The tree has maths baubles, made with our maths skills of measuring of length & angles. And micro:bit ones too. To make the micro:bit ones we need to make 2 animations called from functions. This is the first time we have incorporated functions in our micro:bit code. The microbits are controlled via another micro:bit and the radio feature. There are loops and comparisons involved too.
If you press the play button above you will be able to see the different animation by pressing button A or B. Pressing both together should stop the animation.
The tree itself is made with cardboard & makedo.
We had quite a relaxing day today after our Christmas show yesterday afternoon & evening. We did some maths work looking at tessellation and transformation of shapes, first on paper then in Keynote. We used the idea of Stained Glass windows for the keynote1 and practised our skills in grouping and transforming shapes. We also use images that we are allowed to use legally. We didn’t just grab them from google.
Most of the images have attribution on the image, the other ones used these photos: Flickr Photo: Aurora by QIAOS license:Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License Flickr Photo: Northern Lights In Tromso by B Lucava license:Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License
The weather outside was frosty, so the Biggies wrapped up well. We also popped in for hot juice and to warm up now and again.
The target for recognition today was “to stay on task” and the pupils were brilliant.
We started off in random pairs working on measure. We measured the length, breadth and height of different structures around the playground. The target was to measure accurately. After we finished we compared results and were almost all within a few centimetres of each other.
After the interval we worked on Art. The idea was to compare different medium. Looking at the bare trees, everyone made some pencil sketches, a charcoal picture and took some photos. The results speak for themselves.
1. The thing I like about the pencil sketch is the way I made the branches and how exactly I made the branches. 2. The thing I like about the charcoal sketch is how I outlined the thing and blended it together to make it look nice. 3. The thing I like about using a pencil to sketch is how easy it is to fix mistakes and how you can shade especially easy. 4. The thing I like about using a charcoal to sketch is that blending is very easy and blending can also be used to make very cool drawings. 5. The difference between pencil and charcoal is that charcoal is on black and can blend easily and pencil is grey and can’t blend together but you can make it lighter or darker shades of grey. I personally prefer charcoal because with blending you can make some beautiful artworks.
Robert
I like my pencil sketch because it looks a lot like the tree is used to draw it.
I like my charcoal sketch because it was my first time using charcoal for art because I have only used charcoal pens not actual sticks of charcoal.
I like using a pencil to draw because you can rub out mistakes when you make when drawing and you can also shade if your doing a black and white drawing because if you do it with only black when doing a black and white drawing it will just be black and white with no shading.
I liked using charcoal because you can smudge it with the drawing but it is really messy and it is like rubbing out because you can make the black lighter if you go to hard.
The difference between the charcoal and the pencil is that charcoal you can’t rub out with a rubber but you have to use your hand or arm to rub out mistakes and it is also smaller than pencils but you can rub out stuff with pencil unlike charcoal.
Jason
I like my pencil sketch, I’m pretty sure it looked quite accurate but I didn’t get all the details. I was quite alright with just doing a little bit of it. My charcoal sketch was pretty good but I think it was a bit messy. But I quite like how it feels and how smooth it is. Using a pencil to draw is quite easy and fun, the same goes for charcoal but it is a bit harder. But at least it’s good for shading and smudging in stuff. I prefer pencil it is way easier but I would pick charcoal for shading stuff.
Chloe
In the afternoon we had a show rehearsal inside and then out for the final hour. The Children revisited their tress and wrote some poems. It was getting colder so we didn’t spend too long on that and finished the day with a game of capture the flag.
compare Lexi’s two images, she made the grid one first.
Today we tried a new technique for drawing. Using a photo of a Buff Tailed Bumble Bee that Blair found while picking litter. We added a grid over the top and copied it onto a grid on paper. This allowed us to see proportions and sizes.
We also made some drawings on plain paper to compare.
The Biggies did a great job working with the primary 1 & 2s in our ‘makerspace’ this week. Last week they helped the wee one design a mythical creature and this week we got to tether to create cardboard versions. We shall makes these into 3D creatures in the next couple of weeks.
We are going to try and get outdoors a bit more this month. Today was a beautiful clear day with only a little wind, a good day for some leaf art.
We went out and gathered leaves of different shapes and colours for the play ground. First we created designs and patterns with the leaves, thinking about colour and shape.
After that we cut leaves in half and sketched in the other half, trying to match the veins and shade and blend colours.
The class enjoyed working outdoors and identified some of the reasons:
It felt peaceful, calm and relaxed. We had better concentration. We felt free. We could sit beside different people had more choice and enjoyed working with nature.
We will be adding all of our work to the blog soon to the Art Gallery and add links from here.
This year we have been doing some art work and we made some silhouettes and we made them all different colours. Lots of us made them different kinds of flowers and they all looked really cool.
Here is a picture of the work that we have done of the flowers.
We were thinking of the different shapes and colours and how they went together. The pictures were stuck together on black card.
We did this other piece of art when Mr. Johnston gave us a flower and we had to sketch it out. We had to draw flowers while looking at them so they had more detail.
We also made a pattern of leaves thinking about the negative shapes. Â Â
These pieces of work are for the Banton flower show. We are going to be making one more piece of art and we will be picking out of one of them each to send to the show.