This week the children in year 5 were studying how to create shapes using LOGO. They followed precise instructions and created some very impressive shapes. They are becoming competent computational thinkers, solving problems they come across with ease. Well done Kestrels!
This week, Year 5 have been putting together spreadsheets to calculate rainfall. They were so confident inputting statistics for the average rainfall in Norway and Wales and produced some excellent graphs to demonstrate their new knowledge. Well done Kestrels!
Year 5 have had the most fun adding sound to poems by using a program called Audacity. They have been so creative in setting the scenes for 2 poems that Mr Lo and Mrs Calbreath recorded. I think they enjoyed adding some very strange voices a little too much!
This week, Kestrels have been creating programs on Scratch. To do this they used thier knowledge of logical reasoning and decomposition.
Using their computational thinking, they were able to control their sprite to count to 12. Next week they will be controlling their second sprite to count in Roman Numerals. They are having a lot of fun and are being very creative!
Last week, Kestrels took part in a very important lesson all about the types of bullying that can occur on and offline. The children studied various scenarios and had to decide which were forms of bullying and which were simply examples of unkindness. They of course, got them all correct and were able to discuss what to do if they were ever in a situation where they were being bullied, or saw it happening to someone else.
The children then created their own lists of online and offline bullying situations and added drawings and logos as well. The last thing we did was to discuss all the various anti-bullying groups that children could speak to if they ever needed to.
Kestrels demonstrated their excellent knowledge of Computing this week by looking at various data plans and matching them to users of the Cloud. They also matched the correct meanings to their descriptions of language that links to the Internet. Such as: An ISP (an Internet service provider) or a URL ( a uniform resource locator). They really are quite a knowledgeable bunch!
Today Year 5 have been discussing ways to communicate using emojis, memes and gifs. They have a really good understanding of why these things are used and have designed some fabulous emojis of their own. Take a look!
