Summer Concert

Well done everyone for your great singing and dancing tonight!

Elephantastic News!

The cake sale to raise money for the elephants has made €386.50 !

Well done and thank you to all those who made and bought cakes.

Also, a big thank you to the bracelet making team who sold their bracelets and gave all profits to the elephant project.

What a great team Year 4 are!

Cake Sale

The cake sale has been a great success - well done everyone!

Mascots

Fuleco, the Brazil 2014 mascot

In each World Cup there's an official mascot. This year it's Fuleco, but there have been lots of others:

In Year 4 we've been designing our own mascots:

Desmos

Today 4G tried desmos.com together.

We began by creating a set of points using a table with x and y and joining them together in some-kind-of-circle-sort-of-shape.

by Alicia

by Fernando

by Jacques

by Maëlle

by Mimi

by Pablo

by Ryan

by Tobias

The Square of Cubes... explained

There have already been three posts about this amazing Square of Cubes:

• Changing cubes to squares... BIG
• Sharing our feelings about the Square from Cubes
• Drawing square numbers, cube numbers and triangle numbers

But, now that we have a display about it outside the class:

with the invitation to make the cubes and the squares from the same rods:

it was time to invite the Year 2s and Year 3s to find out what it was all about. The four girls who created the giant square did a great presentation:

Square numbers, cube numbers, triangle numbers

Hidden in this amazing square

are some patterns of numbers. Today 4G drew some of them:

Here's three scanned and coloured images that we drew:

coloured by Maia

square numbers

triangle numbers

Can you see where these sets of numbers appear in our giant square?

Zumba

Our zumba dance is getting good. Now we're all together and have flags! Next week we'll have our Brazil colours to practise.

Space!

 Rozenn's dad came into school today, and talked to us about space.

He told us about satellites:

• Weather satellites,
• Mobile pone satellites,
• Navigation satellites.

He showed us Mr Branson's space plane, Virgin Galactic:

He showed us Gaia:

ExoMars:

Clean rooms inside clean rooms inside clean rooms:

Thank you, Rozenn's dad!