Tudor Websites: Tudors meet the 21st century!

The Tudor period covers the years between 1485 and 1603.

During this time, the family that ruled England was called the Tudors.

The first Tudor monarch was Henry VII, who reigned from 1485 – 1509.

Henry Vlll is probably the most well known of the Tudor kings. His father was King Henry VII and Elizabeth I was one of his three children. He was a very selfish person and by the end of his life everyone was afraid of him, mainly because of his ruthless behaviour toward anyone who didn't agree with him. He reigned from 1509 until his death in 1547.

The last Tudor monarch was Queen Elizabeth I, who reigned from 1558 – 1603.

Find out more about the Tudors. Here are two fantastic websites to help you get started!

http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/tudors.html

http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/tudors.htm

Tudor Costumes

This term in History Year 4 will be learning about the Tudors.

We have a trip planned to Eastbury Manor House (on 27th June) to experience a bit of what life was like for both rich and poor Tudors.

You will need a costume for the trip. You will also wear it for the end of term 'Museum Day'. Year 4 classrooms will become Tudor museums for others at Glade to visit.

Here are some pictures to help you with some Tudor costume ideas. Please ask an adult to help you, but don't rush out to a store... use the time (2 months!) to create your outfit using - as much as possible - what you have at home.

Tudor Costume Meeting REMINDER: 3:30pm on Thursday 28th April. Mr Nicholson and Mr Langtry will be happy to answer questions and explain a bit more about Tudor costumes. We will show some past examples of costumes worn.

Click on the images to enlarge.

Pop up books for Year 1

Year 4 is preparing to create their own pop up books for DT.

4N visited class 1M on Tuesday to hear from the children there about different books they like to read.

We returned and made a list of some features found in some of their books:
- Bright and colourful
- BIG handwriting, few words
- Simple pictures
- Easy words
- Well known stories (such as Red Riding Hood or Gruffalo)
- Action or adventure stories
- Funny stories
- Non-fiction books

After we finish our projects, we plan to return to 1M to read them the pop up books we created!

Spelling Words - 28th March 2011

Your spelling words this week will help you put the final touches on your 'Footprints' project.

Bananas
whale
swan
geese
forest
coral
reef
turtle
fishing
dolphin
polar
beach
energy
wind
solar
plastic
protect
human
forest
wildlife
earth

Apples
human
ocean
Arctic
Pacific
Atlantic
Indian
polar
binoculars
orang-utan
fossil
fuel
protect
renewable
energy
solar
forest
deforestation
pollution
rising
temperature

Spelling Words - Week of Monday 21st March 2011

Apples An apostrophe can be used to contract two words into one (would not = wouldn't, should not = shouldn't, they are = they're). Many verbs are irregular, which means that they can be spelt very differently in the past tense.

wouldn't
shouldn't
won't
can't
didn't
that's
weren't
they've
you'll
they're
teach
taught
spend
spent
buy
bought
creep
crept
wind
wound

Bananas (words with -ee or -oo)
queen
sleep
between
screen
sleeve
cheerful
thirteen
seemed
sleepily
free
smooth
choose
shoot
swoop
crooked
fool
foolish
school
groove
pool

The Science of Sport

Year 4 have been investigating the science behind exercise this week.

We wanted to find out what happened to our heart beat or pulse rate when we exercised.

We started by sitting quietly and taking our resting pulse. Then we ran around the playground for 2 minutes. We got hot and breathless, but it was fun!

Immediately after we had finished, we measured our pulse rate again. It had gone up. It was much faster!

We came back instide and got on with our work, but stopped to again measure our pulse rate every 5 minutes.

Our pulse rate gradually slowed down over the next 20 minutes. By then it had returned to its normal resting rate.

The table shows you how Muhammed's pulse rate dropped.

We learned that our pulse rate increases when we exercise, but falls again slowly when we stop.

Hello From California!

4N's pen pals from Vannoy Elementary School in Castro Valley, California in the USA sent us a message this week.

Have a look below at the videos they sent us!



Hello Mr. Nicholson!
Greetings from America. My 4th graders made videos for your students.

The videos are spilt into 4 parts. Hopefully we can send some letters with Mrs. Nicholson before April.

From, Miss Lee