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Building space rockets

March 21, 2016 Miss Nicholson Leave a comment

On Thursday the 16th we were asked to get into the same groups that we were in when we made our posters. Miss Nicholson and Miss Morrison told us that we were going to be making space rockets out of junk. It had to be taller than a ruler but smaller than 1 metre. They had gathered a lot of ‘junk’ for us to choose from. We took it in turns for each group member to go to the desk with the ‘junk’ and select one piece at a time that we thought would be good to use for a rocket. Once we gathered enough resources we then began building our rockets.

Today we got to paint our junk model space rockets that we built.

Once we were finished we had to think of a name for our rocket, where our rocket was going and why and who was in the rocket! We had great fun and worked really well in our groups and with other groups as we had to share the masking tape.

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monsters made out of clay!

March 4, 2016 Rebekah Mary Elizabeth 1 Comment

Today we painted our monsters that we made out of clay last week. My monster is green with a black moustache, an eye that sticks out, a tongue & two arms bashing on the table. Unfortunately one of my arms fell off. Mrs Hoseason is going to glue it back on though.

Animation, Art, Confident Individuals, Expressive Arts, Group work, Literacy and English, Personalisation and Choice, Space, Topic

Animation

February 17, 2016 Miss Nicholson 2 Comments

We have been really busy working on our animations today. Miss Nicholson showed us the app ZU3D, this is how we are going to film our animations.

First of all we had to think of what we wanted to happen in our animation. Miss Nicholson told us it had to be about space and that we had to have at least 3 interesting facts about space within the animation, but the rest was up to us to decide. First of all we thought about an idea of what would happen in our animation. We had to then decide if we were going to make the animation 2D or 3D. Once we decided this we had to think about the characters we would have within the animation. We thought about what they would look like, how we would make them and the resources we would then need. Some of us decided we would bring in little lego figures as we were going to make our animation 3D. We then thought about the background/setting and what we wanted this to look like so we drew little sketches and thought about all the resources we would need. We then moved on to props, if we were going to have any, what would they be, how would we make them and the resources we needed.

Then we were ready to create a storyboard. Miss Nicholson gave us a sheet with lots of boxes on it. We used this to plan out our animation and what had to happen, what characters/setting/props would be needed for each stage. This will help when filming as we will have a clear picture of what will happen and what we need.

Then we looked at writing scripts for the animation as we had to speak in order to get the 3 facts into it. Finally we looked at any sound effects or music that we might need/want.

Once we had finished all this we got to begin making our characters. background and props.

Miss Nicholson took us in groups to show us the app on her Ipad and the different features of ZU3D. We learned about the onion skin, this is the last frame you captured over the current image you are seeing. Its like a ghost picture so that you know where your last frame was and can see how much your character has moved. This prevents your animation from jumping all over the place. We then looked at how to add in music or sound effects as well as adding in titles, speech bubbles/text and credits. Its quite a good app but it will take a long while to film our animations as you have to move everything very slowly.

This is very exciting!

Art, Confident Individuals, Cooperative learning, Expressive Arts, Group work, Literacy and English, Personalisation and Choice, Presentations, Social Studies, Space, Successful Learners, Topic

space posters

February 12, 2016 Ailee Rose 2 Comments

Today we presented our space posters that we made in groups with p67.There was 10 groups. When we were making our posters then at the start the youngest person had to pick a envelope. In side the envelopes there was names of planets. There was:

the sun,

Venus,

Mercury,

Earth,

the Moon,

Mars,

Jupiter,

Saturn,

Uranus,

Neptune

I think we all had a lot of fun

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Cooperative learning with P6/7

February 12, 2016 Ruby Kay Leave a comment

We have been working with P6/7 as part of our topic, Space. Their topic is space too. On Wednesday the 3rd we started working with them. All the P6/7s came in to our classroom and we got put into groups. Then Miss Morrison explained what we were going to do. Each of the groups had to make a poster about a planet. It had to be very colourful and have lots of information. One person from each group had to pick an envelope and inside it would tell us which planet we were going to be researching. My group did the Sun. We each had a different role. There was 2 Head Researchers, 1 Head Illustrator and 1 Head Writer. We had to look in books for information first then after about 20 minutes we were allowed to look on computers. We didn’t get much done on the actual poster but it was good because we got together again on Monday and worked on our posters. Today before lunch P6/7 came through because we were going to show our posters to the class. We were allowed 5 minutes in our groups to decide who was going to present the poster. My group The Sun went first. Our poster looked really good. After that, all the other groups went. All the posters looked really good! I really enjoyed working with P6/7.

Art, Expressive Arts, Literacy and English, Personalisation and Choice, Space, Successful Learners, Topic

Space rockets

February 9, 2016 Miss Nicholson Leave a comment

We have been very busy designing our own rockets and making a picture for them to go on so it looks like they are in space. Once we had finished our pictures and glued our rockets on we thought about things associated with space and created acrostic poems. We worked really hard and came up with some fantastic poems so we thought you should see some of them!

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Nesting and Girlsta Jarl Squad visits Tingwall

February 9, 2016 Miss Nicholson 2 Comments

We all gathered down at the Tingwall hall after dinner. The Jarl squad were a little late coming but we didn’t mind as it was exciting waiting for them. There were pupils from our school in the jarl squad so it must have been very exciting for them. We were excited to see them and what they would be wearing. The Jarl Squad came in and sang the Up Helly Aa song followed by their own song. We game the Jarl and his squad 3 cheers and presented them with a gift. They gave the school a gift of a copy of their shields and each pupil in the school got a badge with the design of their shield on it. It was very nice of them. After this we got to go mingle with the Vikings and try on their helmets and hold their axes and shields. It was good fun! We had a great afternoon!

Literacy and English, Space, Topic, Visitors

Mr Rose and space

January 22, 2016 Miss Nicholson Leave a comment

Today Harry Rose came in for our second session on learning about space. Unfortunately the power went off during the presentation so Mr Rose had to talk without having the power point. He did very well to carry on speaking. We are looking forward to seeing the rest of the presentation next week.

Here are some more interesting facts for you:

There are 88 constellations. The most famous constellations are in the Northern Hemisphere. They are mainly named from Greek myths.

You could take a submarine right under the North Pole as it is just water underneath. Unlike the South pole which has land underneath. The highest mountain on earth is underneath Antarctica. We can’t remember what Mr Rose called this.

There is 50,000 tuns of ‘stuff’ that falls from space in 1 year! So earth is getting bigger every time.

Comets are made from stone and ice. The tail that you can see is the ice melting as it is getting closer to the sun. The tail always faces away from the sun as the solar wind blows it away from it.

Meteor showers (shooting stars) is earth going through the tail of a comet.

The closest star next to earth is 43 trillion kilometres away! It would take 4 1/3 years for a message to get there if it was travelling at the speed of light from earth. The speed of light is 300,000, 000 metres per second or 300, 000 kilometres per second. It would take us 7000 years for us to get from earth to the next star.

Fundraising, Tingwall Primary School

Type ‘Onsie’ Day

November 24, 2015 Miss Nicholson Leave a comment

A huge well done to everyone at the Tingwall Priamry School as we raised an amazing £372.37! Great effort from everyone in the school and an enjoyable day had be all! Well done to the pupil council for arranging such a successful fundraising event!