Our morning with Mr. Spracklen

This morning we had the unexpected pleasure of a morning with Mr. Spracklen (I know... how lucky is that!) - We began our morning by playing an iPad game called Futaba. Futaba is a 4 player game designed for children. This outrageously fun word quiz game can be used at home or in the classroom as a entertaining way to build language skills. You can download this for yourself at: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/word-games-for-kids-futaba/id426517722?mt=8. After break, we had a go on Google Sketch-Up in I.C.T. This was the first time Year 4 has used Google Sketch-Up and I was amazed (truly amazed!) with how quickly Year 4 picked up using this professional application. We followed a number of instructional videos (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqcL-xPC-Ys&feature=relmfu and http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_465005&feature=iv&src_vid=xqcL-xPC-Ys&v=0MXharjbIdY) to get us started and then we were off! We all managed to create something with a focus on furniture and WWII items with some of us making chairs, sofas and even a complete living room! If you want to have a go with Google Sketch-Up at home you can download it for free at: http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/download/index2.html