Friday, March 29, 2013
25th to 28th March
We had a quiet week to end our term.
We continued our play-script writing activities by looking at a play adaptation of episodes from Peter Pan, which we read and acted out. We also read dramatised versions of Theseus and the Minotaur. The main maths work focused on solving problems (with and without a calculator).
On Monday, our ICT session returned to graphics and creating images with vector graphics. We concentrated on re-sizing and grouping to produce a picture of an insect. Then, using copying and pasting, rotating and re-sizing to make a puzzle page comprising a mass of these insects. We then made a single change to one of of these insects by ungrouping and editing one feature a little (e.g. leg, wing, antenna) to finish our "odd-one-out" puzzle.
The week saw the funeral of our much-loved colleague, Alan Caldwell, and the joy of the Years 3 & 4 Easter production.
We finished the term with a technology day in which we tested the bridge structures we had made and investigating stability (using K'NEX to create the towers). The bridges were tested to destruction across a 75 cm gap and were compared by finding out which could carry the greatest load and which had the best load to weight ratio.
School is now closed for the Easter holidays.
We continued our play-script writing activities by looking at a play adaptation of episodes from Peter Pan, which we read and acted out. We also read dramatised versions of Theseus and the Minotaur. The main maths work focused on solving problems (with and without a calculator).
On Monday, our ICT session returned to graphics and creating images with vector graphics. We concentrated on re-sizing and grouping to produce a picture of an insect. Then, using copying and pasting, rotating and re-sizing to make a puzzle page comprising a mass of these insects. We then made a single change to one of of these insects by ungrouping and editing one feature a little (e.g. leg, wing, antenna) to finish our "odd-one-out" puzzle.
The week saw the funeral of our much-loved colleague, Alan Caldwell, and the joy of the Years 3 & 4 Easter production.
We finished the term with a technology day in which we tested the bridge structures we had made and investigating stability (using K'NEX to create the towers). The bridges were tested to destruction across a 75 cm gap and were compared by finding out which could carry the greatest load and which had the best load to weight ratio.
School is now closed for the Easter holidays.
# posted by Mr Jennings : 4:23 pm
