Superhero Photos

In ICT last week we used the ipads to create our own superhero photos.

First we used the "You Doodle" app to take photos of ourselves in superhero poses, then we drew our own superhero costumes on the photos.

Next we used "Cut Me In" to choose a background photo, and added our superhero photos on top of the backgrounds.

Here are the finished products for you to enjoy!

Our Advent Calendars

In our topic work we have been busy using the ipads to make our own advent calendars.  It has taken quite a while, as we had to plan then create a background and finally add photos, videos and text to our calendars. Luckily we kept going, and finally managed to finish them.

Here they are for you to use at home...

Jungle Day Films

We all had a fabulous time at our "Jungle Day" last Friday, and all looked fabulous in our jungle explorers gear!

During the day we worked in groups to plan, film and edit our own films. We used our school nature area as our filming location-it made a great rainforest for the day!

We also made our own cheesy snakes, and looked at some tropical fruits, which we made into fruit kebabs.  Emre had also baked some delicious monkey cakes for the whole class! It worked out well because after filming in the sunshine we were ready for a delicious jungle picnic!

Here are our jungle films, and a slides how of "behind the scenes" photos from our day!



 

Our Rainforest Picture Books

Last week in literacy we were inspired by the book "Where the Forest meets the Sea" by Jeannie Baker. It is all about a boys real, and imaginary journey through the Australian rainforest.

We really enjoyed the book, and found it very though provoking, especially the ending where the boy wonders what will happen to the rainforest in the future.

We decided to focus on using all our senses to imagine and describe our own journey through the rainforest.

As we were so impressed by the illustrations in the original book, we decided to use the ipads to create our own picture books, with words and illustrations. They took a while to complete, but they were definitely worth it!

Click on the names below to read that child's book. We are very proud of our work, so please let us know what you think!

Ella                    Luke                   Callum               Hannah               

Vincent             Malacie               Millie M             Michael              

Jack                  Leah                    Louis                  Millie F 

Evie                   Lucie                  Ryan                   Emre 

Eve                    Sam                    Aimee                 Olivia                   

Owen          

 

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!

Our Adverts

During the last couple of weeks we were very busy designing our own "Cracking Contraptions!"

We worked in pairs or small groups to; design them, make models of them, write explanations of how they work,  plan and film our own TV adverts.

Despite a very busy last week at school, most groups managed to edit their adverts into a finished product. Here they are for you to enjoy...

 

   

 

Please leave a comment about our inventions and our adverts. Would you buy our products??

A Day in the Life...

In ICT this term we have been learning about animation.

We decided to try something different, so we set up the ipad to create a time lapse video of a typical day in our classroom. It took a photo every 20 seconds, then put them together to make a film. We then added a title, some music and some credits, and here it is for you to enjoy...

Earth, Moon and Sun

We have been learning more about the Earth, Moon and Sun. Today in Topic / ICT we played a great game to learn more about them!

Here is the link so you can play again at home...

Earth, Sun, Moon Game