Today the students were asking about Albert Einstein and during the conversation an idea to create a blog post to pose individual questions for each student was decided. The websites to use for researching your answers are provided AND remember answers should be in your own words with correct grammar and punctuation. NO copying and pasting please… Read more Albert Einstein
An open letter to students and staff of Crossmaglen Public School Crossmaglen students and staff received a letter from a concerned elderly citizen on Friday who claimed to have *stolen* the student’s ‘Storypath‘ toy projects. Fortunately the students located their project builds but still the problem remains that this Coffs Harbour resident feels that what… Read more Toy Theft!
These are some of the things we did on Friday…we also studied time and were doing amazing things with our virtual building projects. Mrs Peart, Mrs Hayes, Mrs Booth and students
Mothers Group
Students had their second lesson using Sim-on-a-Stick virtual world technology. Mrs Booth has the school computers set up in a multi-user format so students are in-world together. It is wonderful to see how their skills are developing and also how they are sharing their knowledge with each other. It is a very challenging program but well suited to encourage… Read more Virtual World Technology: Lesson 2
Mrs Peart introduced the students to artist Charles Meere and his oil painting Australian Beach Pattern – 1940. Students were asked to consider the perspective, design elements and situation (setting). After much discussion they created an appropriation using simple images of differing sizes. Students also needed to draw a horizon line, organize their images and decide on the… Read more Charles Meere art lesson
Mrs Booth was using the fantastic and simple stop-motion app for iPad called iMotion to film the Friday afternoon sport session. We will be using this app to create stop-motion films in class. What students will need to realise is that though Mrs Booth set the timer on 1 image per second when you create a stop-motion film you… Read more Friday Sport Stop-motion
Last Friday all students at CPS were introduced to virtual world technology. Mrs Booth has been using a version the program Sim-on-a-Stick (a stand alone virtual world) which she has modified for her primary students over the past year at Coffs Harbour Public School and the students have been achieving great success in their units of work. Virtual… Read more Crossie kids discover Sim-on-a-Stick!
The students have been working hard over the past few weeks on their design projects for a boat. The brief was that the prototype had to float and sail – move with the assistance of wind. The children then added the complication of load (450 grams). All boats were successful in carrying this weight with stability being… Read more Design Project