One World Week- Russia

This week is ONE WORLD WEEK at school. Each class is learning about a different country and the children will be visiting each classroom to learn about the country they are studying and get a stamp in their special passport. We will be taking lots of photos to share on the blog.

In St. George's Class we are learning about Russia. We will be finding out all about Russia for the next month. So far, we have used ICT to research and complete a fact file about Russia, we have been reading and writing about the traditional Russian tale 'Firebird' and painted a mural of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.

During our first week of learning about 'Firebird' we have read some of the story, performed some drama, listened to Stravinsky's 'Dance of the Firebird', watched a ballerina perform the Firebird's dance, then made up dances of our own to the music. We used the description of the Firebird in the story to draw some images of what we thought the Firebird looked like.

Here is a video of a short section of the Firebird ballet:

We will be starting a new page on the blog about Russia- take a look at the page tabs at the top of the blog!

Magic Paint Pictures!

On Friday, we were painting our mural of St. Basil's Cathedral (photos to follow soon!), when Aoife, Alfie, Jack, Joseph and Ella F. spotted this rather special picture in their paint palette. We were blending colours and this picture seemed to appear as if by magic! They snapped a quick photo for the blog; what do you think they spotted in the paint?

Symmetry and Reflection

As requested, here is the maths game we have played recently in class. We were learning about reflection and symmetry and this was a very popular game! Enjoy!

Andy Warhol Self Portraits

Before half term, we looked at some great Andy Warhol artwork. We liked the cartoon-style, the patterns and the way he repeated a picture, but changed the colours.

We used his style to create some self-portraits of our own.

Here are some super examples:

By Caitlin

 

By Chelsea

 

By Gabriel

 

By Jonathan

 

By Rosa



The Completed Village!

Here are some photos of our completed model village. It took us a few weeks to make, but we were very pleased with the results!

Let us know what you think of our village...

Our Model Village- a work in progress...

For the last few weeks we have been planning and creating our model village. It is starting to come together now and we hope to have it finished next week.

Take a look at the photos of our village so far:

Our Stone Creatures

This week we finished reading 'The Stone Mouse'. Next week we will be writing some stories of our own, so today we used clay to make some stone creatures of our own. Our stories will feature the creatures we created today.

Click through the slides to see the photos of our creatures:

Our stone creatures from sarahb1036

QR Codes

Today we found out what QR codes are and what they are used for.

QR stands for Quick Response. They are odd-looking patterns that you see everywhere now; on adverts, in newspapers, on the back of cereal packets...

If you have a smart phone, you can download a free QR Code Reader app. Then you just need to point your phone's camera at the code and it should open up the website, video or picture that it links to.

Remember not to scan any codes, or open any links, without the permission of an adult.

Today we experimented with making our own QR codes. We used a QR code generator called unitaglive.com to make our codes, which all link to our blog. We will be putting them up around the school, to encourage people to visit our blog. We experimented with different patterns, shapes and colours.

Here are some super examples:

 By Agatha

 By Antonio

 

 By Cassea

 

 By St. George's Class

 

 By Abel

 

 By Ella F.

 

By Nathan

Calum's Great Drawing!

Take a look at this wonderful illustration by Calum. He drew this great picture to accompany the postcard that he wrote from Ted, a character in the book we are reading; Stone Mouse.

Great work Calum!

The Eagle

I gave the children this jumbled up 'Wordle' version of The Eagle by Lord Alfred Tennyson. I didn't show them the original poem, instead I asked them to write their own poem called 'The Eagle' using the words in the wordle cloud. Some children added a few extra words of their own, but many managed to write a poem using only Tennyson's words.

Here are some of the wonderful poems written by St. George's Class:

The Eagle

 

He watches the azure sea from a crooked crag,

Like a thunderbolt,

He clasps the mountain with his wrinkled hands,

He watches the world as the sun falls beneath the lands,

He is lonely and wrinkled,

He watches the walls of the sea,

And closes his eyes.

 

By Ella F.

 

 

The Eagle

 

He glides over the azure sea,

He kills a fish like a thunderbolt,

He crawls up a mountain from the sea,

He lands on the crooked mountain,

He is lonely on the mountain,

He lands on the tree and stands up tall,

He flies as high as the sun,

 

What is he?

 

By Antonio

 

 

The Eagle

 

He crawls lonely on the lands,

The bright yellow crooked beak,

He watches the sun fall,

The azure sea crashes on the mountain,

A thunderbolt crashes close to the world,

Beneath him is a mountain,

He is lonely as he watches the bright sun,

He flies over the azure sea.

 

By Nathan

Here is the original poem:

The Eagle

 

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.

 

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

 

By Lord Alfred Tennyson