We stumbled upon this cool website today and I thought you might like to try it at home.
You can upload an image and the program will convert it for you. Here is a photo and its conversion is below:
Effective isn’t it? You could upload an image of a landscape and then colour it in yourself.
Yesterday I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at a Literacy Conference about some of the amazing writing our children had done when we had our adventures in Atrius’s Land eralier this year. I was very proud to be reading out some of the children’s work in front of 35 Literacy experts!
After my session, I sat in on another session where the presenters were speaking about improving and playing with sentence structure. Here we are having a go at the same session in our class. We all loved it!
The initial sentence was The dog jumped on the wall. We spoke about how if we all read this sentence we would get 27 different ideas about the dog, the wall, the timing, the intent etc so we all agreed the sentence needed improving. Here’s a short video which shows us improving the sentence and then challenging abother group to reconstruct our imrpoved sentence. We even had a go at remembering these new fantastic sentences!
As always, be patient while it loads. Enjoy!
What a great success! Well done everyone!
Below is a little montage – takes a while to load so be patient!
Year 4 have been having a go at some maths challenges today. They come from The Liverpool Mathematical Society and we had great fun trying them for the first time.
You can see a video of us working below. I was really impressed with the positive communication within the teams today. Well done!
PS the video is a large file, so sit tight while it loads!
Miss Christie taught her last lesson as a student teacher on Friday. To say farewell to Year 4, she brought in un petit dejeuner francais!
Year 4 were visited by Garulf the Viking on Friday. We all learned lots of things we didn’t know about the Vikings. Here we are listening to Garulf:
As it was the first day of the World Cup in South Africa on Friday, We had a go at writing some AFRICAN stories. The twist is that the story had to be a six sentence story using the letters of Africa:
Joespeh wrote:
Adam rushed down the stairs and turned on the TV. Furiously, he threw the buttons to the ground because he had missed the first half! Right after he had done that, the oponents scored. Incredibly, we were still winning. Cautiously I looked out of the window; mum was still at work. After the whistle: England 3 USA 2.
Miriam wrote:
Andrew forgot his spelling book. Frantically he sped up stairs. Reaching energetically fo his book, he thought of grumpy Miss Worberton. I(e)mtionlessly, he walked into the cramped classroom. Arranging the pages, he found it was the wrong book…!
While Mrs Mayo and Year 2 were intrepidly exploring the wilderness of Africa, I was snapping a few photos of my own…
Great work Year 2!
Sometimes in Year 4 we use a random number generator on our SmartBoard to make a four-digit random number. We then challenge ourselves to produce a short story with the 4 sentences containing the number of words in each sentence from the random number.
Here is a (fantastic!) example:
Today’s number was 8671
Jasmin wrote:
I quickly ran down the old creaky stairs. To my surprise, nothing was there. I thought everyone would remember my birthday….”SURPRISE!”
Thinking more about the work we’ve been doing on David Hockney’s photo collages tonight and I stumbled upon this website.
It allows you to upload a digital image and then it renders the photo to copy the style of a Hockney collage. I don’t think this is as effective as the ones we have done in Year 4, but it’s a nice program and a lot easier (and cheaper!) than printing out multiple photos. Here are a couple of my photos that I ‘Hockneyized’.
The first one is of Bethany and me on Samson Island in the Scilly Isles:
And the second is an image taken by Thomas P in Y6’s family on a stormy night above our school:
Have a go yourself (with permission from an adult of course!) and let me see the results.