Opposites in technology - Teach the teacher - Karol and Robert

Robert taught us to extend our thinking with Scratch and design a Spooky Halloween game!

He had a slideshow presentation ready to go and was a super teacher. We were addicted very fast and wanted to keep adding onto our games!

Karol had a really intricate game to play which challenged our minds just like the coding - except this time it was with string and making puzzles with our hands and fingers. We really enjoyed our morning with Karol and Robert!

Mr Muir explains a simple circuit to us today, as part of our Inquiry into electrical technology.

Success!

Using a philips screwdriver to tighten the screws - great job girls!

Do you think you could try bread making at home? Compare it to the bread you buy from a shop.

Andreas is very keen to watch the reaction! It's Food Science!

Accurate measuring Max!

Robert is beginning to knead the dough.

Valentina cuts the dough into pieces ready for each person to roll into a ball.

Each ball is rolled in melted butter and placed in the tray ready to bake.

Everyone is quietly eating!

Proud bakers today Jack and Quinn!

Diamon is a super star at drying up!

Warm and steamy - we blow on our baking and break it open - yum!

We all made bread rolls today with Mrs T and Miss K's help. A big production line with 28 rolls!Everyone

Lots of fun!

A great snack.

Everyone had turns to do different things and watched and waited patiently.

Measuring out capacity and volume with the correct cooking equipment!

Getting sticky sometimes!

Waiting for more yeast and sugar to react - quite a production line for 28 rolls!

Making maths strategy decisions as a group

Sometimes I can solve a problem in my head by moving numbers around by imagining what they look like. Sometimes I need a strategy to solve a complex problem.

Which strategy do you use to solve a problem? Is it the most efficient? Let's compare to others. The Hexagons Group had a variety of word problems to solve using different operations. They used their own strategies and then worked with others to compare what they had done. They decided on the best strategy between them and recorded it here.

Makey Makey creativity and innovation in R20 for Tinker Time this week!

Today we began to learn how to create an electrical circuit using crocodile clips and materials such as tinfoil and playdoh - as well as ourselves!

We connected our circuit using a Makey Makey board (sort of a digital circuit board) to a laptop. We opened up Scratch to write some lines of simple code including sounds. When the wires were connected to different parts of the board like up arrow or down arrow and the Earth part of the circuit the sound programmed to activate at that command was played by the computer.

Robert taught the group his Scratch skills and Karol, Quinn and Lucas were able to create the beginnings of their Scratch programme.

Mrs T explained the idea of the circuit and then taught Valentina and Rose how to create a circuit to play on her laptop.