Letting our Light Shine for Catholic Education Week

Lent Project

For the past few weeks, students have been collaborating to promote and raise awareness about our Lent project. Our mission is to raise as much non-perishable food as we can as a school. We want to spread kindness in our school and in our Vanier community. We are collecting food to help families who are in need to benefit our community food bank the Partage Vanier Food Bank.  It is amazing to see the generosity and the kindness that our school has shown. Together, our contributions are growing steadily. A huge thanks to all families who have donated and especially to the grade 6's who are challenging us to bring more each day.

Students have been writing announcements each day.  This week we planned and filmed Green Screen videos to promote what students in our school can donate and to share the purpose of our mission. We used our school green screen and the Do Ink iPad app for the first time. We posted our videos on YouTube and now they are live and ready to view on our KidBlog accounts. We are really proud of our hard work and are eager to share them. Please follow the link to our class Kidblog account to view each of our videos and share a comment to show support.

We worked on our Lent Project Green Screen promotions today. Stay tuned to our Kidblogs for the finished videos! pic.twitter.com/zzKWeeStmh

— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) 4 March 2016

Healthy Food Commercials

Great news...we have completed our Healthy Food Commercials! We are very excited about the opportunity to share them online. We worked really hard to research what makes the food we chose so healthy. We consulted wonder websites and safely searched Google to find information on our chosen food.

After researching, we talked about What Good Speakers Do. We discussed what speakers need to do when speaking to an audience. We made a list and students referred to it when they filmed their healthy eating commercial.

The purpose of our commercial is to teach everyone about the health benefits of our favourite food. We hope that we have been persuasive enough. To film our commercial, we tried our our brand new Green Screen for the first time! We used the app Green Screen by Do Ink to compose our interactive commercials. Students got to experiment with the app by adding a background of their choice. They ensured that they had a good speaking voice and focused on what good speakers must do. All of our commercials were posted to YouTube and shared on our KidBlog accounts. We spent time watching our videos today and added some great feedback. The comments are well thought out and provide the students with great feedback from their classmates. Please feel free to add comments to your child's commercial via their KidBlog account! We hope you enjoy our creations. 

We are taking the time to watch and comment on our healthy eating commercials this morning. pic.twitter.com/XJ09H1s1dY

— Mrs. Ciampa (@MrsCiampaClass) June 15, 2015