BISCAT 'Books n Blogs' Started - We're All On The Way!

Today Year 4 made the first bold steps on their journey to completing their BISCAT Silver 2 award. Throughout the year the children will be using their blogs to write down their thoughts and feelings of all their BISCAT journey. It started in the classroom today but may be set in future for homework. I look forward to reading all the exciting blog entries to come!

Guess The Settings

I was really pleased how everyone thought about characters and settings today. Everyone really tried hard to change how they acted when in the same setting but with a different atmosphere. After a quick class vote the children decided that Sam, Alex, Minh & Hui Jong were the best actors and so deserved their video on this blog. Can you guess the setting?

Tricky Question - Volcano Country

For the Tricky question this week I would like you find out the top three countries for having more volcanoes than any other. Write your answers in the comments box if you manage it. Don't forget to say where you found the information.

BBGV Fun Run

In a couple of weeks it will be the BBGV Fun Run. I'm sure you have all seen the t-shirt outside the office and are eager to sign up for the charity run. Both Ms Alison and I have signed up and will be there. We are hoping that many of Year 4 will be there too. In fact Ms Alison and I would be so proud if there were more Year 4 children from TX than any other year group in school! Do you want to run, blade or bike? If you do I will see you there. For more details about the fun run click here. I'm really looking forward to spotting as many friendly year four faces as I can.

Tricky Question - Dewey

During our Information Literacy session last week Ms Rachel asked us about the Dewey Decimal system. No one, not even I, knew who invented it or where it came from. The tricky question this week is to find this out.

Who invented the Dewey Decimal system?
Where did they come from and when did they invent it?

Please add your answer as a comment in the comments box.

Everybody Is A Learner - Even Me

So it's a new year and that means reflecting on last year and thinking about how you might improve this year. Well, after careful thought, I have decided that I would like to be better at Art. Luckily for me TX has the amazing Mr Pat this term and it has turned out to be the perfect opportunity for 4T and myself to improve our Art skills together.

Mr Pat has started teaching self portraits in both the Year 4 Classes. We first had to draw a self portrait without any help and then begin again but under the careful watch of Mr Pat. We have not finished yet but I think you can tell from my two pictures that the second me on the right is definitely better than my first portrait on the left. All that is missing is hair and ears. Both of which I eagerly look forward to learning how to draw next week. Thanks, for the excellent help Mr Pat!

Another Busy Week

This week has been a super busy week and once again I'm so very proud of all that 4T have learned. So many of the children have really listened to the objectives of my lessons and tried to complete all their activities as best they can.

 The Big Write talk homework help on Wednesday really inspired the children to write some interesting and varied story settings. It was clear that so many children had been thinking hard about which adjectives and it was great to read so many settings that showed excellent examples of VCOP. 

I think my most favourite part of the week was Earth layer research and modeling. It was the first time in the three years that I have been teaching Year 4 that I had taught that activity and it was such great fun! I eagerly await the blog posts from everyone in 4T next week.