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.
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.
In literacy this week we are going to look at adverts. Your job is to use your Vye to make an advert for anything you like. You could make up your own product or you could make an advert for something that already exists.
Start preparing now by looking and listening carefully to adverts to see what they include:
Jingles, music, famous people, slogans, promises, rhetorical questions… The list goes on!
We begin our study tomorrow. If there are any adverts that you’d like us to look at blog them below so that I can check they are ok to watch in class.
We have been studying poetry these last two weeks, looking at how to create imagery and to use sound to enhance our ideas. The class worked in groups to perform three poems: Last Night I Saw the City Breathing, Being Told Off and The Magic Box. The performances were all very different and we enjoyed doing it a lot.
Perhaps I should allow the children to rehearse a little more then make actual videos of the performances.
The Magic Box is a poem by Kit Wright that my class has recently studied. In the poem, Kit describes some of the wonderful things that she would put in her box, such as:
The first smile of a baby,
a snowman with a rumbling belly,
the tip of a tongue touching a tooth.
What would YOU put in the box?
BBC Newsround