Footprint Video

Today we put the finishing touches on our footprint video. We included some pictures and layered in a soundtrack. The final step was to adjust voice levels and put in 

the last slide. Above is a picture of all our footprints on a desk.

Our Special Footprints

Today Room 11 went on the previous Room 12 blog that was made a couple of years ago. We looked at a video post by the ex-Sunnybrae students who wrote one word that was important to them on their hands. 

They called them Hand Messages. Our main focus is Putting Our Best Foot Forward. So we took their idea and instead of using our hands drew huge kidney-bean-like footprints on pieces of cardboard. 

We also wrote a word that was very important to us and wrote it down creatively on our footprint picture.

My Funny Holiday Footprint

For the Footprint activity, we had to take a photo of ourselves and cut out our digital heads out so they looked really big compared to our cartoon bodies. I like mine because mine is underwater and looks like a big bobble-head.

I really enjoyed this activity because it was really really funny seeing our heads bigger than our bodies in the pictures. 

Can you guess what my favorite holiday activity is? It looks pretty obvious!

My Holiday Picture

Mr Gordon came in, I wondered why?

He said we where going to do a holiday footprint using a digital headshot. It was funny seeing peoples digital heads on the little bodies .

Mr Gordon likes my picture because of my use of colour.

Can you guess what my holiday footprint is about?

My Holiday Footprint

We took digital headshots and wondered what we were going to do with them!  I soon found out that we were going to use them to draw a picture of our Holiday Footprint (a special memory from the holidays). 

I like my picture because it looks like I'm doing a really big bounce off the sea biscuit!

Learning about Bridges

You may think bridges are boring, but I’m going to prove you wrong!

This week our class learnt an awful lot about bridges. Mostly about Beam Bridges. Beam Bridges are the first bridges ever built and some are very simple. Even a broken down log could be a Beam Bridge!

We learnt about ‘wind load’, the forces of wind and ‘live load’, the weight of traffic, people or things that are alive. We also learnt about ‘dead load’, the weight of the bridge itself.

Personally I think learning about bridges is a bit confusing, but BUILDING bridges is awesome! We had so much fun building and testing our own bridges made by card, paper and sellotape. We even attached Box Girders onto the bridges to make them over 10 times stronger than ordinary bridges! We tested the ordinary bridge first. It could only hold the weight of 1 dictionary. When we tested the Box Girder bridge, it held the weight of 12 dictionaries! It was very exciting and kind of challenging to do, but that’s what makes it so fun!

By: Annie

Senior Production Reviews

Listen to children's impressions of the part they played in our Senior Production "Little Stars."