Here are some examples of Year 5’s atmosphere recordings. They added sound effects to their ‘Dramatic Paragraph’ stories.
The editing was done in Audacity. I’m sure you agree, some of the recordings sound fantastic creating atmosphere and realism to their stories.
Sophie
Mohammed
Melissa
Megan
Kennie
This week year 5 were visited by ‘Mr Wolf’ from their novel – Wolves in the Walls. They posed as newspaper reporters and questioned the furry friend on why he had caused so much trouble in Lucy’s house! Turns out, it wasn’t Mr Wolf causing all the trouble after all!
During the last few Computing lessons with Mr Baddhan, Year 5 Kestrels have been using a new program called Audacity – a sound editing tool. It allows children to edit their recordings and then add sound effects.
The children recorded their suspense stories from a previous English lesson, and then added sound effects downloaded from a website called Sound Bible.
The children were also reminded about the importance of downloading copyrighted files from the internet. Always ask permission from the website or owner.
Here are some edited recordings.
Llukan
Year 5 Kestrels presented their written weather reports using the green screen.
The scripts were written with Mrs Croft in a previous English lesson.
Year 5 are busy writing recounts. They are using Little Red Riding Hood as their text and are going to re-write it from another characters point of view.
Today they acted as newspaper reporters and interviewed Red Riding Hood herself… the findings we’re very interesting.
We’ve been working really hard in Year 5 on our spellings. The children have been taking part in investigations to put words into groups according to their sounds such as: tough, drought and although. They all contain the “ough” sound yet all sound different. It’s a challenge but they’re Not giving up.
A big well done to the following children for participating in the Spelling Bee final. They all did really well and should be very proud of themselves. We are very proud of them in Year 5.
Well done to Sophie and Christopher for winning this year’s Spelling Bee competition against the rest of the school.
As part of Year 5’s English topic, we are focusing on writing setting and character descriptions.
We started today with a photograph of a setting and we created a mind map of words and phrases we could use in a description.
The children then began to write their own setting descriptions
Take a look at some of their starting sentences…
In the distance, there was a thick layer of fog covering the mountains. – Callum
In the distance, there was a cloud as white as an Artic Fox. – Sophie M
In the distance, mountains as tall as giants were hidden behind a thick layer of pale white fog. – Tiffanie
In the distance, there were mountains as large as giants towering over the village. – Millie
Miss Edwards can’t wait to see these finished!
Year 5 did brilliantly this morning, performing their poem as part of World Book Week.
They performed “If” by Rudyard Kipling.
So much effort was put into learning their lines and making sure their voices could be heard clearly by everyone.
We were very proud of Jamie for learning his line after being away most of last week and Jake who was put on the spot at the last minute to deliver an extra line!
True teamwork Year 5.
Well done to all the year groups.