Digital Leaders
Christmas Greetings @RRIS
With all the text processing skills that they have learnt over the past weeks, the Digital Leaders typed out the inside messages for their Christmas cards. We also learnt how to centralise our text and push words underneath each other so they would fit in the cards. As an added extra we learnt how to … Continue reading
Formatting Text @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders built on from their skills and learnt how to change the font and size of their text (we decided to type our favourite food!) They also learnt that the text could be rotated and placed anywhere on the Textease page. These skills were going to come in very handy for … Continue reading
Typing Words and Phrases @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders were building on their text processing skills by typing out words and phrases related to Victorian Christmas (which they have been learning about.) “I really like that you can click anywhere on the screen in Textease and the red line jumps so you can type anywhere.” “It’s really cool that … Continue reading
Learning to Type @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders got to grips with their keyboards! First we watched a video clip all about the shift key and how to use it to make capital letters and then we had a go ourselves. We used three different websites (Typing.com and
Being creative with stamps @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders got creative with the Textease stamp tool. We found out that there were lots of stamps hidden!!! For example there were lots of different fruits hidden inside the orange! We talked about different ways the stamps could be used and then used them in a creative way. Some people used … Continue reading
Minecraft Style Work @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders explored the Textease tools that allowed them to draw with squares and triangles and drew some amazing pictures!! They are really excited about showing their class later in the week how to do it. “Drawing with the triangle grid was much harder than the squares but it did mean that … Continue reading
Using Textease Paint Tools @RRIS
This week the Digital Leaders got to grips with colour mixing and using the symmetry tool. “There are loads of cool colours that you can make that aren’t on the normal palette like purple and orange and lots of weird colours!” “I really like that you can change the rainbow brush, if you mix in … Continue reading
Our Badges have arrived! @RRIS
Our brand new shiny Digital Team badges have arrived! Every child in Year 2 will receive a badge once they have had a turn leading the learning.
Our First Digital Team ‘B’ Meeting @RRIS
After the success of last weeks Team A meeting, it was time for the first Team B meeting with Leaders from Swans and Swifts class. Everyone was so excited and were incredible at listening and carrying out their practice task – look at those smiling faces! “I love that you can turn the shapes round … Continue reading
Supporting The Learning @RRIS
After their Digital Team meeting the first set of leaders lead their class lesson and supported their peers during their Computing session. Their teacher said that they did an amazing job! The leaders said that when their classmates had got stuck they remembered to try things out for themselves before they called on a leader … Continue reading