The Egyptian Nativity

The Egyptian nativity is all about Mary and Joseph travelling to Hermopolis and trying to find a place to stay until god tells them when it is safe to come back. There running away from an evil king called Herod who was trying to kill Jesus!

The wise men came to see Herod and said where is the king of Jews, so King Herod thought that someone was actually trying to take his place as king. So the wise men came to tell Mary and Joseph to run away to Egypt because King Herod was trying to kill the baby Jesus. There wasn't any place to stay so they had to live in the stable but Mary wasn't happy at all so they tried convince the town council members so they can live in Egypt.

There are two Marys and two Josephs because the teachers think it will be to hard to learn so many lines. So the Marys are Jamima and Annebelle, the Josephs are Raymon and Dawood. All the children hate King Herod who is played by Kulvinder. The lights people are Chloe and Bolu and the sound people are Hamida and Ashley. Everyones favourite song is the Egyptian Finale. The play is very funny with silly people and weird jokes.

Soca dancing from the Caribbean comes to Glade

Dance teachers from Black United Kids came to Glade today to teach us different styles of dancing.

We learned some steps to Indian dancing and also 'Soca' dancing, which is popular in the Caribbean and in South America.

During One World Week, Year 4 have been learning about The Americas.

The video shows us having a go at Soca dancing. Enjoy!

4N go to Odeon Cinema in Leicester Square

We travelled by Underground today to London's Leicester Square to see the new film Ramona and Beezus.

Most of us loved the film, starring Selena Gomez as Beezus and Joey King as Ramona.

We used our tube maps to locate where we were and counted that it took 11 stops to reach our destination. It was the first time on the Underground for 4 of us and Mahnoor commented:
"It started really fast, and riding on the train blocked my ears!"

4N recommends that you see the film for yourself.

Year 4 Science experiment

22nd September 2010

This week in science we carried out a fair test experiment which involved recording observations and data. The aim of the experiment was to record which type of fruit minibeasts prefered. The purpose of this experiment was to help inform Ms. Willers as to which fruit would be most useful for her to use in her garden to attract the most insects. She wanted to attract more insects to help feed the three new baby birds that had just hatched.

The experiment involved chopping up 5 different types of fruit, apples, bananas, oranges, pears and grapefruits, and placing them in equal quantities outside in the same grassland habitat. Every hour a different group of children would go out and record the number of minibeasts that were eating each type of fruit. The class recorded all their results in a table and from the evidence obtained it was clear that apples were the best fruit to attract more minibeasts to Ms. Willers garden!

See the pics below of our fun day!

lullaby

This week in year 4 we wrote our own lullabys first we choice wich baby the lullaby was for such as baby dragons,baby monkeys,baby bats,and so on. We listened to an alien poem and we thought about the rhyming bits they were called rhyming cuplets.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE LULLABYS

MONKEY LULLABY

Hush little monkey dont you cry mamas

gonna make you swing so high. If you

cant swing that high mamas gonna

teach you how to fly. And if you cant

fly that high mamas gonna give you

a coloured tie. If that coloured tie fades

away mamas gonna let you rest all

day.

By Faizah Ahmed

Baby owl

hush little owl dont you

cry mummys gonna teach

you how to dive if that dive

falls to the ground mummys

gonna give you a worm that

goes round.

By Anjola Sofuyi

sports day

Last week we had the most best day of the year,it was SPORTS DAY! Sports day is a day that we do sports on.we done lots of fun activity's and every one enjoyed it.

we had different types of races to do.
1.speed stacking.
2.jump over the hurdles
3.bunny hops
4.football
At last we all sat down and had an ice-cream.
Then we had all the fastest runners running and Christopher in our class is the second fastest boy in the whole school.well done Chris!then we had the mum race and Banita won.well done Banita!
that's all from us.see you on our next blog!

sports day