Share and Shine

Here's some videos and photos to illustrate some of the amazing learning that took place during our Lockdown Learning at the beginning of Term 2.

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!

Final Lockdown Post

It was great to meet up with the One Odd Bunch yesterday afternoon in our Google Meet. Hopefully it's our last now that we're at Level 2, with hopefully a move to Level 1 very shortly.  There were many questions about returning to school on Monday and hopefully I've been able to answer them all. The classroom felt a bit quiet so it will be great to see everyone again. 

I apologise for not posting a video yesterday morning. I thought I would send one from the classroom, but things got a wee bit busy. Aditha asked for the Daily Challenge so here it is, but instead of it being the Daily Challenge, let's make it a Weekend Challenge. 

WEEKEND CHALLENGE

Minute to win it!

Check out the link below and select as many 'Minute to win it' challenges you can do. Email your photos and/or videos to Mrs Croll.

How many can you do?

Minute to win it challenges

Keep safe,

Mrs Croll

Room 1 @ Sunnyhills School

B.Education

Post Grad Cert Digital and Collaborative Learning

      

Morning Meeting - 14.5.20

Morning Meeting - 13.5.20