Animation

After spending the term working with small groups teaching them the basics of animation- I took the whole class for the day and we got to put all of the learning into practise.

Room 5 put all of their great knowledge about Animation into their own creative story.  After they had planned what their story was going to be about they created a storyboard and came up with ideas of how they would present it.

                                                                    We used plasticine

                                            Some of us had a go at using green screen with an iPad

Using a book as a background was great- using small plastic toys and pieces were easy to work with.

                                        Retelling a well known story using paper characters was very effective

                                            This lego animation was exactly the same as the storyboard so we were able to                                                                              follow it easily.

                                                Working with lego and plasticine worked well

                It was important to get the camera set up perfectly so it would only capture the scene.
 

All of the animations turned out really well and were all very different.  The class were very proud presenting and sharing them to the class as well as others throughout the school.  Adding the title and credits at the end was a nice touch that some of them did if they had enough time.

Scratch - Coding, using video sensing

Today's computational thinking session I introduced the video sensing extension blocks.

We coded to pat the cat, pop the balloon and then made a band with a cymbal and drum.  The kids had so much fun been interactive with their coding.

 

Code Spark App

This is the progression lesson from the unplugged lesson on algorithms and using arrows to guide the Kid bots around the grid. 

We discussed what we did last time and looked at how we needed to use the directional arrows to guide the Detective to the donuts!

We had lots of fun using the touch screen TV as well.

Tangram Puzzles

 The Junior Classes began their lesson looking at Tangram Puzzles.

The objective was looking at decomposition- realising that problems are made up of small bits.  They worked together to make a new pattern using all of the shapes.  The tricky part was getting the shapes back into the square again.  It took lots of resilience and collaboration.