Deathly Damage

Your task this week is to find a place in the last 50 years that has been hit by an earthquake. Once you have found it answer the following questions:

Where did the earthquake hit?
What was the magnitude of the quake?
How many people were killed?

Painting with Mr Pat

 4T all enjoyed learning how to mix colours carefully to make a gradient. Well done Gia Vinh you was great!

Causal Language

This week in English we have been learning about causal language and the words & phrases used to explain. Everyone has learned lots of new language and the whole class was especially impressed with Jeanette and Hannah's performance. After a vote it was decided that their video should be added to the class blog.

Speech Contest

 This week saw the MP2 speech contest and I can definitely say that I'm very proud of 4T. Jeanette did a fantastic job and I was really impressed with all of the technical language that she used. Another big well done to Anh vu who came second!

Filtering Competition

All 4T really enjoyed the lesson to conclude our unit of work on solids and liquids. Everyone was given the same quantity of water that was mixed with soil, twigs, leaves, sand and pebbles. Each group had only 20 minutes to separate as much solid from liquid as possible and try to get the cleanest water and the most water too. Well done to Group 5 who managed to not only get the cleanest water but also the most water too. Ms Alison judged them to have the cleanest water and after measuring it was discovered that they had gathered 900ml too! Well done Group 5.

Dormant, Extinct & Active - Can you find them?

Did you know there are three types of volcano? If you didn't, research using one of our favourite volcano sites and find out the difference. Once you understand the difference, can you locate each type of volcano on three different continents? When you have, post your answer in a comment below. 

Erupting

Wow, what a great day we have had today.  We all followed the instructions carefully to make our own volcanoes explode! First we added two cups of water to our jug. Followed by 3 level scoops of bicarbonate of soda, a few drops of red food colouring and a squirt of washing up liquid. We mixed it all together and poured it into our volcanoes.  After taking great care to carry our volcanoes downstairs, we took turns to add one cup of vinegar. This made a chemical reaction and it looked as if molten lava was pouring out of the main vent of our volcanoes! Now watch the exciting video of Bach and Chi Nhan's volcanoes exploding, and look at the slideshow of pictures from this morning.