Apollo 11 Revisited Part One

As promised, here is the first of two movies about the Space paintings. Children wrote their voiceover using deBono's Thinking Hats. They thought about the experience of the astronauts and their experience as a painter.

Support Our Year Four Movie Makers.

If you go this website you will get the opportunity to look at the movies made by some Year Four children about why St Albans School is the best school. The movie that gets viewed the most often wins the competition.
When I watched the movies I noticed that Room 16 children were in many of the photos. Can you find yourself?

A Field of Particularly Beautiful Daffodils!

Daffodils by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Online in Room 16

If only you could have witnessed the buzz of excitement in Room Sixteen this afternoon as we used the laptop pod to crop and edit the silhouette photos taken last week.
The children worked in threes to download and edit their pictures then upload them onto the intranet again. When there was no "expert" support available to them they worked cooperatively on learning tools and games to keep themselves occupied.
I'd be lying if I said everything went to plan - but hey - whenever has it in teaching? You know what they say about never work with animals or children (and they came up with that expression before computers were invented!).
Once again the St Albans Values shone through with Fun, Creativity and Manaakitanga taking the lead.