This week our class and the school have been doing swimming lessons at Marion Swimming Centre. We have been enjoying it VERY much in the VERY hot weather.There are 4 groupswhite, blue, greenand red! In our lessons we get to use snorkels, masks and life jackets.There is a BIG water slide that we get to go on on the last day which is Friday. I’m sure everyone can’t wait!
Annie says: My favourite part of swimming is snorkeling!<
Wylan says: My favourirte part was diving into the deep end!
On Wednesday the 11th of November our class celebrated Remembrance day. Remembrance day is always held on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of each year. We always have one minute of silence at 11:00 to remember the soldiers that fought in the war. In the one minute silence someone will play the song called“The last post.”Click here to hear the Last Post
The symbol for Remembrance day is the beautiful red poppy. This flower grew in abundance in a part of Western Europe (near France and Belgium) known as Flanders.
In class we did some activities. One of them was make a red poppy and the other one was to fill out a sheet.
Lest we forget.
This post was written by Annie and Madeline.
PS – check out this link for the Gallipoli video we watched.
This week we also looked at HOMOPHONES. Do you remember what homophones are? They are a word that is pronounced in the same way as one or more other words but is different in meaning and sometimes spelling, as are ‘hair’ and ‘hare’.
How many homophones can you think of? We will see who can find the most.
This week-end I decided to visit some blogs again as it has been a while since I visited them. Wow! There are some wonderful blogs out there. While I was visiting these blogs I found some useful links and saw things I thought we might like on our blog. I have updated our front page – how many new things can you find?
Do you have any useful links? I’d love to put them onto our blog so send them to me.
From Mrs Shep
A challenge for you: Follow a link in our blogroll and visit a new blog, then follow some of their links. You are sure to find lots of exciting things. What was their best link?
Congratulations to Madeline, Annie and Hannah who all wrote their first post today. Congratulations girls.
I really enjoyed reading them and I look forward to reading more soon.
From
Mrs Shep
Back in Term 3 we read a book called Sadako and the thousand paper cranes. It is about a girl called Sadako who gets leukemia from an atom bomb dropped by the Americans in the war. The Americans wanted to show they were stronger than the Japanese army. Japanese people think that if you make one thousand paper cranes a miracle would happen. So Sadako tried to make one thousand paper cranes but unfortunately she died before she reached her goal. Sadako managed to make 644 paper cranes before she died. So her Japanese class made the rest of the paper cranes for her. Our class decided to try to make one thousand paper cranes and so far we have made 279 paper cranes. We thought the book was interesting.
This post was written by Hannah and Madeline
Can you figure out the answer to how many paper cranes the Japanese class made? Please write a comment.
Would you like to make your own paper crane? Follow this link for animated instructions
At 9:00 on the 28th of October our class went down to the activity room to see an Indonesian Mask performance. The dancer was from Bali. His name was “I Made G’day”, you pronounce his name as “e marday G’day”. His dance included nine different masks which tell a story with each mask as a different character. He wore the same costume for the whole dance (it must have been hot in there!). He took off a mask and put on a different mask behind the curtains in the space of about 15 – 20 seconds. We thought it was a wonderful performance.
This week we went outside with our Buddies and did a water experiment. Our task was to find our what happened when it rained on different surfaces. We used a paper cup with holes in the bottom as our rain maker and put water into it. Here are some of the things we found out:
*the water runs off if it is on a smooth, hard surface like the slippery dip,
* it soaks into dirt,
*it makes a puddle on the asphalt and then begins to evaporate.
We had lots of fun with our Buddies, as you can see.
Next week, when we work with our Buddies, we need a shoe box. What do you think we will be doing?
As we start our unit on water I thought this might inspire you to think about waterways. How do you think we can keep them clean? Send your ideas to us in a comment.
