Last year P6 did a topic on electricity. We made pylons out of art straws. It was hard for the first 3 or 4 but it was easy for me.
Monthly Archives: September 2015
Energy
Energy – Pylons
For a topic we did energy and we made pylons which took us a short time, it was fun to do. While we were doing it we were wearing superhero costume’s for Pudsey day. Then we displayed them outside so people could have a look at them. Then the next 2 weeks we took them home.
Paper Pylon Project
Last year, for a topic on Energy, we made electricity pylons out of paper rods and glue. We were going to have a ‘wind resistance’ test where we were going to put the ‘pylons’ in front of a fan and the ‘pylon’ that took the longest time to fall down would have won, but we never got round to it.1 We were dressed in superhero costumes while we were doing it as it was a Pudsey charity event(SOS). They took a very long time but were worth it for the end result, which was very good.
Design Challenge
They were making electricity pylons with art straws and glue. It was a design challenge for there energy topic.
Eco school
We are a very good eco school, we have 3 Eco Flags.
Brackets, reordering and all that jazz
We have been learning about brackets and reordering, it’s quite difficult to start with, but then it becomes easier. The easy part is copying the sum down. We have also been learning about partitioning, where we were putting numbers into hundreds, tens and units. We have been using brackets to help us show our thinking. We learned about the ‘commutative law’, which means that addition and multiplication sums can be switched around and the answer will be the same. #Bestatbeingbeyondbrilliant
Syrian Word Clouds
Our class have been making Word Clouds about the Syrian crisis. We have used Newsround and BBC News to find information and create these beautiful pieces of art! We’ve been thinking about what it would be like if we were a child in the war. Learning about the plight has taught us empathy and we find this topic very interesting.
Blogging Bootcamp Week 4
As usual there will be 2 Glow Meets of Tuesday 2:00pm and 4:15pm
https://meet.glowscotland.org.uk/bootcamp
The powerpoint files and recording will be added to this post after the event.
2pm Meet – watch again | 4:15 Meet – watch again
This weeks Tasks:
- Technical: We are focusing on media. Using Photo Galleries, Audio and Video
- Discussions: Why would you use different media in blog posts, what are the advantages and disadvantages of text, images, audio and video?
- Challenges: Photoblitz Create a photo Gallery in response to at least 5 of 10 ideas listed below.
Technical
We will look at Galleries in a bit more detail, captioning images and using featured images on posts. We will also look at how featured content works in the twentyfourteen theme.
Adding an image gallery – Glow Blog Help
Adding an Image Gallery MS docx
Adding an Image Gallery PDF
From the Glow Blog help, Adding Media: Download: Audio and Video MS docx | Audio and Video PDF
Discussion
Why and when would you use text, images, audio and video? What are the good and bad points of each, both from a creator and consumers point of view?
Challenges
1. Photoblitz: Create a photo Gallery in response to at least 5 of the following ideas.
- Take a photo in which a mirror is a major element
- Confusion – Take a picture of confusion.
- Make a beautiful photo of something rusted or crushed.
- Let’s play with movement. Get a shot of something in motion.
- Make a photo containing stone, water and clouds.
- Take a photo that makes use of converging lines.
- Create an interesting photo that includes looking through one
- object to see another
- Make a silhouette by aiming the camera into bright light.
- Make an ordinary object look more interesting, almost
- supernatural.
- The theme is blue. Blue Monday? Blue bird? Or something else blue?
- The edge of a knife, the waters edge, or some other edge.
Try using the captions to explain your photos.
- Start thinking about using some audio or video in your blogs.
- Make 5 comments on other bootcamp posts.
I’m back !!!!!!!!
At Kindrogan on the first day we went to school for an hour. It was a horrible wait but once we left it was great. When we first got there we put our bags in the common room and went outside to have our lunch on the lawn. We then done some team building exercises and after the team building exercises we got our bags and suit cases and took them up to our room. We had about 45 mins In our rooms and after that we went down for tea. For tea it was some lasagne with sweet corn and for desert it was apple and cinnamon crumble. Then we went up to our rooms to get changed for the nights activity and it was orienteering. The midges were everywhere. After the night activity we had 1 hour until we had to stay in our rooms, so we went into our rooms at 9 o’clock and we had a hour in our rooms before it was lights out and we went to sleep.
That was our first day.
