Terrific Thursday

Good Morning Explorers!

I hope you had a great first day of term 2 yesterday.  Check out another quick video from Mrs Lee below.

If you're having any technical issues don't forget to check ou the TeXpert site for help and fill in the help form if you can't find an answer you need.

Remember there are special Exploration Station learning at home challenges in the learning at home tab on this blog.  There are special challenges for our TeXperts too. 

Well done Cimone for being our first brave TeXpert to put her video  on both of our TeXpert Flipgrid topics.  

You can find our TeXpert introductions here: https://flipgrid.com/459c43c5 

and our TeXpert help videos here: https://flipgrid.com/598545aa

Anyone can watch the videos and make a video comment in reply - the video comments will not show until the video has been moderated by Mrs Lee. 

Welcome to Term 2!

Hi Explorers!

I hope you've been looking after you and your family over the Easter break. 

Here's a quick video from Mrs Lee to say hi and welcome back to term 2

Remember if you need some help with your device check out the TeXperts site.  Please fill in the help form if you can't find an answer on the site and I'll do my best to help you.

Distance Learning at Home

Here is the MakerEdNZ March challenge you could try over the next few weeks.

Year 1-2 learners 

You're welcome to email Mrs Lee a photo of your creations.  You won't be able to add to the Flipgrid as you don't have a GSuite account.  

Year 3-6 learners 

I've added this challenge to your Exploration Station Google Classroom.  Including the link and how-to videos for Flipgrid. The links to the assignment for each class are in the slide decks below.

Note:  If you can't access the Classroom please let Mrs Lee know by filling in this form: Sunnyhills Learners IT Help

TeXperts 

You have an optional challenge too.  Click the TeXpert logo to go directly to the challenge in our TeXpert Google Classroom.

Note:  If you are a TeXpert and you can't access the Classroom please let Mrs Lee know by filling in this form: Sunnyhills Learners IT Help

Sharing our Shine

A group of dedicated Sunnyhills TeXperts shared their expertise with learners from Our Lady Star of the Sea today.  Over the last few weeks, they have been working hard to create workshops and then practice them to make sure they're going to work.  Our learners were helping Our Lady Star of the Sea get some experience with the robots we have so they can make decisions about what robots they're going to to get in their school.  

Our Sunnyhills team did an amazing job on the day, they definitely had their Sunnyhills Shine on.

Here are some of our learners in action... 

What's a TeXpert?

At Sunnyhills we have students who are keen to learn more about the technology we have available in our school and want to share their expertise with other students.  These students apply to be TeXperts.  This year we have a great group of year 3 to 6 students who are really keen to learn and share.  We meet every week in the Exploration Station for TeXpert training. 

We have started the year with a few basic skills like creating our own avatars using Google drawings where we honed our skills with shapes, images, fills and gradients as well as order within a Google Drawing.  We're eventually going to use these avatars on our Digital Badging accounts.  

As TeXperts we're also responsible for the Tinker and Maker equipment we have in our library.  This equipment can be used during lunch time and when we visit the library with our class.  We working on a timetable for each of our year 5 & 6 TeXperts to be available to other students in the library at lunchtimes.  Our job is to help anyone that gets stuck and to make sure the equipment is used safely.

One of our 3D Printers

A few of our badges

This week we've also started designing our own TeXpert badges and 3D Printing them.  We have printed a few of our first versions and we'll be looking at how we might refine these over the coming weeks.  Once we're all happy with our designs we'll mount our badges so we can wear them on our uniform and you'll be able to spot Texperts around school.