London

At the end of our London topic I challenged the children to choose an app on the ipads, and use it to show me what they had learnt! The results were very creative. Here are a few of them...

For their Learning Log tasks children were asked to create an advert to encourage people to visit London. The results were all brilliant! Some children chose to do this by creating videos. Here are some for you to enjoy!

London Day

On Monday we had a lovely time at our London Day. We completed lots of exciting activities, including;

• Building the London Eye out of hula hoops and newspaper.
• Making model Beefeaters and Grenadier Guards
• Creating London Symbols from coloured paper
• Creating Buckingham Palace, complete with the Royal Family peering through the windows!
• Building Models of Big Ben 
• Painting London buses and taxis.
• Creating our own London Photo Album on the laptops (see last blog post!)

Here are some photos of our day!

Our London Photo Album

London Video Guides

On Friday afternoon we decided to make video guides to London using Microsoft Photostory.

First we searched for images of London on Google, and saved them. Next we imported our favourite images to Photostory, we sequenced them and added some captions. Finally, some groups recorded their own narration to explain the sights of the city!

Facts about London

Today has been a busy day on our Twitter account. We have been learning all about London, so we set ourselves a mission to share as many facts as possible in a day! We did pretty well!

Here is a link to show you all the facts we managed to tweet. It is even more impressive as we managed to do this as well as all our normal classroom activities!

 Our London Facts

Don't forget to follow us on Twitter to see more like this! @jetsclass

Great Fire of London Films

As we are reaching the end of our history work on the Great Fire of London, we decided to show what we have learnt by creating some films.

We worked together in groups, using the ipads to create our films. Some groups chose to use imovie, and some used toontastic to create animated films.

Here are some of the finished products. We hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed making them!

Science Investigation-Waterproof Materials

During our topic time on Friday we were lucky to get the chance to look at a real fireman's uniform. We enjoyed looking at the different features of the uniform and considering how they would help the fire brigade do their jobs effectively!

After exploring the uniform we went on to set up our own science investigations into how waterproof different materials are. We had some surprising results which made us reconsider our definitions of "waterproof." We also decided that we should do some more investigations next week to find out more about waterproof materials.

Fire of London Game

Last week we continued learning about The Great Fire of London.

As part of our topic work, we used the laptops to play a great game. Here is the link so you can play again at home:

Fire of London Game

Samuel Pepys

This week in literacy we are continuing our work on recounts, and in history we are learning about Samuel Pepys and his diary.

Today we made video diaries to recount the events of The Great Fire of London from Samuel Pepys' point of view. They were very dramatic!

Great Fire of London recounts

Last week, in literacy, we took our knowledge of The Great Fire of London and used it to plan, perform and eventually write our own recounts of the events.

How to...Cook London!

Last week in our topic lessons we began to learn about The Great Fire of London.

First we looked at the facts of what happened, and sequenced the events into the right order. After that we started thinking about the factors that made the fire so serious.

We decided to use our Pudding Lane Bakery role play area to create our own comedy cookery shows. Each show had to include instructions for how to "cook London!" Every group approached the task in a different way, but the results were all very entertaining (and educational!)