Proud Parents...

We Did It!

Some of us with the Certificate of Adoption and Report!

Well Done to all the Learners and their families, friends and our community, for helping us to achieve our goal. We appreciate your generosity so much.

One more lesson of Club to go, and then.... holidays!

Are you excited?

So, last Wednesday you began your PhotoStory and they are looking great!  This morning a couple of you came through to the Centre to add music and to narrate. Well done to you guys!

The rest of you, between Tuesday and Wednesday morning, I will be collecting you to come and narrate your Stories, so that they can be uploaded.

This Wednesday afternoon, we will be posting our final blog post. :(  A bit sad, isn't it?

In this post, you will upload the picture of the Report and Adoption Certificate, just as I have done here, so that your readers know that we have been successful in reaching our goal.

And guess what? Not only have you made a real difference, in real life, to Ziggy, but you have also learnt lots of new skills that you can take home and teach your parents on the Computer!

As my last post to you all, I have to say that I am so proud of you for all the enthusiasm that you have shown from the beginning to the end of this project.

You are all STARS!

Have a wonderful holiday.
Bye for now,
Mrs. G

Meet Ziggy!

 The Adoption Forms are in!
The Day has Come!




Meet the latest member of our family.

Meet Ziggy



I think Ziggy was saying HELLLLLOOOOO!!!!

Well done to the Computer Club Boys and Girls for their commitment to this project - not only to the Donkeys and raising the money - but for the amazing skills that you have been introduced to during these weeks. You have used Word, PowerPoint, AutoCollage and Movie Maker. This week we will be starting our PhotoStory! 

I delivered your Thank You letters this morning - and Ziggy seemed only too happy to pose a little for you!

Still lots to look forward to...

See you all on Wednesday!

The Raffle is Drawn!

What an EXCITING morning we had last Friday! 

I am so overwhelmed by the support of the parents, families and friends of this school!  With your generosity we have raised R3100-00!

This allows us to sponsor feed, care, vet and medicine fees for a donkey for an entire year!  We have decided that the donkey we would like to sponsor is ZIGGY!!  (Photos to follow!)

We will now write to Eseltjiesrus and tell them what we have raised and and submit our forms to sponsor our donkey.

On behalf of the Senior Computer Club, we want to thank you for your generosity and kindness in helping to make this dream a reality!

Getting Ready to DO the DRAW.

And the Winner IS!

Our TWO Winning Ticket Sellers - Well Done Boys!

The Mall Crawl

Was that as difficult as you thought it was going to be?

Getting ready to hand out our brochures at the local mall.

Telling people about Eseltjiesrus

Not really hey?  Once you have approached one person it gets easier.  Don't worry if people said "No", it was nothing personal - perhaps they were in a hurry. We never know people's reasons - I was pleased to see how polite you were to those people who were not interested. Well done!

So, the Brochures have been handed out and perhaps, there may be another kind hearted person or even more who will read it and decide to support Eseltjiesrus too.  Wouldn't that be nice?

I'm looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow where we will finish our letters to the Sanctuary, upload our AutoCollage and write another short post on our blog.

See you then!
Mrs G

Thank You Letters

Wow! Our dream has come true!

You have not only worked hard together to raise the funds, but you have learnt a lot of other skills at the same time.

From our Outing we have learnt practically how important it is to treat animals with love and kindness, and how to care for them correctly, as well as how to be a part of the solution.

At Computer Club, we have:

• Used this information to learn new ICT skills including using Blogger.com
• Learnt to invlove others to help achieve a goal with the Raffle and the Brochure handout at the mall
• Learnt how to inform our wider community and indeed the world of our project with our Blogs
• Learnt more about using PowerPoint, making your Movie and your lovely AutoCollage

We still have more to learn and do:

• Narrating your PhotoStory
• How to burn all your work to a CD to take home.

However, there is something very important that we need to do, and that is to write to Eseltjiesrus, thanking them for our Outing and telling them how much we have raised. We also need to decide which donkey we would like to adopt!

This is what we will do on Wednesday. We will work in WORD, write them a lovely THANK YOU letter and insert our AutoCollage that we have made. I am sure that they will love to see your memories of the day altogether in a picture!

Well done! Am very proud of you all.
Mrs. G.

AutoCollage!

Gooooood Afternoon Boys and Girls!

I have had a look at all the Movies you made last week and I am so impressed -What an inspiring bunch you are.  Did you have an opportunity to show your parents and friends?

This week we are going to learn another awesome skill.  Do you know what a Collage is?

A collage is what we make when we take lots of photo's that we love and stick them all right next to each other until there are no gaps but only one big beautiful picture.

Normally we would sit for hours and cut out photo's or pictures and then spend time making sure that they fitted 'just right' on our paper.  It's a lot of fun to do but it can take quite a long time.

Guess what!?  NOW we have AutoCollage - this is when we select photo's that we like, save them into a folder and then, at the push of a button, the computer wiggles them all into place and we can choose the one that we like best and save it!

So, when we get together today - this is what we will be learning:  Creating a new folder and giving it a name, then copying and pasting some of our favourite pictures from our outing into that new folder, then, magically making a collage from all of our favourite photo's!

Next week, we are going to use WORD and write a letter to Eseltjiesrus thanking them for the lovely outing, telling them how much we raised and hopefully choosing the donkey we want to adopt.  We are going to paste the Collages that we make today, onto our letter to remind them of our wonderful time!

You will love this and I am going to love teaching it to you.
Are you ready?

See you later.

Mrs. G

Windows Live Movie Maker!

Making our own movie! 


Did you enjoy finding the pictures you wanted to use?

What about all those lovely effects you could add and putting in your own music and giving your movie and name and cast characters!

Just like a proper film maker.

I had so much fun with it and I enjoyed so much teaching it to you.

I think it would be fabulous to do it in an ICT class too, maybe with our Sports Day Photo's or Crazy Hair Day?

There is so much more that we can still learn to do with this - so, let's do it!!

See you next week for Photo Story 3 and narrating your story!!

Awesome.

Have a lovely week!

Mrs. G.

Using the "Design Template"

What an exciting Wednesday we had last week!

Finally, you all got a chance to design your own Blog backgrounds and make them as unique and colourful as you wish.

You all did a fabulous job and I was very proud of you all for how quickly you "caught on" to this new challenge.  Your Blogs look lovely and I hope that you have had a chance to show your parents?

Next time, I will give you a few minutes to make some alterations if you would like to and then, we will be using a brand new programme to show off your photo's as well as adding a new Blog post.

Well done to you all - and see you soon!

Adopt-A-Donkey Raffle is Underway!

Finally, and now we wait with bated breath!

Read about the LAUNCH of the Raffle on our School Blog.

We are trusting that within a month - we will be the proud "Parents" of an Adopted Four-Legged-Friend!

Your First Posts Rocked!

Congratulations on your FIRST Blog Posts, Guys and Girls!  I hope that you enjoyed it?

I loved all those photo's that were taken that day, we are still going to be using lots more of them. For starters, at Club on Wednesday this week, we will be designing a Powerpoint Slide where each of you will get a topic and be able to select photo's from the Donkey's Photo Album.

When your slide is done, I will be putting you into pairs and you will share something about your slide for a minute each at Assembly on Friday. 

REMEMBER!  Our objective or our goal - is to ADOPT A DONKEY for a year and to do that we HAVE to get the whole school as excited as we are to collect enough money to do this.  So when you present your slide, remember to talk slowly and loudly and use lots of expression, ok?

At break time we will hand out our Raffle Sheets and we have ONE MONTH to collect the money.
(Anyone wanting to donate to this cause, please see banking details below!)

When you adopt you get: A photograph of your donkey together with all the information about it, an adoption certificate, a letter twice a year telling you how your donkey is doing, and a newsletter four times a year - of course, you can visit your donkey any time you would like to!  Look at just some of the Donkeys that are waiting to be adopted here, and read more about Eseltjiesrus Donkey Sanctuary here.

Once we have finished designing our Powerpoint Slide, we are going to add another post to our Blog. This post will be about meeting the donkeys for the first time:

• What did you think?
• Were you afraid or excited?
• Have you ever been that close to a donkey before?
• What do they feel like?
• Are they bigger or smaller than you thought?
• What did you find interesting about them?

And anything else that you would like to add about your first meeting with the Donkeys.

Next week, we will be doing a FABULOUS SURPRISE way of showing our photographs - something exciting to look forward to.

In the meantime - I am looking forward to seeing you all on Wednesday to work on MS Powerpoint ...

Let the F.U.N. begin!

If you would like to donate towards this goal:

The Rock Academy
ABSA Longbeach
Savings Account: 9158032809
Branch Code: 63 2005

Please mark it: ADOPT A DONKEY

We Went, We Learnt, We Enjoyed!

For most of us it was a long drive to Eseltjiesrus and we had to leave while it was still dark. You all arrived with great attitudes and made the journey part of the adventure - I am so proud of you all!

This week we are going to POST our first entry of our newly created Blog. We will, firstly, write the post, then we will use Blogger's Design Template to make our Blogs look unique and special.  Our first POST will be about our car trip to the Sanctuary, what we thought when we arrived, what it looked like and what we did first. Do you remember what the first thing was that we did when we started our programme?

We will also design a Powerpoint Slide each that we will merge into a show, and EACH of you will get a turn at 6 May Assembly to tell the school something special about the Outing. We are going to hand out our Raffle sheets after Assembly and then the race will be ON to see which class can raise the most money for us to ADOPT a DONKEY!

See you all on Wednesday - get ready for a fun afternoon and learning brand new skills.

Mrs.G.

Welcome!

It's nearly time to START!  We will be working for 8-10 weeks on setting up our Blogs, creating a Powerpoint Presentation that we will present to the school, a Photo Story which we will narrate, writing a short creative story and organise a raffle to raise money to ADOPT A DONKEY on behalf of our school.

Of course, we have our fantastic outing to look forward to!  ROADTRIP! 




Eseltjiesrus Donkey Sanctuary

Here we will hear the history of the Sanctuary, find out where all these donkeys come from, why are they there?   We will be allowed to pat and chat to the donkeys. We will do worksheets and hear stories.

When we are finished we will interview the Staff and take lots and lots of photo's to use in our Project. We need to document it well!

By that time, I am sure that we will be exhausted - so we will have a lovely burger, colddrink and chips and relax on the green lawns in the beautiful surroundings.

Before we leave, we will head for Mcgregor Studio, for a nice refreshing swim and a Donkey Treasure Hunt!

As the Parents head for the drive home, I am sure that you will fall asleep on the back seat - a happy camper after a fun day with friends and family.

I am looking forward to sharing this adventure with you!

Mrs G.