Goodbye Year 4

Well it's the end of the year and wow! What a fantastic year it has been. I really have no words to express how proud and happy Ms Alison and I  have been with Year 4. We have had one of the best years in our teaching careers and for that we thank all of you and your parents. The effort and progress you have all made is nothing short of of outstanding. As promised I have added all the movie trailers from yesterdays show. Enjoy your holidays and I'll see you all soon.

Spelling Bee

Today was the MP2 Spelling Bee and it was clear that there are plenty of  fantastic spellers in MP2! Each house had strong teams of Year 4 and Year 3 children but at the end of the day Hue was unstoppable. They were the clear champions. If you want to have any of the photos you can download them here.

Super Storyboards

Today Year 4 learned how to use a camera to capture different types of shot. They then used this knowledge to create a photographic storyboard that used a range of shots. Clearly they had fun and learned lots too.

You can download the photos here. 

Year 4 Google Homework Trial

Hi Year 4. For the next few weeks the majority of your homework will be completed online. This may mean that you will have to write blog posts or it may mean using the new Google Drive features that we are testing. This week you will have to complete your English homework using a Google Drawing and your IPC/Information Literacy homework using a Google Drawing too. I have embedded two videos below that will help you.

Features Homework Help

Images Homework Help

Making a wormery

Last week in Science, we had great fun creating a habitat for worms. First of all we cut the top off of a large bottle, then we put tape around the top so that we didn't cut ourselves. We put small pebbles at the bottom to help with the drainage and then put a layer of sand in. After that we added a layer of soil, followed by another layer of sand and another layer of soil.  At the top we added some leaves and grass from the playground. Worms also like to eat vegetable peelings, eggshells and uncooked food waste.  They don't like citrus fruit, meat or cooked food. We covered our bottles with clingfilm and wrapped black paper around the outside to create an under the ground habitat for our worms.

Our Classroom Shelters

As an Entry Point for our new topic all about Habitats, we made our own shelters. Each shelter has a roof and walls. They also have some decoration and one or two practical additions, like fires for cooking and storage spaces for food. Do you have a favourite and why?

Science Keys

This week in Science we learnt how to follow and make a key. We made a key to help us identify animals native to Vietnam and then tested it to make sure it worked.