Friday 30 November 2007

MYST III

We are at present in the middle of an investigation of Myst III The Exile. Over the past 4 weeks we have been using the strange world of Myst's parallel times to help with our creative writing and also our exploration skills.
We have been into the 'tusk' you can see above - going up in the lift to the room at the top , after re-arranging the lift controls.
We saw again the person who stole 'RELEESHAHN' in this room before he teleported again. He told us strangely that he had reset the 3 symbols needed to take us further.Mr H has had a Myst evening (Friday) and has the following information for the pupils who have been so keen that they have gone out and bought their own copies of the software ( at between £3 and £5 excellent value).

* Go back up into the room at the top of the tusk - each of the 3 lights when you approach will allow you to focus on a tusk and fit a symbol into the panel each tusk door (1 for each of the 3)
* Outside focus each of the colour topped lenses - now go back to the point near the shore where you turn the control until the sunlight is focussed onto the sender unit - When yo go to the tusk door with the focus device in front of it now it should be coloured by a rainbow of light from each of the lenses.




That's all for now.... more later.....

Sunday 18 November 2007

Henry Tudor and his wife.

A new video podcast from Class 4H at Cefn Fforest Primary School. This video shows a finger puppet show linked to our study of The Tudors.
Teigan and Daryl spent two sessions carrying out their own research on the internet before planning and filming their presentation

Well done Teigan and Daryl.

Thursday 15 November 2007

Kingswear Primary School - Halloween Poems

Some friends of ours down in the West Country have produced a wonderful array of Halloween Poems - give them a listen they are fab :-)


Click here to get your own player.

Tuesday 13 November 2007

Cefn Fforest Podcast Y4



Cefn Fforest Year 4 began podcasting this afternoon. Mr Harrington finally remembered to set up his laptop and load up Audacity for Maia and Shayana - hopefully this is the first of a series of podcasts this term. Watch this space.....

Thursday 8 November 2007

VisuWords Dictionary

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VisuWords have come up with an excellent tool for the writer - an online Dictionary/Thesaurus - it is brilliant for searching out interesting words to put in your creative writing.

It works by building in front of your eyes a linked network of related words - it is inspirational, go and check it out, it's well worth the effort.

Monday 5 November 2007

Sunday 4 November 2007

Miriam shares her voice with The World

This was posted by our friends at Appleby School near Nelson, New Zealand last week and contains Miriam singing - a Star in the making. Follow the link above to Appleby Airwaves podcasts.
"Miriam Shares Her Voice
Today for our homework we shared the music that we like- either talking about it, listening to it, playing it or singing it.

We all knew that Miriam took singing lessons but we had never heard her sing before. Today she brought along a CD that she had recorded with her singing teacher.

We knew real talent when we heard it. Awesome, Miriam. Thank you for sharing your voice with us."

Friday 2 November 2007

The Tudors

King Henry VII
Why not get one step ahead of your friends and visit the Tudor Research Pages created here by Mr Harrington.... get up to speed ahead of the rest, find out your Tudor Tasks for the next few weeks and get your research going... good luck and we will all meet again on Monday 5th November ( the night of a Stuart related incident!)