Trip to Selly Manor

Today 4OQ visited the Tudor house at Selly Manor. We uploaded photos and thoughts to our class twitter feed at www.twitter.com/4oq .

Click here to hear Jessica and Courtney’s description of the day on the way home.

In the comments:

1. What part of the day did you enjoy most and why?

2. Write one of the questions you wrote to answer. What was the answer.

3. Write something else you learned on the day. Explain why you found it interesting.

 

Science: Creating Creatures

Before the holidays we were looking at habitats, and how animals were adapted to live where they do. Everyone worked in teams to make a new animal out of vegetables and things Mr Quinlan brought in. They had to think carefully about why they were making the animals look like they did, and how their features helped them to live.

When they had made the animals everyone made a fact file about them, saying what features they had and how they needed these to cope in the habitat they lived in.

We had some pretty creative creatures!

Poetry reading videos

This week we have been learning about poetry.We have been reading poems, and had a go at writing our own version of a poem by Pie Corbett.

Today we had a go at performing some poetry to the whole class. Some groups used poems we have been reading together, some used the poem we wrote as as a class. Some groups chose to add actions to their performances, and some concentrated on reading together or as a chorus.

Click ‘Add Comment’ below and write something they did well, and something they could do to make it even better.

Similie Poems

This morning our class learned how to write similies. We had a go at writing similie poems.

Can you guess what these similie poems are describing? Let us know what you think by commenting.

By Ethan

By Jordan

As blond as a pencil,

As stripy as a zebra,

Bigger than an ant,

Smaller than a bee,

As Sneaky as an ant,

I can not describe,

Because it is not me.

By Jessica

The amazing spotless Tudor dance

by Jessica Byrne

The whole of year 4 classes 4oq and 4fp. We have been practicing in the big hall. In our Kagan grops. We have been working in Robinhood school.We have been working on evry Tuesday. We have been working on it for 5 weeks. We got the dance from our 30 laptops. After we learnt the tutdor dance class 4oq made up a dance. We did it becuase we have been learning about Tudors.

I thought the steps were easy but when it came to the macking up one it was quit confusing. If i was stuck I would proberly askmy teatcher called mr Quinlan,anna and courtney my best friends.

History investigation

In History we have been finding out about the wives of Henry VIII. One afternoon the class looked at historical sources like letters, marriage certificates and paintings. They had to think like historians to work out what facts these sources told them about Henry’s wives. They found out lots of facts, and found out that you can’t always find out everything from sources from history and just have to find out what you can.

LAT: Football skills

This week two boys in our class decided to make a video to show people how to do football skills. They planned the film, practiced the skills, and then presented them on a video with our new Flip Camera.

News in class 4OQ

by Imaan

If you want to know what class 4oq then read this.
In class 4oq there are all talented people,I just checked on one of my closest  friend her name is Iqra.Her talent is to be neat and tidy and all ways dose really neat work & if you don’t think i will ask a few children in class 4oq.Muminah says that”Iqras work is really nice”,i asked Mankarran and she said”it is very neat”.Jessica says”AMAZING!”
Now let’s look at Fizza.Her talent is to be hard working and tries her best at eveythind she dose,even my friend Iqra agrees.

Manga Avatars

On Friday afternoon we were testing out a new system for our netbooks (Ubuntu Netbook Remix). We went on FaceYourManga and made Manga versions of ourselves. Avatars are important on the internet. You use them instead of a photo so people you don’t know can’t see what you really look like. They help you keep safe.

Some children had a competition to make an avatar of Mr Quinlan, which one do you think looks most like him? You can vote for your favourite below….

Number 1

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Kandinsky Art Work

In Art we have been looking at the work of Kandinsky. We looked at his work based on shapes in our Maths lessons and described the shapes using their properties. Then we discussed abstract art, seeing what his paintings made us think of, and what he was trying to show in them. We talked about how Kandinsky used sharp, straight shapes for certain feelings, and round, smooth ones for others.

Mr Quinlan then showed the class how to use the shape tools, and the copy, paste and rotate functions on our netbooks. These are some of the pictures 4OQ made in the style of Kandinsky using the netbooks. Some children chose to create kaleidoscopic designs using these tools, others were inspired by Kandinsky’s less organised paintings and worked on representing their own themes and feelings using shapes.

by Tyreese

by Nohmaan

by Kiera

by Kaiynat

by Joseph

by Jordan

by Jessica

by Iqra

by Gabriel

by Ethan

by Eman

by Aqib

by Anna

by Andrew

by Aman

by Aaron