Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Power

 We have been learning about power during our sessions.

  • Power takes many forms

  • Power is always present

  • Power has an impact

  • Power can be natural or constructed

  • Power can be potential or actual


We had to make a model of power.
Donald Trump

Power of protest


Waka - physical power


Power of nature

Tornado

Waves

lightning bolt

waka on the waves

Voting





 

Wednesday, 22 November 2023

Renaissance

 We built gyrocopters based on the Leonardo Da Vinci's design.





Intensities

 Children played a game thinking of how to dial up or down a situation. We were looking at different strategies to bring intensities to an appropriate level.

E.g you go to an arcade and the noise is really bothering you








Wednesday, 23 August 2023

Leonardo Da Vinci

 This week we took a deep dive into Leonardo Da Vinci and his passion for birds and flight. He wrote over 35000 words about birds and flight. We looked in particular at one of his famous drawings. We then chose to draw our own bird wing or follow a tutorial re how to draw Leonardo's wing.








Parent morning

Last week we had several parents join us for our MindPlus session. Hopefully it gave them an insight into what we do in our classes.





 

Wednesday, 9 August 2023

The Wright Family

 Today we did an activity that involved coordinating our listening skills with our motor skills.

We listened to a story aboout the Wright family and everytime we heard the word wright/right we had to pass an object to the right, and everytime we heard the word left we passed to the left.

For the first paragraph we were so focussed on the passing that we didn't really grasp the message of the story.

We improved as the story went on.









Transport in the Future

 We were posed a question about what will transport of the future be. The consensus was that people would have flying vehicles. This created...