Isle of Tune

On Thursday, we had great fun programming our own musical islands using 'Isle of Tune'. As promised, here's the link for the blog. Just click on the picture below. Enjoy!

Source: http://www.isleoftune.com/

Remember to check with an adult before playing any other games or clicking links to other websites.

Some of This Week's Super Work!

We have had another busy week in St. Clare's Class!

Here are some of our highlights:

Expanded noun phrases to describe our beautiful mosaic:

Ransom notes from Dean D. Dean to Professor Templeton:

Tagxedo word clouds of adjectives to describe characters from The Templeton Twins. Can you guess which characters we are describing?

 By Evan and Cecille

 By Jane

 By Ethan and Millie

 By Samuel

By Violet and Ryan O.

A Fabulous Trip!

The photos have arrived! Last week, Years 5 and 6 went on a fantastic trip to the Southbank, where we had the opportunity to broadcast with BBC Radio 3! What an opportunity!

We each had different jobs, such as; producer, presenter, newsreader or sound engineer.

We also had the chance to visit a wonderful art exhibition called, 'We Are All Human'. The artwork was spectacular- all created by people who were in prison. We heard their fascinating tales, heard the stories behind their artwork and had the opportunity to ask them questions.

It was a fantastic day!

Bridges of the Thames

 Source: cpbs

This week, we used Thinglink to display what we had learned about some of the bridges over the Thames in Central London. We embedded text, images, video and website links into each image. Check out some excellent examples:

By Jack N. and Harry

By D and Christopher

By Maria, Jada and Stephanie

London Docklands

Today, we learned about the London Docklands and how the area has changed over time. We discovered the history of the Docklands and its ups and downs.

We made these Animoto films and Thinglink presentations, to teach others about what we now know:

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/787267975504723969

By Daniel and Jack G

Caoimhe and Erhun

Jess and Gracie: https://animoto.com/play/J3v2UWHzQaYCue81APKxUQ

Justin and Cesar: https://animoto.com/play/iNc111GORIC30I483rK5FQ

Owain and Harry: https://animoto.com/play/y21W0noZmLh3l1bqmNcyCg

Mina and Emily: https://animoto.com/play/Jf0i4zurFlCwrTBcnKzA1w

Stephanie and Maria: https://animoto.com/play/yh2qEmmQmDNGl2b4Rlj73w

Rory and Jack N: https://animoto.com/play/TUBl4Ws03xFaT5wX3ey3Uw

Darcy: https://animoto.com/play/MGnRUhlVMyjzizncF9Txpw

Sophia and Kenan: https://animoto.com/play/8GnWL4tTJUAMDwHctS9TCw

Jada and Elizabeth: https://animoto.com/play/emSk11JMsRVygbmOO08eUw

D and Christopher: https://animoto.com/play/gX7VjXemiSxcyK09xnibRw

Animoto Trailers 2

 Source: Epic Citadel, Epic Games Inc.

Here are links to everyone's fantastic Epic Citadel trailers.
Click each link to see the videos!

Mia and Erhun:
http://video214.com/play/lqFlXFakw34s7Zfqtz6QqA/s/dark

Sean and Louis:
http://video214.com/play/zbKj495POxqGGWZp5MCIbQ/s/dark

Jack G.:
http://video214.com/play/NKiUVmCazOIsd8owfMlCug/s/dark

Justin S.:
http://video214.com/play/FzSeq7m0oYehF2Kjfx00wA/s/dark

D:
http://video214.com/play/JLmJnSNkxPOGqGy47pLTmQ/s/dark

Sophia and Bella:
http://video214.com/play/v68DgTJEhlsVZB4k4hHogQ/s/dark

Chidera:
http://video214.com/play/5Eh6yni5KOblli3X0TIHug/s/dark

Isaac:
http://video214.com/play/hBdb6qmz7gzgqX2Z8M8TRw/s/dark

Esther:
http://video214.com/play/KlTU0X4mA69JjBbnaYf20A/s/dark

Daniella:
http://video214.com/play/CHXZXJhgS7wIt8MeWdugIw/s/dark

Venus and Christopher:
http://video214.com/play/FFXzJ1nw0tfl02nw0KsHJA/s/dark

Emily:
http://video214.com/play/90NqE1L0RRiLlnp2h1jpDw/s/dark

Nabi:
http://video214.com/play/77bvOlTsfwRlVQnp7aGfRA/s/dark

Dexter:
http://video214.com/play/EoFw3afSEokmc0QTlo2vZQ/s/dark

Lily:
http://video214.com/play/dSDjD0be3ht1njWkER1XzA/s/dark

Kiara:
http://video214.com/play/DF4xdAH1LE74X1n10QBjZQ/s/dark

Cesar and Ace:
http://video214.com/play/AeQaNt11yWySZYJYiY4jAQ/s/dark

Maria:
http://video214.com/play/2ou1wBrKLZK2VpxxbUZWxw/s/dark

Jack N:
http://video214.com/play/LRfe0j897RfOA49AGBGeaA/s/dark

Vanessa:
http://video214.com/play/vCBegod04H7Az15Ur601gw/s/dark

Blessie:
http://video214.com/play/qaCg159Xzplif3XLmf71xw/s/dark

Animoto Trailers

This week, we started our new topics. We have started to learn about Electricity, the Anglo Saxons and Epic Citadel- a brilliant game that will be inspiring our writing this half term.

Today, we used a fantastic app called 'Animoto' to make these wonderful persuasive trailers for Epic Citadel. It will take lots of posts for me to share them all- the blog can only do two at a time!

Here are two great examples to start us off:

By Darcy

By Justin M

The Doctor and the Dalek Coding

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/doctor-who-game 

This half term we have been learning to code... and saving the universe! We have been developing our programming skills, by playing a fantastic game called 'The Doctor and The Dalek' from the BBC.

We have been learning that coding is how we tell computers what we want them to do. We have learned to put together sequences of commands, use repetition and 'if' or 'when' commands. There have been some very tricky challenges, which have taken a lot of patience and concentration, but we are becoming great programmers!

Here are some pictures of us, hard at work coding:

Here are some screen shots of the game, can you remember what you had to do to pass these tasks?

Source of both pictures above: drwho-online

We will be completing our Doctor Who coding next week, but we'll come back to programming soon. In the meantime, if you would like to play at home, click the link below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/doctor-who-game 

Isle of Tune!

Today we played a fantastic new game. We experimented with programming to create our own island and to make music- at the same time!

Isle of Tune is a great game, in which you create an island that makes tunes. First you create your road network. Then you add other objects to the streets. Each item you add to your island (houses, trees, bushes etc.) plays a musical note. You can then change the notes and sounds that each item makes.

Once you have created your road network, you can add up to 3 cars. As each car passes an object along the roadside, it plays the note you have programmed. We had lots of fun with this today!

To play the game at home, click this link:

http://isleoftune.com/

Remember to check with an adult before playing any other games or clicking other links.

Pyramids and Lego Stop Motion Animation!

This week we have been learning about the pyramids, particularly those in Giza. We used this excellent website to look around Giza and learn about some of its features.

Source: http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/media/services/thechildrensuniversityofmanchester/flash/pyramid_panorama_stamp.swf

We also watched some short BBC clips about the building of the pyramids. We learned how archeologists have been able to discover how the pyramids were built.

Can you remember why the Ancient Egyptians buried their dead on the West of the Nile?

Yesterday, we combined the animation skills we have been learning in Computing with our knowledge about Ancient Egypt to make these wonderful videos. We used an app called 'Stop Motion Studio' to produce these stop motion animations. Instead of stone, we used Lego to build our pyramids!

'Pyramid Marvellous' by Group 5

'The Pyramid of Four' by Group 4

'Pharaoh's Lego Pyramid' by Group 3

'Building of the Great Pyramid of Lego' by Group 2

'Khufu's Epic Lego Pyramid' by Group 1

Fantastic work, St. George's! These animations are very impressive- well done!

Puppet Pals Animation

On Thursday we started learning about animation. This half term we will be making some animations of our own, using different techniques. We will be creating some films about Ancient Egypt... watch this space!

This week we used an app called 'Puppet Pals' to experiment with animation- we recorded the movements of the characters, selected and changed backgrounds and added voices to tell the story.
Here are some fantastic (and very funny) examples!

By Bella and Mia

 By D

By Emily