The Lion King!

WOW, What a night! Well done to everyone involved in making our Lion King production so successful. Everyone was amazing and there was a real magical feeling in the air last night. Have a look at the pictures below and keep an eye out to see if our review makes it into Timeout magazine Dubai!

Truly an incredible night and one that will be remembered for a long time, great work! You all made Mrs. Elmes and I very proud.

Dua'a's Imaginative Story

Megan's Imaginative Story

Sam's Imaginative Story

Lihansa's Imaginative Story

Jean Carlo's Imaginative Story

Here are the homework choices (just in case anyone loses their sheet)

How to complete your homework task

• Earn a minimum of 10 points a week.
• Use a pencil and do your tasks neatly in your homework book.
• Remember a date and a heading.
• Extend yourself and try to earn as many points as you can!
• Choose your activities from the list below.  You may repeat activities, however not in the same week.

5 point choices

• Write the words neatly in joined up writing.
• Write your words using one colour for vowels and another colour for consonants
• Draw a picture of 10 of your spelling words.
• Write your words in ABC order.

10 point choices

• Write  your words three times in joined up  writing.
• Write your words three times each in three different colours
• Make a word scramble and solve it using your words.
• Use all your spelling words to write 10 or more questions
• Write an antonym for each word
• Look up your words in the dictionary and write their meaning
• Using your dictionary find ten of your spelling words and write down the page number along with the two guide words at the top of the dictionary page.
• Classify the words according to parts of speech.
• Write sentences with each words.
• Write a newspaper article using ten or more of the words.
• Write a great story using at least ten of  your spelling words.
• Write newspaper headlines using your words.
• Make a word search with all of your words.
• Write a letter to a friend using all your spelling words.
• Create a cartoon strip using at least 8 spelling words
• Type your spelling list four times; with each list typed in a different font.

        15 point Choices

•         Cut the words out of magazines and newspapers and make a collage
•         Cut out a picture from a newspaper or a magazine and use spelling words to write a story about the picture. 

Game of the Week: Place Value

Here is this weeks game of the week:

http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=496&engine=5

You need to answer the questions about place value, the quicker you answer them the higher your score will be!

In the Comments:
Write what your high score was and which level you were playing on.


Let's see who can get the highest score this week . . .

Emil's Imaginative Story

Tia's Imaginative Story

Miss Matheson's Recorder Club

Some of the children in Year 4 attend the after school recorder club. Today they visited Miss. Penkman's class in FS2 to play 'Old McDonlad' to them.

The children had been learning the nursery rhyme and the recorder club have been practicing the melody . . . so showcase our talents?

In the Comments:

Do you think the children have done well to learn this in only two weeks?
Would you like them to visit your class?

The Problem Solving Chant

The first thing we need to learn before we start any problem solving is the problem solving chant, it goes like this:

Identify the problem so you all understand,
Then you listen to each other, coz you've got to make a plan,
Then you do, you do it, you do it, do it, do it,
Then you check.

Have a look at us saying it before we solve today's problem . . .

Teaching using Games Based Learning

Here is the video that many parents have requested to see again. It is of Mr. McCafferty teaching using the Wii as a stimulus. If you have any questions about what we are doing in Year 4 at the moment please ask in the comments section.

Thanks.

Game of the Week: Simon

This weeks game of the week tests your memory, see how many you can get in a row. Who will score the highest this week?

http://kidrocket.org/game_simon_fullscreen.php

In the Comments:


Parents, Visitors and Pupils: Please leave your name and your high score in the comments so we can make a leaderboard.

Spelling Strategies

Year 4 have been trying out new multi-sensory spelling strategies. We have been writing in rainbow colours, making patch-work quilts, writing on windows, using floating letters in water, writing in sand trays, the list could go on and on . . . Why not try some of them at home?

Food Chain

Last week we were learning about what a food chain is. We have been looking at various species of animals from land and under the sea to find about what they eat. Have a look at the food chains we made:

In the Comments:

• Pupils: Can you remember what a Producer is?
• Pupils: Can you tell me what a Consumer is?
• Pupils: What does Predator and Prey mean?

The Invisible Maze

Back at the start of term, all three year 4 classes took part in their first problem solving task: The Invisible Maze! The children need to work together to try and work out the route for the maze. These are the rules:

1. Only one person is allowed in the maze at a time.
2. You can only step into the squares directly beside the one you are in.
3. If you make a wrong move you will hear a noise, but will not be told what was wrong.
4. If you make a correct move you will hear nothing.
5. The teacher will not speak at all during the task.

In the Comments:

• Pupils: Do you think the maze was difficult?
• Parents: What did you think of the maze?

Tutpup.com

Hey, we are all signed up for Tutpup so there is no excuse not to practice our times tables! I'll be checking up over the term, have fun!

The website link is http://tutpup.com/

Game of the Week

Have a go at our first game of the week. A little bit of problem solving to get your brain working for the start of the year!

http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-bloxorz/index.html

Have fun . . .

Welcome to Wellington 4.0!

This will be the new blog for GEMS Wellington Primary School's Year 4 classes. We will be posting information for parents, links to exciting websites for you to use @ home and all the fun things we are going to be doing in class.

Year 4 has three classes this year; 4A with Mr McCafferty, 4B with Mrs Khan and 4C with Miss Matheson. We can't wait to get started on Sunday and begin our Endless Ocean topic where the learning will be . . . Endless :)