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Moving on with Genius Hour projects
Great to see so many students adding details about their Genius Hour work, including photographs. (Thanks, Tynan, for being camera man.)
if you can show me that you are keeping a record if your task, I can move your Trello card to the next stage.
https://trello.com/b/gb9eiFV2/genius-hour-flowchart
See me if I need to do this for you. You should be proud of your efforts as independent learners. Don’t forget to show your family where you have got to, and the problems and challenges you are facing.
We have been lucky to have Fraser’s mum and Gracie’s dad on our team to help.
Genius Hour planning
Hans Juul Hansen via Compfight
Almost everyone has decided on their Genius Hour project for Term 2. Once I have approved your mission statement, I will add details to your card on Trello. https://trello.com/b/gb9eiFV2/genius-hour-flowchart
This is where you can share your progress with your family.
We will begin our class blogs next term and you will be able to post photos and ideas about how it is going on your edublog.
Take the 100 Word Challenge
100 Word Challenge
The 100 Word Challenge is a weekly creative writing challenge for children under 16 years of age.
Each week a prompt is given, which can be a picture or a series of individual words and writers can use up to 100 words to write about it.
This should be posted on your blog, ready for comments.
Here is the July Challenge to try. Somewhere in your 100 words, you need to use these words!
…but ‘I’m afraid it’s the last one’, he said…
The new round of 100 word Challenges begins at the end of August. We can register for the next round and receive a weekly challenge. We do need to find an adult who will join the Team as a reviewer, to make a comment on around 10 blogs.
Let’s see what you can do!
Blackout Poetry
Photo Credit: Stephan Geyer via Compfight
I have wanted to introduce Blackout Poetry writing for a couple of years, and finally the time was right. After a quick look at some examples, the classroom was covered with sheets of newspaper. The lure of the football reports proved a bit much for some but everyone had a go at “finding” a poem.
There were some astonishingly good results by students who could see the creative possibilities and were ready to experiment. We scanned some poems and they should be appearing soon on student blogs. It is exciting to see writers be brave enough to free themselves from conventional and structured forms of poetry. Continue reading