For this game, we were seperated into five groups out of six. There were photographers which every three minuites we had our turn exploring the African Safari. There were also googlers where if the photographers don’t know for example a warthog they would check it on google and then let the class know, but year5 have been learning about warthogs and we know that warthogs have large shovel shaped heads. Spotters and counters were also one of them where you had to see how many ostriches there were and more different animals. Lastly, there were note takers where they would write any extra or interesting notes that we found out from the narrators whilst playing the game.

The African Safari helped us to write our non-chronological report and our diary entry.  

I realley enjoyed doing these activities however,the group I was in didnt get to be photographers but I still enjoyed it. When the class were not playing the game, we did lots of writing about what they did on the wii and what they saw so, if they got chased by a lion, they would write about it.

We did some reasearch about the Serengeti and wrote about it in a report,also we did a diary entry about what we did in the Serengeti wii game and made it seem like real life.When we did our end product of our diary entry on a safari hat made from paper.I realley enjoyed this.

We were put into five groups with six people in each. There were the photographers, which had three minutes each to use the remote to look around the safari and when their three minnutes were up, they would go back to their tables. They would write what they have done with their time on safari. Next was the note takers which stopped, listened and watched out for things they could see. If they saw or heard anything intresting, they would jot it down on a piece of A3 paper in their neatest handwriting. The googlers reasearched anything unusual that the photographers needed to know to complete the assingment. We brought the netbooks into class and did the reasearch in the classroom. The descriptors also wrote what they saw using amazing vocabulary, similies, onomatepia and alliteration trying to make it as best as they could. Lastly, there was the spotters and counters. They used a tally chart (which is math skills) to write and count the animals they saw.

These activities allowed us to write plenty pieces of writing such as, non-chronological reports, diary entrys, homework and writing improved sentences about what we have done.

In the Photography group you have three minutes to get as many pictures as possible.They would be put in your recount of what happened.

As you might have guessed Note Takers is naturally taking notes that normally would get ignored.

Although Google is used a lot,Googlers allows you to research any unknown animals that the Potographers need a picture of.

As part of the Descriptors Group,you can take one whole hour if needed to describe the scene every now and again.

In Spotters and Counters you count all the animals you see and record them on a table.

You should use the Wii because it helped me to improve my writing skills and allowed have fun at the same time.The Wii is a game but a learning resorse aswell.

The Wii covers many diffrent subjects other than Litracy.It covers,I.C.T,Maths,Gograthy and other hidden subjects.I can garantee  that if you get Wild Earth African Safari 100% of your class will want to use it and will be fully engaged to thier learning.If I saw or heard of this I would defanetly ask my teacher if we could use it,don’t you agree.

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Next,we were split into groups,photographers,notetakers,spotters and counters,googlers and finally descriptors.My favourite was photographers as we were allowed to take control of the remote.I also liked taking photos of all the different animals because it was like seeing them in real life.

I would recommend it to teachers to use in the classroom, as it is fun and educational.

In our class all of our writing has improved ten times more than before, we all like writing because of the wii ( so why dont you!)

In our lessons on the wii we are using ICT, Geography, Literacy and Numeracy. It also gives us ideas about what to write. It will help your class to write.

This is an amazing  game.Witch teacher would not want this game for there children?Our levels have sky rocketed.

Because we only had one remote, it was inpossible to go on the wii all at the same time. I can’t recomend this game enough. It is extremly fun and icredbley educational there can be no doubt that having a wii in class is necessery because it is so educational and easy for children to use. What could be better then seeing an animal move intread of getting a rough image in your mind?

The wii  is easy to use and fun. When we had finished our first asinment (Which was to take pictures of gigantic African Elephants ) we saw the magzine with the pictures we took. Miss Dacombe is a wonderful thinker to bring the wii into class.

You teachers out there have got to buy it because your children’s writing will skyrocket just like mine did.This educational game will make your children enthusiastic and they would come every day to school.I assure you that your children would love it and I can promise you they will love it .There can be no doubt that having the wii is necessery because it so educational and easy for children to use.

We were split up into five groups of six .  The first group was the Photographers that had control of the Wii remote for three  minutes each . Next was Go0glers who googled up things that came up on the Wii .  After that came the Counters and Spotters who counted the animals that they saw on the Safari. Then came the Descriptors who would describe where we were. Last came the Note Takers that noted down the facts that the narrators said.

After playing the game we wrote amazing  Diary entries. Some of them are on display around the School. A few weeks later, we wrote a report about elephants.

This Wii game covers alot of other subjects than Literacy such as; Geography, Labelling a map of Africa, ICT by going on google and searching for animals and plants. Also, Numeracy by doing tally charts to count up all the animals we saw. In addition, the game is very factual because we learnt a male elephant are called a bull and females are called a cow.

I bet you  and your children will love this and they won’t even know they are learning. So, that is why you should use the Wild Earth African Safari Wii game. 

Hello world I’m writing to all the teachers out there to encourage them to use a game console called the wii (pronounced:wee).

A game I would recommend is    <- WILD EARTH AFRICAN SAFARI it is about you going around on a safari and taking pictures for a article. On the way the narrators will tell you how to play.For each assignment there is a article packed full of information such as there is 100,000 muscles in a elephants trunk!Its learning at a new level!Also the narrators will give interesting facts such as you can track a elephant and its age by its waste!

You’re probably thinking it’s all unfair with one person hogging the wii all the time but HA! We thought about that. You can separate them into 5 groups of 6 here they are and what they do: photographers they take 3 minutes each taking the pictures that are needed, descriptors describe the animals and scenery, the note takers take,well, notes of facts that the narrator has announced , the googlers google something that they don’t understand on a net book or laptop (1 beetween 2) ,the spotters and counters spot and count animals and record them on a tally chart.Well its pretty obvious  the wii can get you’er level 3 to a level 5!