ICT – Control

We have been using a range of equipment to learn all about control.

Eric Joyner – Art Gallery

We have been studying an American artist called Eric Joyner. He draws and paints pictures containing robots. Eric Joyner always includes a doughnut, cupcake or yum yum in his drawings. We created our own drawings, using his style.

 

Internet Research – Roman Shields

During ICT, we searched the internet for different Roman shield designs. When we found one we liked, we used Paint to draw the design. Here are some of our designs.

ICT – Creating Dragons out of Shapes

Our ICT lessons have been great fun, so far this term. We have been learning new skills to help us do things quicker on a computer.

These include using:

• ctrl c – copy
• ctrl v – paste
• grouping objects together

By using these skills, we have been able to create dragons using the shapes on PowerPoint.

Do you like our dragon heads?

Using Dictionaries

We had great fun using the dictionaries to find the meaning of Science words.
We were able to use the dictionaries and the Science dictionaries to help us.

Here are the words we had to find the meanings of:

1. Absorbent
2. Brittle
3. Translucent
4. Transparent
5. Opaque
6. Viscous
7. Waterproof
8. Rigid
9. Flexible

Creating a Clay Dragon

We have had an amazing time making our clay dragons with Louise. We used lots of utensils to create a range of effects on our dragons. Some of us made 3D dragons and some of us made square shaped pots with dragons wrapped around them. We will have our clay dragons back in approximately two weeks, after they have been fired in the kiln.
Here are some photographs of us creating our clay models and holding our final creations.

 

Information Text – Komodo Dragons

This week we have been writing an information text (non-chronological report) on komodo dragons. We worked in pairs to write the paragraphs but decided independently how to present our work.

Here are some examples.

Dragon Dancing

In PE we have been creating sequences of dance moves to represent dragons.

Features of a Non-chronological Report

Next week we are going to be writing a non-chronological report about komodo dragons. In preparation for the writing task, we looked at a range of information texts and drew out the key features.

The most common features were:

• Big, bold title
• Paragraphs
• Subheadings
• Facts/fact boxes
• Pictures / photographs
• Captions
• Labels
• Diagrams

We used Post-it Notes and stuck them on examples we found in a range of texts.

Basketball

We are fortunate to have a basketball coach with us this term, to teach us lots of new skills and techniques. Friday afternoon saw the start of our basketball sessions, with lots of dribbling and passing to our partners.