Tuesday 13th November
On Monday we went in groups of 3 and Mr Williams gave us a box. It had: three batteries, two wheels, sparkles, wires and holder for three batteries. We used a computer to write commands to make sparkles flash in lots of different colours. Daisy W put wires together onto the sparkle and put the batteries on. We plugged wires into the computer and put it in a crumble to make it work.
We got the sparkles to flash in lots of different colours and there was a lot of colours to choose. We decided what colours to use together.We could press play and stop on the computer and the sparkles would stop flashing. We then used a motor and carefully put the wheel on to it. We put down commands to go forward, reverse and stop. We could also change the speed too. We finally got the wheel to spin and then started doing something else.
I drew a picture and Faith helped me colour it in. Then we used sellotape to tape it and it looked a lot like a lamp shade. It was a Christmas one because it’s November and it’s almost Christmas. We made it a stand and we put the motor with wheel on a stand to hold it up and put the picture on top. The picture spun at the speed of 40 and we used computer to colour the sparkles to flash lots of different colours.
We put paper at the front with three holes in it and taped the sparkles to the holes and they flashed. Then we pressed play on the computer and it worked! The picture spun around and around and the sparkles flashed through the hole.
At the end of the day we did a car and it was super cool. Then we put everything we used from our box back carefully for Mr Williams and went home. It was super fun!