Class 4D at Ashfield Park Primary

In Literacy we have been thinking about playscripts, we decided to create our own horror stories.  We started off by using Comic Life to sequence our ideas and decide where to plan in our special effects.   Below is an example of one of our comics:

Next we wrote out our ideas as a playscript, making sure we included all of the features that a playscript should have.  Read an example here: tentical-trouble-no2

 Finally we used the digiblue cameras to film and edit our fantastic playscripts, you can watch one example below but please visit this link to see them all

For the past few weeks we have been thinking about stories with dilemmas in our Literacy work.  We have created some super photostory videos to help us sequence our ideas, can you work out what dilemma the character is facing?

Today we have been thinking about how to describe our characters for our dilemma stories by showing the reader what they are like, rather than just saying it, e.g. we might say ‘the sun reflected from his shining golden hair’ rather than ‘he is blond’. It makes our writing much more descriptive. Click on the photos to read some of our work, how well do you think we are doing?

In 4D, far from trying to get the class to be quiet during numeracy, I am encouraging them to talk more! Well, as long as they are talking about numeracy. Our latest project has been to create a piece of work using ICT explaining how to do our latest method for addition, the expanded verticle method.  Some of 4D chose to create a powerpoint, some chose to create an explanation worksheet and some chose to film a Professor Von Explainzeet drama.  Here are some examples of our work:

Click below to watch Hannah’s powerpoint video  

 Ben has produced a helpful worksheet, can you answer the questions? Click this > b1

Well, it was fun in the snow at Ashfield Park today as we awoke to see a blanket of snow covering the countryside.  I’m sure all of Class 4D were as disappointed excited as me to find out that ours was the ONLY school in the area still open for business.  Nevermind, we had a great day (all 14 of us who made it in!).  If you look closely at our picture on the end you should just be able to make out our snowman, Sludge, shortly before his demise (at the hands of the innoccent looking children in the picture)

Don’t forget to check the homework page of our blog to access your homework for this week. FUN FUN FUN!

This week in 4D we have been learning new design and technology skills to help us create 3D houses for different faitytale characters.  Once created, we visited Mrs Robbins at Parry’s Estate Agents to help use learn all about selling houses, we really enjoyed our trip!  Finally we used the persuasive writing techniques we had been learning about in Literacy to help us draft our house details using Publisher on the school laptops.  Although we have been working hard, we have we have been having a lot of fun!  Watch the video below to see 4D in action then visit our class wiki page to see all of the houses online.

Well it’s nearly time to go back to school (hooray!), so tell me, did you have a good holiday?  What fun things did you get up to over Christmas?

4D are going to do some work on problem solving in numeracy this week.  As part of this we are going to podcast an Agony Aunt show, where hopefully we will be able to help you by explaining how to solve your numeracy related problems.  Do you have any problems we could use for our show? Please leave them as a comment on this post, along with your name and location.  The quesions (and answers) will be available on our podcast player soon!

If you have been checking out our visitor map you will have noticed that we have been visited by teachers and students from all over the world! Very exciting!

 One class in New York USA have asked us to become their blogging buddies – we will be learning a lot more about their class and 4D will have the opportunity to blog to an American friend.  I don’t know about you but I can’t wait to get started!  You can visit their blog by clicking here or by using the link on our blogroll.

 To our blogging buddies we want to know:

What is it like going to school in America?

What a treat! On Friday Hannah brought in some tasty Victorian cake for us to try; thanks Hannah! Feel free to bring in any more tasty Victorian treats you want  to make at home 4D…

4D have started up a new wiki website; each class member has their own page. Visit now by clicking on the link in our blog roll!

Class 4D got dressed up for Children in Need today – we all wore spots!  We also got to watch the talent show produced by Year SIx, it was fabulous!  A special well done to 4D members George and Hannah for their superb performances.  If you would like to find out more about Chidlren in Need and where your donations went to click here

That’s right! The Ashfield Park Secret Spy has sent us another email with a

It means that I have had to totally change my Literacy plans for the following few weeks but I’m not too worried because it is exciting stuff!

More details in the Literacy lesson on Monday!

Can you ‘up-level’ this sentence using V.C.O.P. (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation)

Mrs D went in to the classroom and she saw 4D working hard