Class O meet up with Parkhill Juniors School

Today some of Parkhill Junior children shared their versions of traditional stories.

The children in class O were very excited!

They wrote their own versions of Snow White and the Hare and the Tortoise and read it to us.

I liked the story of the Hare and The Tortoise because it was intresting. They first said what the car is were and discribed it.

by Manisha.Age 6

Supporting Gearies Book Week.

The video conferencing was held on Wednesday this week.

A lot of new children were taking part from Gearies this time. This would be the first time they had experienced video conferencing. The class were still arriving when Dan connected to us,the children became very focused on the board on arriving to the suite really not knowing what to expect. I felt this lead to a little confusion on what was to happen next.

Hatton school also changed format this week, with just a few children taking part.
Gearies started by singing a hello song to welcome Hatton, something we wanted to do as Hatton in previous weeks had always warmly welcomed us.

Our objective this week was just to share a small amount of time thinking of the animals that live in the jungle using toys, picture and children making the sounds.
We sang a song for the children then to choose which animals they would like to meet.
Our children became very excited, with several children standing up at once to share their toys and sounds.

The children from Hatton had work very hard, producing some fantastic pictures and mask. Well done! The children and staff from Gearies really enjoyed you sharing them with us.

We had decided to sing Down in the jungle as our closing song, but lots of us had forgot the words, but Hatton sang along to help us out.

Lots of our children continued to talk about their experience for the rest of the afternoon, and we all felt that it had added additonal excitement to our safari book week.

Thank you Hatton, once again.

Parkhill Junior School children share stories

Today two children from Parkhill Junior School shared their versions of Cinderella and The Three Little Pigs stories.

Both children wrote excellent versions of the stories and read them to us using video conferencing.

Class P at Gearies Infant's enjoyed them very much!

The children and Mr. Lea asked lots of questions.

Parkhill Junior School and Gearies Infant's have decided to create a joint blog to start writing story reviews.

Hatton and Gearies enjoy another singalong together

Today we re-joined Hatton's singing assembly. Just like last week we were warmly welcomed.Most of our children really enjoyed the Dingle Dangle Scarecrow song. Lots of our children did not know the song or the actions. So after we said goodbye. Our children asked if they could sing and try the actions out. So that is what we did.

Mrs Ryan really enjoyed meeting up with Hatton again. "You always give us a warm welcome and it would be really good if Gearies could have a welcome song as well"."I've never been involved with video conferencing before and I've found its such fun!"

Our children really enjoy singing with Hatton school and watching themselves on the big screen. Several of our children that often don't say that much, have started to interact with purposeful questions and answers.

Please visit our project blog www.hatgear.blogspot.com

A Great start to our project.

Yesterday Gearies and Hatton Schools meet up for the first time using Video conferencing.
Gearies children join in with Hatton's singing assembly. They welcomed us by singing hello and it was then that I think the children from Gearies started to realise that they were not watching a television.
Hatton had kindly sent us a board with symbols of songs that we knew and could share with one another.
The interaction between the two school was fantastic. Children taking it in turns to choose different songs. Children sharing actions together, both schools singing and rowing to Row Row Row your boat.
Some of our children were sitting on the carpet and signing to the songs.
When one of our children choose Old MacDonald had a farm we shared which animals were on the farm and one of Hatton's children showed their soft toy of a chicken.
Our staff thought it was really good to share with Hatton School and some very positive learning took place. We had all been a little apprehensive to how the children would react from both schools, but we no needed to have worried as the children enjoyed every moment of it and can't wait to sing together next week.
On reflection I really should have taken some photo's of this link up, but I was so involved with the conference.

To read more and view what Hatton School thinks, please go to our project blog:-

http://www.hatgear.blogspot.com/.

Any comments or views are more than welcome.

Another Great Just 2 Easy Story

Kavita and her sister Sanita have created a great story together using Just 2 Easy.







Well Done girls!
Mrs. Barker

I had fun with my sister Sanita making this story.WhenI was typing me and my sister found a arrow and if you click on it you can turn the writen upside down.

Just 2 Easy

At the weekend i should my famliy the lgfl that has a multimedia word document on it. Mrs Barker asked if any of the children in Y2 would like to share and create stories with their familes.

My brother helped me type the Pied Piper story and my dad helped me put the picture on the story i loved typing on lgfl it took a long time to do it but i still liked doing it and i'm looking forward to record it and put some sounds on my story.

Kiran

aged 7