Great Books for Yr 4 Kids

Here are our selection of favourite fiction books. This list will grow as we each have a turn sharing our favourite book over the next 2 weeks

Saffron

by Victoria M. Azaro

This book is about a girl called Saffron. She travels around the world with her family. She stops in Buenos Aries and she reads a difficult word out of the menu 'escargot.' Sage, her little sister orders it too. It's really funny when they find out that it was snails.

I give this book a rating of 10/10.

By Georgina

The Chain of Charms

THE GYPSY CROWN

written by:Kate Forsyth

Luka and Emilia Finch`s family has been accused of murder.

Together Emilia and Luka have to escape from Codham, a brutal thief.

The first book of the enchanting series `The Chain of Charms.`

I recommend this wonderful series because of the adventure.

The main characters: SWEET HEART(a bear) EMILIA(13-yr-old girl) LUKA(Emilia`s brother)

The series:(1) The Gypsy Crown

(2) The Silver Horse

(3) The Herb of Grace

(4) The Cat's Eye Shell

(5) The Lightening Bolt

(6) The butterfly in amber.

I give this book a rating:10/10

By Madeleine

EJ12 Girl Hero

In The Dark

Published by Scholastic

EJ12 is a spy that stops shadow from turning out the power for ever. EJ12 has to go throw a mine to find shadow but she is very scared of the dark on her way she finds a black and white cat that belongs to shadow in the end she saves the power going out forever and finds out that she's not scared of the dark any more.

These are the series of EJ12 - Hot and Cold, Jump Start, In the Dark, Rocky Road and then Choc Shock

I give this book a rating of 10/10

By Isabel

Geronimo Stilton

Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House

This book, which is awesome, is called CAT AND MOUSE IN A HAUNTED HOUSE.

By Geronimo Stilton but I don't think that is his name.

It starts with Geronimo Stilton in a car. A big cloud comes over Geronimo Stiltons car.

Geronimo runs into a castle CANNY CAT CASTLE. SCARY THINGS HAPPEN. Geronimo

rings his friends to come Thea Trap and Benjamin. They find clues and solve the mystery. Two small cats are pretending to haunt the castle because someone is trying to get them to sell the castle.

I give this book a rating of 10/10

By Sophie

More Wishing-Chair Stories

The author is a girl called Enid Blyton.

This book is about two kids called Mollie and Peter and their friend Chinky the pixie.

They go on adventure on a magical flying chair.

They go to some magical places and help Santa deliver presents.

This book is extremely cool and I give it the rating of 10/10

By Gracie

Captain Underpants And The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space And The Subsequent Assault Of The Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds.

By Dav Pilkey

This book is about a man called Mr Krupp that turns into Captain Underpants. There are two naughty boys called George Beard and Harold Hutchins. These two naughty kids and Captain Underpants try to stop three aliens that are feeding school kids freeze dried worm guts, boston baked boogers and zombie nerd milkshakes.

I give this book a rating of 10/10

By Ollie

The Adventures of Captain Underpants - The First Epic Adventure

by Dav Pilkey

This book is about George and Harold creating Captain Underpants. He is the greatest superhero in the world. They made him by using 3-D hypnotiser ring. He flies out the window saying 'tra-la-la-la' that is when the adventure starts.

I give this book a rating of 10/10

By Cody

Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Rodrick Rules

by Jeff Kinney

I really enjoyed Rodrick Rules. It is funny. It makes me laugh. Rodrick and Greg are lazy and their mum wants them to do chores. Their mum gives them fake money and they give it back to get real money. The money is called mum bucks $. Gregs mum and dad were going away for a trip because Rodrick was sick but he was pretending to be sick and when his mum and dad stepped out of the door Rodrick invited all his friends to have a party. The rest of the book was about consequences.

I give it a 10/10

By Jake

Madagascar

By Lucy Gikow

I like Madagascar because the adventures are funny and I really like the penguins. The story is about when a zebra called Marty wants to go away from the zoo. But Marty and his friends get put into boxes on a trip to Africa. but the penguins interfere and cause the boxes to fall into the sea. They land at the island of Madagascar. Here they meet the lemurs and get use to the island.

I give this book a rating of 10/10

By Logan

Where the Wild Things Are

Story and pictures are by Maurice Sendak.

This book is about a boy called Max who was sent to his room without his supper for being naughty. A forest grew and grew in Max's room until a whole new world had grown. Max sails to a where the wild things are. The beasts are wild so Max tamed them and then they are frightened of Max's stare. They think he is the wildest of them all and they make him king of the wild things. Then they danced and had fun together until Max sent them to bed without there supper. Then Max was lonely and decided to go home where he found his supper and it was still hot.

I liked this story because of its' wild and imaginative storyline and cool pictures.

I give it a rating of 10\10

By Neo

Monkey Mountain

By Justin D'Ath

In this story a class trip to Borneo starts off with a bang - a visit to a real-life volcano! When the volcano erupts Sam is left with his teacher who has had a heart attack. Then Sam and Mr Griffin have to face lots of challenges - they meet things like blood thirsty sharks, chooks, a pig and 15 scared monkeys.

I give this book a rating of 10/10

By Maneo

The Faraway Tree Collection.

By Enid Blyton

This book is about 3 children who live a wee cottage and they explore the woods. They find a tree and they climb the tree to the top. They discover there are several different lands at the top of the tree. One of these is topsy turvy land and thats when they have to stand on their hands because it is an upside down land.

I give this book a rating of 10/10

By Brigit

Scooby-Doo and the Haunted

Halloween Party

by Cail Herman

In this book Shaggy and Scooby were eating in a pizza place and got invited to a halloween party. They went to the house and they got really scared as they thought it was haunted but they had actually gone to the wrong house.

I give it a rating of 10/10

By Max

CHASING EVIL

by ADAM BLADE

In this book A boy Is on a mission to get to the bad World. On his mission

he meets a girl with a wolf. The girl says the same thing. The boy gets kidnapped

then she saved the boy. They both saved the Land.

I give it a rating of 10/10

by Jasmyn

The Screaming Mean Machine

By Joy Cowley

My story is about a girl and her brother go to a fun park and go on the screaming mean machine.

The screaming mean machine is a roller coaster. The girl is so scared she wants to be sick but when the ride is finished she wants to go it 180 times.

My favourite part was when they went around the loop because it was really fast and I would love to go on it too.

I give this book a 10/10

by Corban

Geronimo Stilton

A Christmas tale

by Geronimo stilton

This special edition of Geronimo stilton all though thats not his name

is called a Christmas tale.

The plot is about Geronimo stilton calling up everyone for Christmas

but their all going away but Geronimo doesn't know that their actually planning a BIG Christmas at his house.

I think this book is awesome because it shows you how much your family and

friends care for you and the true meaning of Christmas. The author isn't Geronimo Stilton

but he's not a mouse. I think this book is for boys and girls and i give it a rating of 10/10

By Nate

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

By C S Lewis

My book is called The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe. It is part of the Chronicles of Narnia It 's a chapter book but it's got pictures in it. It's about two girls and two boys that are brothers and sisters and they find a wardrobe that leads them to another land. Whenever they go into Narnia no time wastes at Arland. This is an exciting story for people who like adventures.

I give this book a rating of 10/10

By Isabella

Our School Council Rep - Jess

Meet Jess - our School Council Rep.

Jess Charlton, Jake's big sister, is in Room 27. She is one of 14 School Council member's that meet regularly with Mr McKenzie to discuss issues that arise from our students concerning the school and to plan events such as mufti days.

Jess comes to our class once a week and we have a class meeting. At this meeting the children hear back from Jess's previous council meeting and we can then share ideas, give praise and voice concerns if we have any.

A MORNING poem

Here is our poem of the week presently orally with sound effects..........

Fun with Friendships

Friendships are so important to us all and every now and then we need to be reminded just why they are such good things to have and how to hold on to them.

Today we had a lot of discussion on what makes a good friend and learnt some tactics for when problems arise with our friendships at school.

Freddo the Fantastic Rm 22 FRIEND was created! Check him out on our video clip below, some would say he's rather freaky looking with his real hair (so glad you got a hair cut on Thursday Jake!) and photograph facial features.......... but he is helping us focus on what's important. Nice painting though, thanks Brigit, Gracie, Maneo and Jade.

Kitchen Science

Over the next 3 weeks the Year 4 classes are conducting a variety of Science Experiments for our School Wide Inquiry Unit 'Kaboom!' Our focus is on Kitchen Science and the children will spend two lessons with each teacher.

Last week in Room 22 we looked at Liquids, Solids and Gases and we made delicious vanilla ice cream. It was a simple and quick experiment that many of the class are keen to try again and at home - and this time make a much larger amount!

Making Ice Cream

Aim - to make a liquid change to a solid

Method -

Equipment - ice, salt, blue milk, sugar, vanilla essence, small and large ziplock plastic bags

Process - 1: Put 2 cups of ice and 2 Tablespoons of salt into the large plastic bag

2: Put 100ml of BLUE milk, 2 Tablespoons of sugar and 3-4 drops of vanilla essence

into the small plastic bag. Ensure it is securely closed.

3: Put the small plastic bag inside the large plastic bag and shake for 5- 10 minutes

4: Feel the small bag and when it has changed to a solid state remove the bag and

rinse it under the tap. Open the bag and serve your ice cream.

Results

We learnt that the salt dissolved into the ice, drawing heat away from the milk mixture causing it to freeze more quickly. The liquid milk was changed into a solid. However when we put the ice cream into our warm mouths it became a liquid again!

The 'Ice Makers' collect the ice and salt

The 'Dairy Farmers' gather up the ingredients for ice cream making

Georgie makes sure the bag is tightly sealed. We didn't want any salt in our sweet ice cream!

The 'Agitator' nearly ready to get shaking.

Tasting Time - Yummy!

Isabella would like a second helping please

The 'Ice Cream Truck' collected the spoons and serving dishes and served the ice cream to all their group members.

Happy Autumn

Here is a collection of our Autumn poetry written last week. We hope you like it and maybe you can make it into the classroom soon to read all the other wonderful poems on display.

Mother's Day Surprises!

We have been very busy creating Mother's Day surprises this week. Miss Lythgoe got us to secretly bring in a favourite top to have our photo taken in. She got these printed in black and white. We used mosaic squares to create beautiful, bright photo frames and attached our photos to the back. After putting on a piece of backing card and writing a message to our Mum we attached a couple of magnets so the frames could stick to our fridges.

Miss Lythgoe bought some wrapping paper for us to get them home without Mum seeing them. We can't wait to see Mum's face when she opens them on Mother's Day!

Autumn Owls

For art this week Room 22 made owls. First we drew lots of little owls in our art books. Then we picked out our fave one and drew it on a good piece of paper. We painted them by dabbing our owls with the side of a brush. WE had to spray blue dye onto the backgrounds. Next we went on a leaf and stick hunt! All of us used the glue gun to place a stick where the owl would be standing and stuck on the leaves as feathers with PVA glue.

We hope you like our owls!!!

-Phoebe Blackwood.