The fourth grade students have recently completed their second newsletter.
What was in our old U.O.I.?
We finished our U.O.I. by doing a presentation and writing a reflection on skills, attitudes and knowledge. We had to write about communication and presentations in skills. On knowledge we had to write about what we liked and something interesting thing we did on heroes. For example this is what Taif wrote: “The most interesting thing was that heroes can be strong but they don’t have to be strong and celebrities are sometimes heroes too! Even authors can be heroes.” In attitudes we had to write about how we were confident and enthusiastic and independent in our U.O.I. Our presentations were very good. We did some on Wednesday and some on Tuesday and some on Saturday. Ms. Saunders gave us options for a reflection on our projects and we had to choose 3 of them and write what we felt about our presentation.
By Elise, Shamma, Marie and Taif
What’s Up with our second UOI?
In our second U.O.I. we are working on Explorers. It is a Social Studies unit. We are learning to do our own maps. We are also learning about the symbols we can use to have a legend of a map. Stay tuned for more information of Explorers.
By: Nathalie, Simon and Etienne
What’s up in language?
In language, we were writing Narratives during our first UOI. Narratives have a problem that needs to be resolved. Every morning we practiced writing to help make Narrative writing easier. Our Narratives were in the Tall Tale style. The Narratives are published and in our classroom library for people to read.
by Taif
What’s Up in Math?
In maths we are learning about the two digit multiplication equations, for example 86 x 30=2,666. Ms Liezel taught us lots of things like word sums. All of us have been working hard to figure out the answers. Everyone in our class loves maths. Ms Liezel makes maths very fun for all of us. There are lots to learn. We feel the sums can be easy, hard and in between. Mostly it is in between easy and hard. Maths is very popular in our class. Most of the kids in our class love maths. We are just finishing our unit by doing three digits and that is easy when you see how it is done. Our next unit in maths is going doing number stories we will do it with multiplication. It is good to get your maths finished because then you have no homework.
By Isabella, Kalea and Etienne
What’s Up in PE?
In P.E we are learning soccer. We are trying to work as a team so we don’t always have to argue. We first worked on passing each other the ball. We sometimes play skill games to help us improve in soccer. The game we liked the most was when we all had a ball and we had to kick everyone’s ball and the last person standing won. The most frustrating thing for me was when we always argue about who scored who and all that. If your thinking that we always do stuff in P.E outdoors you would be wrong we also do swimming! In swimming we work on all sorts of strokes for example: back stroke, Brest stroke, back stroke and Butterfly! Butterfly is the hardest stroke. Some people in our class do early morning swimming. In early morning swimming we get better at doing the strokes we have trouble with. Like me I have trouble in Butterfly. Our swimming lessons will be over soon because the water is getting colder and colder we had to get out the pool on one lesson of swimming. For more information on P.E stay tuned on what’s up in P.E
by Abdul and Simon
What’s up in I.C.T.?
In I.C.T we have been making graphs and movies. We were making graphs because we did a hero survey and we wanted to organize our information. We started on Microsoft excel and then onto a website that teaches kids how to make a graph. We are making movies on Windows movie maker so we can learn the skills involved and hopefully end up making our own movies. We are making the movies out of pictures and some of us have videos that we can put on. We are making it because it is going to be a movie about what we did in the Heroes unit.
by Jackson and Hannah
What’s Up in Arabic and Islamic?
Arabic: we have an exam on the days Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. We will do spelling tests and write some paragraphs that we wrote in the book. And say the meanings. We have it from page 15 to page 56. We took 2 songs for our flag and our army. And we are practicing our cursive writing in Arabic. By: Shamma
عربي: لدينا اختبار يوم السبت ,الأثنين والثلاثاء .سنعمل على الاملاء وسنكتب بعض الجمل التي هي في الكتاب . ونفهم المعاني الكتاب.من صفحة 15إلى صفحة 56
واخذنا نشيدتن عن العلم وعن حماة البلاد .نكتب الخط العربي.
By: Shahad
Islamic: we are learning the Holy Quran and the meanings of the words that we don’t understand so we write and say the meanings. We have Islamic every Sunday. We need our notebook and our book. By: Shamma
اسلامية : حفضنا آيات من القرآن الكريم ومعاني الآيات الكلمات التي لانعرفها .علينا اسلامية كل أحد. نحتاج ان نحضر الكتاب ودفتر كل حصة.
By:Shahad
What’s Up in Music?
In Music we have been looking at raps and beats. Last week we listened to a rap called I’m a hip hopping kid. After we listened to the rap, Mrs. Akerstrom told us that we must make our own beat because we are making our own rap. We had to vote on what we wanted. The topic some of us chose was how great our school was and the other one was about the Swimming Gala. We liked our choice because no one knew how to rhyme with Swimming Gala.
by Hannah
What’s Up in Art?
In art we are doing landscapes. Landscapes have a foreground, middle ground and a back ground. Landscapes hardly ever have people in them. We are looking at landscapes because explorers took artists along with them to paint the landscape before photos were invented. We will be looking at using water colours because they are a popular medium used by artists to paint landscapes. Right now we are drawing to practice placing things in the landscape.
By Jackson
What’s Up in Dance?
During recent weeks we did two social dances. One of them we finished and it is called Jai Ho and the other one we are still learning. It is called Ritmo Vuelta. We already performed Jai Ho when we went to the Bader Al Kubrah School. We are going to perform Jai Ho at school after Eid. Ritmo Vuelta we are going to perform in January. In the middle of this semester, we are going to learn dances for the school musical.
By: Nathalie and Janine
What’s Up in After school Activities?
We have just started after school activities. All the people have chosen one or two or even three. Now we are going to tell you all the after school activities in our class and how we feel about them. Kalea is doing juggling and is so glad that they put something fun in the after school activities. Isabella is also doing juggling, and French. She loves it. Elise is doing French. Elise likes to play French games. Marie does french. She likes to learn French words. Jackson does chess and he says it is a game of skill and can’t get any better. Janine does ball skills and early morning swimming. Janine says she has gotten better at both. Hannah is doing cricket and swimming. Hannah says cricket is fun to play and swimming is nice and relaxing. Shamma is doing swimming and she says the pool is very cold. Taif is doing swimming, juggling and French. She likes juggling and French best. Simon does French, ball skills, cricket and early morning swimming. Simon thinks cricket is a good game for him. In ball skills, Simon says they play lots of fun games. French helps him improve his language. Simon likes getting up in the morning and going for a swim. Abdul is doing cricket, French and Sudoko. Abdul thinks cricket is also fun to play. He likes the French games. Nathalie does swimming and she thinks it is great. Etienne is doing French, ball skills and chess. He likes the ball skills best. Shahad does soccer and she likes it a lot. Most of us like all the things they signed up for.
by Kalea and Isabella
Special Report: Book Week!
When it was Book Week, the first day was P.J. Day, the second was Poem in Your Pocket Day, and the last day was Dress-up Day. On P.J. Day, everyone wears their P.J.s to school. If you hear the bell ring during a class, you have to do D.E.A.R. It means Drop Everything And Read. On Poem In Your Pocket Day, everyone has to have a poem in their pocket. For example:
Peanut Butter
A peanut sat on a rail-road track,
Its heart all made of butter.
A big Express came round the track,
Toot! Toot! Peanut butter!
Dress-up Day is when you dress-up as your favorite book character and you have to bring the book of that character to school. For example:
Elise dressed up as Summer from Puppy Power, so Elise brought the book Puppy Power.
By Elise
Book Week is the week that you don’t have to wear school colors. Book Week is more or less three days. The first day of Book Week was PJ’s day. PJs day is when all of us wear our favorite P.J.s to school. We could bring our pillows and teddies. I like P.J.s day because I can wake up late. I think every one liked PJs day because we don’t have to change for school, I spend most of my time dressing up for school. The second day is poem in your pocket. Poem in your pocket is when you search for a poem in the internet or you make one up. I made a Poem about poems I also made a poem about puppies. I made both of them up by my self with a little help from the internet. The third and last day is dress up day; it is when you chose a book character and dress up like them. I dressed up as Ruby Lu, Brave and True. There are so many characters to chose and some students don’t dress up because they don’t have a costume. It is really fun.
By Marie
Special Report: Book Orders!
Well, we started book orders a week ago and Wednesday the 19th was the day to return them. Remember that the school is going to give it to the oldest child in the family instead of everyone in the school getting one. Also, remember you’re only going to get two book orders a semester. The good news is that there are over 300 choices! Book orders take around 2 weeks to arrive in Oman because when they arrive, Mrs. Kearney first has to sort them out and because all the books come in boxes by grades.
By: Janine Boyce
I hope you all enjoy the articles posted by the grade four students – Ms Saunders.