graphic content including original photos and movies 
• Included credits and image attributions (Unfortunately most of these credits have been removed for privacy reasons as some contained full student names - a lesson for next time!)
• Critiqued one another's ads, giving descriptive feedback & sharing ideas and techniques to help each other make the best possible ads they could 

 Below are some of our students' advertisements in a Playlist. We invite you to preview our ads to see which ones are the most convincing or the most creative perhaps.

Please share your comments about which is the best Smartphone ad and why you think so. We look forward to hearing from you.

Year 5 Crowd Sourced Book Recommendations

Check out the latest Book Recommendations from Mrs Gatt's Year 5 class. We crowd sourced this collection from our classroom and each created a slide for sharing.
Watch this space for some more recommendations from Mrs Young's class - coming soon!

Hello World _ Welcome to our Year 5 Blog

We would like to introduce you to our Year 5 Blog at Chisholm Catholic Primary School at Bligh Park - a suburb in the Hawkesbury District in Sydney's North West. Mr Galea and the students have started this blog so we can all share our work together with our families and the Chisholm Community. In our class we are part of  the iLearn Program and so we all have our own iPads for learning in school and we even get to take them home each day too. We hope you will enjoy seeing our work and invite you to give us feedback too.