Archive for January, 2011

The lunch time trophy!!!!
January 28, 2011Today we had a congratulations assembly and when 4oq came up mr. Hunter gave someone from our class and gave us the lunch time trophy.Well basically we have to line up in the playground and be the smartest line and on a Friday afternoon we come into the hall and say who was the smartest line and take it into their class room and do whatever they want untile they tidy up the classroom!!!
Well i felt so happy and excited to have the lunch time trophy.In this picture we have got some children from 4oq and these are the children that are celebrating in the classroom
BY: AMRIT

Volcano Island
January 26, 2011This is a picture Shaka has drawn of an island with a volcano on it. He made this on the iPad on something called Harmony Sketch. You can have a go for yourself here:

Maths Explanations go viral!
January 21, 20114OQ have started a craze with our Maths explanations videos! Have a look at 4CH explaining yet more maths methods here:
http://4ch10.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/maths-explanations
I also hear 6ZC are planning to get in on the act….
-Mr Quinlan
[YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttiGT2R0ajg]

More Maths explanations!
January 19, 2011Another great Maths explanation! Here one of 4OQ proves why
ODD + ODD = EVEN.
[YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttiGT2R0ajg]

Explaining Maths Part 2
January 19, 2011This morning we have been working on patterns in odd and even numbers. Here is how to complete a problem finding 2 consecutive numbers that add to make a given total.

4OQ teach Mandarin
January 18, 2011This week in their Independence time some of the girls in 4OQ have been exploring teaching Mandarin. They planned a lesson, made their own flash cards, and finally took over one of Mrs Haughey’s lessons teaching Mandarin numbers to a Year 2 class.
You can share the learning below!
[YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7lOta5Mz7g]

Explaining in Maths
January 17, 2011This morning we have been practicing explaining Maths. Let us know what you think of our explanation.
[YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdc50RwQIjE]

Precious Rocks, Gems and Minerals
January 14, 2011This slideshow requires JavaScript.
4OQ have been looking at rocks gems and minerals. you can get a precious rock’s :gems and minerals poster from a newsagent . Some of us have brought some in gold comes from spain, fluorite comes from china,tigers’ eye comes from spain,amethyst comes from brazil,pyrite comes from peru,rock crystal comes from brazil,rose Quartz comes from brazil and black onyx comes from china also a ruby ,sunstone and the ones we dont have ,admite,stilbite,talc,wood opal,red gypsum.
By Robert, Shaka, Tyron, Callum and Rahul

2010 in review
January 2, 2011The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,400 times in 2010. That’s about 6 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 18 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 77 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 44mb. That’s about 1 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was September 14th with 160 views. The most popular post that day was Origami Projects.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were web.me.com, twitter.com, oliverquinlan.co.uk, class5jd.posterous.com, and class40q.wordpress.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for www.bureparkclass7.wordpress.com, food chains of animals, 4.oq, year 4 super 7′s wordpress, and year 4 super 7′s bure park blog.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Origami Projects September 2010
15 comments
The new 4OQ! September 2010
14 comments
Paper Aeroplane experiment September 2010
16 comments
Creating Creatures October 2010
29 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,
Designing a new classroom October 2010
4 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,



