Ukulele Super Smarties Song!

Ukulele from kimhunt on Vimeo.

Listen carefully... can you hear the Super Smarties song? They now know 3 cords (F, C and G7) and are persisting to change cords smoothly and quickly!

Ukulele

The Super Smarties got their thumbs strumming and toes tapping today as they learned how to play the ukulele! The fun was clear to see in their enthusiasm and creativeness!

Wedgets!

Problem solving and thinking interdependently are two of the intelligent behaviours that the Super Smarties have had to use to be creative with the wedgets!

Chelsea Shares her Thinking!

Chelsea shares her thinking from kimhunt on Vimeo.

Chelsea is communicating with clarity to share how her group will represent the Habit of Mind, 'Thinking Interdependently' using sound.

Brainy Painting!

What are the different parts of the brain? To help clarify the Super Smarties thinking, we painted our model brains to show the different lobes. We had to strive for accuracy to paint the lobes in the right place!

Exciting Explanation Exploration!

Constructing Criteria - Online Slideshow Creator

The Super Smarties are on a learning journey to learn how to write an explanation so that they can share with others how the brain learns. Firstly they just 'had a go' and soon discovered that we do not know very much about writing explanations! So, what would an intelligent learner do now? Look at some exemplars of course! Thinking Interdependently the Super Smarties deconstructed exemplars to learn how to write one. They then used this knowledge to construct criteria and used the Habits of Mind to group the criteria. Awesome learning Smarties!

What's My shape?!

Geometry - slideshows

Faces? Edges? Vertices? Parallel Lines? Perpendicular Lines? What’s all this about? Well the Super Smarties have been learning about the properties of 3D shapes. Thinking Interdependently, the Smarties classified the properties of a variety of 3D shapes. Great learning Smarties!