Sixth day of Creativity-In 15 Day Creativity Challenge

Today we imagined what life would be like if we didn't have seasons. We were given a piece of paper and had to colour the leaves in the colour of one season, autumn, spring or summer. Then we had to colour each leaf a different colour and think about what life would be like if we didn't have seasons.
Here are a few of our thoughts.

The weatherman on the news wouldn't be able to tell us what the weather would be like the next day and whether or not to put our washing out. -Gemma

It would be boring because it might be dark and you won't get the heat of summer. -Rico

We wouldn't have some foods because foods grow in seasons. -Eva

There would be no flowers for bees to get honey from. -Maxxis

Animals will die because they won't have the food they usually eat in that season. -Matthew

There would be a drought and no water would mean the plants can't grow. -Jayme

If plants can't grow then we would die because we need oxygen from the trees and water. -Alex

What do you think life would be like without seasons? What would be the good things about not having seasons? What wouldn't be so good?

Pentagons-Two times tables

In the Pentagons we are learning to use our doubles to help us work out our two times tables.
Here is a Pic Collage we have made using materials to show groups of two.

Now we are practicing getting faster at answering our two times tables. Here is a game to practice it with.
http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/Hit%20the%20button%20v9.swf

We were allowed to play it three times and hopefully improve our score. Check out our individual blogs to see what scores we got for our three games and if we are improving.

Fifth Day of Creativity-In 15 Day Creativity Challenge

Today we made straw monsters. We had to use the straw to soak up the die and then drop it onto our page making a splotch on the page. Once the die was dry we had to use our imagination to find how we could turn our ink splotch into a monster adding eyes and mouth.
Check out what we came up with.

Fourth Day of Creativity- In 15 Challenge

Today we got creative with a squiggle. Mrs Head gave everyone a copy of a squiggle she had drawn. We had to turn that squiggle into a picture and it was amazing what we all came up with. Who would have thought the same squiggle could be a butterfly one minute and then a monster the next, a car or even a boy's hat.
We had to use our imagination to really think about what we were going to turn this squiggle into.
Then our squiggle became the main character to our writing. We had to think about giving it a name things like where it might life and a problem that it faces throughout the story as well as a way to solve the problem.

What do you think of our drawings? What would you have created from the squiggle?

Third day of Creativity in 15 day challenge

Today we looked at how time can affect our creativity. How if we have the pressure of time often we come up with a rushed job and just kind of come up with what we have always come up with or expected but given more time we can all become creative and have time to come up with different ideas.
First we watched this You Tube clip.
Then Mrs Head gave us 10 seconds to draw a picture of whatever we choose (but if we couldn't think of something we had to draw a flower). Then she gave us 10 minutes to start our picture from scratch. Have a look at the difference between 10 seconds and 10 minutes.
Creativity vs Time on PhotoPeach
We all agreed that;
We need time to make changes and be creative.
We are more creative if we don't have the pressure of time to think about.

Here were some of our other thoughts...

"With the ten seconds it felt like a rush and I don't like doing a rushed job and having it messy." -Rico
"I liked having ten minutes because it was longer and we could draw a better picture." -Jono
"I didn't like ten seconds because it looked really messy." -Eva
"It was frustrating having ten seconds because it wasn't long enough for drawing the pictures in our mind." -Kayley
"I felt challenged because ten seconds wasn't a lot of time to get what you want done." -Ella
"With ten minutes I had five minutes to think and five minutes to draw." -Matthew
"Ten seconds was frustrating and challenging because you can't get what you want done."-Taylor
"I liked ten minutes because it gave us some more time to finish." -Maea
"I found that ten seconds was hard because I only got to draw the base of the car but with ten minutes I got to add more to my picture."-Jayme
"All I got done was a line in the ten seconds." -Jono
"I think that ten seconds isn't enough time to be creative." -Alex
"I like the ten minute side because you get to add more detail and thinking to your picture."-Gemma

Mrs Head then asked us if we could think of a time when we weren't happy with our final work because we hadn't had enough time to be as creative as we wanted. Here are a few of our thoughts.

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Have you had a time when you have wanted to be more creative but because of time haven't been as happy with your end result?

Second day of Creativity in 15 day challenge

Today Mrs Head gave us a piece of paper that had 16 circles on it. The circles were paired up and we had to become creative and imagine what those two circles next to each other could make a picture of. With 16 circles that meant we had to come up with eight pictures in total. Here are just a few examples of different pictures people came up with.

15 Days of Creativity

This term our big idea is Imagination. To start this we have got a new challenge. Our challenge is to be creative in some way over the first 15 days of this term.
Today we started off by completing a Simon Says challenge. Mrs Head gave us some simple instructions but kept them brief so that we could decide how we put them on the page and how big or small. Even though we were all given the same instruction we all came up with something slightly different.

Our instructions were;
-Draw a blue circle.
-Draw another circle that is coloured in pink and orange and has a green border.
-Draw a purple squiggly line.
-Draw three stars; one blue, one yellow, one red.

Then we had to come up with illustrations about what we think imagination is all about. Here are a few examples. Check out our individual blogs to see what we thought imagination was.

What do you think imagination is?