I have been so impressed with the home learning projects that have been coming in this week.  I have enjoyed that each has been unique and creative in very different ways ranging from beautiful pictures, collages, models to creations with destroyed dog toys!  They really have been fantastic and we were able to display some in our classroom, you can see just a few examples below.  They have also helped us all to write our own set of instructions in English about how we could trap our mythical beast.  Details of the next home learning activity will be coming home on Monday. 


A few of our own Greek mythical creatures. 

In Science over the last couple of weeks we have been developing our understanding of electrical circuits.  This week our challenge was to use a switch and even try making some switches of our own.  Some of us were very creative in the way we did this and still managed to connect the cirucit to light the bulb!

Making a complete circuit.

Using a dictionary to make a switch!

A pencil pot and paperclips!

Split pins and cardboard!

And finally a clothes peg!

 

The Year 5 children have enjoyed sharing our theme work this week with the Oaks in our first 'Oaks and Acorns' session.  Together they were set the challenge to create some Greek pottery.  Some chose to draw a vase with all their names written on in the Greek alphabet, others plates with typical Greek designs whilst others even made a 3D version.  It really was lovely to see the interaction and support between everybody working together. 

 

Fun with Green Screen in Class 4!

It has been a quiet week in Class 4 with the Year 5 children away enjoying their trip to Hilltop, however, that has not stopped us, we have certainly been busy and had lots of fun! 

As we could not all go on a trip to Greece, we brought the Ancient Greek ruins to us through the amazing Green Screen Technology on our school i-Pads.  The children had to search for an image using Goggle search, save it and put it into the Green Screen App.  When they then focused the camera against a Green Screen, it placed them next to their chosen image.  Here are some of the images that the children produced and also a couple of snaps from 'behind the scenes 'of the Green Screen production so you can see it in action.

 

As you can see we all had great fun and it certainly taught me that many children in Year 4 are not camera shy! We look forward to welcoming our Year 5 classmates back on Monday and we will be teaching them how to use Green Screen next week. 

 

Have a lovely weekend,

 

Mrs McMillan

Welcome to Class 4! 

We have all had an excellent start to Class 4 and our new theme ' The Ancient Greeks.'  Our week started with a news report about a beast that had escaped around Fordham.  After reading some Greek myths, we decided that the beast sounded very much like the Minotaur!! So, in English, we have been learning a set of instructions about 'How to trap the Minotaur,' which will help us write our own instructions next week.  




'Are you kept awake at night by the sound of the Minotaur crunching bones?'



'The Minotaur is dangerous and therefore must be defeated!'

This links to the home learning project for the next two weeks which is to research different Greek mythical creatures and to then create one.  More details are outlined in the home learning book.  There will also be new games and books allocated on active learn.  

Our theme afternoons have been based around finding out who the Ancient Greeks were, solving clues to piece together a timeline of key events and also using the i-Pads to search for famous Ancient Greek landmarks.  We will then be using these images next week to help us with our first 'Green Screen' project.