Grade 4's wrote a chapter for one of Animal Diaries progressive stories. |
Penguin stories |
IslandQuest |
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Grade 4's wrote a chapter for one of Animal Diaries progressive stories. |
Penguin stories |
IslandQuest |
We made a contribution to this South African project |
Grandfriends Project (1999) |
Whales |
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Lisa giving an elderly lady a tray cloth she had made |
The Grade 4s visited an old age home. We presented the residents with homemade gifts and sang to them. We also wrote dedications to our own Grandfriends. We shared our ideas with other children through the Grandfriends Project. |
A special award was given to, De
Wadden School, Haarlem, (The Netherlands) and Cannelton Elementary School,
Indiana, (USA) for a joint project between two schools. This unique joint
web site in Dutch and English, encourages schools around the world to get
involved in reporting on endangered animals in their area. Visit their
Endangered Animals Project.
On 13 February, 1998 the Grade 4s (now
Grade 5s) came back to school in the afternoon to chat online with school
children in Holland, the USA, Ireland and Australia. This was a first
for Micklefield and a lot of fun. The content of the chat is available
on the Endangered Animals site.
We did this project with 13 schools from all over the world. One of the schools in Alaska went to school on a snow machine and at one time they couldn't go because the snow came right up to their front door. We had very interesting letters from the different schools.
The Weather watchers were very busy
that week. In the morning Mrs Ball and one of the groups went outside and
tested the weather. This is how they did it:-
They took a book outside to record what
they did. Our teacher made a wind pointer to show which way the wind was
blowing. The wind direction that we had the most was the South Easter.
We looked at the sky to see if it was cloudy or clear. The clouds were
cumulus a lot. The highest temperature was 29 deg C and the lowest was
21 deg C.
The Weather Watch project was a lot of
fun.
This was written by: Zarah, Rucita, Lindsay and Sarisha
Grade 4 completed this project at
the end of May. The girls learned about air through a hands-on approach.
The project had an introductory module and four modules of study.
The 4 modules are:-
Here are some of their comments.
At first we did not get along well, but
we soon learned to work together in groups. We all knew something so we
mixed them up and came up with four good ideas for why we need air.
(Tamlyn, Juliet, Shameema and Priya)
We did an experiment to see if the
air in our suburb is polluted. We took some glasses and covered them outside
with Vaseline petroleum jelly and put them in different places around the
school. For 4 days we kept a record of all the particles on the outside
in a square 2.5cm by 2.5cm. The third day had the most because it was windy.
(Rucita, Lindsay, Juliet and Sameenah)
On May 14th it was our Open Day. Open Day is when our parents and family come to the school to watch what we have done through the past two terms.
On Open Day we did a play called
"Pollution Solution". It is about Kids against pollution. During the making
of the play we learned that pollution is bad for people and it should be
stopped.
(Tamlyn, Rucita, Miengah, Francesca and
Shahlaa)
There are two groups in "Pollution
Solution", called the "Ooze Doods" - who are monsters in the play, polluting
the air, and the K.A.P.Ss - which stands for Kids Against Pollution, and
they are the good children.
(Emma, Shameema, Sameenah and Melissa).
We have been talking in class about stopping pollution. Half the class at the moment are doing study skills and have designed a future car and what it should run on so that it does not pollute the atmosphere. (Nontobeko, Robyn, Juliet, Zarah and Priya).
A list of solutions:-
1. Encourage people not to use spray on
deodorants or CFC sprays, but rather use roll on deodorant and anti CFC.
2. Check our cars more often.
3. All of us have pollution monsters inside.
It is up to each of us not to let them get out of control.
4. Write letters to factories to ask them
to check how much pollution they are putting into the air.
5. Try to stop people smoking.
6. To stop polluting and to encourage
other people not to pollute either.
It is up to people all around the world to find their own pollution solution.
By all the Micklefield Grade 4s!
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