I was watching a BBC program called ‘Click’ on the weekend where it featured a great new program called Kodu. Kodu opens up the world of programming to kids. It’s a game creation tool that is very user friendly. The great thing about it, is it’s free to download and use on your PC. I encourage all of you to download it via the link below and have a go.
Kodu: Download
Kodu Blog: http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/kodu/default.aspx
We will be using Kodu as part of a series of Design and Technology lessons in the future. We will keep you posted on how we go.
Here is a link to the Click story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9504208.stm
Our class this year is taking part in an international project called ‘The Postcard Project‘. It is organised by the wonderful people from ‘Pirates of Room 4‘. Please go to their blog if you want to be involved. The whole idea of the project is to make connections with people from around the world and learn a little bit about the places you receive postcards from.
We have been lucky enough to receive four postcards already. We would like to thank these classes for their postcards. We really appreciate your efforts. We have even shared your postcards with our whole school at a recent school assembly.
Visit their blog http://openthedoortob4.blogspot.com/
Visit their blog http://hawesps.posterous.com/
Visit their blog http://edublogs.misd.net/techiekids/
For those of you wanting to keep up with news in a kid friendly way, I have added a link on the student page to BTN (Behind the News).
Thank you to everyone who attended the recent parent / student / teacher interviews. They are a great opportunity to share the student’s work and achievements thus far and to set learning goals for the future. I hope you found them informative and a chance for you to see in more detail the hard work your child has been putting into their learning so far.
This morning our class hosted assembly. The year 2/3s did a fantastic job at presenting some of the work we have been doing this term. It was great to see students speaking clearly and showing great microphone etiquette. Well done. You can all be very proud of your efforts.
Mr B 🙂
Some positive feedback from parents. We really appreciate your comments.
Well done to year2/3 Mr.B ON SUCH A WONDERFUL AND INFORMATIVE ASSEMBLY, I WAS VERY IMPRESSED ON HOW THE STUDENTS PRESENTED THEMSELVES AND SPOKE SO CLEARLY AND CONFIDENTLY!
WELL DONE EVERYONE.Deborah
Deb, beat me to it!
Well done Mr Baldock and Year 2/3 on a well prepared and informative assembly. It was great to see everyone show the different items that they had been working on and to have the projected background image to reinforce what was happening on stage.Elise’s Mum
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