Internationalism in Year 4

The week began with Marcus telling us about the Romanian culture.  He also shared this video clip of traditional Romanian dancing.

After this we had a visit from Mrs Tyagi (Shriya's mum).

'Shriya’s mum came to tell 4B  about Rangoli.  Rangoli is an pattern-based art form from India and is created for special Indian festivals.  First Shriya’s mum used chalk to sketch an outline of a peacock on the floor.  Then she carefully filled the spaces with coloured sand, rice and flower petals.  We helped as well, it was fun!  It’s a shame we had to sweep it up!'

Kirill

We also had a visit from Mrs Pampana (Yeshu's mum) who taught us the Telegu alphabet and read us a fable about a fox and a crow.  We also tried some yummy Indian food.

MeiLi and her mum helped us to understand more about Chinese culture, as MeiLi lived in China before moving to Toulouse.

Cristina and her mum treated us all to a Spanish experience - Tapas! 

The mum of Gökürk in Year 2 came in and shared lots of information about Turkish life and also showed us lots of interesting objects that are part of Turkish culture.

Rhea's mum told us the story of Punyakoti:

Maryam's mum read us a story in English and Urdu and also provided some wonderful pekoras with the class:

Keech told us all about maple syrup from Canada - and gave us some on pancakes!

Ines' mum came in and told us all about Scottish culture. We also had some nice oat cakes and shortbread!

She shared some Scottish music too:

Orla read us an Irish story, and also shared some home-made barmbrack with us: 

Thank you to all those parents in Year 4 who have so generously shared their time and cultures with us!

The Man

There were enormous humanoids who were exploding everything. We ran and ran and me and my wife got in a hole to escape. We found ourselves in a very odd place and then out of nowhere gigantic boots came thudding by and then a man saved us and said we had to give money. After that he took us to a beach and we went in a boat to a place with owls on top of every buildings, and then we bought this house and we set up a fruit and vegetable stall. And this is our son.

The Girl

I loved reading stories but my master was wanting me to be a slave. I was not so sure, yet he was my master. I begged to give me back my book but the more I begged him the more he refused. Which made thing a lot worse. He put the book in a drawer and locked it up, and demanded me to make the furnaces hotter. I worked and I worked!

A few months later..

Oh I wish I didn't need to sweep the chimney again.  GRR!

Oh stupid clod… hey what about my hair clip. Why yes, that's how!!!...

The lost girl

I was reading a book and my master came in!

“Put that book down,” said my master and he locked the book in a drawer.

He forced me to get a spade and go down to the dungeons and clean the chimney.

I had to clean out the chimney. It was very dusty.

I was cleaning the soot out and I was finished.

I saw a little hut and I rushed to it.

I was thinking about how much I was missing my cosy bed and my yummy food.

Then I had an idea.

I looked in my bedroom just in case he was still there. Then I saw the keys on the floor and the drawer open.

I took the book and went outside.

I saw a chimney and got on it. When I was on it I rested there peacefully.

By Ines

THE ARRIVAL

“We had the same thing in my lives.

Something in my country was attacking. I don’t now why.

It is the humanoids!!!

Do you want to see them?”

“Ok”

“Let’s go.”

“So tell me if there is something like that in your town.”

“Ok”

“In my city there are monsters with millions of tails did you see something like that in your life with laser eyes and one million tails?”

“There it is mysterious and spooky there.”

“Are you sure you want to go there?”

“Yes”

“Sure sure”

“Yes Yes”

“Ok”

“Take a gun to protect yourself, ok.”



Go and get it.

The Girl by Maria

THE GIRL

 I was reading my diary when someone took it. He put it in a mysterious tray and he close it with an ugly key. He gave me a paddle and he told me to work. It was to put sand on an oven. I climb it and a made a strange mix. Also I saw people working like me. I was crying about my diary and also about myself. I try to take the key for take my diary. When I take the diary I go to take the train. It was cold in there!!! I was OK.

The girl and the diary by Beatriz

THE GIRL



I was reading my diary when someone took it from my hands, he put it in a strange tray and locked it. Then he really forced me to get this strange paddle, and commanded me to put coal in the big oven. I waited and waited till fff some smoke came out. Of course I needed to clean it. I went up and cleaned it. I was very sad and cried. I took the paddle and broke the door, the keys were lying down on the floor. I think it was these I knew which ones they were.

The Girl

                                          The Girl

 Then she ju… Hey! I said as he snatched the book away from me.

You’re a slave, not a book worm, he said as he locked my book up. Now get to work!

What work? I asked

Working for my furnace, so get to work! he said

                                   3 years later

I’ve already got blisters, ouch, another one. Time to clean the chimney again. I wonder when I will be set free – yorn -I better get to sleep… snore.

What? Oh yeah I’ve got the most brilliant idea to escape. Now where are those Keys…

Story written by Nicola

              

The lost girl

I’ve just finished work. I am finally free to read my book!
I might read inside, just in case master comes along!
Ahhhh! I sat down on my broken bed, and started to read.
And then Maya started to cry.... Ahhhhhh! MASTER! NOT MY BOOK PLEAAASE!
Arini, get up you fool! You still have loads of work to do! he said and locked the book in a drawer.
But-
NO BUTS! You know that you’re here to work, you can’t just read! Now pick up that spade, and go burn some coal!
I picked up the spade and started shovelling the coal.
Sparks of fire shot up to me and started to burn my skin.
This is no job for a child! I thought as I climbed up to clean the soot-filled chimney.
My work is finally done, and master is now at the party, so that means I can go to get my book back by using my hair pin as the key!
I went walking back up the corridor to my bedroom and crept in just in case master was still there
I tried to open the lock, and succeeded! I grabbed my book and escaped quickly.

the girl

I was reading my diary, but my master came in and put the book away in a drawer!
"NO!" I screamed, "NOT MY BOOK!”
Then he forced me to take a spade, and a brush to clean the chimney out.

I was so miserable, so to escape I propped the door open with the spade! The master was asleep, so I got my diary and ran! I got on a train and bumped into the man again we talked a while then he had to get of at the station we said goodbye where should I go now? 

The lost girl

I’ve just finished work. I am finally free to read my book!
I might read inside, just in case master comes along!
Ahhhh! I sat down on my broken bed, and started to read.
And then Maya started to cry.... Ahhhhhh! MASTER! NOT MY BOOK PLEAAASE!
Arini, get up you fool! You still have loads of work to do! he said and locked the book in a drawer.
But-
NO BUTS! You know that you’re here to work, you can’t just read! Now pick up that spade, and go burn some coal!
I picked up the spade and started shovelling the coal.
Sparks of fire shot up to me and started to burn my skin.
This is no job for a child! I thought as I climbed up to clean the soot-filled chimney.
My work is finally done, and master is now at the party, so that means I can go to get my book back by using my hair pin as the key!
I went walking back up the corridor to my bedroom and crept in just in case master was still there
I tried to open the lock, and succeeded! I grabbed my book and escaped quickly.

the girl

I was reading my diary, but my master came in and put the book away in a draw!" NO "I screamed "NOT MY BOOK” Then he forced me to take a spade, and a brush to clean the chimney out.

I was so miserable, so to escape I propped the door open with the spade! The master was asleep, so I got my diary and ran! I got on a train and bumped into the man again we talked a while then he had to get of at the station we said goodbye where should I go now?

The Giant

The story begun in the middle of our city with thousands of humanoids trying to suck us in these suckers so we asked a man to show us the way out from this horrible place we walked and walked then we saw a big humanoid. We hid in the sewers and did the same voyage in these gloomy horrible gluey sewers. Three days later we arrived at a beach. It was ten and a half years ago, we made a boat with the broken wood and we sailed off to this place and settled here . and we lived here for 7 years and that’s how we found you.

The end !

The Giants

So it was a normal day, till the ground started moving. ENORMOUS people with suckers made everybody running around in chaos. Me and my wife hid under a hole. After everybody was gone we went out and started walking till we arrived somewhere really strange where weird buildings where. We started climbing till we found a man who had a map to the way out and he could give it to us for 1000€, so we decided to buy it. We found ourselves on a beach where there was a boat. We stayed on it for two months then we arrived.

 By Miguel

તેથી તે એક સામાન્ય દિવસ હતો, ત્યાં સુધી જમીન ખસેડવાની શરૂઆત કરી હતી સાથે પ્રચંડ લોકો બધાને અંધાધૂંધી આસપાસ ચાલી હતી. મને અને મારી પત્ની એક છિદ્ર હેઠળ છુપાવી લે છે. પછી બધાને ગયો હતો અમે બહાર ગયા અને વૉકિંગ સુધી અમે ક્યાંક ખરેખર વિચિત્ર જ્યાં વિચિત્ર ઇમારતો જ્યાં પહોંચ્યા શરૂ કર્યું. અમે સુધી અમે એક માણસ જે રીતે બહાર કરવા માટે એક નકશો હતો મળી ચડતા શરૂ કર્યું અને તેણે 1000€ માટે અમને તે આપી શકે છે કે જેથી અમે તેને ખરીદી લીધી. અમે અમારી જાતને એક બીચ જ્યાં બોટ હતી મળી , અમે 2 મહિના માટે અહીં પછી અમે પહોંચ્યા.

તેથી તે એક સામાન્ય દિવસ હતો, ત્યાં સુધી જમીન ખસેડવાની શરૂઆત કરી હતી સાથે પ્રચંડ લોકો બધાને અંધાધૂંધી આસપાસ ચાલી હતી. મને અને મારી પત્ની એક છિદ્ર હેઠળ છુપાવી લે છે. પછી બધાને ગયો હતો અમે બહાર ગયા અને વૉકિંગ સુધી અમે ક્યાંક ખરેખર વિચિત્ર જ્યાં વિચિત્ર ઇમારતો જ્યાં પહોંચ્યા શરૂ કર્યું. અમે સુધી અમે એક માણસ જે રીતે બહાર કરવા માટે એક નકશો હતો મળી ચડતા શરૂ કર્યું અને તેણે 111110000 € માટે અમને તે આપી શકે છે કે જેથી અમે તેને ખરીદી લીધી. અમે અમારી જાતને એક બીચ જ્યાં બોટ હતી મળી , અમે 2 મહિના માટે અહીં પછી અમે પહોંચ્યા.

    

The giants

We were in the Wednesday market place with our daughter and with my wife, we were buying some meat, some melon, lemon and suddenly the sky went black. I checked my watch but it was still 10 o’clock, (of course in the morning) and then giant feet appeared out of nowhere and then vacuumed my daughter away! Of course, I wanted her back. But how could I? It was a disaster! I wanted my daughter back but I needed to save myself and keep my wife safe. So I couldn’t save my daughter.

That’s why we ran and ran and dived and ducked but the giants were too quick, and we decided to hide in a sewage. It smelled horrible and there were slimy water and gluey bubbles, and that’s when we saw light. From a certain distance there was a filthy looking man with a cigar as thick as a finger filled with tobacco, a whiskey in one hand and a cigar in the other, he looked dangerous, his eyes were cold blue like the winter sea. He had a ladder. We approached slowly, but before we said a word the man shouted “come if you want to live.”

Jinmin

With help from Killian

The Giants

We were buying some ice cream when suddenly a big figure loomed over us and sent us flying in the air.

Me my son and my wife survived but our poor daughter went right into the giant vacuum cleaner.

We were filled with grief but we knew that if we stayed here talking we were all going to die so we went away for our first time without our daughter. We ran and ran forever until we found ourselves in a maze.

Fortunately a stranger that knew this maze and helped us to find the exit. But he needed money in return.

We gave him the money. (Only 4 dongers) (Which means 2 cents) He gave us the money to pay us a trip on a boat to get back to our house.

Our son was getting tired of the long trip so he fell asleep in the boat.

When we arrived home the big giants were gone.

We were still filled with grief from our daughters death from the giants with the giant vacuum cleaners.

We marched back home.

It was hot compared to outside.

It felt good to be in a hot place.

We went up without Lucy

Killian (with a lot of help from Jinmin)

The Giants

We were buying some ice cream when suddenly a big figure loomed over us and sent us flying in the air.

Me my son and my wife survived but our poor daughter went right into the giant vacuum cleaner.

We were filled with grief but we knew that if we stayed here talking we were all going to die so we went away for our first time without our daughter. We ran and ran forever until we found ourselves in a maze.

Fortunately a stranger that knew this maze and helped us to find the exit. But he needed money in return.

We gave him the money. (Only 4 dongers) (Which means 2 cents) He gave us the money to pay us a trip on a boat to get back to our house.

Our son was getting tired of the long trip so he fell asleep in the boat.

When we arrived home the big giants were gone.

We were still filled with grief from our daughters death from the giants with the giant vacuum cleaners.

We marched back home.

It was hot compared to outside.

It felt good to be in a hot place.

We went up without Lucy

Killian (with a lot of help from Jinmin)

The man and the woman

One day there were lots of giant in the town. And I found hiding place on the road and we went down into the ground and underneath the road. Also, we heard the foot of the giant. We went up a little mountain. Then we heard the giant foot stamping on the ground. And we went up again on the road. I helped my wife to go on the road. Then I gave her a cuddle. And then I saw a man that was holding lamp in his hand on the road to help us and he wanted some money.

By Noa

AnimalJam Membership

Animal jam is my  favourite online game ever, and not only is it fun, but also educates you on the animal category! In animal jam, you can choose to be whatever animal you would like to be. I am a Panda, a seal, and a Racoon. Membership in animal jam is an amazing thing, because you get to be whichever animal you want, and adopt whatever kind of pets you want! Today, my dad surprised me by buying me 1 month membership! I was so happy and I started buying things right at that point! In animal jam you also have what is called a den,(your house) and with membership you can also get new kinds of dens, and I have a small house, a sunken ship, and an enchanted hollow! 

To play yourself and have a lot of fun, click this link: animaljam.com

The Shard

Lego Minecraft By Mateo

 
This is my Lego Minecraft I just made it yesterday. I had it for Christmas 2015!!!! My favourite character is the skeleton that is showing in this PC image.

Pibrac Castle

We had a great trip to Pibrac Castle this morning.

We looked at parts of the castle that showed time passing and then wrote haiku poems. Here are 4G's.

And here's a slideshow of pictures from the morning:

The authentic metropol parasol

The Great Wall of China

Alamillo Bridge Seville, Spain

Tower of Pisa

Eiffel Tower

The leaning tower of Pisa, Italy

sri venkatawara swamy varri temple

Casa Atlantica. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Onstankino Tower and all of its secrets by Kirill

Colosseum

The Eiffel tower

lotus temple, India delhi,

Sagrada Familia by Noah

Bath Abbey

Big Ben, london

Burj-al-arab, Dubai

Pont Luis 1 and Pont Maria Pia

Guggenheim Bilbao

4 Towers of Madrid, Spain

La Plaza de Espana, Seville

Minecraft buildings

Tower Bridge

Levignac Church

Lal Qila (Red Fort)

Dali house

EIFFEL TOWER

Bim guru Tibo

Windmills of la Mancha, Spain.

The bell tower, Saint Emillion

Keech the twin tower

Church Of Savior On Spilled Blood,St peters-burg - Russia

Underwater Hotel Rangali

Lac de Saint-Ferréol

We had a great day at Saint-Ferréol. Here's a slideshow:

Champion

This weekend I took part in the Haute Garonne championships and won in my weight category (-30kg) and am number 1 in Department 31!!!!!

In the final I won 6 - 0  (I am in red in this picture)



Here I am receiving my winners medal (squeee)

Making structures at home

Today we have built some structures at home. It has not been the "typical structures" but it has been a funny familiar activity.

OBJECTIVE: To create the highest structure capable of supporting a candy.

MATERIALS: Spaghetti, scotch tape, candy and thread.

First of all, we did a brainstorming ... We drew different ideas:

After that, we started by the first idea, but in the process we decided to try a mix between the first and the second idea.

Finally, we completed the structure achieving the objective with a final height of 62 cm. 

We made a second structure trying to improve the first one. In this case, the structure was based in a lot of spaghettis used liked pillars.

For this structure we achieved the objective with a final height of 83 cm!!!!

When we finished the activity, my sister and I joined both structures with additional spaghettis. What do you think? From my point of view it seems an attraction park!!!

 

New Diary of a Wimpy Kid book

Do you know that there's a new Diary of a Wimpy Kid book and that's going to be published in November 2016!!!    Lol
Did you know that the front cover can tell you about what the book can be about!


As you can see in the first book is dark red and in this one it's light red so it means anger.

In the first one he is wearing a small bag and here he is wearing a giant bag and in this book there's the title is written with cheese so there can be another ugly disgusting cheese!


If you look to the Diary of a Wimpy web you'll find more about it!

Jeff Kinney is doing a 4th movie and they're searching actors because the other ones are too old to do an other movie so you can be one of the actors!!!


Have a look at the website

Watch then the and now videos, they're about the movies that the Diary of a Wimpy Kid actors
 filmed.