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Check out Enviro Education in Room 11

Miss Bryant and took Sophie and Rebecca to a WaiCare Conference on a Sunday afternoon and while there they picked up lots of cool ideas for our class enviro project. Miss Bryant told the class it had to link in with our literacy programme and should involve storyboarding. The girls emailed off and were sent the following PowerPoint presentation in return (one from the conference). This is what we have based our project on...  In Room 11 we have decided there is a need to pass on knowledge of the animals, insects and plants that live in and around our school. In pairs or small groups we have each chosen a subject and we are making a 'baby booklet' using PowerPoint to show the lifecycle. These books will be saved to our server so that each junior class has access to them and so that teachers can use our work as independent reading activities for their classes.

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The pictures above show the research that we have done about our subject. Each group had to research information and then write it so that children aged 5-7 could understand it - this was more challenging than we thought it would be! We then split into two groups and half started finding suitable pictures and photographs on google images while the other half did a storyboard to show how the researched information would fit into the story. All groups also learnt how to reference their sources.

Next each group had to start working on a PowerPoint presentation which was the final version of the book. These are still being finished off but the following is an example of one that is nearly finished.

Groups who finish earlier than others will record their voices on Audacity and attach a sound clip to the bottom of each page. This will mean than the junior readers can follow along with the words on screen. Each group is also making a series of ten comprehension questions to go along with their book. This is so our books can be used as an independent reading activity for slightly older classes.

Curriculum Links - In writing we have been looking at comic strips and story boarding. In Reading we have been constructing QAR questions (Sheena Cameron) and this has been useful for creating the comprehension questions, ICT has been a huge part of this project and all children are now confident using PowerPoint and finding and using graphics from the Internet.

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