Mrs Shep’s Year 4/5s

Welcome to our blog. This blog will be a great way for us to share our learning through the work samples we put on it, the ideas we share in our comments, the posts describing our learning and of course our photos. I hope you visit it regularly, in fact it will be part of your homework each week.

When you visit our blog I’d like you to leave a comment but you can do so much more.

You can visit another blog by clicking on a name in our “Blog Roll”.

You can learn new things or practise your skills by following one of the links.

You can also play with our hamster.

What do you like about our blog? Remember to justify your answer.

Mrs Shep

Well the school year has finished for me and as I look back through this Blog I realise what a wonderful, busy (at times close to frantic) and happy year we have had. Thanks kids, you have made this year awesome! Thank-you also to all the parents and extended family who have supported not only their child’s learning but everything that goes with it.

I wish everyone a happy and safe Christmas filled with lots of laughter, family and friends.

I look forward to seeing you again next year and hearing from those of you who join our learning journey through our Blog.

Mrs Shep.

On Wednesday 25th of  November room1 and our class went on a water catchment tour. We had a tour guide whose name was Mark. The first stop was at Mt. Bold Reservoir and wasn’t it BIG! We even got to walk along the wobbly bridge! We had to answe r some questions that Mark helped us with, for example: Where does the water in the Reservoir come from? and Can you think of  ways the Reservoir might affect the creatures that live in the water? Then we hopped back on the bus and started the trip again. the second stop was at Clarendon. At Clarendon we had reccess and then we went down to the Onkaparinga which looked like a little creek to catch some waterbugs. Some of the bugs we caught were: waterboatsmen, catasflys, a water scorpion, tadpoles, leaches and water spiders. Mark took a sample of water from the creek. Then we got back on the bus and started the trip again. The third stop was at Old Noarlunga. Mark also took a sample of water at the creek there and we tested the salinity(Which means to test how much salt is in the water) and it turns out that there was more salt in the Onkaparinga at Noarlunga than at Clarendon. Then we hopped back on the bus and went to the end of river at the sea. Then we hopped back on the bus back to school. We arrived at school at 3:15 and that’s when the bell goes so we went home and that was the of our adventure.

This post was written by Victoria and Madeline

In our class we have been learning, writing and typing different sorts of poems.  Some of the poems that we have been looking at are called Haiku poems and Cinquain poems.

Haiku poems are a form of Japanese poetry.  They have a pattern of syllables that usually goes 5,7,5.

Cinquain poems are a 5 lined poem.  Cinq in French means five so that is why Cinquain poems are a 5 lined poem.

Here are some examples of Haiku poems.

This post was written by Madeline.

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

Lest we forget.

This post was written by Annie and Madeline.

PS – check out this link for the Gallipoli video we watched.

http://www.abc.net.au/innovation/gallipoli/gallipoli2.htm#

Here are our spelling words for Week 5 and 6

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.

From

Mrs Shep

This week in class time we have been doing some posters for the Festival of Music for 2010.

The task was to design a front cover to go on a song book. It was alot of  fun to make.

After we had finished we had to hand it in to the music teacher to get judged on how we went so in a few weeks we will get the results.

From Hannah

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