Computing lessons

For our computing this term we are using graphic modelling. This week we made  our own comic pages based around our Super heroes and Villains topic.Chris from Info tech showed us the site to use and we were away! We chose our page style, our characters and  background. Then we added speech bubbles and dialogue. Finally we added sound- not actual sound but comic book style sound e.g CRASH, AARRHHH!

Chris showing where to access the comic programme from.

In pairs creating own comic pages.

Making choices about what to include.

Some had time to create 2 pages.

Watch this space as Chris will add some of our creations to our web site so you can see our work in detail.

Maths, science and some of our displays.

New Year, new start, new beginnings...

Maths

In maths we are looking at measures and how to convert them-not an easy task until you make it into an activity using a washing line and pegs!
Fist children had to decide what to convert into, convert and then order their given measurements. When done they had to attach them to their string washing lines, show them to their peers and ask questions to ascertain if they were in fact correct.

team work- all working together

working out the conversions, ordering and then putting in order

best to lay out measures and place in order 

                                              using every spare space in the classroom

we've done and we are confident we are correct

this is easy( an actual comment from this group)

now time to ask questions to see if the rest of the class can convert correctly, Jacob has his groups answers written on the back of his groups cards

making sure everyone is joining in- everyone was asked questions

a different set of measures and more questions asked of the class

a sea of hands keen to join in

everyone felt they could convert units of measure-length, mass and capacity

The recording in our books was even better-these photos as our evidence!

Science

Our first topic is learning about The Earth and Beyond.To make it more practical we represented the sun, earth and moon using spherical objects to show the relative sizes and movements of the 3.

Our sun, earth and moon , with direction from their peers and from Mrs Chadwick, moved( or not in the case of the sun!)

just the sun and earth, rotating, spinning and orbiting!

now the moon joins in

thank you boys-that has made it really clear

Now for day and night...

The sun( a torch), the earth spinning on its axis( child operated spinning of the globe) and observing how Great Britain on the globe came and went into light and dark thus representing how we get day and night.

without our white board light it became really clear how half the earth was in darkness and half in light

each table had a turn representing this

as well as this we had books at hand to help us find out more facts

Some of our displays.

Our WW 2 display form last terms History Topic.

 Our Blitz art work produced a stunning display.

End of term December 2015

We played times table Bingo-who could get a row, column or diagonal? Chocolate coins, Santa's and even chocolate brussel sprouts  were given to those who correctly called "Bingo."

Who thought times tables could be such fun?

At the end the rest of the chocolates were shared out so everyone was happy. 

3 girls wanted to help serve  dinner-here they are all correctly kitted out and ready!

Pizza?

Jacket potato?Cheese?

Well done girls....but why ?

Here are Y6 ready for their Christmas lunch.

Advent calendar in class 3

Our advent calendar this year is an interactive one with different tasks each day . (we do have a traditional chocolate one too!).These may be hangman, Pointless, word games or maths games. The product game proved a favourite and got rather competitive.
On Wednesday( also our Christmas Jumper day) 2 teams played against each other to try to get 4 in a row by multiplying numbers 1-9 by moving only 1 at a time to make the products on the board. Tactics came into play-teams had to think ahead and block as well as trying to get the answers.

Children edged ever closer to the board  trying to beat the other team.

The score was 1 game all and the second game seemed to have reached a stale mate . 

Joseph could not help himself- under the table thinking how to win!

Checking times table grids for all possibilities.

Hands up with suggestions for team captains Rory and Jasper.

Just when I was about to call it a draw, Rory moved the slider to make the winning move...I had not seen it! I thought a draw was inevitable!