CINQUAIN POEMS

Last week during literacy we wrote some cinquain poems. Cinquain poems are made up of five lines. The first line is one word - the title. The second line has two adjectives that describe the title. The third line has three verbs in it that the title does. The fourth line is a simple sentence that shows our opinion or feelings about the title. The last line is one word - another word for the title. At today's assembly Silvija, Rebeka, Tahnee, Daniel and Alana presented their poems. Charis introduced everyone. Please watch the video.

Hi

Hey guys, Mr C here. Mrs Elliott,Mrs Sibley and I have been off at the High School learning the ultranet. This is something we will introduce you to in time and we are sure you will get lots from it.

Lili and Monty at the Equestrian Centre

Thesaurus Poems

For literacy this morning we discovered what a Thesaurus is. We found out that a Thesaurus gives us words that have similar meanings to each other. For eg loud, blaring, deafening, raucus, shrill and resonant. A Thesaurus can give us better words to use. We finished our lesson by making poems using words from a Thesaurus. Take a few minutes to hear our poems.

THE WANG WEST CUP

On the Monday before the Melbourne Cup, the Wang West Cup was run. We worked with a partner and made and decorated our own horses. We then went onto the oval and raced against each other to see who would represent our grade in the Wang West Cup against other children in the school.
You can see our horses on the slide show. Which horse do you think looks the fastest?

Measurement

Can you measure each parcel accurately and work out how much it costs to post?

Creating fact families

For numeracy this week we have been investigating how multiplication and division facts help each other. For example if we know that 7x8=56, we can use this fact to solve 8x7, 56 divided by 7 and 56 divided by 8. We used cards or ten sided dice to create fact families that had two multilication and two division number sentences as members. Jarvis made his fact family by turning over 3 cards. He used two cards to make a 2 digit number and used the other card's number by itself. Watch the video to see the strategies he used when making his fact family.

FIREWORKS AT THE SHOW

On Friday and Saturday 8th and 9th of October the Wangaratta Show was held. There were animal exhibits, lots of rides, showbags, Monster Trucks and art works for us to enjoy. A highlight of the show is the fireworks that are held each year on the Friday night. Mrs Rizzo, our art teacher got us to do a piece of Art that showed a night scene with fireworks included. Hope you enjoy looking at it.

BRYN'S GUINEA PIGS

Today I brought to school my two guinea pigs Elvis and Lenny. They are both female and five weeks old. I bought them at the Violet Town market for ten dollars each. I have to feed them with special guinea pig food and fruit. They love apples and bananas.
Mum said that if I look after them properly I will be able to breed from them.

Jarvis, Jayden & Will's Advertising Project

Well done to Jarvis, Jayden and Will on their advertising project. They have produced a fantastic games console that will provide hours of entertainment for the whole family. Mr Campbell, Mr Lowe and Miss Ball are impressed with the creativity and effort all students have shown in producing their projects. Well done Grade 3/4L.

Bryn and Daniel's Advertising Project.

During our literacy lessons Bryn and Daniel have worked extremely hard on their advertising projects (as have all of our students). If you want the best footy boots in town come and see Bryn and Daniel and you can kick as accurately as they can!

Save our wildlife!

Well done to Alana, Mickayla and Charis on their advertising project 'Save our wildlife!' The students have all showed a great amount of enthusiasm when working on this task.

OUR LAST GYMNASTICS SESSION

Today was our last day of gymnastics with Terry. For the last eight weeks Terry has been coaching us in doing somersaults, handstands, cartwheels, balancing and using parallel bars and Roman rings. We are so proud of our efforts and how much we have improved. Thanks Terry for being so patient and encouraging us to do our best. We look forward to doing gymnastics again next year!

Daniel's Rock Concert Advertisement!

We have a rock star in our class! During our literacy sessions we have been working on our advertising projects and it appears that a rock star has emerged! Well done Daniel on a fantastic advertisement. We are so proud of all our students in Grade 3/4LC.

Advertising Project

During our literacy lessons for the past two weeks we have been working on our advertising projects. This is part of our unit of work on 'Persuasive Texts.' Here is Charis and Lili's fantastic advertisement - SHAM-WOO! Well done girls.

This is the first of our adverts, free footy clinic run by Brody and Matt. Well done boys.

Finger Printed Wattles

During Art we created some masterpieces called Finger Printed Wattles. The instructions of how we made them are on the attached picture. The slides display our wonderful works of Art. Thanks Mrs Rizzo!

LOTS OF WATER

After all the heavy rain that fell in the mountains and hills near Wangaratta, the water made its way into creeks, streams and ended up in the Ovens and King rivers. These two rivers meet in Wangaratta and because they had so much water in them, parts of Wangaratta were flooded. Lots of roads were closed, people were evacuated from their houses and Wangaratta was surrounded by water. We could only see the top of Yogi Bear's head in the Playground at Apex Park. Daniel couldn't get to school on Monday because the roads were blocked near Edi where he was staying for the weekend.
We were meant to have our school athletics sports on Monday but they were cancelled. We hope to have them on tomorrow.

Daniel The Farmer

Here is a clip of our mate Daniel shearing a merino, good on ya mate!

Woolwrapping

In Art this morning Mrs Moore asked us to do some wool wrapping. We had to use tonal colors. If our cardboard was blue, then we had to use wool that had blue tones in it. We could change our wool during the wrapping but only if it had the same color tone. We made some crazy wrap patterns. Do you like our creations?

Advert Project

During the term we have been writing using persuasive genre. To celebrate all we have done and know we are now working on a project where we get to design our own adds. Our adds can be done as a poster, brochure, radio or TV commercial. This will be a lot of fun and we will post some of our work on the blog for all to see!

FIRST TO 120

Today we played FIRST TO 120. To play the game we used a 120 number grid, a 10 sided die and two counters. The aim was to be the first to get our counter on 120. We had to land exactly on that number. If we threw a 5, we had to go back 5 steps. If we rolled a 0 we missed a turn. This game helped us to add on numbers. For example if we were on 48 and threw a 7, instead on moving our counter one step at a time, we worked out in our head what 48 +7 = then moved to that space(55). We double checked with our partner. It was fun. Luke and Fraser were both on 119 at the same time. Luke managed to throw 1 first and won the game.

Rocket Race

For Maths this morning we played Rocket Race. We played against a partner and the aim of the game was to be the first to color in the rocket. We rolled three dice, added up the score and colored in the number on our rocket. This game helped us use our adding strategies. For example Daniel rolled 6,4 and 6. He then doubled the 6 to make 12 and added on the 4 to make 16. We realised some numbers were hard to get. 18 was difficult. Why?

Shearing video

This is a video of Doug shearing the sheep. He even let a couple of us have a go at using the shears. The wool was soft to touch.

Sammy the Kangaroo

As a special surprise, Alana brought to school Sammy the kangaroo which she is helping look after. Sammy is a female Eastern Grey kangaroo. She has to be bottle fed every two hours with a special milk formula. She has her own pretend pouch which she loves to snuggle into when she gets tired. She was very well behaved in our classroom and we all got to hold her.
What a week! First we had some lambs on Monday and now a kangaroo today. We wonder, "What's next?"

Fun With Sheep

After Doug and Steve had finished shearing the sheep, we were allowed to feel the wool and hold and feed the lambs. It was a sensational experience.

Shearing the Sheep

Today was our turn to present and item at assembly. We chose to do two rural songs- "She'll Be Right Mate" and "Bob the Kelpie".
After we performed our songs, Doug and Steven James who are farmers, shore two of their sheep in front of the whole school.Everyone was so excited watching the shearing. Here is a video of Doug doing the shearing.

Welcome Miss Ball

Miss Ball is a trainee teacher who is teaching in our classroom for the next five weeks. She made this video for us to get to Know her.

From looking at this video we have got to know these things about Miss Ball.
• She is originally from Newcastle in New South Wales
• She absolutely loves the beach
• She has travelled overseas and has seen the Eiffel Tower and Disney Land in Paris (France).
• She has a boyfriend
• She enjoys Latin music
• Miss Ball’s boyfriend’s family have a vineyard in the King Valley and make their own wine
• She has had a large snake wrapped around her and wasn’t scared.
• Miss Ball enjoys A.F.L. football and barracks for North Melbourne
• Did we say she loves the beach.
WELCOME TO OUR ROOM MISS BALL!

Andy's bike riding adventure

Andy works at 15 Mile Creek camp. When we stayed out there, Andy took us mountain bike riding. We had so much fun. You can see our adventures on this blog in the June archive called "Wet and Muddy".
Andy came to school and did some bike ed. lessons with us which are also on our blog ( July -Bike Education). He showed us a movie he had made about him and a group of friends mountain bike riding in the bush near his home. We decided to put it on our blog to share with you.
Enjoy!

The Comeback Kid

On the weekend Mr Campbell made a come back to football. He hasn't played for a long time and decided to play for his old team Goorambat against Swanpool. He played full forward and kicked two goals. He helped his team win.
Mr Campbell is feeling sore today. He's glad it was the last game for the year.
We wonder if he is going to play next year.
Watch the video highlights. Mr Campbell is the big fella......number 24. Commentary by Molly and Melissa Campbell.

Riding on the oval

Today for Bike Ed, we practised our riding skills on the oval. We did some steering around witches hats, some stopping and scooting and practised our sharp turns and slow riding. We rode with our partners and in a large group around the course.

Friday the Thirteenth

Today is Friday the thirteenth.....Bad Luck Friday. We must be careful that nothing that can bring bad luck happens today, such as a black cat crossing our path, breaking a mirror, putting your left foot on the floor when you first get out of bed, walking under a ladder, spilling salt, opening an umbrella indoors, leaving your purse on the floor, seeing an owl in the daylight, dropping a knife and picking it up, and placing a hat on the bed. Has anything happened to us today?
We spilt our hot chocolate. (Charlotte, Jayden, Blake, Tahnee, Daniel L. Brandan, Brody)
I spilt my cereal. (Silvija)
I dropped a glass and it shattered. (Jarvis)
My cupboard fell out. (Daniel L)
I fell out of bed. (Blake)
It's my brother's birthday. (Lily)
A part of my bed broke. (Fraser)
My mice escaped. (Heather)
My dog did something terrible in my room.... twice! (Taylah)
My little sister woke me up early. (Brody)
My chain kept coming off my bike.(Jayden)
A bird pooped on my bike on the way to school this morning. (Bryn)
For Art we drew scary pictures. If you don't frighten easily, have a look at the slide show of our pictures. But remember, we did warn you!

Welcome Marlo

Something special happened to me on the weekend. I had a hair cut.
Wait a minute……there is something else! My mum had a baby named Marlo. She is a girl and is now 5 days old. She has blonde hair which if she is lucky will get a reddish tinge like mine when she gets older. When she was born her weight was 3 something. She is 45 centimeters long and has a very small head. We don’t know what color eyes she has because she won’t open them much to see. I think they are brown eyes. I think she is completely different from me except the only thing could be the eye rolling. She doesn’t have much hair yet and she does cry a lot.
She is coming home tonight. It will be her first car drive.
I have had 7 holds of her. She does cry a lot and I don’t like it when I hold her and she cries. It freaks me out.
Alan is her dad. She is my first and only sister. We don’t have a last or middle name for her yet.
That’s all about my sister Marlo!!!!!!!!!!!


By Jarvis

Good Morning

Hi Guys,

Well what an exciting morning, Mrs Elliott's car breaking down and Mr Lowe, Mr Bannan and I coming to her rescue like three mighty supermen!

Day two of our ultranet training much better and Jarvis, I have not forgotten the win by the mighty Demons!!!!!!!

See you all tomorrow, got some great activities planned.

Mr C

Hi

Hey guys, Mr C here. I am sitting at the TEC with Mrs Elliott and Luke learning the ultranet which one day soon you guys will also be using!

GO DEMONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry Jarvis!!!!

Mr C

Friday's bike Ed. Lesson

We had lots of fun doing our bike ed. lesson on Friday. Mr Campbell set up activities to practise doing tight turns, weaving and even riding amongst pedestrians. The kids who didn't have bikes acted as pedestrians and when we rode we had to be careful of them. Some of us even had to swerve to avoid a ball that bounced on our track.

How to Play Octopus

Most mornings for fitness we go out onto the netball courts to play our favorite game Octopus. We reckon it's a great game because we get fit playing it and we practise using our evasion skills (dodging, weaving, twisting, ducking, side stepping etc)which is important in lots of other games. We play the game by running across two netball courts. Each netball court is an ocean and has three sharks in it. The space between the two netball courts is a beach which has one or two crabs.The aim of the game is for the fish to run across both oceans without being tagged by a shark or crab. To start the game a shark calls a fish to cross the oceans then chases the fish in his/her ocean. If the fish is caught, he/she becomes an octopus. Octopuses can tig fish but have to stay in the spot where he/she got caught. They can only move their arms to tig. The crab can also tig the fish but only in the beach between the netball courts. Sharks have to stay in their own ocean.If the fish makes it across the oceans all the fish then run together across the oceans to the other side. Then a shark calls for another fish to cross. The game is over when all the fish are caught and become octopuses.

Weaving in the Art Room

During Art this morning we made frames using newspaper. We then weaved wool around the frame to make figures. It took a lot of concentration but in the end we were very proud of our "masterpieces".

Class Presentation

In the coming week's our class will be presenting at assembly. We will be working on our project in the coming weeks and it is sure to be a real hit with something special at the end to really entertain the crowd!!!!!!

Keep watching this space for an update!

Mr C

Writing Session

Today we wrote a procedural text on how to play our favorite game "Octopus". In the video you will notice us doing things that good writers do, such as planning, writing, proof reading, editing, discussing etc. We are so proud of our work. We have also made a video of us playing "Octopus" and provided an explanation of how to play the game.

Gymnastics

Each Thursday for the next 6 weeks we will do Gymnastics in our new school hall. Terry is our instructor and he is great. At he moment he is teaching us to do forward rolls and doing handstands. We do lots of warm ups at the beginning. They're fun!

Snapshot of our bicycle education lesson

Alana riding in a straight line

On Friday we went outside and practised our bike riding skills. One of the things we did was ride along the white line of the netball court. I tried my hardest to keep my tyres on the line by looking slightly ahead of my tyres. I think I did pretty well. You can check out my riding on the video.
Alana

Bike education

For the next four weeks we are practising our bike riding skills and learning how to be safe riders on the road. On Friday Andy, Faith and Sarah from 15 Mile Creek camp taught us the skills of riding in a straight line, safe braking and turning.A fun activity was the slow riding competition. We all lined up on one side of the netball court and rode across to the other side. The winner was the last person to cross over the line. We had to ride in a straight line, not put our feet on the ground or stop.It was a very close finish between Luke and Fraser. We had to look at the video to find the winner. Fraser won a drink bottle. Look at the video to see how close it was.
After our four weeks of practise we hope to ride along Wangaratta's bike paths.

Lili's horse

On the weekend Mum and I went horse riding. Mum rode a horse called Blaze and I was riding Monty. I might be getting him for Christmas and I can't wait! After I warmed Monty up I took him around the paddock. First I walked for 2 mins then I did a trot for 5 mins. I did a canter for 2 mins then I went for another little canter for about 30 seconds. After I went for that ride I went for a trail ride with Mum, Clinton and Kathleen. Kathleen rode Wally and Clinton rode Jimmy. I had to go right up ahead of them because horses like to bite little ponies. When we got back I unsaddled Monty and took him back to his paddock. When I did that Mum and I went home. I had so much fun.

Dress Ups

Each Friday, if we've had a terrific week of learning we are allowed to have bonus time. It's like free time when we can do anything we want (within reason). People like to play on the computer, do some drawing, read quietly, play U.N.O.etc. Last Friday several of us got to use the dress up box. We had lots of fun and giggled heaps of times. Have a look at our slide show to see how "beautiful" we looked.

Do I know My Left and Right?

For maths this week we have been practising using left and right directions and plotting a navigation path for our partner to follow. In the first video Daniel is giving directions for Jayden to follow. Jayden had to use normal walking steps and hopefully end up on the spot where he started. Watch the video and see if he was successful! In the second video Georgina and Silvija are planning together their path making sure their distances and right and left turns are correct. In the third video the girls are testing their plan. Were they successful?

Ban the Bikes!

Today we commenced our unit of work on argumentative texts. Our first article to analyse was Ban the Bikes and groups had to define what was the purpose of an argumentative text. Here are some of our groups at work!

Fraser's Cross Country

Yesterday I competed in the Victorian Primary Schools' Cross Country Championships. It was held at Bundoora Park in Melbourne. I had to run 2 kilometers. My time was 7 minutes and 10 seconds. I finished in 48th position out of 140. I was only 20 seconds from the winner. It was very close. I got a T shirt for competing.
On the way home I celebrated by having lunch at the Souvlaki Hut.
Fraser

Countries around the World

During the holidays I decided to do some researching and find lots of overseas countries.I used my huge globe. I wrote down the names of the countries onto paper.
Silvija.

Finding information in the text!

Today in literacy we focussed on finding information in the text. We used our highlighters to show where this information was. It went very well!

Soccer at Lunch time

Yesterday at play time we picked two teams to play soccer. There were seven on each side. One team was called Paraguay and the other Brazil. We played on the oval. At half time the score was 5 to 4 Paraguay's way. The game resumed next play and the score was 7 to 8. Mathew thought the game was over and he picked up the ball. It wasn't over and a penalty was awarded to Paraguay. Jarvis kicked the goal to level the score 8 all. We had great fun.
We are playing again today.

Hi from Mr C!

Hi guys, it's Mr C here happy and warm at home working out how to use our class blog! Look out for it in term three, we will have Super Luke on board to help us and we will make sure every day we post something new and exciting from our room. Till then though enjoy your holidays and go Demons!

Happy Holidays!

This is Charis telling us about her "flying Fox" experience.

wet and muddy

wet and muddy
We just had the best fun at 15Mile Creek camp. We did a class poll on what activity we enjoyed the most. The bike hike won hands down. We rode along bush tracks, tried to ride up Mars Bar Hill (named because if you can ride to the top without stopping you earn a Mars Bar.....no one did!)and then got to ride through a large puddle. Our slide show shows lots of smiling faces.....and dirty clothes
Just click on the link above to see our photos.

Skittles

Skittles

One of our favorite games is skittles. We each have a skittle that we have to protect as we try to knock down other people's skittles with soft balls. We are not allowed to touch our own skittle even if it's wobbling and going to fall down. If our skittle falls down we have to pick it up and leave the playing area until the next game.

GREAT FUN

Bower Birds

When we were at 15 Mile Creek camp we found a bower that had been built by a satin bower bird. The bird had decorated his bower with pegs, a headband, wrappers,and electrical tape. When we got back to school we found out a lot about bower birds by researching on the internet.This is what I found out about the bowerbird.
The male bower bird attracts a mate by making a structure of twigs called a bower. The bird spends many hours making it attractive by decorating it with berries and flowers. Female bower birds choose the bird with the prettiest bowers. After mating the female goes away and makes a nest for her eggs. The male's bower is no longer needed. Bower birds live in Australia and New Guinea,in rainforests and dry bush lands.
Rebeka

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