Programming an Iron Man

As part of our ICT lesson, on Monday 27th February, Venus class started using the programming tool called Scratch

You can use it online at home, but we have the software at school. 

Chloe started her work quickly and made an Iron Man, which is belly looks like a smiley face. There was no worksheet given, we had to figure out how to make it move and mainly which tools to use in order to create our program. 

Look at the belly.... hi hi hi

 

Whilst I was drawing the stage, I struggled to make it all work out. I started with when space key pressed, forever, if on edge bounce and move 10 steps but that didn't work because as soon as the iron man touched the edge he started walking on his head.

I tried to fix it by chucking the turn 15 degrees in their. That did not work the reason is he started doing cartwheels without moving weird. So last i took the forever out and that sort of worked he was still walking on his head but at least he was moving the right way and  not doing non moving cartwheels.

Hopefully next week I will be able to make it work. 

All the colours of the rainbow make me feel dizzy

On Monday, as part of our literacy work, still working on the Story Machine, we have used a website in order to create a shape with our poems. 

We wrote poems associating colours and emotions in our literacy lessons. Afterwards, we had to make the poem come to life, just like Elliott in the book the Story Machine who once he started typing on his machine, there were pictures appearing. 

Using the website http://tholman.com/texter/ we used our colour for our poem as the background and then created shapes with the words. 

It is a very fun website, but once you make a mistake you cannot erase it, you have to start over. Some children in the class had to start again 5 times!!!

When creating our shape, we learned that it was important to keep in mind who it was presented to. In order to make it interesting, I did a slushie with blueberries coming out of it. 

As a class, we decided to share as many as possible of our work on the blog since it is a safe place to promote our work. As a challenge, we have to try to make some pictures at home and publish it in the comments. 

Can you notice the blueberries around my Slushie?

Roxana made a cool flower

It is original how Joseph made a mouth

#SID

On February 7th 2017, we promoted a safer way of using internet.

The whole school worked together to discuss about how to make internet a safer place. Our aim in year 4, was to use emojis in order to pass on our message.

It was fun to use pictures in order to talk about something important, I think it will make it more interesting to students.

Mars class #SID2017

Venus class #SID2017

 

Creating images using pictures

As part of literacy class, we have been reading the book The story machine. In the book, the little boy called Elliott find a typewriter. Once he starts using it, he gets all the letters jumbled up, so he realises that it creates pictures.

In our ICT lesson, we used our keyboard skills to practice creating images using letters. It was a great opportunity to use our skills in a different way. We will now be able to change the aspect of our text in order to make it more interesting to our reader.


Here are some examples of our work.

Joe in Venus class                                                                       Frankie in Venus class

                                                                           Lois in Venus class