Year 4 @ Brookburn

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.

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.

And a few more…

I apologise for the sound and video quality, as I saved the movie I condensed it to 3mg. As a result the pictures are grainy and some of the sounds have lost clarity My fault, not the children’s. If anyone reading this knows what sort of size file is best (not too large to take forever to load yet not to small to impair the quality) please blog to let me know.
Thanks,
Mr. Sumner