During school grounds week, we went to the school field to record what we could see, hear, touch and smell. Back in the classroom we used our poetry skills to expand the imagery. We then taped different pieces of coloured paper to our tables and used charcoal and graphite sticks to create images suitable for our poems. After that we used handwriting sessions to write them out neatly before finally copying them onto accetate so they could be glued over the images.
The children have had the Vye personal computers this term and they were asked to make adverts. I really enjoyed all of these and would like to say thank you to my class and their families for their hard work and excellent adverts.
On Monday 10th May, a selection of children from Years 3 and 4 were lucky enough to visit the BBC 21cc workshop (that stands for 21st century classroom for those of you who are curious). It was a great day, and it gave the children involved a chance to practise and apply their art and ICT skills in a new way. I’m sure you will all agree that the outcome is absolutely fantastic!
Enjoy!
The Owl and the Pussycat from mralderdice on Vimeo.
To combine our study of poetry with our Vye computers, we wrote our own poems based upon ‘Using my senses’. The children had to describe sights, sounds, smells etc that they really liked. Next, we searched and copied images from the internet to illustrate the images we created in our poems. We then used Movie Maker to make the images appear in time with our words. Finally, we saved that version of our work and then added extra sounds.
Here are the first batch.
BBC Newsround