Christmas Fun

At the start of the day we had found out that Molly, Mrs.Wynde's dog was in the classroom. Then Mrs.Wynde introduced us to her niece Kate. Kate marked the role. Mrs.Wynde told us that we were making christmas trees for our tables. So we went out to the oval and we started looking for good branches. We had finally found 6 good branches. We went back to the classsroom. Kate had gone outside to spraypaint the branches silver. While Kate was spray painting the branches we were given our Christmas activity book. While we were doing that Kate had finished spray painting and she started to melt the chocolate. Mrs.Wynde picked 6 people to put tanbark at the bottom of the pots and to fill sand up to the top. After Kate finished melting the chocolate she started to call people to put some melted chocolate in the mould. We all got to do 2 each. After that some people went to put the chocolate in the fridge. Before recess we made cup-cakes. Kate picked people to tip and do things. At the end everyone had made a cupcake. After recess Kate was calling people to decorate their cupcake. Others were making baskets to put in their cup-cakes in. After people had finished making their baskets they went on to make their stars which had a picture of their face on it. There was another activity to do which was making baubles. We were making stars and baubles to put on our table tree. Mrs.Wynde gave us some decorations to put on our trees. We were trying to make our cupcakes look like snowmen. It was great fun.
By Caitlin D


On Thursday 15th of December we went onto the oval to collect branches for our christmas tree.When the class came back to the classroom ,Mrs Wynde's niece Kate spray painted the trees for the christmas tree.While kate was spray painting we got handed our christmas activity book.Six people went to put sand and tanbark in the pots.Kate made melted chocolate and we put them into moulds.Before recess we made cupcakes then after recess we decorated them looking like snowmen.We decorated ball to make christmas baubals to put on the christmas tree.We put photos on stars, decorated them to hang on the christas tree
By Jonathan

On the 15 of December 2011 Mrs wynde brought in her dog Molly and her niece Kate.First we went to the oval to collect branches to make christmas trees.When we got back Kate spray painted them and we started to do our christmas booklet.Then Mrs Wynde chose some people to go to the playground to put sand and tanbark into the pots so the trees would stand up.A bit before snack we melted chocolate and poured them into moulds and made cupcakes.After snack we made baskets to hold our cupcakes to look like snowmen.We made decorations,we made stars and baubles and star that had out photo on them.All together it was the best day ever.
By Eleanor W

3D SHAPES

During maths everyone was making 3D shapes.And D stands for dimensional. We made them out of match sticks and plasticine. Some of the shapes were a Cuboid, Octagonal Prism, triangular Prism, triangular Pyramid, cone, Hexagonal Prism, Square Pyramid, and a cube,. We did it so we could learn about corners, edges, and faces.
Harrison
Last week our class made 3D Shapes with match sticks and plasticine.The reason why we did this was so we could learn the faces,edges and vertices.The shapes we made were octagonal prisms,Triangular Pyramids and many more.
Ben

KMART WISHING TREE

Last week Wednesday 16th November the choir went to Kamart to sing for the opening of the christmas tree appeal. It is when you buy present and put it under the christmas tree.The army officers take them and give the presents to families who can't afford presents.
Caitlin. D

On Wednesday the 16th of November Rowville Primary Schools Choir went to sing at K.Mart.The reason for that was to open the K.Mart wishing tree.This project collects toys for people who have no toys and no money to afford them for themselvs.We got a stocking with lots of chocolate and a donut.It was so much fun.
Melissa.J

On Wedneday 16th of November the Choir went to Kmart to sing for the opening of the Wishing Tree appeal and me Reema,Ann etc got to watch them sing.After they sang everyone got a Donut and Chocolate.I had a great time there and I like the Chocolate.
Niamh

On Wednesday 16th Novenber the choir went down to Kmart wishing tree at 9:30 and we sang Feels like Christmas Fanis Navidad,Jingle Bell Rock,Rockin Around the Chrismas Tree.The Kmart wishing tree is about helping families get presents at chrismas that can't afford.The salvtion Army comes and takes the gifts to the families.
Caitlyn.T

Famous Australians

Grade 4Wy were very lucky this week because we had some famous Australians that came in to talk to us. George Bass( explorer ) came to tell us about why he was famous and what he did to influence Australia's history. We found out that he and Matthew Flinders found the strait between Tasmania and mainland Australia.
We also had William Wills who along with Robert O'Hara Burke explored the middle of Australia from the south and north. The purpose of this exploration was to find out what the middle of Australia looked like so they could put telegraph lines to join the different colonies.
Mary Wade came to talk to us about how she was the youngest female convict to be sent to Australia. We have enjoyed all these presentations very much and the children did a great job of informing us about their Famous Australian.

AUTHOR STUDY

On Friday level 3 had an incursion with Author/ Illustrator Roland Harvey. The children wrote their reflections of his visit and how our author study unit has helped them with their writing.

When Roland Harvey came he showed us how to set out a book when you write one.
The author study unit has helped me because now I know how to write a book. I learnt I can use dialogue and different sorts of punctuation like elipses. I learnt that you can get ideas from anyone you know, like friends or family.
Harrison 4WY

On Friday 16th September we had a Roland Harvey incursion. In all of his books his illustrations are very detailed. I learnt that if your illustrations are very detailed it will help the reader understand the book better. Since we have been doing author studies I have now put repetition in my writing pieces.
Dylan 4WY

When Friday 16th came my class and the other grade 3's and 4's had an incursion with Roland Harvey. He started as an illustrator then he became an author because he didn't like drawing pictures for other people's stories. Roland Harvey draws very detailed pictures. When he writes books he uses people from his life in his stories. For example in the story 'In The Bush' he used his family as characters and got his ideas for the story from their family holiday to the bush.
I really enjoyed when Roland created letters into human letters.
Roland Harvy and the other authors we have studied have helped me to create ideas for my story, how to write character descriptions and gave me ideas on how to set out my stories.
Ann 4WY

Last Friday 16th September was the day Roland Harvey came to our school to talk about his illustrations and how he wrote his books. I learnt that he gets his ideas from his family. He used to be just an illustrator but then decided to write some books.
I think that studying authors has helped me to be able to format the text of my stories and has helped me to know how to put repetition in my writing.
Reema 4WY

Blue Light Youth Camp

The childrn wrote postcards to other people about their camping experience. Here are some postcards.

Dear Tahli,
We are at camp and me and my friends are having the best time. Today is Tuesday and we are going into town. When we passed all the shops and spotted the lolly shop, I couldn't wait to go later that afternoon. Anyway we were on our bikes, pedalling as fast as we could to catch up to the other kids. Finally we got to the BMX track which was basically dust! There was a little stumpy hill and we had to push our bikes up to get to the top. Then you waited to go down the hill and 'wooh' that was fun.
Aniesha

Dear Reema,
Today we are going on a big, big, big bush walk up a hill. It was so hard and steep that on our stop I ate two whole apples in a row and drank two whole bottles of water. I enjoyed the walk back more. I could smell the trees. I could see lots and lots of red faces. I could hear all the boys and girls and even teachers puffing with their hands on their knees.
Melissa Joy

Dear Granny and Pop,
On Wednesday 7th we all had a big day ahead of us because we had the Mt Tarrangower Challenge Walk after breakfast. I think the walk went for nearly 2 hours. I was already puffed when we were half way up the hill. When we got to the top I was so hungry and thirsty that I had an apple and a bottle of water. Then I went up the tower and it was so scary.
Caitlyn Turner

2D Shapes

It's a Friday and the time is 12:15. The first thing I knew was that the three high school girls, Cindy,Francis and Claudia are coming into help us with our maths.The class all went quiet as they waited for the three girls to walk in the room.Suddenly we hear a knock then the door squeaking as it opens."Hooray" we all shout.Mrs.Wynde stated to put us into groups and the girls decided what activity they would like to do.First I had kinder squares with Mrs.Wynde where we cut the kinder square into four triangles and make a shape with all four triangle.The second activity I did was the tangrams with Francis.We had to cut out different shapes and make a big square.We then moved on to the pattern blocks with Claudia where we had to use different shapes to make a hexagon.Last but not least we moved on to making a triangle with matchsticks where we had to make 13 triangle with in a big triangle.I can't wait until next Friday to do more other activities.

Reema

After snack there high school girls came to our classroom. Their names are Francis, Cindy and Cloudia. When I did pattern blocks with Cloudia I found out that 6 triangles make a hexagon. I also found out that 3 rhombus make a hexagon and with a square you can't make a hexagon.
When ten minutes I went and did tooth picks with Cindy. During the 10 minutes my group and I had to make a big triangle out of a 9 small triangles. I ahd found out I had made 13 triagles when I had finished.
Next I did kinda squares with Mrs.Wynde. I had made a square, rhombus rectangle, triangle and a tripezium with some help.
After that I did tamgrams with Fransic. I could not find out how to make the square so I got help by Francis. At the end I had made a tamgram square.
Caitlin