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**Te - Puna**
Check out the awesome literacy work that Rosemary Meynell and her Year 1 class have been doing.



__**OTUMOETAI - Term 4 2008 Guided Inquiry**__

 * Junior Planning**

Below are all our bits and pieces for our T4 Guided Inquiry. Start with the OPS Draft Inquiry Model.



NIE Front Page CompetitionI have done a similar activity before that was not part of the NIE, however this year our syndicate did a big unit called 'Spreading the News'. We looked at media inside & out e.g. What position does the media take & why? Types of media etc. As part of this my class entered the front page design competition. Unfortunately one down fall with this was that it became very teacher directed & time focused re: rules & skills for entry. On the plus side the team work & collaboration that happened in my room was amazing.
 * __NIE Frontpage Competition__**





= = =Planning Ideas=
 * The children are really hooked into using **Brainstorming, PMI and Thinking hats** with more purpose this year. Here are a couple of tasks which I did with them which proved to be highly successful. They enjoyed the tasks and were particularly keen to see how accurate their use of 'hats' was.

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 * Happy to share my **Olympic Games Unit** using **Thinkers Keys**

=Stuff To Try =  > //Examples to Explore -// from Movies to animations, kidpix, and web2. > Blue Screening is used here (On Apple Keynote!) but I'm sure that on a PC you could make do with the __wand__ on the __Picture Tool Bar.__ To do this you would take photos of your children with a white sheet as a background and __save as a jpeg__. = =
 * Innovation and Moving Forward in the Junior School
 * http://room6opsmovies.blogspot.com/ These are some of the movies my Year 5/6 class having been producing.
 * http://www.wikispaces.com/help+Teachers Really useful ideas for teachers and it shows you how to create accounts for all your students.
 * http://www.wikihow.com/Chroma-Key-in-Windows-Movie-Maker How to use blue screen in Windows Movie Maker.

=Classroom Pictures=


 * [[image:Random_Pics_006.jpg width="479" height="304" caption="Thinking Wall"]]