June 25, 2019
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We have been working on out Micro:bit guitar project. We started by Hacking our headphones to work with the micro:bits Microbit Guitars We made guitars with our artist skills and programmed the micro:bits to react to light and acceleration to make ‘Music” Micro:bit guitars part 2 We then make Robot masks, and video or still … Continue reading “Robot Microbit Guitar Music” Continue reading
June 21, 2019
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We had another visit to Dow’s wood today. Our tasks were: To take photos of flowers. Gather tinder for firelighting. Create shelters from some lost woodland ‘wee folk’. Shelters for the wee people Continue reading
May 30, 2019
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We have been working with our micro:bit guitars. We now control them with light and acceleration, the light controls the tone and the tempo is controlled by the acceleration. To play the micro:bits you need to move it and control the light by waving you hand over it or putting near a light source. Today … Continue reading “Micro:bit guitars part 2” Continue reading
May 17, 2019
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We are very proud of two of the Biggies who reached the primary 6 semi final of the Glasgow Science Festival Creating Engineers Competition this year. Continue reading
May 9, 2019
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The Biggies have been using their coding and craft skills to build electric microbic guitars. They had to learn to hack their headphones, make a guitar and code the microbits to play music controlled by light. There is more to do, but we though it was worth sharing now! Continue reading
May 3, 2019
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The Biggies have been learning about Function Machines during maths. They made their own machines using scratch. Here are links to the first ones finished, click through and see if you can guess or work out what the functions are: We will add more machines next week. Continue reading
May 3, 2019
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This Week my best work was when we were making the cardboard guitar because I enjoy painting it and designing it as well. This week I could have worked harder on elements of film because I could of addd more text to it. My favourite activity this was making the fire because we got to … Continue reading “Weekly evaluation” Continue reading
April 30, 2019
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Yesterday we made a fire in the fire pit and toasted marshmallows. We cut kindling, and made fire bricks out of newspaper. We had a fire queen and king controlling the movement in the fire circle. We learnt to be safe with fire and knives. We found out how to use a burn kit (we … Continue reading “Finger Licking Marshmallows” Continue reading
March 29, 2019
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Yesterday the Banton Biggies went down to Dow’s wood in groups, we did three challenges. The first one we had to find signs of spring, the second challenge we had to find nouns and write as many adjectives for them and the third challenge was to find symmetrical things and make a symmetrical pattern. For … Continue reading “What We Did At The Woods” Continue reading
March 29, 2019
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Yesterday we went to Dow’s wood and we saw so many different creatures and signs of creatures. These were the creatures we saw. Things we saw • Bees • Beetles • Millipede • Centipede • Ladybug • Spiders • Earwig • Earwig eggs Signs we saw and heard • A woodpecker pecking • Rabbit fur … Continue reading “Dow’s wood wildlife” Continue reading
