Piggy and Doggy chatting!

Jacques and Miguel project

Easter Scratch By Niamh

Clara and Rozenn's Awesome Scratch Project

Alicia's and Abi's Underwater scratch!

Press the green button and play!
     

Pablo & Maia's Minion Invasion

Catch the Fish

This is Ryan and Jesse's Scratch project:

SF Said!

This is a new book by same author and illustrator of Varjak Paw:

Author: SF Said

Illustrator: Dave McKean

Pheonix!

Varjak Is Calm

What you need to do:

ADJECTIVES!

Here are lots of adjectives to use in your writing:

Appearance Adjectives adorable beautiful clean drab elegant fancy glamorous handsome long magnificent old-fashioned plain quaint sparkling ugliest unsightly wide-eyed	Colour Adjectives red orange yellow green blue purple gray black white	Condition Adjectives alive better careful clever dead easy famous gifted helpful important inexpensive mushy odd powerful rich shy tender uninterested vast wrong.	Feelings (Bad) Adjectives angry bewildered clumsy defeated embarrassed fierce grumpy helpless itchy jealous lazy mysterious nervous obnoxious panicky repulsive scary thoughtless uptight worried
Feelings (Good) Adjectives agreeable brave calm delightful eager faithful gentle happy jolly kind lively nice obedient proud relieved silly thankful victorious witty zealous	Shape Adjectives broad chubby crooked curved deep flat high hollow low narrow round shallow skinny square steep straight wide.	Size Adjectives big colossal fat gigantic great huge immense large little mammoth massive miniature petite puny scrawny short small tall teeny teeny-tiny tiny	Sound Adjectives cooing deafening faint hissing loud melodic noisy purring quiet raspy screeching thundering voiceless whispering
Time Adjectives ancient brief early fast late long modern old old-fashioned quick rapid short slow swift young Hope You  Liked Them	Taste/Touch Adjectives bitter delicious fresh greasy juicy hot icy loose melted nutritious prickly rainy rotten salty sticky strong sweet tart tasteless uneven weak wet wooden yummy	Touch Adjectives boiling breezy broken bumpy chilly cold cool creepy crooked cuddly curly damaged damp dirty dry dusty filthy flaky fluffy freezing hot warm wet	Quantity Adjectives abundant empty few full heavy light many numerous sparse substantial

Y4G Assembly GNU

Here are the words for GNU:

I'm a gnu  i'm a gnu
The g- nicest work of g- nature in the zoo
I'm a gnu how do you do?
You really ought to k-now w-ho's w-ho

I'm a gnu
Spelt GNU
I'm g-not a camel or a kangaroo
So let me introduce 
I'm g-neither man or moose
Oh g-no g-no g-no i'm a gnu

I'm a gnu a g-nother gnu
I wish I could g-nash my teeth at you
I'm a gnu how do you do?
You really ought to k-now w-ho's w-ho

I'm a gnu 
Spelt GNU
Call me Bison or Okapi and i'll sue
G-nor I am the least
Like that dreadful hartebeast

Oh g-no g-no g-no i'm a gnu!

By Pablo

Year 4G Assembly Next Friday!

This is a reminder of the Y4G assembly next friday.
These are the words for the song:

Hip Hoppy Kid:

 1  I'm a hip hoppy kid and you'll never catch me nappin
         Fernando Pablo Maëlle

2 No matter where i'll go you'll always hear me rappin
      Maia

3 I rap to the east and I rap to the west
     Mimi Ryan

4 I rap in my socks and I rap in my vest
   Rozenn Clara Claudia

5 I rap in my sleep when I drive the neighbours potty
   Gustavo Jacques Tobias

6 I rap in the bathroom when i'm drying of my body
    Maia

7 I rap to the birds and I rap to the bees
    Amelia Penelope

8 And when I go completly draft I rap to the trees
    Alicia Cristina

9 I can even rap on wheels I really am the master
    Alicia Cristina

10 I wish i'd seen that manhole then I wouldn't be in plaster
      Rozenn Clara Claudia


By Pablo

Writing exciting sentences - cats in the city

We're preparing for some Varjak Paw-style writing in Year 4. The cats are prowling through the city, hungry, fearful of the dangerous gangs of cats, fearful of the Vanishings. The look, listen, sniff the air...

To help us with this writing we've done a number of things.

Firstly, we've wandered through Marseilles a little. This has helped us to imagine the scene in more detail.

We've also looked at using exciting sentences to make our writing more varied and interesting.

Look at these two sentences:

Can you see the pattern?

Sorrow, graffiti, darkness - why was the city so cruel?
Rubbishy, smelly, old - what type of disgusting place is this?

They're called 3 bad - (dash) question sentences.They start with three bad nouns or adjectives - are followed by a dash - and then a question. (Of course, this can be varied.)

Have a look at some of our practice Emotion word, (comma) sentences and 3 bad - (dash) question sentences, plus some of the images we used:



Once again, thanks to Alan Peat for his taxonomy of exciting sentences!

Mr Patrick's Treasure

Mr Patrick shared a treasure today, and his treasure was - the natural world - especially as experienced in his garden!

You can see images from his presentation on the Year 3 blog.

Mr Patrick read us from a book by another man who treasured Nature, Gilbert White. Here's a page on earth worms:

Mr Patrick has grown to like snakes

The log with a woodpecker's hole in it

Counting cars 2

After doing the traffic survey in class, we went out into the open to do it live today:

We had two minutes to see how many vehicles of each colour passed by.

You can see the videos of the cars going past (maybe not the most exciting videos ever!) here and here.

This is a summary of our data:

The first time

The second time

Exciting!

It was great to see Isabel again!

Jelly!

Following our gel-ball experiments, we discussed the changes that happen to jelly when you make it.

Pouring in boiled water

The jelly melts and dissolves

Stirring helps

All mixed up

Add a bit of cold water to make more of it

And here it is after it set in the fridge:

Counting cars 1

We started out by watching this video of cars moving past IST:

Then we counted the different colours of cars.

It was quite difficult sometimes to decide whether a car was white or silver, or blue or black. So we didn't all get exactly the same counts. We took the median frequency in each case, that is the middle one.

We used Education City to help us present the data:

a bar chart

We thought up some questions that could be asked about the data. Here they are:

And here's the data presented in some other ways:

a block chart

a pie chart

This last, the pie chart, also gave us the percentages of cars passing by.

Tomorrow we go out to do it live in the open air...

Stade Toulouse beating Brive

Last Saturday we went to the rugby match. It was a big top 14 match, exciting but with lots of breaks in play. The people that were playing were really big and could kick the ball really high. The Toulouse crowd of supporters were doing the Toulouse songs and Toulouse won the match.

For Toulouse there was a person dressed up as a Lion and he was showing off and pretending he was really strong. For the other team's animal was a cow, and I made a joke about that and I said I bet they were drinking too much milk because they had white shirts as well !

Build with Chrome: Lego

I recently discovered Build with Chrome:

https://www.buildwithchrome.com/




It lets you build something in Lego somewhere in the world.

Year 4s - first you sign in to your @intst.eu account and then... build!

My first experiment was a very small house in Paris: