Book Week Parade

On Friday it was the Book Week Parade you had to dress up as a character from a book. Some people just wore normal Kerrimuir clothes. I dressed up as Woody from Toy Story. I also brought the book and it came with a cd. My best friend James dressed up as Karate Kid. James and Cameron were identical because they were both the Karate Kid. James was a taekwondo guy and Cameron was a karate guy. At assembly 3/4A went on after 2B. We stood on the stage and gave everyone a huge cheer.

Cameron's Family Challenge

For my family challenge I made a boat with my dad.

Maya's Family Challenge

This week, my family did the family challenge for book week. Our family challenge is a comic book, mostly made by me.

The books inclued in the bibliography (Which means what books I used) are: Rapunzel, the Magic Faraway Tree, Harry Potter, Where the Wild Things Are, Finding Nemo and Alice in Wonerland.

It looks really nice and I used tracing paper instead of normal papaer! Tracing paper has a yellowish-tinge so I didn't have to do a backround!! Miss Jeffery laminated the frount and back covers. She also bound the book.

In the book, Voldermort is nice, The Chesure Cat is Alice in Wonderland's pet, Silky and Moonface have married and had a baby boy named Sunny, you know how to look like rapunzel, see how Nemo liked getting lost and Max's story.

Grace O's Family Challenge

Hi! For my Family Challenge, I did the series Dinotopia.
The picture is above. It needed glue, corrugated paper, card, pencils, fake leaves, pictures off the computer, text boxes off the computer and WordArt, also off the computer. Some of the paper had a nice texture,so it was quite interesting to make. I liked making this a lot, and it only took one night-but the glue still isn't dry! I wrote a list of questions and answers that would help others to understand. I also wrote how I liked the series and how I would recommend it to anyone who likes a good read. I incorporated lots of pictures corresponding to the word before that picture. It was really fun to make, and my mum helped a lot. Although that's what Family Challenges are about,aren't they?

Waterwatch Food Chains

On Monday we did a Waterwatch incursion and we were learning about food chains. Food chains are when an animal eats another and it goes on. We played a game about food chains where each person had to be a type of creature that eats something else (like shrimp gets algae). Everyone had to move around like their creature inside an area that was called the pond. The things at the bottom of the food chain got to take energy cards from the plants, then when something else ate them they had to pass the energy card on. Later we added pollution cards. The pollution made it difficult because if we were out of energy and there was only pollution left we all start to die. It was a fun game but difficult. We learnt about how pollution harms the whole pond.

Specialist Cup Winners

Last week we won the specialist cup! It was our second specialist cup we won this year. In art we were very good and we listened to every instruction. In music we were not as good at listening but some of the people were particularly sensible. In Japanese we regained some points by doing things fast and doing things correctly. In P.E. we listened and helped by putting the hurdles back up when they fell. It was a proud moment to win the specialist cup. When the specialist cup was announced, Karrina went up to get it.

Alice's Family Challenge

Hi, I'm Alice and for my book week family challange I chose the book 'Amy and Louis' written by Libby Gleeson and illustrated by Freya Blackwood. I like this book because of the relationship between the two friends and how Louis misses her so much that he decided to call to her.

The book is about two children called Amy and Louis (which you probably already gathered from the title) and they do everything together. But one day Amy moves to the other side of the world.

The base of my world is a balloon that has been taped into a sphere-type shape. Then we papier mached a newspaper layer on, and then a blue layer on, and then the countries on. It was difficult to get the shape of the countries just by ripping the paper, but we worked it out in the end.

I had lots of fun making my Amy and Louis world, and I hope other people enjoy looking at it too.

Book Week Daily Quiz (Monday)

This week is book week. Every day on book week a quiz is held at lunchtime. You have to awnser 3 questions on a peice of jotterpaper that has your name on.

I won on Monday, the questions were:

1: Which dog breed has a detective series?
A. Jack Russel
2: In which Harry Potter book does Mad-Eye Moody come in?
A. Harry potter and the goblet of fire or the fourth book.
3: Who is the main character of the Dear Dumb Diary series?
A. Jamie Kelly

They called my name at the end of lunchtime on a loud speacker. I went to the office and I could chose a prize that was in frount of me (As there were loads of different prizes at the office)

I chose a shiny blue pencil, captain underpants tatoo, smiley-face stickers and a bad bookmark. I complained to Alice, who took me, that she now knows the prizes if she wins!!

papier mach'e

This year grade 3/4A and 3/4B are making papier mach'e sea creatures for our unit 'Splash'.We made whales out of 2 litre milk bottle's, dolphins out of 2 litre soft drink-bottles, and sharks and fish.

I am making a whale, it's pretty fun. We have to do about 8 layers! I am probably going to make a killer-whale/Orka. Or a blue whale.

The tools we have to use are: Jelly glue, newspaper and white paper.

Hoop Time

On the 16th of August some of the 34s went to Boronia for a basketball game. It took 20 minutes to get there and we arrived a bit early. Our first game was at 9:45 and lasted for 16 minutes. There were three Kerrimuir teams. They were called The Rabbits, Magic and The Mavericks. There were approximately nine people in each team. There were two other schools that we played against. Some were Grade 5/6s and some were Grade 3/4s. There were more than ten teams altogether. I would describe the day as happy, fun amd exciting.

Waterwatch Macro-invertibrates

On the 16th of August, Julie from Melbourne Water came over to teach us about 'Water Bugs'. After she had finished with the other grade, she brought in some trays and put two on each table.

Before we started, we had a talk about different species of water bugs. Julie showed us some pictures like: a dragonfly larva, damselfly larva, water mites, leeches, bloodworms and sea-snails. We also talked about the difference between: Macro-inverterbrates and Micro-inverterbrates. Our main focus was Macro-inverterbrates, which are water bugs that you can see, and don't have back-bones.

After the talk, we split up into groups of three or four. Maya, Parnian and Charlotte and I worked together to find bugs, which were in the trays that Julie carried in, using the a sheet which contained all the bugs we could find in the tray.

In the end, the four of us had found: 3 bloodworms, 3 fish-tiny tadpole looking fish, and lots of water mites. When Julie had tipped all the water and the water bugs back in a bucket, she gave all of 3/4A, rather large stickers. The picturse on the stickers were: frogs, snails, dragonflies, ladybugs and spiders. I thought that session was very fun and interesting, I can't wait untill our next lesson, which will be in 2 weeks time!

Papier Mache Sea Creatures

This term, 3/4A and 3/4B have started a papier mach'e of a sea creature. In the first week we have collected 2L milk bottles and 1.25L bottles.

Once there were enough bottles and a few spares, we started choosing what sea creature we wanted to make. The choices were a whale, a shark, a dolphin and a fish. The dolphin was the most popular but I chose the shark.

Once we chose the animal we wanted to make, we traced and cut it out our dorsal and pectoral fin and our tail for our animal. We stuffed it with newspaper then we stuck it on our bottle with masking tape. Koetsu and I had an idea of making another template so we would have hammerhead sharks.

Waterwatch Wetland Birds

On Monday 3/4A and 3/4B went on a Healthy Waterways Waterwatch excursion and it was so tiring,we had to walk 6 kilometres.

We went to a place called Koonung Creek Wetlands at 1:30pm and when we got there the Melbourne Water lady, Julie gave 3/4A and 3/4B different activities.

34/A first did bird watching and 3/4B did the food race. After some time we swapped activities so 3/4A did the food race and 3/4B did bird watching. I saw an Ibis, Yellow Beaked Swamphen and lots of other ducks. I also saw a duck couple in the river.

I learnt that birds migrate over 1000 kilometres. Birds eat worms and seeds.

I thought the Water-Watch excursion was really fun.

Waterwatch Turbidity and Erosion

At school, on Monday the 1st of August, Julie from Healthy Waterways came to school. On that day, Julie taught us two new words to do with water. Erosion is when (in waterways) the wind sculpts the rocks and bits of rock fall into the water and get carried away. Turbidity is the muddiness of the water. When Julie was there, there were two buckets filled with water from two different waterways. We tested their turbidity. To test their turbidity we used a long tube with black lines at the bottom, there were measurements at the side too. You tip the water into the tube and stop when you can't see the lines anymore. Then you measure the water from the measurement from the sides. We did that too and some of us got splashed with water!! It was a very fun afternoon, and we learnt some new words!

Show and Tell

Last term I brought my dog Ferb to school for the class to see. Ferb is a covoodle (caveiler king charles spainel/poodle) and in the photo he is 11 weeks old. We were originally going to call him Franklin, but we all agreed that ferb was a better name. Some people think that we got the name 'Ferb' from furball, but we got the name from a TV show. Ferb now knows how to sit, drop and come. Ferb is now 4 months old, and he never stops growing!

NMIT Incursion