Newspaper & bridges activity

Here are the links to the Newspaper
and Bridges websites

Maths Challenge Week 3

In a running race there are 5 runners competing. How many possible combinations for 1st, 2nd and third are there?

Extension - How many combinations are possible if there are ten runners?

SCIENCE EXPERIMENT

Here is an experiment that comes from the CSIRO website.(Thank you) Be a scientist and try it out. When you have done the experiment, on our blog, describe what happened and try to explain why you got the results you did. (Please do not go to the CSIRO website to get your answer. Use your own knowledge or ther websites to help you. Remember, the explanation is to be in your own words.)

There will only be a prize for Year 4 Holy Family students if I get a really good answer to this experiment.

What you need

To do this experiment you will need

• a saucer
• milk
• food colouring (four different colours)
• detergent.

What to do

1. Fill the saucer with milk.
2. Add one drop of each food colour to the milk at a different position around the edge of the saucer.
3. Add one drop of detergent into the centre of the saucer
   

MATHEMATICS CHALLENGE

HERE IS YOUR MATHEMATICS CHALLENGE FOR THE SECOND WEEK OF THE HOLIDAYS

This challenge will finish on Wednesday 8th October at 5.00pm. There will be a prize for the first Year 4 Holy Family child who answers the problem correctly.

Mary and her family are holding a street party for New Years Eve. They are going to make one long banquet table down the middle of the street by joining together square tables that seat four people. How many square tables will Mary need if ten people come to the party. How many tables will she need if
30 people come?
50 people come?
100 people come?

To win the prize you must give an explanation of how you achieved your answers.

Remember: Think carefully as the answers are not as simple as they seem. You may make a subsequent post if you change your mind about the answer.

Outside our classroom windows

Looking out the windows in Year 4 that are at the left hand side of the classroom

When I took the photo I saw a farm with lot of land and houses. There is lots of yellow and greenish grass, cows and beautiful green trees. You can see a little bit of the Blue Mountains. You can see the nice blue sky and the hot sun. It is 25 degrees and it’s very hot.
Rita

Outside our classroom windows

Outside 4 Red Classroom looking left towards the Blue Mountains

Out side the window

Out side the window I see long green bushy grass. Big green gum trees on a farm and if you look closely behind the cattle farm on the photo you can see what we call the Blue Mountains and lots of big green trees. Sometimes cows and wondrous insects feed on fresh juicy grass. That’s what we see out side our window.

Thankyou
Chris

Outside our classroom windows

Outside 4 Blue looking towards the Blue Mountains


When I took the photo I saw a dam with bright blue water. I saw some light green leafed trees. There is a bright green market garden and there are lots of green plants. There is yellow and light green grass near the market garden. The Blue Mountains are blue because of the trees near by. There is a house on the right hand side and it has a red roof. You can see the blue sky and hot red sun. There is a dairy farm next door to our school with cows.
Kristen

Outside our classroom windows

Outside 4 Blue looking towards the Primary playground

Primary garden

In this photo you will see our primary gardens with a variety of native plants.We are also keeping a worm farm. In the background, behind the plants you can see three statues representing Jesus, Joseph and Mary. The temperature was 25 degrees today

Our school rocks!
Daniel

Early Australia

This week Year 4 is a chance for you to reflect on what it would have been like when the First Fleet landed in Australia.
What would have been their impressions?
What would have been the impressions of the indigenous people already here?

After watching the video, Nature of Australia, and using the information you have gained from Voice Echoes, make a visual Representation of your thoughts.
Use the copyright free pictures on our network to help you in your work.

We should be allowed to kill animals. Agree or Disagree

Takeaway food is bad. Agree or Disagree

Punishment makes a child better. Agree or Disagree

School is a waste of time. Agree or Disagree

We should be able to have dessert without main course. Agree or Disagree

Parents are not the boss. Agree or Disagree

Moving house is no fun. Agree or Disagree

Luddenham is the Best place to live? Agree or Disagree

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Olympic Fever

This site has lots of activities that help students become part of the Olympic Spirit.
What parts did you go to?
What Olympic fact did you think was interesting?
Which athlete would you like to write to?
What questions would you ask?

British Colonisation

We have started our work on British Colonisation. We began by looking at a site called 'Dust Echoes'. This site shared dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law.
What have you learnt from the stories?

Animations using Power Point!!

This term Year 4 Have been making animations using Power point. First they made 'serious' movies that demonstrated how a particular planet rotated around the sun. Next they made some 'fun' movies that had aliens landing and rockets crashing!!

What have you learnt from these activities?
How do you think you might use these skills in the future???

Experiments in Year 4

Year 4 were VERY busy on Friday, performing experiments with marbles and rulers! What did these things have to do with 'Space' and 'The Planets'????

Using some of the scientific language you used on Friday, explain what you were doing! (I only got a glimpse when I popped in - Mrs M!)



Image: 'marble'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16608866@N00/86847692

Technology rules

Today we revised the technology rules we established in technology classes.
Which do you think will be the most important this term?
Are there any other rules you think we need to add?

Stations of the Cross

Today we participated in our Stations of the Cross prayer. Year 4 children dramatised and led the prayer. Please comment on the experience by answering these questions:

What was your role?

Which station were you involved with?

What was the message you were trying to get across to the classes at your station?

World Maths Day!!

4 Blue participated in the World Maths day activity last Wednesday, 5th March! It was a great adventure!! Our comments answer these questions:

What did you enjoy most about the World Maths Day?

Would you do it again?

How did technology help you in your learning for this activity?

Welcome!

Welcome to the Year 4 blog for 2008!!

This blog will be a place where we can discuss and share all the exciting things we are doing in our class. We especially want to share our technology activities! Stay tuned for updates...we're always up to something exciting!!!