It’s unbelievable to think that is already the end of the year and that you will be moving on to a new class next year. We have learnt. seen and experienced many wonderful things together this year and I know you will continue to strive for excellence. 

Thank you for such a fantastic and memorable year. I hope you will take some happy memories with you. Don’t forget to come and visit 🙂 

I hope you have a happy, safe and relaxing holiday and return to school ready to learn. Keep smiling.

Miss Alex 🙂

P.S Elfis left me a note saying that he checked in on a few of you last night and saw that a few of your bedrooms were far too messy. Santa told him they must be spotless so your name can be on the ‘right’ list.

On Friday the 21st of November the 3/4 students participated in a fantastic incursion.

All groups participated in a welcome ceremony and were introduced to our hosts, Big Al, Azza and Pancakes. Students then participated in 3 workshops on Aboriginal dances, Aboriginal Art and Story telling and Cultural History. At the end of the day some lucky students got to dance with Azza in front of the whole year level.

Aboriginal for A Day on PhotoPeach

It was a great day for all.

What did you enjoy the most?
What was something you learnt from Big Al and his boys?

An Extraordinary Pumpkin

By  Lily M

The Mad Scientist took out his gleaming knife and raised it above his head. “It’s a perfect night to test my skills” he cackled. He stabbed the unfortunate victim. “He’ll make a perfect ingredient to my soup!” he said, as he cut out parts of his victim’s body. “Perfect!” Tonight, his victim happened to be… a pumpkin!

“Quite a masterpiece” said the scientist, studying his carved pumpkin. It had fierce, narrowed eyes and a grin about as welcoming as the devil’s house. “Hmmmm” mumbled the scientist. “It’d look much better in red”… he trailed off. “Uggh” his foot was stuck. Urrgghh! he was  struggling to remove his feet from the old, creaking floorboards. While he was pulling his foot, he accidentally bumped the table, and flasks and test tubes of all sorts came tumbling down. All of them burst on the floorboards in a big mess. It sparkled for a moment, then BAM! The floorboards exploded, and his foot was free. That gave the mad scientist an idea! He was going to create a potion to turn pumpkins red!

At first he tried Plutonium with a teaspoon of Araclepa. He tested it on his pet cat, Slaughter. Long story short: He now calls him Tiny. After exactly 2,642 potions, he had an idea! Lemonadium and a handful of powdered Marzbarite. He was about to pour in the Marzbarite, when “ Massive” the caterpillar ( Result of potion #873 ) knocked the flask of I’msoboredite and it spilled into the Lemonadium, surprising the scientist, making him spill the potion. It exploded onto the pumpkin. “Uh Oh”  said the scientist in fear, backing away and staring wide eyed at the pumpkin. It seemed  to grin wider in response.

Poof! A cloud engulfed the pumpkin. It turned green, then blue, then yellow, then purple…  Then finally, RED! The cloud dissolved, leaving a pumpkin as breathtaking as a BIG chocolate cake presented on a plate of pure gold. “Perfect!!” cried the scientist, and placed a candle inside it. It’s cruel eyes glowed with anger ,and the mouth grinned more than ever.

“It would be better with blue spots, though…” mumbled the scientist. “Oh No,” thought Tiny. “Here we go again!”   

The 3/4s have been learning a lot about Australia and the impact that British colonisation had on the Aboriginal people and their land. We have been running 7 workshops over the last few weeks that are coming to an end.
We would love to know if you have any interesting facts or stories you would  like to share with us or what wonderings might you have on the subject that we might be able to help you with ?

Friendship

“Wack” as my brother kicks me with his unbelievably strong leg. “ Gosh” I hate him sometimes but at the end of the day he is my older brother.  I can always find the room to forgive him. Our friendship means  the world to me. He is a great, kind and trustworthy brother. What would I do without him.

He is as  charming as a prince and is always there for me. Even though were complete opposites we make a great team. We’ve always been really  close and I hope it stays that way. He takes  me anywhere I want to go. It`s really generous. He stands up for me, loves me and I couldn’t ask for anything more from such an amazing brother.

One time we went to Water Garden`s. We went to Max Brenner, A.M.F bowling and had a great time! It was the most fun since the first man walked on the moon. I beat him in both games of bowling smashing him around 60 to 100. At Max Brenner we had a double choc fudge brownie sundae with melted chocolate and choco balls. It was so delicious I would give anything to have another one. It was the  BEST DAY EVER!

So I guess sometimes I wish he was never born, but there are always more positives than negatives. That`s why we’ll always be friends no matter what happens.

What would I do without my best friend, my beautiful brother?

On Tuesday the 21st of October took part in a First Aid in Schools Program. This free program is delivered by St John Ambulance Professional Trainers, teaching primary school students on the importance of first aid and what to do in an event of an emergency.

The students learnt about the sequence to follow if they recognise someone needs help.
DR SABC: Danger, Response, Send For Help, Airway, Breathing, Communication/CPR.
They participated in modelling this procedure and learnt how to put someone in to the recovery position. It was a great experience for all students.

St John Ambulance Visit on PhotoPeach

What was something you learnt or enjoyed about the St John’s Ambulance Visit?

Welcome back to Term 4. This year has really flown. Once again it is bound to be a busy term with house athletics, incursions, step up day and of course the much anticipated school reports.
This Term the 3/4s are inquiring into Australia with a specific focus of Indigenous Australia and how things have changed since British colonisation.

On Wednesday the 3/4 team ran exposure rotations to tune the students in to the key areas and get them generating questions that they may not have previously thought of themselves. The day was a huge success.

What are you looking forward to this term?

On Tuesday of this week we had our annual “Book Week Dress Up Day!” We chose our favourite book character and dressed up as them for the day. We all look forward to this day and people put so much effort into their costumes!

If you could be any character from a book who would you be? Why?

Semester one has come and gone and Semester two brings us new learning, events and a new Class Captain and Vice Class Captain.

3/4E would like to congratulate Stella and being nominated Class Captain and Patrick and being nominated Vice Captain for Semester 2.

Thank you to Adam and Keely who have been fantastic captains throughout semester one.

Have you represented your class before? What were your duties?

This past week in maths we have been learning about multiplication. We read a book called ‘Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream’ and found out that multiplying and learning our multiplication facts is a lot quicker than counting one by one.

We went on a photo hunt around our school yard and took photos of all the arrays we could see. We then identified how many rows and columns the array had and how it could be written as a multiplication number sentence e.g. 5 rows and 4 columns, 5×4 = 20.

We now realise that arrays are all around us and know how multiplication facts makes it easier to count ‘how many’.

Have you seen an array in your home?
What are other ways to represent multiplication?

Arrays At Killara Primary School on PhotoPeach