AVAILLL

This term my class has been doing AVAILLL. AVAILLL is when the whole class watches a movie and then during the movie we do activities.  The movie is in subtitles.
AVAILLL stands for Audio Visual Achievement In Literacy Language and Learning.
    
Some of the activities are Word Hunt which you have to find the longest word when it is paused and you have to try make little words out of it.

Another activity is Synonym Search and you get a bit of paper and it has some words on it so when the movie is paused you have to find the word that means the same on the subtitle. 

One more activity is the Last Word I think that this one would be the hardest because you have to look at the subtitles all the time just in case the teacher stops it not on the subtitles.

The movies that we have watched so far are Epic, The Neverending story, A Series of Unfortunate Events and Dolphin Tale.

My favourite movie was Dolphin Tale!

Makey Makey

This term my teacher introduced Makey Makey to my class. 

Makey Makey is turning everyday objects into touch pads using our Chromebook, power board and electrical currents. 

We did lots of interesting experiments.
The first we tried was using bits of fruit to make piano sounds. To do this we had to connect 7 of the 8 wires from the main power board to the fruit. We had to have one cord spare at all times to connect to the Earth which was at the bottom of the power board. If it was not connected to Earth it won't work even if you tried your hardest.

We also used scissors to play the game  Pacman and pencil and paper to play Mario jump.  

My favourite was using a pencil to draw an up,down,left & right arrow on a piece of paper. We then connected the 4 colour wires from the board to the paper making sure that we had the right colours matching otherwise it wouldn't work as well.

   

Production (Egypt)

This term our school did a production and it was called "The Journey". If you do't know what a production is it is when every class does an item to show at night and we do it every second year. Each class gots a different country and my class got Egypt.

We had six mummies, eleven pharaohs, six Cleopatras, one king and two cats. In my school there is nineteen classes so the show would take about an hour including the finale. So I better stop and show you some pictures. 

This is the class photo when we were all dressed up. The costumes were very comfortable but maybe not for the mummies.

  

Here are the Cleopatras, I thought that out of all the characters these people were the best.

I thought that the production went really well, if it was a competition, my class would of won!