Quentin Blake Illustrations

We joined a BBC Teach event on Tuesday morning where we looked at the illustrator Quentin Blake’s style and created our own characters for the ‘Zagazoo’ story.  The story shows a baby growing up and how the child changes into lots of different animals as it grows up.  We practised making different facial expressions for different emotions to help us with our illustrations.

I really enjoyed the fun video we watched to do this.  I loved my ‘Zagazoo’ elephant I drew. Leiyaa

Escape Room Maths

We worked in pairs or small groups to solve the maths problems to release the reindeer from their stable.  We worked well as teams and we were all able to find the correct number code for stable padlock. Phew!

Grow Your £5

This week we evaluated how we worked as teams in our different companies.  We recorded our evaluations using the app Chatterpix.

We have made a profit of £280.  We have decided as a class to donate all of the money to charity.  We will split the money between the UNICEF and Cancer Research charities.

We learnt how to take pictures of a Virgin Money or Richard Branson picture with the iPad and drew a mouth on it.  We could them record our evaluations in order to make it look like the picture was talking.  It was fun!  Menaal

 

The Snowman

We watched ‘The Snowman’ and considered how the music represented the emotions of the little boys in the story.  We then created our own snowmen pictures using pastels.  We used shading to show perspective in our pictures.

While we were doing art, the hardest part was blending it all together.  It was quite fun, but very messy!  Jack J

PE

Due to the wet weather, we done some Christmas themed Zumba.  We all got in the Christmas spirit and had a lot of fun.

Music

We did music with a twist this week.  We learnt how to play the rhythm of the ‘Sleigh Ride’ song with cups.  It took a lot of concentration, but we mastered it!  We then did a boys v girls competition to see who could follow the rhythm and keep in time with the music; it was a tie!

It was very hard and fun at the same time.  Noelle

I liked all of our Christmassy activities this week. Emily