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

Spelling Words - Olympic Week

Spelling words for all spelling groups - Week of 14th March 2011

sports
Olympic
compete
rings
train
race
medal
venue
stadium
podium
movement
competition
celebrate
athletics
swimming
personal
encourage
dedicate
spectator
spectacular

Spelling Words - Week of 7th March 2011

Spelling Test is on Friday.

Apples (including endings -ful, -ly, -ive and -ic)
hopeful
hurtful
beautiful
careful
wonderful
painful
quickly
secretively
jokingly
strangely
speedily
curiously
expensive
narrative
decorative
explosive
photographic
scientific
allergic
horrific

Bananas (including -dge, -dom, and -ea )
badge
edge
judge
ledge
ridge
knowledge
freedom
kingdom
seldom
wisdom
bread
instead
leader
dread
steady
meal
real
steal
healthy
reason