Year 4 @ IST

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Treasure Games

To finish off our Treasure topic, 4B made Treasure games. And last thing on Friday, they invited 4G in to play them.

What a great way to finish off the spring term! Have a great holiday everyone!

Friday, April 25, 2014

This week's Big Questions in 4G

Smarties percentages

This was a nice easy and fun way to explore percentages and pie charts - plus it was edible!

We each had a packet of Smarties, and sorted them into colours. Then we arranged them in a circle. We marked off the different colours on the outside circle, which, very conveniently, was divided into 100 spaces.

Here are more photos:

And the finished pie charts look like this:

Thanks to printablepaper.net for the paper!

4G's Feline Assmbly

4G had their assembly today - with a Varjak Paw theme!

Here's the presentation:

And here are some photos of us (thank you Miss Ash!) -

Thursday, April 24, 2014

HOLLYWOOD Club (first part of the story)

Once upon a time there lived a prince who married a beautiful woman at Buckingham Palace.

They lived together and had a baby. Her name was: Victoria. They had another baby called Elizabeth. The prince's wife died after Elizabeth was born. The prince was now named king and Victoria was named princess. Elizabeth was desperate to be a princess, but she was only five.

Vicki was ten when Lizzie was five. After five years Lizzie was named princess and Vicki was named queen, but after, things started get worse.

By Pablo, Maia, Penny

Skittle science

Have a close look at our science work this afternoon:

Lots of people had interesting observations and explanations of what happened!

WARNING

Today is the competition

by the muscle club

See you

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

TOBIAS'S FILM REVIEW CAPTAIN AMERICA

I went to the cinema to see the second captain America. This film is really good, with lots of action in it and some funny bits. It stars three or four different superheroes, the best was Captain America himself.
The main bad guy used to be a friend of Captain America but on a mission the bad guy fell off a train, then some people found him and brain-washed him, but during his fall from the train, his arm got cut off. The people that brain-washed him made a new robot arm with super strong metal.
During the film his mission was to kill Captain America and they did lots of fighting. But then at the end, Captain America says some stuff to him and at that moment the bad guy remembered that C. A. was -in fact- his friend.
I think this film is a bit better even than Iron Man Three, because there are space ships, lots and lots of action shots and many more funny bits. It's more of a science fiction film than Iron Man.
I recommend this film for girls and boys as it is so exciting.
My next film review will be..........

Captain America can be seen in VOST at Gaumont Wilson Place Wilson. Toulouse.

Five Rectangles

Here's a maths challenge, taken from Gary Antonick's 'Numberplay' in the New York Times:

Create a set of five rectangles that have sides of length 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 units.

We tried it with Cuisenaire rods:

After we'd found five rectangles with those side lengths, we recorded them using the Cuisenaire Environment:

Here are more pictures:

Then we started looking at the area the rectangles covered.

We got total areas of
120, 121, 123, 125, 130, 154, 161 and 184.

Next question: what is the biggest possible area?

Alicia answered this - use the biggest side lengths on the same rectangles: