DT and Science

Cool Stuff!
Designing and making our own Christmas decorations

Getting into the Christmas spirit we decided our classroom needed some 'cool stuff' to
give it some festive cheer.  We investigated making series circuits lighting up bulbs and using symbols to represent circuit designs.
We then designed the front of our decorations and draw the circuit diagrams we would be using.
Our classroom is certainly brighter and more festive now!

DT and ICT

Cool Stuff!
Designing and making computer games

As part of our Cool Stuff topic we decided that computer games were pretty cool.
After reviewing a range of games evaluating their purpose, ease to play and their aesthetics we thought about designing some simple games of our own to help children in Year 1 with their learning.
Bath Base carried out surveys with Year 1 finding out about whatthe children liked and were learning about to make sure their product design suited the intended market.
After that we developed skills in linking pages within a slide show to make our games.
Here are the photos of testing out the finished games with Year 1.  We think Year 1 enjoyed them and we met our design brief well!

Work to do at home

Hello Bath Base,

Here are some things to keep you working at home whilst we're unable to get to school.
I look forward to seeing how you've got on with this on Monday.

Literacy –

Use BBC news website, television and newspapers to research and develop ideas for your own news report on the cold weather.  Please write your own newspaper report. 

Consider –   The headline, what will grab attention but also give information about the story?

-          Make sure you answer all the ‘w’ questions in the article (who, what, where, when, why)

_     Use 3rd person and formal writing

_ If you can you might like to take photographs to add to your newspaper report!

Numeracy

Can you order these fractions?

a) 8/12,  5/6,  3/4                   b) 7/15, 1/2, 4/5                c) 7/12, 19/24, 5/6

TIPS -

Think about how to convert the fractions so that they have the same denominator or simplify them to make it easier to work with them.

Remember – You MUST do the same to the numerator as you do to the denominator.

                        Find a common multiple which all the denominators have in common, for example

                        Multiples of 8 – 8, 16, 24, 32, 40

                         Multiples of 12 – 12, 24, 36, 48

Have a go at these online!

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/fractions.swf

http://www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/fswitch.html

Topic Work

1.       Finish making your game.

2.       Test all the links to check each page is connected correctly.

3.       Get someone at home to test your game.

4.       Create a feedback and evaluation form for people to complete after playing your game to  

          give you feedback on it.  (this might include questions about how easy it was to play,  

          what the player thought of it, whether they’d like to play it again)