Islamic Geometric designs using Scratch

On Monday we looked at geometric patterns and how and why they are used in Islam.  This was linked to our Theme of Ancient Civilisations.

 

We then used Scratch to write our own computer Code that generated our own designs! We took pictures of them on our iPads and created a quick Pic Collage to share our patterns.

 

Click on this link to see our great designs!

 

We have also added the photos to our websites!

Waste Week!

This week is Waste Week and we are thinking about how we can become more Eco Friendly! 

 

If you have helped to reduce waste in anyway, please share your activities by blogging on The Pod's website to help us earn points towards the Eco Schools Green Flag award!

Click on this link and enter the Blog Code 219380

 

Also have a look at our Eco Warriors page

Theme learning websites!

 This term, to record all of our learning, we will be creating our very own websites! They will be updated each week with photos, words and pictures to show what we have been doing! As well as learning about Ancient Civilisations, we will also learn some AMAZING Computing skills!

 

 Alina and Kristina

Cyrus and Seb

Denise and Pranit

Garv and Bipin

James and Suchit

Jonathan, Miraj and Thomas

Kritan and Showyam

Mahesh and Sukriti

Sandesh and Kevin 

Tom and Nicole 

Unick and Amon

 

Silent Movies

After reading Hugo Cabret we were inspired to create our own silent movies.

We started off by getting into groups of four and planning a storyboard.  We thought about different camera angles, use of expression and many other ways we could make our films fantastic!  Once we had a clear idea in our heads about what we wanted to do, we went off around the school and filmed our movies on our iPads using iMovie.

After that, we added in transitions and written speech.

To give our movies an authentic 1920s feel we added music.

We then used this form to evaluate all the movies.

Please click here to view our AMAZING finished silent movies. (Videos coming soon!!!) 

Landing Pad - 3D design

Well done for creating characters using Modio on the iPads!

Click on this link to vote for your favourite 3 designs.  The top designs will be printed out in 3D!

Thank you to the parents who came along, we would love to read your comments below!  Have a look at some of the designs and let us know what you think!

Book Week!

This week is BOOK WEEK at Hornbill and on Monday we started off the week by dressing up as our favourite book characters!  We had a great catwalk in assembly to show off our costumes!

There are lots of great events planned throughout the week, so look out for the photos!

We are keeping a count of how many books that we read, please complete this form to add to the total! See how many books you have all read in assembly on Friday!

Please add a comment to tell everybody what you think about book week, share your favourite book or tell us about your favourite character!

Solid, Liquid and Gas!

Year 5 have been learning about solids, liquids and gasses this week.  We learnt about their properties and some ways they are similar and different.

Instead of writing all of this information down on paper, we were more creative and showed our knowledge by having a dance and making these amazing videos using iMovie on our iPads!

Click on this link or scan the QR Code to see our videos!  We would love to read your comments. 

Mystery Books!

The children in Year 5 have created Myster Book posters that will be displayed in the library and around the school.  Children selected a book and wrote a series of clues, such as, the author, main characters and setting, to help readers guess the book.

The poster also includes a QR code that can be scanned to display the front cover of the book.

Have a go with this example or click here to view all of our posters!

Year 5 Comics

Shark Class have used the film Pigeon Impossible from The Literacy Shed to create their own comics.  First, I Air Dropped the video to their iPads so they could watch it.  The children then took screen shots and imported them into PicCollage to think about what the characters could be saying to each other.  Then they imported the film into iMovie and cut it so they all had a short piece of film each to focus on.  They then took more screen shots and imported them into Comic Maker HD.  Finally they added in speech and some description to create our class comic! 

Later this week we will be using our comics to look at speech punctuation.  We would love to hear what you think of our comic!

Mystery Skype!

Today we had our first Mystery Skype!  Well done Shark Class for all of your questions and answers.  Thank you to our Mystery Skype classroom!

Have a go at adding to the Padlet below to share your thoughts of the Mystery Skype.  Was it fun? Did you enjoy it? What did you learn from it? (I am testing this out so I hope it works! Double click anywhere on the screen below and add your comments.  I will then moderate your comment and it will show up on the wall!)

Created with Padlet

Google Sketch Up

We have been reading the book Hugo Cabret in class.  In the book, Hugo does not live in a very nice house so we have designed him a new one!  The children started off with a basic house shape and used the different tools in Google Sketch Up to create the house of their dreams where Hugo can live!

The children then discovered that they could add in cars, animals and even swimming pools! 

What do you think of our designs so far?

Art Bolg

Check out our AMAZING art work on the new ART BLOG!

http://www.hornbillschoolart.blogspot.com/

We would love to see your comments!

Coming soon to Year 5...

 

 

ask Mr Bennett for more information!

Aliens have landed!

This morning Shark Class visited Year 3 to help with their Space Launch Pad.  The Year 3 children had to complete a number of different space related activities set by their teachers.

Year 5 helped the Year 3 children to use PhotoBooth on the iPad to turn themselves into Aliens.  They then imported the photo into ChatterKids and recorded their ideas about what they wanted learn.  The children came up with some great ideas!

Once they had all recorded their ideas, Year 5 used iMovie to put the clips together to create one film.  The final film was then airdropped to the Year 3 teachers iPad and AirPlayed onto the interactive whiteboard for all the children to share their ideas!

Shark Class did a great job of teaching the Year 3 children and used all the apps below!

 

Happy New Year

This morning in assembly we spoke about New Years Resolutions.

What would you like to get better at this year in school? How do you think you could improve your learning? What values will help you to improve?

Add a comment to this post to share your thoughts.

Interactive Advent Calendars

Merry Christmas!

We have made interactive Advent Calendars.  First we used Pic Collage to create a background and added on the 25 days before Christmas.  Next, we uploaded the photo to Think Link and added in the 25 Christmas facts we found on the Internet!

Click on the links below to interact with our calendars!
(You may need to view your Internet browser at 50/75% as the pictures are quite big!)

 

Nicole    Ronish   Tom    Jonathan    Garv    Showyam   

 Miraj    Mahesh    Sukriti   Sandesh    Thomas

 

 

SuperHeroes

Today Shark Class have been designing their own superhero characters!  Each of them have their own special powers!

For homework, the children will be using Google Classroom to write descriptions about them! Here are two examples! 

Look out for the amazing descriptions! 

Word Cloud

In Shark Class we created our own Connective Word Cloud using an iPad app.  We then used these connectives to join our sentences together for our Key Note presentation ready for our Landing Pad!  We can not wait to show these to our parents as we are all very proud of them! 

 

Here is a Word Cloud created from the most popular words in our blog!

 

 

Google Classroom

Year 5 are testing out Google Classroom and have set you three tasks to complete at home.

Your tasks

1. Log into Google Classroom with your username and password from your homework sheet!
2. Complete the Homework Task sheet in your Google Classroom and send it to your teacher, just like you do in class!
3. Complete the form by clicking on this link so your teachers can see what you and your parents think of Google Classroom!

Please do not worry if you can not log in or you are having difficulties.  Ask your teacher and they will help you! This is very new...to us all!!

Book Review

Click on this link and follow the instructions to complete a book review of a book that you like.

 

It can be any book for any age group! You could even write more than one!

 

You MUST have written a book review before Monday as we will be using your work in the Computing lesson!