It's time to prepare for the first days of school again, teachers. One of the many things to consider is your classroom bulletin boards. Bulletin boards are a part of almost every classroom. The beginning of the school year is a unique time, and teachers should create back to school bulletin boards that reflect the new school year and their new classroom. Here are a few great bulletin board ideas that you might consider using in your classroom this school year.
Family Tree – With your class, make a large tree out of brown butcher paper. Get students to bring in family pictures from home to put on the tree. You can add leaves listing students' names and interests that branch off from the students' photos. These leaves can change colors and content as the year progresses. Students can add new interests and fun facts to the classroom learning tree throughout the year. This is especially nice for the younger grades. Many young students like having that little piece of home with them in their classroom.
The Window Into Summer - To create this bulletin board you will need to divide a bulletin board into window panes using strips of paper. You should have one window pane for each student in your classroom. As the first few weeks of school progress, have students bring in some small objects each day that represent what they did over the summer (shells, sand, pictures, ticket stubs, etc.). The students can show the class the objects they bring in before it's time to put them on the bulletin board. After this student presentation you should put these items in zip-lock bags and mount those bags on to the child's special window pane. This is a great way to transition students from the summer break to the new school year.
Classroom Puzzle – Have the class create a puzzle using a cut up poster board. Give each student a piece of this poster. Label the back or corners so that you can put the puzzle together easily later on. Have the students put their name on and decorate their puzzle pieces. As a class you can put the puzzle together on a bulletin board. This exercises the students' problem solving and cooperative learning skills.
Classroom Portrait Quilt – This bulletin board will help the students to create a classroom identity. Give each student a sheet of drawing paper. Have them draw self-portraits, reminding them to include all of their facial features. They should only concentrate on the head and shoulders, not the whole body. The students should write their names on these portraits and then cut them out and glue them onto colorful pieces of construction paper to create quilt squares. Have the students arrange their quilt squares side by side onto a bulletin board. Label the bulletin board with the class name and display it in the hall or on the classroom door.
Learning Layers – On the first day of school you should have a blank bulletin board with individual spaces set up for each child in your classroom. Have the students draw a picture of something fun they did on summer break, what they expect to learn this school year, or even a self portrait. Put all of these pictures up on the bulletin board to fill in every student's special bulletin board space. As the students move on throughout the year they will add new pictures on top of the old ones that relate to classroom activities and new learning. At the end of the school year, each student will take down their stack of pictures and bind them together to create a book.
Busy Bee Rules – This is a bulletin board that involves students in making classroom rules. It will help students to remember good behavior. The students should make their bees out of yellow and black construction paper, paper plates, and pipe cleaners. Each child decides on a phrase to go with their bee (B-careful, B-friendly, B-respectful, B-patient, etc.). These completed bees and phrases should be placed onto a colorful bulletin board that follows a nature theme.
Handprint Rainbow – For this bulletin board you use the handprints of your students to make a classroom rainbow. This makes for a great classroom decoration and also helps to unify your students. Use red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple construction paper along with a neutral-color paper for the rainbows background. The students should trace their hands, cut the handprints out, write their name on the cutout and then glue or staple the handprints onto the bulletin board in a rainbow shape. You need about ten handprints for each of the colors of the rainbow. If you find you need more handprints, have students make a second set of prints. The students can list some of their interests or other fun facts about themselves on this second set of handprints.
Shadows of Me – This is a great get-to-know-you activity. Before the start of school you should cut out profile silhouettes. Give each student a silhouette and tell them this is their shadow. Have the students cut out pictures from magazines that say something about them. They could also bring pictures and other small prints/objects from home. The students should glue those clippings onto their shadows so that they can be hung onto the bulletin board. Find ways to make this display colorful, fun, and unique to your classroom.
The Back to School Bus – Contact parents before the first day of school, and ask them to give you a picture of their child. On the bulletin board you should put up a giant school bus driving along on the road to school. The students' pictures should be seen through the bus's windows. Have your own picture posted in the driver's seat. If you can't use photographs, have the students create self-portraits (head only) and use the drawings instead of pictures from home.
Have You Heard? – Put a picture of yourself on the middle of a bulletin board. Give each student a large, colorful, paper ear and have them write something they've heard about you. Let everyone come up with something and then dispel or confirm the rumors. This is a great way for the students to get to know their new school teacher a little better.
Back to School Balloons - Give all of your students a paper plate. Let them decorate their plates with paint, crayons, markers, glitter, stickers, tissue paper, glue, and whatever else you can think of. Make sure that each student writes their name on their balloon. Add lengths of yarn to the bulletin board by using thumb tacks. The yarn will act as the balloons' strings. Once the students are finished with their balloons you can attach the paper plates to the bulletin board using a stapler.
Too Cool at School - Buy some cheap sunglasses and take a picture of each child wearing a pair. You could buy a few different types of sunglasses (boy and girl styles) or enough for the whole class to take home as a back to school gift. You should have pre-cut construction paper sunglasses ready for each student to use. Get the students to glue their pictures onto one of the lenses of their paper sunglasses. Have the students write some interesting facts or information about themselves in the other sunglass lens. Put the sunglasses up onto a sunny bulletin board background. This is a great back to school bulletin board since students are still in a summer mentality on that first day back to school. This bulletin board has a warm, fun, summer theme and makes the transition back into the classroom a little easier.
All About Me Business Cards - Cut out paper the size of business cards (or use blank business cards). Put each of your student's names onto a blank bulletin board. The student names should be at the top of the bulletin board, side by side, going straight across. On the first day of class, provide students with a business card and have them write one interesting fact about themselves on the card. Allow students to read their business cards as they go to place them on the bulletin board. Keep this “all about me” game going every day, until there is no more room left on the bulletin board.
Who's the Teacher? - This is a bulletin board that is all about you. Choose a background and border that represents your interests and personality. Collect pictures, book covers, clip art, ticket stubs, souvenirs, receipts and anything else you can think of to represent your individuality. Post these items on the bulletin board and let your new students ask questions about the items they see posted. This bulletin board allows for a more exciting teacher introduction. Students discover their teacher when you use this bulletin board instead of simply listening to a sometimes boring introductory speech.
Letters from the Past - Make a bulletin board using letters from your previous year's students. These letters were written the previous year to tell students what the new school year would be like. Put these letters from the past on display as a way to welcome your new students into the classroom. After a few weeks, have your students write their own letters to their parents describing what the new school year has been like for them. Talk about those welcome letters with the class before you take the bulletin board down. Find out what advice was most helpful, interesting, or even just the funniest.
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Sporting Ideas
I just realized that some sports, out of tradition, just plain don't make sense, at least not to me. Whenever some rule revision comes out– a goal being moved down the field or adjusted to become smaller or bigger– it's all lost on me. Watching subsequent games, I see very little difference evident from these minor changes. But perhaps I can suggest my own changes to a few sports. As a certified computer technician who has watched sports on occasion, I feel very qualified to share my opinion with you on this topic.
Football
First of all, we shouldn't call it “Football”–that name is already taken. The “foot” element, where there is any actual kicking, happens but some one-point-three times per afternoon, which explains why the fans of both sides go freakin' nuts every time either team attempts it. And the “ball” element suggests there is a spherical, ball-shaped item in play. It's more of a lozenge, really. You can't call it a pigskin anymore, because my Filipino relatives will keep trying to cook it in a deep-fryer.
So: You don't really kick a ball that much, and there's a lot more of lunging at each other, trying to grab the lozenge from the other guys; it looks like they are attempting slow-dancing, but are just too manly to stay in contact for any length of time. One option for the name should be LungetheLozenge. The other would have been “American Rugby”, which should sound patriotic, but it isn't, and just riles up rugby fans into a froth because they do the same job but have bigger balls, and don't have to wear futuristic full-body armor.
Suggestion: Get rid of the ball altogether, and ditch the expensive armor. But if you look closely, this will begin to resemble…
Wrestling
Jerry Seinfeld once said that boxing is a fight for a belt, between two guys who have no apparent excuse to slug each other. I think wrestling offers that context, because it supplies a soap-opera backstory element, an agenda. I'm talking of course about wrestling shown several times a week on television, not necessarily that Olympic-style, Greco-Prussian-Siberian-I'm-wearing-an-athletic-cup-on-each-ear type of wrestling. Now there's nothing wrong with protecting your ears. In fact that's why I think professional wrestlers are screaming so loud, because they didn't protect their ears earlier. They walk into the ring, fans screaming their name. Basking in their professional glory, they can't hear most of the shouting, which is unfortunate because the fans are screaming things like, “MonsterMan! You're surrounded by exploding flares! Those women are on fire! Get the hell off that walkway!”.
Also, the addition of that chair no longer has that shock value. Someone always grabs a chair eight out of ten times, to show how blindly furious they are and no longer care for the rules, and swing away at the fallen opponent. Personally, if I've made someone fall down in the ring, I'd unfold that chair, sit down and have a rest, towel off, maybe even ask for an iced tea.
Oh, here's a secret my wife told me: those chairs don't really unfold. They've been rigged to stay shut permanently. Those things would be useless at parties and Jenny Craig meetings. Most of them, at least.
If you want to swing away when the other fellow is no longer a threat, someone should throw a ball at you, and you have to hit it. But then it would pretty much resemble…
Baseball
This is a game where you whack a ball of string, run really fast around a big square, trying to get back to where you started. The sad part is that not everybody makes it home. You'd think it would be easy to get to where you already are. A lot of it is a bit boring, but still has to be shown on camera: players and coaches grabbing their crotches (their own, not each other's! Good grief, where do you think you are–in church?), spitting brown tobacco juice, sunflower seeds (or both)–not that exciting. It is fun, though, when someone hits the ball so hard and so far nobody bothers to follow it, and the lucky batter circles the bases, waving a hat in victory, and the fans, sharing in their triumph(because of the massive levels of psychic energy they needed to propel a baseball by telekinesis as far as metaphysical law would allow).
I say the homerun should be a bigger celebration: Every time it happens, all fielders should retreat to their dugout, the ground should open up, a Baptist choir should emerge to perform a joyful musical number, and the scoring batter should be paraded around in one of those electric cars from the airport, driven by a dwarf in clown makeup. The game should not resume until everyone in the stadium has high-fived everyone else. But riding in that cart will make you think too much of…
Golf
This is a much more boring game to watch. (Playing it is kind of fun, though. If I ever meet Tiger Woods, I have to ask him how the heck you get past that dang second windmill next to the giant clown-head–it's such a pain in the neck to figure out!). Basically you get an expensive ball, and a much-more-expensive stick to smack the ball with. You hit it as hard and as far as you can…and…go look for it in the bushes! After you find it, you…whack it into the bushes again! But it's different bushes this time. Sometimes they're trees, or a lake. They all look the same on television.
Oh, and I lied. You don't use a very expensive stick. You use a whole bag of various expensive sticks, and have to hire a servant to carry them around (the servants are named after traditional implements for carrying –”sedans”, I think).
To make the game exciting, players should probably race each other from one hole to the next (some leagues can race on foot, but this just opens up another steroid-controversy avenue). This would create new interest in custom golf cart engineering, and bring golfers into closer cooperation with the folks who run monster truck rallies, something the sport could probably use right now.
The will be a huge reduction in the number of holes on a course, maybe limited to one or two, owing to grounds maintenance costs. Two goals, grown men madly racing each other between them, reminds you of…
Basketball
This is actually a fun sport to both watch and play, and not as violent as the others, like hockey, where the incidental fistfights *are* the sport. When there is a fight, these nonprofessional sluggers can be very unpredictable. Although I heard Kareem Abdul Jabbar knows Jeet Kune Do, so anything can happen. To improve this sport, maybe you can employ an idea from the child's game Hot Potato, but this time, the basketball randomly bursts into flames. If the players complain, tell them to wear gloves, those pansies.
An unexpectedly bizarre sight is when the freakishly tall players fall down into the audience. They don't fall in a split second like a short person (e.g. me), it takes them a while to reach the ground, as if it were already playing in slow motion. It's like watching a giraffe hobbling around in mismatched roller-skates. The court-side photographers get a mixed blessing as they get to chat with a famous cager, but get clobbered by a shower of falling bones and sweat.
“Hi there! Are you a (Ooof!) photographer? How (Thud!) are you? I (Ow!) just (aaagh!) sorry about that (ouch!). Which channel(bump!) Can you help me up? My arm ends (Shoot!) over there in the third row (Aagh!). Use the zoom-lens to help find my shoe.”
Also I think if you are fouled out, you should stay in the game by sitting in a chair, just outside the key, so other players have to work around you while you think about the no-no fouls you pulled.
But too much sitting around motionless will make the game resemble…
Chess
This is a very boring game, which doesn't even warrant announcers. You know exactly what is going on: Two people staring at a slab of wood, playing what is essentially a board game. No cheerleaders, no hotdog vendors, no fireworks or fans doing “The Wave”. This makes golfers look like The Solid Gold Dancers.
This gives me an idea: at regular intervals, say every five minutes, you have to perform a musical number of your choice. A second table will be brought in, with Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul seated behind it to judge your performance. Winning these points entitles you to remove one of your opponent's pieces off the board.
Simon: The computer Big Blue has made an excellent choice by selecting an .mp3 file of OutKast's “Hey Ya”! Everyone in the audience is shake-shake-shaking it like a Polaroid!
Paula: Yes, for once I agree with you Simon, but Garry Kasparov just pulled out the ace, and let loose with his tribute to David Bowie's early career! I never thought he could top his previous number of Rolling Stones Meets Wizard of Oz! Can that Garry Kasparov shake his booty or what? This is better than his BeeGees tribute back in '87! A landmark play of his career! And he takes Big Blue's queen for a checkmate!
These are just a few ideas I have to improve our popular sports on television. I have a hundred of these ideas running rampant in my head, and I can tell you more. For some reason though, nobody ever listens to me enough to take these suggestions seriously.
It appears that the NBA's trading season is over. The deadline has been past for three hours now and the majority of the deals that beat the deadline that were heard about publicly are out. Unlike in previous years, there was a pretty big deal on the last day of trading season. After guys like Shaquille O'Neal, Shawn Marion, Mike Bibby, Jason Kidd, and Pau Gasol had already been dealt, there was another big trade today, a 3 team, 11 player one. Here are the terms from what I have heard. Chicago send Ben Wallace, Joe Smith and a second round pick to Cleveland and Adrian Griffin's expiring contract to Seattle. Chicago receives Larry Hughes, Drew Gooden, Cedric Simmons and Shannon Brown from Cleveland. Cleveland sends Gooden, Hughes, Simmons, and Brown to Chicago along with Donyell Marshall to Seattle. In return Cleveland gets Smith, Wallace and a 2nd round pick from Chicago and Wally Sczerbiak and Delonte West from Seattle. Seattle gets Griffin and Newble, who can provide about 5 million dollars in cap space after the season, along with veteran Donyell Marshall. They give up Sczerbiak and West, neither or who were happy in Seattle after being sent there along with Jeff Green for Ray Allen, now with Boston.
This deal for Seattle: This is just them getting straight cap space for two guys that didn't want to be there. They get 5 million dollars of cap relief after this season in Griffin and Newble and another 5 and a half from Marshall's contract after next season. This team had little use for Sczerbiak whose 12.2 million would not run out until after next season and he wanted out of Seattle since the money he got there. They had little use for West because they already have two point guards on the roster and the talented West was being underused. I can see why they did this move. They get straight cap room for two guys that didn't want to be there and that makes this a smart move for Seattle.
This deal for Chicago: I think they are the biggest winners here. They get rid of Wallace's awful contract and they pick up the power forward they needed in Drew Gooden. Gooden, while not a star inside scorer, is a tough inside guy that can provide toughness for you inside and get you 12 and 8 every night. He's not a throw it down to guy like they wanted, but he improves the team and more importantly, he was cheap, with the only real player who was of much value to the team right now that they dealt for him being Joe Smith. Wallace is replaceable with Joakim Noah who looks like a Ben Wallace clone only significantly younger and significantly cheaper. They do have to take Larry Hughes' awful contract, but I think leaving Cleveland give him a fresh start. He may never live up to the money he's being paid but if you ask me whether I'd rather pay Hughes 37 million dollars over 3 years or Ben Wallace 46 million dollars over 3 years, I'd take Hughes in a heartbeat which is what Paxson did. I like this deal for Chicago.
This deal for Cleveland: Everyone is so happy, LeBron got his help. He is now going to be able to carry this team to the championship. Not so fast Cavs fans. The help LeBron got was a washed up Ben Wallace with a horrible contract and a Wally Sczerbiak who won't do much more than Larry Hughes would have. But you say “Wallace's defense and heart will push us over the top.” Remember that Ben Wallace is averaging only 9 boards and less than 2 blocks a game. In other words, he can give them what they already have in Zydrunas Ilguaskas. If they start him at center, he's not an upgrade over Ilguaskas. If they start him at power forward, this team's inside offense becomes that of well the Bulls before they made this deal. As for his heart and hustle, they already have a guy like at in Anderson Varejao. Why did they need Wallace? In fact, with the heart and hustle they lose in Drew Gooden, I don't actually think they gained anything in that category. As for Sczerbiak, how is he going to do any better than Hughes? He can shoot a little better, but they already have Gibson for that. To may a long story short, bad deal, it won't help them. Here's one that would have.
Memphis gets a Cleveland first round pick, Cleveland gets Andre Miller, Calvin Booth and Willie Green from Philadelphia, Philadelphia gets Kyle Lowry from Memphis, the expiring contracts of Pat Garrity and Keyon Dooling from Orlando and the expiring contract of Ira Newble from Cleveland, Orlando gets Donyell Marshall and Damon Jones from Cleveland.
This deal for Memphis: Simple, Memphis wants another first round pick, they have too many good young point guards. So, they sent Lowry back home to Philadelphia and get a pick from Cleveland. This pick, it should be an early 20s pick, goes with their own first round pick, somewhere in the early to mid lottery, and Los Angeles's, somewhere in the late first round, to give them a chance to draft three good inside guys to help rebuild.
This deal for Cleveland: They get rid of two disgruntled players in Marshall and Damon Jones. They have to give up an expiring contract, and a first round pick, but in return they get Andre Miller, a point guard to couple with LeBron to go deep into the playoffs again. This would make them, I think, the 4th, maybe 3rd best team in the East and it would make LeBron happy.
This deal for Philadelphia: They get a young point guard in Kyle Lowry, who is very underrated and a native of Philly. Plus, they get about 10 or 11 million dollars of cap space after this season to help them resign Andre Iguodala. With Iguodala and Lowry, along with a high first rounder this year, they have a bright future.
This deal for Orlando: They get rid of 2 expiring contracts and get back 2 shooters to help stretch the defense. Yeah they lose 7 million in cap relief after the season, but if they are really in it to win it, what they get back, in two veteran shooters, should be enough for them to part with those two players.
Why didn't the Cavs do this instead? I don't get it. They should fire Danny Ferry and hire me. I'm open for hire as an NBA GM.
Agree? Disagree? Tell me.
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When you were a child did you scribble your secrets inside the pages of a tiny diary that had its own lock and key?
Now, as an adult, why keep a journal? Why bother to record the “daily stuff” of your life?
To remember.
To remember what it was like to kiss Del Kendall at the homecoming dance. How his soft lips tasted like Bazooka bubblegum and sent a sweet shiver up your spine. To remember your Grandma Perkins and her stories of growing up as a young girl in the hills of Arkansas. To remember her snuff tins and silver spittoon, and how she smelled of rose-scented toilette water.
Writing about your life is a gift — to yourself and to others, too. Writer Nadia Boulanger wrote, “Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows, or trying to write a masterpiece.” Keeping a journal helps you pay attention.
How do you begin?
Just like you need a mason jar to capture a firefly — you need a notebook to catch the thoughts and memories that flit around the porch light of your mind. Start simple. A plain old spiral notebook works great. Maybe choose one with Snoopy or Garfield on the cover to remind you to be playful and have fun with your writing.
Your notebook should be comfortable enough to carry around with you. When you suddenly have a bright idea or something nudges your memory you need your notebook handy to jot down your thoughts.
A good pen is important. Find one that fits easily in your hand and glides across the page. Gel pens can add a splash of color to the pages of your notebook.
When writing in your notebook think: sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and touch. Remember getting Black Beauty on Christmas morning when you were twelve and held that wonderful book up to your nose for a sniff? You swore you smelled the alfalfa and saddle soap.
Good writing isn't just about proper grammar — no matter what your high school English teacher told you. Good writing is simply writing how you talk. It's talking on paper like you're sharing a glass of raspberry ice tea with your best friend on a hot summer day. It's writing from the heart and not worrying about comma splices or big words or flowery language.
Good writing is writing about things that are important to you. It's remembering and writing about the people and events in your life that matter most. It's remembering your childhood pony, Sugarfoot, and how the sweat from his withers stung the blackberry scratches on your bare legs. It's remembering another sting years later when you were grown and said a sorrowful goodbye to an old pony who had become a loving friend.
Give your words flight. A firefly will die if left trapped inside the mason jar, so set your words free to fly out into the world and shine brightly.
National Dairy Month was started in 1938, to promote the consumption of dairy during spring when the cows produce more milk. These days with higher quality feed available, the surplus is less noticeable. It's still important to appreciate and support our nations dairy farmers.
Here is a lesson plan, to help introduce dairy month to your students. In this lesson students will learn:
the importance of dairy in a nutritious diet
the steps for producing milk from cow to their home
safe handling of milk
describe characteristics of cows
dairy foods that contain calcium and are dairy
Monday
What is a dairy food?
View the print out available from the National Dairy Association, this worksheet will encourage them to identify 22 different dairy foods in the picture It is available from the National Dairy Council's website.
Hand out: Where is the dairy? Find the 22 dairy foods
http://www.nationaldairycouncil.org/nationaldairycouncil/health/materials/Dairy_DMIplacemat_03.10.pdf
3aday.org. offers a dairy food tracker, to help the kids track their consumption of milk, yogurt and cheese. They can track how much they are eating through he week and bring it in on Friday.
http://www.3aday.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/PDFs/tracker.pdf
Tuesday
Have the children use their hands to make the udder of the cow, and color in their cow. Available from Crayola.com view the exercise there
http://www.crayola.com/crafts/detail/udder-under–milk-cow-craft/
A good game that will also strengthen math skills is available from the PBS website. You will need to prepare these in advance for the children, or do it as an exercise the day before. It is a stacking cow game that makes use of numbered cars that tell them how many cows to stack.
http://pbskids.org/arthur/print/towerofcows/index.html
Wednesday
Milking the cow
Use a latex glove to show the children how cows are milked by hand. Use a needle to prick each finger of the glove. Fill the glove with water and show the children how cows are milked, have them milk the cow into a dish or bucket.
Wile the children wait for their turn to milk have them color in a dairy farm printable cow, available from nutritionexplorations.com.
http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/pdf/educators/cow2u/cow2u_masters.pdf
A nice cow related book to read to the children is The Cows are in the Corn by James Young. A good take home activity is the mini poster From the Cow to You. It outlines in pictures and print how the cows are fed, milked, to packaging and seeing the items on the store shelves. If the children cant read their parents can explain it to them. Also on Nutrition exploration.com.
http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/pdf/educators/cow2u/cow2u_miniposter.pdf
Thursday
Have the children make a food chain using construction paper, have them make a paper chain, paste or staple a drawing of each step in the process that they studied with their parents last night. Pictures could be, sun, hay, cow, milk, and me.
Have them color and arrange the cow mix up print out. This is another math centered sequencing exercise.
http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/pdf/educators/cow2u/cow2u_masters.pdf
Friday
Make your own butter. Use baby food jars or one large jar so the class can take turns shaking the jar, if baby food jars are used put 1/4 cup of heavy cream in each jar, add some salt. Have the children jump and dance with the jars, or pass it around to some music. After 15 minutes the butter should begin to appear. Pour off the buttermilk, and spread the butter on crackers for a snack.
Go over the 3 a day charts you sent the children home with on Monday.
Hand out the parents guide to dairy's role in nutrition so parents can go over it with kids at home, and try some of the snacks ideas over the weekend. You can ask how they liked them on Monday.
http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/pdf/educators/3aday/KidsNeedCalcium.pdf
Dairy month is a great time for doing farm related topics. It's also the perfect time to go over nutrition and what the kids bodies need to thrive.
Visit the national dairy councils website for more information
http://www.nationaldairycouncil.org/NationalDairyCouncil/
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