Year 5 Iveson Blog

We're exploring Automata in DT and are going to be designing and producing our very own! Take a look at some here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGgR2zw0MLM Automata, Mechanical Marvels in Wood—A Video Postcard A glimpse into the classroom with Cecilia Schiller, teaching Automata, Mechanical Marvels in Wood, at North House Folk School. Learn more about automata courses at North House: https://northhouse.org/instructors/cecilia-schiller www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OJ1Yc2SwAs 29 automata in 6 minutes. All the tiny machines I made for the #makevember challenge in 2017. The videos were uploaded originally to Instagram -hence the square format. You can read more about this project on my website: https://wolfcatworkshop.com/index.php/portfolio/one-month-small-machines/ Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/wolfcatworkshop Website http ... www.youtube.com

We've been problem solving and reasoning in maths, and sometimes this means a LOT of workings out! We love using the tables to get all of our ideas down in a big space amd find that the wipeable pens let us make mistakes and corrections more easily

We've been exploring the use of perspective to build a scene linked to Remembrance Day We used repeating images of poppies in different sizes to build the foreground of our landscape.  

How would you work them out? Challenge your grown ups to see who can do it faster! Extension: If a coat costs 534 Real in Brazil and 2,000 Pesos in Mexico, where is it cheapest?

In our writing we've been working hard to spice up some sentences by making them 'show not tell'. Here's one of our examples: He was sad.  His heart sank and his eyes became brimming pools of glistening sapphire, threatening to overflow. Can you try your own for this boring sentence? She was angry.