The Great Loom Band Debate!

Here it is... the podcast of our debate: 'Should Loom Bands be banned?'
Dan from Far Shoreline Productions came to interview us about Loom Bands and he put together this fantastic audio recording.

Click the picture below, or follow the link, to listen to the debate as a podcast. Can you hear yourself? What is your opinion- do you think Loom Bands should be banned?

When I was in Hong Kong this week I saw children there making Loom Band bracelets- it's a worldwide trend!

 

 http://podcast.lgfl.org.uk/channels/media/1408013623st-anthonys--loom-bands.mp3

Limericks

This week we listened to Michael Rosen's 'Three Limericks' poem. We were inspired to read lots of other limericks and then to write some of our own. Listen to our podcast and see what you think- some are funny, some are clever and some are just bizarre! Can you find any other limericks?

http://podcast.lgfl.org.uk/channels/2105201St-Georges-Class.xml

Click on the link for 'Limericks'.

Stone Mouse Readers' Theatre

Source: Jenny Nimmo, Walker Books Ltd.

This half term we have been reading 'Stone Mouse' by Jenny Nimmo. This week we tried out a new activity called Readers' Theatre. We took a section of the story and worked in groups to turn it into a script, adding to or removing the original words wherever we thought it would help the performance.

We performed the readings and recorded them to make this podcast. Lots of the children took turns to control the microphone and record other groups. Well done!

http://podcast.lgfl.org.uk/channels/2105201St-Georges-Class.xml

Click on the link for 'Ted's Anger'.

Titanic Survivors Podcast

This week we finished our work about the Titanic. We have all found it fascinating! On Thursday we concentrated on the survivors of the Titanic tragedy, following an exciting chapter in Kaspar Prince of Cats. We learnt about who survived and how and what happened to them afterwards.

We watched these videos about real survivors of the disaster.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/titanic-survivors-pt-1-2/6865.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/titanic-survivors-pt-2-2/6866.html


Then, we used our drama skills to role play journalists in New York interviewing survivors as they arrived on the Carpathia.

Click the link below to listen to our podcast of our interviews:

http://podcast.lgfl.org.uk/channels/2105201St-Georges-Class.xml



Here are some other interesting links about the Titanic, if you would like to find out even more!

Amazing photos of the wreck of the Titanic (like those we saw last week)http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/04/titanic/titanic-photography

A great interactive diagram of the Titanic- take a look at all the different areas of the ship:
http://kids.britannica.com/elementary/art-166724/An-interactive-diagram-provides-information-about-many-different-features-of

A quiz about the Titanic (there are only 3 questions, but you can play more than once and it gives you different questions):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/british_history/titanic_ticket/

New Poetry Podcast!

Today we read a fantastic poem by Ian McMillan called 'Ten Things Found in a Wizard's Pocket'.

We thought of some more things we might find in a wizard's pocket and made a poem of our own.

To listen to the podcast of our class poem,
'Things Found in a Wizard's Pocket' (after McMillan), please click here!

http://podcast.lgfl.org.uk/channels/2105201St-Georges-Class.xml

We are hoping to do lots more poetry podcasts in the next few months, so stay tuned!

Our Class Kenning

As promised... here is the Kenning we wrote and recorded as a class for Friendship Week.

The title of our Kenning is 'Friend'. We used the microphone to record our lines and put them together to create this super poem.

To listen to our poem click here!

http://podcast.lgfl.org.uk/channels/2105201St-Georges-Class.xml

'Bouki Goes to Market'- Our first podcast!

At the end of our Haiti topic we discovered the Haitian tradition of 'Krik Krak' oral storytelling. We listened to a folk tale called Bouki Goes to Market and played lots of games to learn the story. Each child was able to tell the story and we all joined in to tell the story together, one line at a time.

We used a microphone to record our storytelling and Miss Benn has uploaded it as a podcast.

To hear our story, click here!

http://podcast.lgfl.org.uk/channels/2105201St-Georges-Class.xml