DISCO

People screamed to hear their favourite songs.I saw smiles and lights flashing,people wearing disco clothes and wearing glowing items.I also heard lots of chatter,laughter and Mr.Judkins talking through the microphone.I smelt people with perfume and the chips.I tasted the fresh water when I dranked it.I also felt my glow items and the money that I owned. I,Robin and Vanessa danced happily while our favourite songs were on.I heared lots of money dropping,some stomping and toilet doors opening.My friends was lesstalking and MORE DANCING!

After the last songs, we all had to sit down and wait for teahers to call our names to go home.

Denise

On Friday at the gym the school disco was on. I came in the door and I heard blasting music into my ears. I heard my friends yelling my name loudly over the music! The rainbow colured lights were flashing onto the brick walls. Money was clicking together as Mrs. Rawlins colected it. The chips and chocolate smell was in the air as I was tempted to buy some. As I was dancing I feld people knocking into me.

Aniesha

When I walked in to the the disco room with Morgaine the first thing I heard was the speakers blasting my favourite songs then all the chatter and laughter came to me. I looked around and saw all the people dancing and wearing cool disco costumes. I could smell girls wearing perfume and kids eating chips. Me and Morgaine ran into the disco room and started Dancing.

Robin.

As I walked in the door of the gym with Robin, I thought I was going to go deaf from the pounding music and the screaming people. But then I thought, it is a disco after all.
I could see lights wizzing past. I saw little, still lights from the braids in peoples hair (even boys!) and big flashing lights from peoples braclets.
I danced with my friends to lots of different types of music. Although I sat out on Justin Beiber.
I could smell people eating Boost Bars and TimeOuts. Yum! I could also smell girls perfume and hairspray and boys deoderant. And Robin munching on Salt and Vinegar chips!!

Morgaine

Author Study- Margaret Wild

My favourite book was The Slumber Party because I made a text to text connection. This book is similar to the Alison Lester books.Margaret Wild talks about all the characters in her story. What I noticed about Mararet Wild's craft is she likes to write fictional stories. Also in a lot of her stories she likes to use descriptive language. She seems to get her ideas from her children and her family and friends. She sometimes writes her story in a problem and solution structure which is the normal narrative structure but sometimes she writes in question and answer structure or list of facts like in Our Granny.
Most of her stories are told by a narrator and some have repetition.
Jonathan

My favourite book was Creatures in my Beard because it was funny. I liked it because the boy said to his dad that there were creatures living in his beard but the dad said no there isn't. Then when his dad was lying down all these creatures popped out of his beard and that is why I think it is a good book. Why I like Margaret Wild books is because she writes great beginnings. She can also make us visualise the characters and what is going to happen next. She also makes the audience engaged really well and she uses a lot of adjectives. I can also make text to text connections and this helps me.
Anthony

My favourite book was The Slumber Party. The reason is because this book was set out differently from other picture story books. I liked how it was set out in boxes and it had pictures that allowed us to predict. There was dialogue for each of the characters. The text type was realistic fiction. The story followed a sequence of events for each part of the slumber party. Most of the sentences began with a character's name. The story was told by the narrator and there were small problems throughout the story.
Aniesha

My favourite book by Margaret Wild is Miss Lily's Fabulous Pink Feather Boa. I liked it because of its descriptive language and it is about endangered animals. It is also written in a problem and solution structure. The problem was the Potaroo thought he was the last Potaroo but at the end he found there were more potaroos not just him.
Melissa L

My favourite book that Margaret Wild wrote is Fox. The reason why I like this book is the way the illustrations are big and the way the writing is set out. Margaret Wild uses ideas from her life. She sometimes has characters talking or the narrator tells the story. Most of the stories we have read have a theme or message. Most of the books have dialogue in them.
Caitlin D

DIVISION

You might wonder what we are doing having fun when it is maths time. Well we were doing division and we decided to play a game of Statues. Each time the music stopped Mrs. Wynde asked us to make a group and we had to see if we had any remainders. Example: 22 how many 4's equals 5 and 2 remainders. Playing this game helped us to understand about division with remainders and what that all means. Mrs. Wynde was a terrible dancer but we had fun anyway.

ENDANGERED ANIMALS INCURSION

‘Squawk, squawk,’ went the Red Tailed Black Cockatoo, as Josh entered our room.
On Tuesday we had an incursion about endangered animals. The guy who brought the animals in was named Josh and he came from Reptile Encounters.
The animals I learnt about were the Growling Grass Frog. They’re endangered because of habitat loss. Also introduced fish are eating their eggs.
The Penny Turtle is endangered because they are sold for pet trade, cattle are stomping on their eggs and feral animals are eating them. They are trying to help them by breeding them in captivity, protecting their habitat and not allowing them to be sold as pets.
The Red tailed black cockatoo is endangered because of a loss of habitat and they only have one egg per season. The solution is monitoring their numbers and re-planting the habitat.
The last animal was a crocodile and I got to hold a crocodile’s tail and it was awesome.
By Caitlyn

On Tuesday 14th June Reptile Encounters came into our class. We are studying endangered animals and Josh showed us lots of animals that were either vulnerable or endangered. One was the Squirrel Glider. They are endangered because they nest in hollow trees and people are cutting down the hollow trees. They are also suffering from a lack of food. To assist the Squirrel Glider, people are trying to improve their environment by planting new trees.
Another animal is the Red Tailed Black Cockatoo. They are endangered because of a loss of habitat. Also they have only one baby a year. To assist them, people are monitoring their numbers and re-planting their habitat.
There is also the Woma Python. They’re suffering from a loss of habitat. Also feral predators such as cats and dogs are eating them.
I got to hold the massive Olive Python. With my hands underneath its massive body I could feel its muscles. It was freaky, cool but freaky! I could not stop thinking about it.
Morgaine

On Tuesday 14th June all of the grade 4’s had an incursion. There was a man called Josh who told us all about the animals. We had this incursion so we can learn more about endangered animals. Josh brought in all these animals and here’s a list of them, Growling Grass Frog, Merry River Turtle, Yellow Spotted Monitor, Red Tailed Black Cockatoo, Squirrel Glider, Woma Python, Olive Python and Salt Water Crocodile.
The Merry River Turtle is endangered because it has been sold to the pet trade and when the cattle run through the Merry River they squash the turtle eggs. To help the Merry River Turtle they are being kept in captivity so they can breed.
The Yellow Spotted Monitor is endangered because they eat cane toads which are poisonous. People are trying to reduce the amount of cane toads.
The Woma Python is endangered because of a loss of habitat and feral predators. The Woma Python is protected and its habitat is being protected.
Eleanor

MINI ATHLETICS

On Tuesday 31st of May our grade did a length activity: Mini Athletics. We all were in groups of 4 or 5. Then it was time to do for activities: standing long jump, handballing,discus and shot put. All of these activities we had to measure how far we jumped,punched and threw.
Adam
On Tuesday 31st of May we were doing mini athletics.The reason being because our math topic was length and measurement so we could measure our handball,throwing and jumping.It was a nice bright sunny day to do all these sports.We played shotput,disus,standing long jump and handballing. All of us enjoyed our time outside and I think we could do it again.As we each are having a turn we got to measure and record it in metres and centimetres.We rotated to each sport and enjoyed each sport.When we were finished we put all our mesurement into our math book.
Jonathan

TWILIGHT SCHOOL

On Wednesday 18th May our school had a Twilight School day. We had pizza and gelati . Also our parents came in to watch and help us work. When we came to schoolwe had to go swimming after school started. During dinner time the choir, school band and school aerobics team performed in the gym. Lots of parents came. At dinner time we got our gelati then everyone was playing in the sunset. It was AWESOME.
Adam B

SPLASH!!! as we start in the morning.Your probably thinking why on earth are we going swiming in the morning.Well,on wednesday the 18 of May we had a sensational Twilight school day.We had pizza and gelato for dinner.You dont get that every day!We went out to the play-ground at 5:00pm as the sun slowly set so did some kids eyes.As the sun peacefully set 'yawn'even I was tired but that din't stop me from loving this day.The whole purpose was for parents to come in and see their children's work. Instead of Open night we had Twilight School. Twilight School starts at 1:00pm amd finishes at 7:30pm.
Maggie

SMARTIE MATHS

We were investigating fractions in maths. To help us with our investigations we all had a box of smarties. First we had to open the box and count how many smarties we had. Then we sorted the smarties into colour groups. Next we counted how many colours we had in each group. If we had 15 smarties all together and 4 of them were yellow we wrote that 4/15 were yellow. After we had written the fractions for all the colours we then added 2 colours together and wrote the fraction. Eg: red were 5/15 and blue was 3/15 all together it was 8/15.Finally we added all the colours together and found that they came to one whole 15/15. Lastly we got to eat them. YUM!!!