Singing in the Rain.......not quite, but I couldn't resist......

Rain, singing, snowglobes, pop-up books kept our attention today at YikesNelson Holidays.

There's nothing like the beautiful harmonies of children to melt the heart and lift the spirits, a much needed antedote to the intensity of the morning rain which meant everyone had been indoors for hours. Not only that all morning we had been very focused on our creative juices flowing, so by afternoon everyone felt a bit stir crazy.
Wonderful Brenda came and gave us a great outlet for our energy.
Brenda took the whole group in a singing session, she gave a list of christmas songs and so the children got to choose. After about half n hour she took a smaller group who were interested in more input and finally she spent time one on one with any interested children.
Have a listen:

All morning we focused on online pop up books and snowglobes. A very delightful online tool. The globes are a great christmas greeting to send to friends and relatives.
Check out this boy's, he wanted to be in the globe with Ironman! You roll your mouse round the globe and it turns for different views. You can even press webcam mode and have the globe like a 3d model before you:

The most labour intensive part was taking the photos and eliminating the backgrounds.

Tara's back tomorrow to unleash more creativity.

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Film Crew and Pointillism

Tara introduced us to pointillism and here is one of the results of her tutoring. Ellie's Mini Masterpiece The film crew were INSPIRING which is pertinent because they are from Inspire Productions Nelson. Zac the Cameraman Finally we completed the editing stage of another movie trailer started on Monday......here's Jaws V! Earlier in the day.......Today the film crew come in and will help us create our own chat show. Tara will be tutoring the children in Pointillism.....I had to wikipedia this term. This photo from wikipedia is a clue: Detail from Seurat's La Parade de Cirque (1889) Will post later the results from our day. (See above)

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Tour Guide Training

Today we are learning in our Computer Session how to be a good tour guide. We have learnt that: A good guide is sensitive to the needs of others. A good guide is well organized. A good guide has knowledge of the local area. So we are learning to use Google search to gather information. This site offers some good tips about using search: http://cihnelsonlessons.blogspot.co.nz/search/label/Google Also did you know you can use google search as a calculator or a dictionary? It's pretty cool. Is this tour guide being sensitive to the needs of his group?

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