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On Monday we read a story called the Dragon Machine by Helen Ward. It was all about a boy called George who saw dragons. The dragons got him into trouble so he built a dragon machine to take them back to where they live. In music we learnt all about beat boxing. It was exciting. On Tuesday we looked at the story and used VCOP to see how good the story was and how we thought the author could improve it. In Science we looked at sounds and how they are made. We looked at lots of different instruments. On Wednesday in mathematics we looked at the nine times table. We drew around our hands and learnt that if you add the digits for the answers of the nine times table the answer is nine. (Well it is up to 180 anyway.) On Thursday we recorded what we wanted to be when we grew up. Next week we will make aurasmas of our videos. In the afternoon we found out out the technology of moving toys. We found out they moved by cam mechanisms. On Friday we wrote all about our own machine. We enjoyed making up our own machine stories. In welsh we wrote a short description about what food we liked to eat during the day. We ended our day with lots of fun as we had ‘Golden Time’ to celebrate a fantastic week. Some of us played games together while others set up the Raspberry Pi and began to find out how to program. Blog post by BJ and LT
Photography by LJ and BJ
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This week started off with an INSET day so on Tuesday morning we had a task from Pi. We had to watch ‘The Lone Robot’ and describe the factoru inside. We spent the afternoon in the hwb where we did some awesome art tessellation patterns that we had to make out of squares, rectangles and also 3d shapes. On Wednesday, in mathematics, we investigated four digit numbers and explored lots of maths problems. In literacy we explored adjectives, looking at more interesting words to describe so we can use these in our big writing on Friday. Our Welsh session we looked at food and we practiced the vocabulary for food, looking at extending our answers. On Thursday morning we had a special assembly in the main hall, it was all about the NSPCC and Childline. We found out that the Childline number is 08001111 and that we were going to help to raise money for the charity. After assembly we did some levelling up sentences so that we could make them more interesting. Friday was very busy. We started with our Big Writing where we wrote a description of a friend for the lone robot. We were very lucky because we had another special assembly about Mad Science. It was AWESOME!. In the afternoon we had a talk with PC Bennett and then we learnt a welsh poem called ‘Parti’ is was cool. Blog post by TR and EB
Photography by LJ and BJ This week in Dosbarth Gwyn has been very exciting. On Monday after lunch we were about to complete our Welsh but then a video came through. We watched the video which showed a journey through space and then it led to our school. So we looked outside and we found a tin can connected to a parachute. So we then investigated the tin. We opened the can and inside there was a small robot. So it was suggested to take the robot's head off. When we popped of its head it was a USB device. So we put it in our computer. There was a file with four things. The first one was a video, the second was a QR code and two secret documents. We tried to open the documents. We tried 2999 which was the year the robot was living in but that did not open the document. Then we tried the robot's name which was 3.14159 and this opened the document. We had to decipher the code. It was a number code. The robot asked us to help him. First of all we had to write all about yourself and put it on a special website. On Tuesday we went t the hwb and the first thing we did was to create a pupil profile to help us write all about yourselves on Friday. we worked very hard to write as much as we could about ourselves. In the afternoon we created some brilliant 2d robot designs. We used PowerPoint and had to make and edit shapes. It was difficult but we worked hard to create our designs. On Wednesday afternoon we worked on the history of robots to help 3.14159 on his task to save all information about robots. we researched using iPads. Some of us used the iMac to download our jingles we created so that we could start making podcasts. Friday was a very busy day. We had an eco green flag assessment in the morning. We worked hard on our big writing which was all about ourselves then during golden time we set up the Raspberry Pi which we are going to use to code and create games in our classroom. What will next week bring? This week's blog was written by LLD and EB.
Well the summer holidays have flown by and we have returned for a new year. Our first week in Dosbarth Gwyn has gone quickly with lots of getting to know each other. On Wednesday we worked together to create a class pledge which we all agreed would help us have a happy new school year. We also worked really hard on our number bonds to 100. Miss Howells was really impressed with our knowledge and we enjoyed challenging each other. We then spent time filling in job applications for the class roles and responsibilities. Our applications were so good that Miss had a very difficult job to decide our jobs. On Thursday we started off our day with our daily 5-a-day challenge. We were street dancing which got us ready for the busy day ahead. We worked very hard in the morning creating and presenting our manifestos for the school and eco council. We all came up with some fantastic ideas and on friday we have the difficult decision of who our votes will go to. In the afternoon we became musicians and created some fantastic background music using Garageband for the weekly podcasts we will be creating. Today we voted at the polling station for the school council, eco council and healthy council. We were very democratic and used a ballot box and made sure our votes were in secret. We will find out on Monday who our representatives are. We then completed our big writing work and we produced some fantastic work achieving all our success criteria targets. This afternoon we created some proffil disgybl in Welsh. We learnt lots of new geirfa and found out lots of new information about each other. Our first week has been very busy and we have worked very hard. We wonder what next week will bring...
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AuthorWe are the year 4 class at Cwmclydach Primary School. We love exploring words, robotics, weird science and coding. Archives
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