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Our trip to Khao Yai

Year 4's trip to Khao Yai on PhotoPeach

Rainforest information links

Watch this video to see how a man from the Amazon copes with his new life in New York... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZIuu075buU

This video shows members of a tribe meeting a white man for the first time! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7IaS3ml4g

Use this website to help you learn about deforestation and forest preservation: http://eschooltoday.com/forests/forest-preservation-tips-for-kids.html

This website gives you information about indigenous rainforest people: http://kids.mongabay.com/elementary/301.html

Rainforest information

We have been learning a lot about rainforests this term.

Please read the comments below to find out what 4KS have already learnt about rainforests.

If you have any questions for the 4KS experts, please write a comment below! Don't forget to tell us your name and where you are from.

Rainforest IPC

We had a busy first two days back after the Songkran holiday creating a beautiful rainforest display outside the year 4 classrooms.

We have started using an exciting new curriculum called IPC - the International Primary Curriculum. This curriculum is topic based, and our first topic is called Saving The World: Rainforests.

For our entry point to the topic, both classes worked very hard to create a magnificent rainforest display (see the pictures below to see how the project developed)

Please read the comments below to see what 4KS did and what they know about rainforests.

Rainforest IPC

Our rainforest project on PhotoPeach

Alan Gibbons day

Yesterday was a very special day for St. Stephen's, because we had an award-winning writer in school to teach us about storywriting!

Alan Gibbons has written more than 50 books and hundreds of poems, and has an amazing imagination. Here are some photos of year 4 working with the great man!

Science day photos

Science day! on PhotoPeach

Science day madness!

Today was science day, and we had so much fun!

First, we had a very explosive assembly with Mr Kirk. We then created some wonderful science t-shirts using oil pastels. After lunch, things got very crazy and extremely messy! We made cups out of two pieces of card, and then had a relay to see how good our designs were. Some children's cups only lasted one run (like poor old Mew!), whereas others were still good to go after 3 or more runs! (Well done Peace and Wow!) We then had a competition to see who could make the longest possible straw that could still suck up water from a cup. Finally we got to the best, and messiest, bit - we made slime! The slime was really strange because it acted like a solid and a liquid at the same time. All you need is a cup of cornflour and half a cup of water to try it out yourself!

Have a look at our wonderful photos to find out more.

Shark posters!

Shark posters on PhotoPeach

A visit from the shark guardians

On Friday, Liz and Brendan from the Shark Guardians came in to teach us about sharks, and how we can protect them. I-Rak and Luke have written more information for you below!

Hi guys! My name is I-Rak and I am in year 4 KS. Today in our school has a visitor and they come to our school to talk about shark. They have a lot of information to tell us and we are going to tell you guys some of the information we leant. First we are going to tell you about shark fin soup and this recipe is popular in china they cut the shark fin and make in to the shark fin soup! 

And it’s really bad to the shark because shark is a king of ocean and the shark take care all of  creatures and the shark don’t eat people!!! 

And we wish that you will learn something and don’t forget  to stop eating shark fin soup and  that is the way you can help shark.

Hi my name is Luke I am a student from y4ks I am telling you that you shouldn’t eat shark fin soup because it have lot of mercury poison sometime it make your arm not work and your leg too and sometime it happen to your brain and other things in your body to so that why you shouldn’t eat shark fin soup.

More grammar games!

Check out these games!

Game 1

Game 2

Game 3

Le me know how you get on!

Christmas production

Last Friday, each  year group sung a song as part of a Primary Christmas production. We worked really hard on learning the song 'Winter Wonderland' and making up a dance to go with it.

Here are some pictures of us in action!

Ancient Greece day

We had a great time last Tuesday for Ancient Greece day. We all came dressed up as Greeks and ate Greek food, made wreaths and Medusa masks and took part in a relay quiz! Here are some pictures of the day:

Loy Kratong

Here we are wearing beautiful traditional Thai outfits for Loy Kratong day:

Grammar

If you need to work on your grammar, please try out the games on these websites:

Crickweb

Grammar blast (go to the grade 4 activities)

BBC skillswise

I will also have grammar sheets available for extra homework on Fridays. If you would like some extra grammar practice, please write a comment underneath!

Thanks, Miss Katherine

More fun science games!

Click here for a fun game on plant and animal habitats

Click here for a great game on variation

Make up your own silly story!

Click here to play the story starters game that we played in literacy today.

Learn about different animals

Can you sort animals into the correct category? Play the game here.

Remember, a mammal is an animal that is warm blooded, has a backbone, and has hair or fur covering its skin e.g. a rabbit, lion or a human.

A reptile is cold blooded, lays eggs, and often has scales e.g. a snake or lizard.

An insect has 3 pairs of legs, 3 parts of its body and often 2 pairs of wings, e.g. butterfly or bee.

An amphibian can live on land or in the water. It is cold blooded and lays larva which starts off by breathing through gills, like a fish. When it is an adult, it breathes using its lungs. Examples are frogs and salamanders.

Halloween word problems

Choose one of our word problems to solve. In your comment, write the number of the word problem you are solving and the number sentence you made to solve the problem.

e.g. There are 20 pumpkins and a witch ate 17. How many were left?

Here, the number sentence is 20 - 17 = 3.

Enjoy!

1) There was 100 zombies in the city if 450 people turn to be zombies how many

         Zombies altogether?

2) There were 90 spooky ghosts and 19 spooky ghosts had gone to shopping. How many spooky ghosts were left?

3) There are 109 zombies in the room if 78 go to the toilet how many zombies are left?

4) There were 40 monsters in the haunted house then 68 zombies came back from the dead how many monsters and zombies altogether?

5) There were 550 zombies in the room and they went out 150 to eat some brain how many zombie are left in the room?

6) There were 1000 zombies in the big haunted house. Somone killed half and then a quarter more. Are many are left ?

7) There were 1200 zombies. 200 zombies died how many left?

8) There were 35 hearts in the pot. The zombie ate 19 hearts. How many hearts were left?

9) There were 3 Zombie Killers in the room. Then 200 Zombies smash in the house.175 Zombies dead and 2 Zombie Killer dead. Then a woman came in. How many people were in the house?

10) 84 ghosts were at the shop. Half of them went home and 2 ghosts

10) One day at night there were 100 cats. 50 cats went to one house then another 25 cats went to another house then 17 more went to a big house and 1 more went to the smallest house how many are left?

               

11)    1000 ghosts were invited to join a big Halloween party. 500 ghosts were sick and 250 ghosts have a meeting. How many left to join the Halloween party?

12) There are 65 ghosts in the house. 50 ghosts went out to find something to do. How many ghosts were left?

13) There were witches making a soup, some witches have 40 bowls of soup. Other witches ate 8 bowls of soup. How many bowls of soup left?

15) There are 200 vampire killers and there were 200 vampires.Tthe vampires killed 100 vampire killers and the vampire killers killed 100 vampires. How many were left?

14) Mr. Mummy had 60 gold bars in the pyramid and he stole 45 more gold bars. How many gold bars does Mummy have altogether?

  

15) There are 20 Ghosts in the haunted house and one hundred people came to look the hunted house and 90   people were killed by the ghost so how many people were left in there?