Term 3 Week 7

Boost 1
We had a break from movie making today, and had some creative thinking games.  These games concentrated on thinking of lots of different things in a time limit.  The children thought it would be easy, but it's not easy when you are under pressure!  We also had a technology challenge, where the children had ice block sticks and string to hold a marble out from a table as far as they could.  

Term 2 Week 8

Boost 1.
In the last couple of weeks Boost 1 have been holding interviews with some people who have been involved with Sacred Heart school now and in the past. It is the 50th jubilee of Sacred Heart school this year. Today we are editing our interviews with imovie. By editing our interviews were cutting bits of it out.
By Jacob

Term 2 Week 3 - Boost 1

This week we finished our first movies.  We added transistions to our video clips last week, and also added titles and subtitles.  This week we added sound to our movies.  We added voiceover and sound effects.  

These videos are the first videos that the children have made at Boost, and the children learned a lot about editing, and adding sound, that they would do differently next time.

Term 2 Week 2

Boost 2.
Today we reaquainted ourselves and the boys talked about what they wanted to learn more about this year.  The overwhelming majority wanted more creative thinking and inventing, so there will be a lot more technology challenges and creating things this year.

To reignite our creative thoughts, we looked at some Rebus puzzles.  A rebus is a word puzzle put in a cryptic way to represent a word, phrase, or saying.  The boys did these today, can you figure them out?

Boost 1 - Term 2 Week 1

Welcome back to Boost for 2012.

Today the children were reintroduced to each other and the new children learned about what Boost is all about.

This term we are working on videoed interviews about Sacred Heart School, for the Jubilee, and the first things that we learned were the 5 big mistakes of Amateur video.

Firehosing – moving the camera around too fast, instead of panning nice and slowly.
Jogging – Carrying the camera while walking, and having jumping pictures as a result.
Lighting – if you subject is in front of the light/sun, then you won't be able to see the front of the subject, it will be in shadow.
Noseroom – leaving space in front of the subject's face, so it looks like they have room to move. 
Headroom – Filling the viewing frame with the subject.  Don't have the person's head right down the bottom of the screen with dead space above.

This is the video that we watched, explaining these mistakes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etVxvl6mcJ8&list=PL7A7E273FAC181113&index=3&feature=plpp_video

The children then worked in pairs/threes to use a video camera to show these mistakes and how to fix them.  Next week they will be putting this footage into a small film to explain their work.

Term 3 Week 2

Boost 2.

Welcome back to term 3.  This term we are working self management, and self soothing.  This helps us to better manage our emotions when we are upset.  We played a few team games that involved being out of your comfort zone and thought about what was 'going on in your head' when you were really frustrated, and what did you do to get out of that headspace.

We also continued our chess, learning about castling your king.  When you ‘castle’ your King, the unmoved King will either move two places to the right or move two places to the left. Immediately following the King’s move, the unmoved Rook closest to the moved King will then “jump” over the King and will land on the immediate open space next to the King. When you castle your King, you must make sure that there are no pieces, either yours or your opponents, on any square between your King and your Rook. Also, once the King has moved, that piece can no longer castle the rest of the game. 

On Monday 5 September there is a chess tournament at Donovan school, which we will attend.  We read through the rules of the tournament, and made sure that we were all using those same rules when we play here at school, even shaking hands with your opponent after a game.

Chess Tournament

There is a chess tournament at Donovan School on Monday 5 August.   I would like all Boost children to enter this tournament, which caters for beginners to experts.  The tournament runs for the whole day and each child will play 7 games.  There is an entry fee of $15 per child.  Make sure that you look out for the flyer in this weeks newsletter for more information!