The Forest of Wonders: February 2015

Friday 27 February 2015

The silhouette exhibition

Please take some time to check out the incredible silhouette paintings we created this week.

Wednesday 25 February 2015

Perimeter Power!

Today we spent some time exploring the different ways of measuring perimeter. Please check out this video, which includes some of our ideas and results from the investigation.

Classroom Challenge!

Today we were spent some time estimating and measuring different pieces of classroom furniture.

Monday 23 February 2015

Today we carried out these challenges.

Challenge One (using A4 paper)
Can you draw 6 lines with different lengths going from one side of the paper to the other side. However, the lines must total 50 centimetres in length when added together.
Challenge Two (using A3 paper)
Can you draw 8 lines with different lengths going from one side of the paper to the other side. However, the lines must total 70 centimetres in length when added together.
Challenge Three (using half a side of A4 paper)
Can you draw 11 lines with different lengths going from one side of the paper to the other side. However, the lines must total 45 centimetres in length when added together.
Here are our results:

Why don't you try having a go at these challenges when you get home?

Geographic Geniuses (part 1)

Here are some phenomenal geographic paper presentations from 3G.

Thursday 19 February 2015

ORBI!!!

Two nights ago Mr Willis and his family paid a visit to the new BBC Earth/Sega Natural History museum called ORBI. Watch the video below to see just how fantastic it was. The question I would like to know the answer to is:

' If you could go to ORBI on a school trip, which unit would it give you more ideas for?'

I thought a visit would really help with Year 3's English unit on 'Animal/Shape Poems'.

Monday 16 February 2015

Poster Power

A competition to all story writers (particularly those who have recently written quest myths). I challenge you to design a movie poster for a story you have recently written. I have included some examples of some famous film posters that may help you with your poster designs. Good Luck!

Friday 13 February 2015

Toontastic Teaching

Hello Everybody,

Today we had our second Student-Teaching slot. Karen and Lisa were our two teachers and they did a brilliant job. On final reckoning the rest of the class gave them an overall mark of 8.5 out of 10 for their incredible performance. Take a look at the awesome video of their performance as well as the final product from Maya and Maximo (two of their students). I think you will agree that they did a fantastic job!

Mythical quests into other worlds...

Here are some examples of the breath-taking quest myths we have completed this term.

Mateo's Quest Myth

Maximo's opinions of the myth

Ayumi's Quest Myth

Thursday 12 February 2015

A magical lexicon of luscious words!

If you are looking for some suitably splendid words to put into a quest myth (or any other magical story) then look no further than these incredible tablets of word power! We created these WOW word banks using the ipad App 'Visual Poetry'

To like or not to like...Alice

Here are some more of our thoughts about Alice!

By Mateo

By Luca

By William

By Anna

By Liam

Monster Verses and Lego!

Here are some of the excellent entries to our poetry competition!

William's entry

A red sharp sword with a saw.
Ice claws and very strong shields.
Its eye are blue and a green gun the legs are yellow with a sharp poisonous spike on the ice claw.
A ice and Fire weapon to.

Theo's entry

Pale white wings glittering in the sun one touch you are dead.
A pegged leg with a eagles head one look you turn to stone.

Swords with powerful powers, be carful you don't touch them.

Takayuki's entry

Monster Birds and a Brave Knight

Monster Birds are herded in the sky

They have fangs, the cries tang, yappity yap

A brave knight glares at the blight knave

Prep for the battle with quickstep

Tuesday 10 February 2015

Alice and Plop

We have included some thoughts about the two main characters from two books we are reading in guided reading. What do you think about our ideas?

The two books we are reading:

Our thoughts:

Napoleon's thoughts

Olivia's thoughts

Leon's thoughts

Maximo's thoughts

Daiki's thoughts

Sunday 8 February 2015

Poetry, Dragons, Wonderland and lego

This term some of us have been reading Alice in Wonderland. While reading the book I remembered Lewis Carroll's famous poem 'The Jabberwocky'.

Inspired by this poem and the quest myths we are currently writing in 3G, I thought that it might be nice to design a lego monster with it's own short poem. Here is my attempt.

Red Ruin

Leathery wings built to bring death,
Fearsome, smoky hell scented breath,
Sabre sharp claws that tear and slice,
A knights lifeless body the final price

It would be great if other people could create their own monster and poem...I look forward to seeing your final creations.

Thursday 5 February 2015

Story Telling (part 2)

And so we introduce the follow-up work we have done on the art of Storytelling-iMovie style. Please enjoy our video productions! Please don't worry, as we know you will be craving more! There will be some extra special Quest Myth's (iMovie style) to come at some point in the future...