The Selfish Giant

Today, we held the auditions for our Easter Play! We were blown away by the talent we saw today- everyone put in so much effort and performed wonderfully! Well done. At the end of the day today, we told you which part you would be playing and handed out the scripts.

Over half term, we would like you to learn your lines. Make sure you know the lines you will be speaking, and also the words to the songs- we will be teaching you the music in the first week back.

Remember, the script may not include lots of lines for you, as there are 60 children in Year 4 and everyone needed a part to play! However, there will be lots of extra acting, singing and dancing, as you will see when we start to rehearse. The script does not include all of the things that will happen in the play! You will have lots of opportunities to show off your wonderful talents!

Isle of Tune!

Today we played a fantastic new game. We experimented with programming to create our own island and to make music- at the same time!

Isle of Tune is a great game, in which you create an island that makes tunes. First you create your road network. Then you add other objects to the streets. Each item you add to your island (houses, trees, bushes etc.) plays a musical note. You can then change the notes and sounds that each item makes.

Once you have created your road network, you can add up to 3 cars. As each car passes an object along the roadside, it plays the note you have programmed. We had lots of fun with this today!

To play the game at home, click this link:

http://isleoftune.com/

Remember to check with an adult before playing any other games or clicking other links.

A Fun Day at The Horniman Museum

On Thursday we had a fantastic day! We went to the Horniman Museum, where we had a fun workshop all about Mexico, then visited the farm and the aquarium. On our return to school, we had our first ever Mystery Skype lesson (there will be a post about this soon!).

It was a lovely day to walk to the museum and on our arrival we met Christine, who led our 'Fiesta Mexicana' session.

We were shown some interesting objects from Mexico and heard some fabulous stories about their origins.

There were lots of masks- we even got to try some on!

One of the masks is used for a famous Mexican dance called 'The Dance of the Old Man'. Here is a video of the dance- Mrs Cook found it to show you- thank you!

We also got to play some instruments which often feature in Mexican celebrations and parties.

These objects are from a celebration called 'The Day of the Dead'- we will be learning about this festival in the next few weeks!

Isle of Tune

Today we played a fantastic new game. We experimented with programming to create our own island and to make music- at the same time!

Isle of Tune is a great game, in which you create an island that makes tunes. First you create your road network. Then you add other objects to the streets. Each item you add to your island (houses, trees, bushes etc.) plays a musical note. You can then change the notes and sounds that each item makes.

Once you have created your road network, you can add up to 3 cars. As each car passes an object along the roadside, it plays the note you have programmed. We had lots of fun with this today!

To play the game at home, click this link:

http://isleoftune.com/

Remember to check with an adult before playing any other games or clicking other links.