Morse Code

Every Wednesday morning, the One Odd Bunch have the wonderful Mrs Wilmoth helping them with their learning while Mrs Croll is in leadership meetings.  Recently, they have been learning about morse code and roman numerals.  Here are presentations created by Jessica, Finlay and Oscar to share their learning:

Writing and Design Thinking

Writing is one of the many learning activities in our Distance Learning programme and One Odd Bunch each have several writing goals to master. After deciding on the genre for their writing, e.g. narrative, explanation, poetic etc., they then needed to come up with an idea. Sometimes coming up with an idea can be difficult, so we provide them with a variety of prompts and ideas to choose from in our 'Writing Zone'.

The art of writing - whether it be a story or explaining the why and how, involves a series of steps - planning, drafting, recrafting and editing. I feel that the steps in writing are very similar to the process in Design Thinking:

• Empathise - reason for writing: to entertain, inform, report, personal etc.
• Define - identify the audience and purpose for writing
• Ideate - plan for writing; generate ideas; what are the key points to include
• Prototype - draft up ideas and organise for paragraphing; consider language and                        structure; vocabulary, spelling and punctuation
• Test - get feedback and make changes to improve your writing

What do you think?

Here is a slice of the published writing that One Odd Bunch have 'designed and produced'. Enjoy!

Crime Scene on the Lego Board

Oscar took up the Daily Challenge on 11th May, to have some fun and create a short movie. He use Lego and the 'stop motion animation' technique to make this crime scene movie.  Stop motion animation is when you take a photo, move the objects just a fraction, then take another photo. This process is repeated until you have completed the scene. 

Director:  Oscar

Narrator: His dad

Share and Shine

Instructional writing is used all the time in our daily lives.  It can appear easy, but it's surprising how quickly something can go wrong if information is missed out.  Wednesday's Daily Challenge was to write instructions for making a favourite sandwich, then test out the instructions by getting someone else to make it.  This was a great way to check if  all the necessary information had been included - not just the ingredients, but also what utensils to use and where to put the ingredients.

There were some delicious sandwiches made yesterday - which means that the instructions must have been written correctly!

I wonder if the result might have been different had the instructions been used to programme a computer 😏

Share and Shine

Well, ANZAC day was quite a bit different this year. I was grateful that I didn't have to get up so early as I only needed to walk to the top of my driveway, rather than drive to an ANZAC service. Radio NZ had an ANZAC service broadcast, so I had this playing from my stereo - loud enough to hear it from the street. It was an eerie experience, looking up and down the road to see the flicker of candles from others who were joining in with me from a distance.

Here's some lovely ANZAC wreaths that were made for Friday's Daily Challenge:

Share and Shine

Once again, I am blown away with the learning that is taking place at home. Here is a snapshot of what was shared with me yesterday.

Click here to view Bree's video (only Sunnyhills School emails can view this video)

Lockdown Memes - Daily Challenge: 20.4.20

It looks like this challenge was extremely popular.  Memes are such a fun way to share our thinking :)

Morning Meeting - 20.4.20

Sharing Our Learning

Oscar has been using this time at home to learn guitar and Sienna has been busy reading online stories with her nana and answering maths questions from our very own PM!  What have you been learning?

Today's challenge was to find objects in the house from A-Z.  Here's what Pasindu and Maddie found.

Link to Pasindu's doc