Tag Archives: ICT

Symmetry

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We have been learning about symmetry in maths this week.

We have been learning about line or reflective symmetry.  Line symmetry means a reflection.  If we were to draw a line through a shape to represent a mirror, the shape could be folded on that line and both sides would fit together exactly together.

After looking at lots of examples on the interactive whiteboard and playing some games on Education City, we sorted these pictures in our maths books.

This afternoon we had the choice of two activities when using the computer. One choice was to draw a horizontal or vertical symmetrical picture using Pixie.

The second choice was the most popular! We created snowflakes using this website. Try it for yourself. Did you know that real snowflakes are always symmetrical and have their own amazing patterns?

Here are some we made.

We also found this site to make a cut paper snowflake online. Have fun making your own symmetrical snowflakes.

The Superstars are Tweeted!

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We got some lovely feedback on our blog from the Times Educational Supplement’s iboard and they have been tweeting about us on their Twitter feed. Here is what they have been saying.

Thank you i-board. We have just seen your paint a dragon resource for Chinese New Year and will be using it when we are back at school on Wednesday!

Beanstalk Animation

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We have been making Beanstalk animations in our ICT lessons.

We used a site called ABCya! This is also a great site for lots of other lerning activities and games.

Mrs Stewart wanted to put our animations of the blog to show you but they won’t play on the site. You can click on the link and trying making one yourself at home.

They are animated gifs. Perhaps someone who is reading this can give us some advice so we can show you our fantastic animations?

Dragon Mail

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The dragon left us another letter this morning.

He thanked us for the letters we wrote to him yesterday.

He had left us a table of books, some Jack and the Beanstalk puppets, some masks and a CD to listen to!

We read one of the books – “Jack and the Bean Pie.” In this book, the giant prefers to eat the tasty bean pies Jack makes rather than people. Most of the Superstars preferred this version to the original!

We worked with our talking partners to discuss the similarities and differences between the two books. We organised the information into a Venn diagram on the whiteboard.

In our ICT lesson, we made posters advertising Jack’s cow or the bean pies for sale. We had to open either the “cow” or “pie” document in Publisher, insert a picture from clipart and change the font and size and colour of the text. Mrs Stewart is really pleased with the way we are becoming much more independent in using and applying our computer skills.

Just before home time, some of the boys gave us an impromptu performance of “Jack and the Beanstalk” using the roleplay masks. It was very good!

I wonder what we will get up to tomorrow…

Moshi Monsters

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This term we will be using Moshi Monsters as a context for a cross curricular project focusing on health and wellbeing, ICT and art.

Read this article from Learning and Teaching Scotland about a school in Stirling who carried out their own very successful Moshi Monsters project.

We have all adopted our own monsters online. Today we made a mind map of what out monsters would need to keep them happy and healthy. We are going to use this as basis for our learning over the coming weeks.

Having a discussion in our groups.

Our mind map.