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.

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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.

Mot Thoang Vietnam

Mot Thoang Vietnam is cultural centre where people can learn all about the crafts and houses from the different regions in Vietnam. The children were interested to learn about the many different houses and were great at asking questions to our tour guide to find out more. The trip was a success and soon the children will be using their notes from the trip to create some information pages during their English and IPC lessons.