Miss Jeffery's Grade

Teacher Elves

2011-12-12T13:29:00.002+11:00

Bike Ed

2011-12-02T14:07:00.004+11:00

On the first day of Bike ED we checked our bike from wheel to brakes.And on the second day we started the bike ed for real! Thanks to mr. chaffa and mr.mclean,they teached us lots of special skill ,it's nealy the last day of bike ed,so i can't wait to show& tell them what I've learnt from bike ed!!!!

Our Reading Challenge Champion

2011-11-25T13:09:00.008+11:00

There were over 200 students at our school who completed the Premier's Reading Challenge this year. One student from each grade level was selected as a 'Challenge Champion'. These students had to be enthusiastic readers and have added many books to their reading lists. YiCheng received the Challenge Champion award for Grade 4. Here is a photo of him with his certificate and badge.

Jen's Medal

2011-11-25T13:09:00.007+11:00

Jen was recently invited to a special award ceremony where she was given this medal. The medal was for achieving the top score in the state in the University of NSW Computer Competition. This was a very big achievement and we are very proud of Jen!

Candlebark Farm Camp

2011-11-17T12:10:00.006+11:00

This term, week 5, level 3 went to candlebark farm. On the bus trip there, we stopped over at Corunderrk Reserve, an old, old place. There we saw a running stream with freash water and stones in it, smooth with erosion. It also has loads of greenery, with old forest ferns in it.

At Candlebark Farm we had a long, long, long chat from the manager of Candlebark farm about safty and all that. When he got up to "Bullants!", a cry from the crowd, sitting in frount of him made him know there was a bullant on somebody. He just ent down, picked up the bullant and told the crowd it was just a sugar ant and bull ants are bigger and bite.

We had activities also. There were 8 activities; orieenteering, flying fox, super swooper, canoieng, inative games, rockroom, low ropes and frisbee golf. You had a dutie group, you did the activities with your duty group.

The dinner was delicious. We had tomato soup that tasted like baked beans and chicken noodle soup which had noodles the size of your finger that would dissolve in your mouth for 'entre (both nights). we had apricot chicken with cooked carrots, peas, creamy mash potato and roast beef, roast potato, roast pumpkin and the option of gravy for main (both nights). We also had ice-cream that was soooooooooo delicious for wednesday and thursday night. It was with red jelly/fruit salad depending on the night.

We would watch a video, Yogi Bear the first night and Space Chimps 2 the secound night. Then we would have to go to bed (at 10'clock) in rock hard beds. Everybody was talking, not sleepy and it was a rough night(s).

It was a sleepy morning and an early one. we had Cereal for Breakfast and then we had a head count and so on, later when it was a showers there was a great baffle about who's going 1st and stuff! Later, at the camp fire behind the carpark, was a fire buring happily and benches. we all squished on to a bench. we then got a stick and marshmallows. you would put them in the fire. Most of them caught on Fire! I loved the sticky bit in the middle, where it is all melted. Some people liked the burnt taste of marshmallows who cought on fire and wasn't blown out quick enough, but, in my opin it was a disgusting taste!

On the way back to school, we stopped back at Corunderrk Reserve and went on the long track to Badger Weir. At the end, there was the most yummiest water, just cleaned. Then, we had to turn around and go back to the bus. We arrived back to school at 3 pm.

Maths with Miss Francisco

2011-11-17T12:09:00.005+11:00

One day we were doing fun maths because we were making 3D shapes with pipe cliners or toothpics and bluetac and we got to make a fake 3D shapes by putting other 3D shapes together and there were lot silly ones, easy ones and very complecated ones like my one!!! I think everyone liked that day, I know I did! That day was the funnest day everrrrrr!

The Fishing King

2011-10-25T21:59:00.002+11:00

Pollution Food Chain

2011-10-25T21:45:00.002+11:00

Poison Pollution is not the Solution

2011-10-25T21:16:00.002+11:00

Net Trouble

2011-10-25T21:09:00.002+11:00

Chaos Food Chain

2011-10-25T21:00:00.002+11:00

Term 4 Welcome

2011-10-13T08:45:00.004+11:00

The year sure is flying by! Welcome back to school for Term 4. In the coming weeks Level 3 will be showcasing their work from our 'Splash' unit. This will include our Short Film Festival where our still-frame animation movies will be played. After this 'official' launch, we will be putting the movies on our blog for you to see.

We are also finishing off our Waterwatch Program with a community mural to be displayed in the Whitehorse City Council offices. This mural will be presented to Melbourne Water and the Whitehorse City Council at a special assembly.

Our Term 4 unit is called 'This is Australia' and will focus on geography, culture and historical Australians who have made positive contributions to shaping our nation. Students will be completing projects on historical Australians. It would be wonderful if parents could assist their children to research their topic at local libraries. More information to come!

Thanks for visiting our class blog.

Footy Day

2011-10-10T14:10:00.006+11:00

On Footy Day we were split up in to different teams; Collingwood, Geelong, Hawthorn, West Coast, Carlton, StKilda, Sydeny, Essendon and all the other AFL teams. We sarted in a line then are captains told as where we had to go. They were counting our scores.And mr Caufer was telling lots of ridolls. We also had a parade before all this happened. It was the best Footy Day EVER!

House Athletics

2011-09-19T10:37:00.007+10:00

On Wednesday on 13th of September we had House Athletics. The house teams are Bradman, Freeman, Perkins and Riley. I did hurdles and races. I won the hurdles grand final and evearyone from Bradman picked me up because we were in the lead because of me. I came second in circular relay then Freeman was in the lead. Now everyone thinks that Freeman won and Bradman came 2nd, Perkins 3rd and Riley 4th. Oh, I forgot most Grade 4s are going to district because they cam 1st 2nd or 3rd in an event.

Still Frame Animation

2011-09-15T10:38:00.007+10:00

In 3/4A we have been doing still frame animation. We have to make movies with our paper mache sea creatures. We have to take about 200 photos. Then we have to edit the movie with our group. My group haa not edited our movie yet. 3/4A have seen three still frame animation movies. Still frame animation is fun with sea creatures. Our back drop looks really nice and colouful. The people in my group are Emily, Jennifer, Grace O, Daphne and Me. After we finished our movie Miss Jeffery took a group photo with our whole group. Daphne was the person who was taking the photos and everyone else was helping to move the sea cretures. Every time Daphne took a photo we would have to move the animals a little bit. Still Frame Animation is Fun!

Swimming

2011-09-01T09:35:00.006+10:00

On the first day of swimming lessons we got into groups. My teacher at swimming is Jackie. We swim in the fourth lane. In my group we have six girls including the teacher. We have three boys in our group. So far I like doing the Dolphin kick, diving and lots more. Some of the groups went outside to the outside pool. Lots of them said it was freezing.

Swimming

2011-09-01T09:34:00.003+10:00

On the second day of swimming we lined up where our teacher's name was on the cone. When the teachers were there they called our names from the roll on the piece of paper and they ticked the names off. My teacher's name was Matt and I have five girls in my group and three boys in my group as well. The five girls were Summer (which is me) Maggie, Parnian, Grace and Cindy.

Polluted Water

2011-09-01T09:28:00.006+10:00

For the last week of our Waterwatch incursion, Julie brought in a tub of clean, drinkable water. After we had settled down in a circle, we each got a small canister, and on the front there was a labeled part which said something like: Garry Guzzler, Cameron Caughtafew, Dan Demolisher, school kids, and much more.

Julie started to tell a story which was about a platypus named Puddles. One day he saw a strange red rock floating in the water, and decided to follow it. The red rock wasn't a rock at all, it was a canoe with people rowing in it.

As he followed the rock, lots of polluted material gets washed into the river that Puddles is swimming in, such as: litter, grass clippings, sand, car oil, paint, dirt.. theres so many!

In the end, the water looked a lot dirtier than it was at the beginning. It was all brown with rubbish floating on top. It didn't look very clean or drinkable anymore.

Poor Puddles!

Painting Sea Creatures

2011-09-01T09:27:00.017+10:00

On the last day of August we have been painting some sea creatures. The sea creatures are dolphins, fish, sharks and whales. People who are doing Dolphins can do a white bottom half or a grey bottom half. Also the sharks can do the same but the fish are the only different ones because the people get to choose what colour they want.

Book Week Parade

2011-08-26T12:10:00.001+10:00

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

2011-08-25T12:38:00.005+10:00

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

Maya's Family Challenge

2011-08-24T14:23:00.007+10:00

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

2011-08-23T09:53:00.005+10:00

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

2011-08-22T17:27:00.005+10:00

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

2011-08-22T14:52:00.006+10:00

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

2011-08-22T14:50:00.003+10:00

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)

2011-08-22T14:43:00.003+10:00

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

2011-08-17T12:31:00.004+10:00

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

2011-08-17T12:20:00.004+10:00

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

2011-08-16T15:15:00.005+10:00

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

2011-08-16T14:27:00.017+10:00

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

2011-08-10T12:07:00.019+10:00

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

2011-08-10T12:07:00.018+10:00

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

2011-08-03T09:03:00.003+10:00

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

2011-08-03T08:59:00.000+10:00

Grace O's "or" Poem

2011-07-29T14:52:00.003+10:00

For Spelling this week we are doing the "or" sound as in course.
I wrote this poem for homework.

Poem:

There's an orchid in an orchard
Un-der a beech tree...
And every time I see it
It calms me...
It's so authentic
And romantic
With its Authentic
Autograph!

The words that I used that were also on my list for Spelling were:
Orchid
Orchard
Authentic
Autograph

Welcome to Term 3

2011-07-18T17:09:00.003+10:00

I hope you have all had a fun and relaxing break from school and are feeling refreshed for an exciting term ahead including our annual swimming lessons, Book Week and Footy Day.

Our topic this term is 'Splash' which is all about water! We will be learning about marine environments, the water cycle, the distribution of fresh water around the world, conservation and of course water safety!

Our focus in English will be narrative writing and we will be creating our very own picture storybooks. We will also be working on some still-frame animation stories involving sea creatures! Keep checking our blog for further updates!

Haiku Poems

2011-06-09T09:49:00.003+10:00

3/4A did a poem that's called a 'Haiku'. It's a Japanese word but I don't know what it means. We had to write about Autumn on a piece of paper which someone will laminate after. The poem wasn't supposed to rhyme. It was supposed to be about the leaves that fell from the trees. Most of the people finished the Haikus. I had a fun time writing it. Miss Jeffery put our Haikus on the window in our classrooms so everybody could see them.

Antonyms

2011-06-01T12:53:00.008+10:00

This term we have been leaning about antonyms. We have learnt what antonyms are. Antonyms are opposites like 'up' and 'down' or 'right' and 'left'.we got to pick a antonym then we would get a piece of paper and wrote one antonym on the frist side of the page, then we wrote on the other side of the page. We wrote a sentence for each antonym and we also drew a picture. We did a big book full of antonyms.

Cross Country

2011-06-01T09:19:00.005+10:00

At Cross Country we had to run around Springfield oval. We had to run 2km and it was tiring. Only people that came first to seventh went on to district. I went to district and it and it was the same distance. It was muddy, wet and steep. I hurt myself from a steep hill and I hurt my ankle. It was painful but it was alright. Cross-country was fun and exiting but it was hard.

Circus Skills

2011-06-01T09:18:00.003+10:00

This term every Monday we do Circus Skills. On the first day of Circus Skills, we did juggling scarves.

Premier's Reading Challenge

2011-05-31T12:43:00.005+10:00

On the 13rd of April we started an intersting challennge called The Premier's Reading Challenge. It's all about books! The main challenge goal is to read as many books as you can read. I have read 29 books and am reading hard. THE END

Hockey Gala Day

2011-05-30T20:12:00.006+10:00

On Monday the 30th of May some of 3/4A and 3/4B went to the Hockey Gala Day with Miss Jeffery!!!

The people there were: Thomas, Daphne, Karrina, Chloe, Lakshman, Jamie, Par, David, Julia, Georgia, Peter and Jordy.

Circus Skills

2011-05-27T10:52:00.008+10:00

Three weeks ago everybody who wanted to participate started Circus Skills. My class has Circus skill lesson on Monday at 12.15pm until lunch time at 1.00pm. Our teacher is called Az but mostly every grade has a different teacher. Each week we have three different types of equipment to learn new skills. Sometimes at the end lessons if there is time or if it's planned, we do basic balances. I belive that my favourite and most enjoyable equipment would be the diablos. Some of my friends belive that too. The way to do the balance is quite difficult. You find a partner and one person on the ground makes a shape a bit like a bridge and the other does the same on top. After every week I look forward to the next three types of equipment.

Posting Letters

2011-05-26T20:34:00.006+10:00

On the 25/5/11 3/4A started writing letters. We were writing them because our topic this term is Communication. We were sending them to our family members. The types of letters that we were sending were informal letters.

Informal letters start with your name. Example: Jack Chen. Then second, on the next line, you put your address. Example: 302 Unicorn St (Street). Still on the second line, you put your state, then your postcode. Example: Vic (Vitoria)3129. On the third line, you put your suburb. Example: Box Hill South. Two lines ahead, you put the date. Example: 27/10/1999. Well, that's just the start of it, but I don't want to fill up the pages with "How to write an informal letter" OK?

So, we have posted our letter on the 26/5/2011, and, I have to say, I was pretty proud of my letter!

Measuring with Trundle Wheels

2011-05-26T16:19:00.005+10:00

Yesterday on the 26th of May, Our whole class went outside, to measure with the trundle wheels. We hadto measure the lines on the FFG. We had to form five groups. We all had either 3 or 4 people. First, we had to draw a table in our Maths Book. Then we would write what we were measuring, then write down our estimations. Most of the people did the same things. There were: Two square court perimetre, Blue circle, runnig track perimetre.... In the end we all compared our results. And those numbers were quite big....

Cottees Soccer Excursion

2011-05-26T14:16:00.005+10:00

On May the 18th we went to a soccer game at a big school. My knee wasn't looking that well so my mum put a big bandage on it. On the Kerrimuir sections there were boy sections girl sections and mixed sections. The Kerrimuir teams were called the Pine Lime Pirates and the Orange Ogres. My team was the Orange Ogres. Even though my leg was hurt badly I still played pretty good. In total I scored 13 goals in all 7 games. Our team had won all our matches except against the Tropical Tornadoes; we had a draw with them. We also had a juggling competition and a penalty shoot out. In the juggling competition Torbin represented us. In the penalty shootout David C represented us. Torbin lost the juggling competition but David C won the penalty shoot out. It was a really great game and everybody got a prize.

Taiko Drumming Excursion

2011-05-26T14:14:00.005+10:00

On Friday the 13th of May we went to a drumming excursion at Box Hill Art Centre. When we got to the Art centre we saw some pictures that were drawn in Japan. After seeing some of the pictures we went in to the hall. There was a short explanation about our school being one of the schools at Box Hill to learn Japanese. After the explanation we saw Koetsu's parents who are going to drum. We first had a lesson about Japanese drumming and what kind of drums there were. After the lesson Kerrimuir kids got to got to go up onto the stage to play the drums. Everyone got to play the drums. At the end when every kid from Kerrimuir had played the drums the parents, teachers and the council people played the drums. At the very end we got to see the pictures of the Japanese pictures again. Then we went back to Kerrimuir. Every one said it was fun.

Assembly Presentation

2011-04-08T13:22:00.001+10:00

Scavenger Hunt Movie

2011-04-08T13:13:00.002+10:00

Hat Parade

2011-03-31T11:51:00.004+11:00

On March the 29th we started to make hats for a random partner, with Miss Francisco. We were given materials to make them but first we had to design them. Some people made top hats, others made caps and some people made masks. It was a bit difficalt at points but in the end all the hats looked magnificent! On the 30th of March we made a video of our hat parade. We had individual photos and we each had a movie about why we made the has the way we made them. I think that everybody would agree that it was fantastic!

Simple Machines Scavenger Hunt

2011-03-25T10:56:00.003+11:00

The other day 3/4A did a simple machines scavenger hunt. There were about 6 groups.
each group got 1 camera and 1 check list. In my group there was Roger and Emily. We had to go around the school and find thing that involve levers, inclined planes, wheels and axels wedges screws and compound machines. Our group found everything on the list and finished just in time. We also got to take turns of taking photos with the flip camera.

By:Grace.W

Science Works

2011-03-25T10:54:00.009+11:00

On Thursday the twenty-fourth the Grade Threes and Fours went to scinece works.

First my gorup went to the sewage pumping station. It was really fun because there were these huge ramps and my whole group was running down the ramps.

I liked the sports works the most because I liked racing Cathy Freeman.

In my group I had one adult and her name was Anne. The other kids in my group are Summer,Jacinta,David,Kelsey,Torbin and Joel.

We had a lesson about simple machines. The lady there showed us all the simple machines that we can use.

Simple Machines

2011-03-11T10:50:00.004+11:00

We have been talking about gagets and gizmos. We have been talking about the simple machines. We made lego in groups and there were 6 or 5 groups. My name is Max and my group made lots of stuff like a really LONG machine and really small machine so that's what we are doing now.

Math Graphs

2011-03-11T10:45:00.002+11:00

For the last 2 weeks our maths topic was graphs. We did all kinds of graphs like Pie graphs, tally charts and bar graphs. It was realy fun. I thought it was great. We got to choose our on topic for our graph. I chose to do a graph about people's favourite hobby.

Crazy Hair day

2011-03-11T10:42:00.004+11:00

Today, the 11th of March, 2011, The whole school had crazy hair to fundraise for Leaukemia-cancer. We all had to donate a gold coin. 3/4A all had very crazy hair. Most of us had hairspray, some people made their own crazy hair inventions. We all took some photos of our crazy hairs. For example, I had pegs in my hair, Miss Jeffery had a pink wig, Alice had a beehive hairstyle. It was a pretty crazy day, and I think everyone thought it was great.

Spelling Words

2011-03-07T17:35:00.003+11:00

Today Grace gave ME a word to learn how to spell:

antidisestablishmentarianism

Is this really a word?! Looks like I better start doing my Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check homework for my test on Friday....

Technic Lego Constructions

2011-03-01T16:53:00.004+11:00

During Feburary 3/4A made some kind of thing out of technic lego. There were six teams with four people in a team. Every team chose a name for there teams. One of the teams made a wind mill, Miss Jeffery made a wind mill out of technic lego aswell when she was little. It took realy long until we had to take a picture and then break the technic lego constructions. Lots of people didn't want to break their constructions but they had to because we had to give it to 3/4B to have a turn to make a thing from technic lego. It was sad for the people for the who wanted to keep there constructions, but I thought it was great. Wish you would give us a comment!

This Week We Won the Specialist Cup!

2011-02-25T20:09:00.001+11:00

Exposition Writing

2011-02-25T15:54:00.012+11:00

This term our writing focus is Exposition. This text type requires forming opinions, giving reasons and evidence for views, being persuasive and carefully organising paragraphs. Our class has been working very hard to learn these skills. Our first exposition can be found in the previous blog post. It was written as a shared piece, with everyone contributing their ideas. If students would like some extra practise on forming convincing arguments they may like to try this game.

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I'm working on making this bigger! Zooming in works quite well in the meantime.

Children Should Do Chores By 3/4A

2011-02-22T14:09:00.005+11:00

What do you think would happen if no one ever did any chores? The world wouldn't be itself today. Houses would be gross and disgusting. That is why children should do chores.

Chores can help children earn pocket money. If they use their money wisely they might be able to save up some money. Saving money is great. It allows people to do things they want to do like go on holidays. If chidren spend their own money they won't get spoiled.

Being helpful around the house can have some advantages. If children are helpful around the house they will give their parents more time to relax. It is not good for children to be lazy and they should help their parents out. Being helpful can even give children exercise and help to create a peaceful house.

If children do chores when they are younger, it will help them to know how to do things when they are older. It helps them to become independent and mature. Some of the skills that will help children when they grow up are cooking, hanging out the washing and cleaning.

Chores are an important part of life. If people never learnt to keep things clean they would live in a big mess. If they never learnt to save money they would not be able to buy things like houses, computers or ipads. Have you done your chores today?

A Great Student

2011-02-11T14:37:00.007+11:00

A few days ago, our class did an alphabet list. What we all had to do was for each letter we had to make a good word that a good student will do. Our class made a big poster of an alphabet. A few of the best ones were independent for I, Encourages Others for E and Team Work for T.

Getting to Know You

2011-02-11T12:25:00.006+11:00

For the last few days we've been learnig about CALC, which stands for Creating a Learning Community. 34/A and 34/B has made a movie about getting to now each other. and we wrote a 'Who Am I?' quiz. It is a quiz about pepole. We also had to draw a picture of ourselves.

Successful Classroom.

2011-02-11T12:17:00.004+11:00

A couple of days ago in clss Miss Jeffery assigned us to draw a successful classroom. My one took a long time to finish because I didn't rush, I was careful and now it's finished! It was beautiful, well to me- I don't know who else! It's very detalied, it has everybody in the class even Miss Jeffery and is
the visitors point of view. Selina drew three and they're sooo beautiful.

Welcome Back to School!

2011-02-03T00:04:00.013+11:00

I'm preparing to welcome my new class for 2011 which is very exciting! I hope that all the students and families from my grade have had a fun and restful break and have made the most of all that special time together. I'm looking forward to hearing about what you've been up to. Mrs Hamilton and I have been very busy planning for Term 1. Our Integrated Unit will be called Gadgets and Gizmos. In this unit we will learn all about simple machines and hopefully have the chance to make some wild and crazy contraptions. Enjoy your final day of holidays, kids! See you all on Friday!

Kids Still Frame Animation Movies

2010-11-10T14:27:00.009+11:00

The Space Adventure

Kaia the Dragon

The Treasure Hunt

Kids Still Frame Animation Movies

2010-11-10T12:55:00.009+11:00

Master~chef Kids

Shark Attack

The Disco Kids

3/4 camp to Arrabri Lodge

2010-11-10T12:32:00.003+11:00

on monday the 18 of october The level 3's went to Arrabri loge. we had a lot of fun ther was a pony a giant swing,flying fox,ropes cors,aqriantiring and archarry.my favrat ativity is the flying fox.

Camp- Arrabri Lodge

2010-11-10T10:37:00.007+11:00

On the 18th-20th of October level 3 had camp at Arrabri Lodge. It was a hour and a half drive to get there. The grade threes were in one bus and the grade fours in the other one. Once we got there we settled into to our cabins. I was with Lucy, Nana
Alyssa, Holly and I. We unpacked. The activities were archery, ropes, orienteering, flying fox and the giant swing. The giant swing was AWESOME! We would get harnessed up, go meters in the air, say stop, then were told to pull the red rope and you would DROP. You would drop BACKWARDS down and then swing until we stoped. But the good thing was that everybody did something. If it wasn't your turn you had to pull this white rope that would pull the person on it up and up. Then we would be told to braise. We would have to hold on to the rope very tight and you would get a fling forwards. IT WAS SO FUN! The camp fie was on Tuesday night. Mr.Kelly was singing song we were roasting marshmallows. They were great. Then on Wednesday we went home. I had so much fun. I wish I could go there again.

Puppet Incursion

2010-11-10T10:26:00.005+11:00

On Friday 5th of November level 3 watched a puppet show called Punch and Judy.Punch is a naughty man who always says "THAT IS THE WAY TO DO IT" which wasn't.
The story was about Punch hungry all the time and wanting to get his lunch so he went around town just to get his lunch. A lot of thing happened in the story which were funny and silly. At the end of the story he didn't get his lunch after all. When the show finished the owner of the show, showed us all the secrets behind the scene.

Footy Day

2010-09-17T14:22:00.001+10:00

Science Rotations: Oobleck

2010-09-03T11:57:00.003+10:00

4J did oobleck on thursday afternoon at about 2:30. We go to to different classes to do sience things like ooblek (what I'm going to talking in just er 1 sentence later), ice melting race, shaking the vanilla, sorting out which is liquid or solid. So ooblek is made of flour, water, die and that is it. If you role it for a while it goses solidy and if you stop roling it goes liquidy. So yeah we did the ooblek at 3V or Mrs Vitorio and then the next week we go to 3/4C or Mr Chaffers room. So after that we go to our classroom.

Science Rotations: Ice Melting Race

2010-09-03T10:51:00.001+10:00

Papier Mache People

2010-09-02T10:07:00.002+10:00

We Should Do More to Save Water

2010-08-10T14:31:00.010+10:00

Australia is running low on water so everyone should help save ater. The following ideas will help you so use them.

If we waste water how does it affect animals? If we take to much water from dams and rivers animals won't have water and they'll die from dehydration. It will also kill plants that aren't in gardens. So that will kill bugs and the birds and when we run out of water people will die too. We have to save water.

If we have long showers every the hot water will run out. When you have showers you'll have cold showers and cold baths.

We can save the planet but if we don't care, things can happen. So get a water tank because when it rains the water tank will catch the water. Then you will be able to use your own hose without wasting water. When it rains all the water floods the gutters, so get a bucket and get all the water and pour it on your plants.

Some people think we don't need to do more to save water because Victoria is getting a desalination plant that cleans the salt water from the sea and puts the salt back into the ocean. That would give Victoria enough water to survive on. We should still try to use less water though because the extra salt going back into the ocean will be harmful to sea creatures.

People in Australia know that they need to start saving water. It's time to start and help the people of Australia.

Kids Shouldn't Do Chores

2010-08-10T14:09:00.004+10:00

Some people think that kids should do chores at home and some people think kids should not be given chores at home.

Children should not do chores because if they are washing the dishes they might not wash them properly. Also if the kids wash knives they could accidentally cut themselves. If kids sweep the floor all the dust could go in their face, which isn't good. That is why kids shouldn't do chores.

Children should not do chores at home because they might get tired for school and they are not going to get time for homework or study at home. Children have to study first because education is very important. This is their time to study and learn things that might be good for when they are big.

If children have to do chores they might not be able to go out and meet their friends or talk with their friends. This could get tiring and can also be boring. Kids should be able to go outside and play. If kids do too much of helping they can get stressed and sick.

Some people think kids should do chores at home because they can learn how to do things responsibly but that is not true. Being responsible is good but that would be expecting too much from kids. They should get time to talk and play. Besides, they are just kids!

Finally, children should not do chores because they need a break from school. It is also their only time to study. No chores for kids!

Canteens Should Only Sell Healthy Food

2010-08-10T14:03:00.006+10:00

Canteens should sell healthy foods to children so they are healthy. Lollies give you bad health and lollies are unhealthy. It also will develop into.... CANCER! Lots of poeple are dying because of cancer.

Canteens should have healthy food because if kids eat unhealthy food they are not healthy and if they eat healthy food they are healthy.

Canteens should only sell healthy food because if children eat healthy food they can concentrate during class and can get healthier, taller and stronger.

Some people say that children should be able to make their own choice. If canteens sell junk, people might keep eating junk food and waste their money and become fat. Let me ask you, do you care about your health? If you keep eating junk you might have a weight problem.

It is Better to Live Now Than in the Past

2010-08-10T13:19:00.003+10:00

In the past we didn't have the internet and we didn't have escalators. We didn't have lifts but now we have mobile phones and we also use the internet on mobile phones. We can also watch cricket matches. We can communicate with people even overseas. We can go in planes to other places instead of taking two years to go in a ship.

It's better to live now than in the past because in the past teachers whack children a lot when they talk to the person next to them when they're supposed to be doing their work.

It's better to live now than in the past because when it was a long time ago there were lost of diseases and now the medical knowledge has improved a lot so many things will be treatable.

Some people may think that it is better to live in the past because children have more discipline and people will learn survival skills. This is true but you can still learn survival skills by camping. Also children still have discipline. It's not like children can do whatever they want.

Cats Should be Locked up at Night

2010-08-10T13:15:00.003+10:00

There have been rumours about cats screaming in the middle of the night and cats going into other houses. What do you think?

Cats should not be let out at night because they make noises and they wake people up. They fight with other cats and kill birds. Dogs also fight them and cats might die.

Secondly, if the owners don't put colars on their cats they can lose the cats. When the cats come back they could be severely injured. In the middle of the night people (especially teens) could steal them.

Cats have to be locked up at night because they hurt other pets.

It is cruel to lock up cats at night but if we don't lock up cats at night they might wander off at night and owners will lose them and they might get hit by a car at night.

Cats should be locked up at night because it causes less drama and other things.

Exposition Writing

2010-08-10T13:07:00.002+10:00

This term we have been focussing on exposition writing. Today 4J split into writing teams. The teams had to pick a statement card from a mystery box and then roll a die to see if they were going to agree or disagree with the statement. They worked together to write persuasively about their topic, following the structure of exposition writing with paragraph topics and a rebuttals. Here is what they came up with....

Exposition Writing

2010-07-12T12:05:00.003+10:00

In Term 3 we will be learning about exposition writing. This type of writing involves presenting an opinion about a topic and using persuasive arguments to try to convince readers to agree. This activity may help although you may need to zoom in quite a lot to be able to see it!

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The Kerrimur World Cup

2010-06-16T14:06:00.003+10:00

On the 15 of June, Kerrimuir P.S started its 2010 Kerrimuir World Cup! We were spilt up into teams like: Sweden, Egypt, Norway, U.S.A and Nigeria. The first game was Hungary vs. Mexico. Mexico won 1-0. The goal scorer was Daphne Papamichael. Then it was England vs. Germany. England won 3-2. Mitchell Brown scored an own goal. Then, it was Nigeria vs. U.S.A. U.S.A won 2-0. Then it was Sweden (my team) vs. Norway. WE WON 1-0!!!!! Nikita scored our only goal.

Lyre Bird Sounds

2010-06-04T14:37:00.001+10:00

Conjunction Junction

2010-06-01T16:13:00.002+10:00

Tie Me Kangaroo Down

2010-05-26T10:43:00.004+10:00

Level 3 sang a song, called 'Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport' for our school open night. We chose it because we are learning about Australian animals this term. This are the grades; 3/4C 4/J and 3/V singing the song. It turned out very good and we all liked to sing it. There was not many people that came to Open Night. There were about 20 people. The pictures in the video are ones that we took at Healesville Sanctuary.

Master Chef with Ms Jolly

2010-05-19T10:16:00.002+10:00

On friday, 4J did Master Chef with our student teacher Miss Jolly. We made Sticky Cinnamon Scrolls. We had captains for every group the team colours were Red,orange,green and blue the captains were Alyssa,Nikita,Deji and Parmeshvar. For the Sticky Cinnamon Scrolls we had three different sections like the filling the dough and the icing. After all the hard work we finished the scrolls the were scrumptious after eating them we all wanted seconds!

Tree Habitats

2010-05-19T10:02:00.004+10:00

the other day 4J measured trees with miss jolly and miss jeffery. we measured the crown,the circumference,we also measured,width and the height.We used a meter ruler to measure how big the tree was. We used a one and a half metre string to measure the width of the tree and a click wheel to measure the crown. we had about 5 groups. we used string, chalk, scissors and click wheels. We also measured the height of the tree. we did that by getting thr ratio of the shadow at that time it was double the height so, we measured the shadow it was 17m. and divided that by two and the height of the tree was 8.5m. i think measuring trees is fun!

Healsville Sanctuary

2010-05-07T15:07:00.006+10:00

On the 5/5/10, level 3 (3/4C, 3V and 4J) went on an excursion to Healsville Sanctury. We were split up into 3 groups. The red group was with Mrs. Morris and Mrs. V's student teacher, the blue group was with Mr. Chaffer and Mr. Barry and the green group was with Miss Jolly and Miss Jeffery. I was in the blue group. First, we went to the emus. Liam is scared of emus. I thought that the emu would stick its neck out and poke me.

Healesville Sanctuary

2010-05-07T14:53:00.004+10:00

On Wednesday the 5th of may, levels 3&4 went on an excursion, to Healesville Sanctuary. it took 1 hour to get there. there was two buses, year 3 bus and year 4 bus. when we got there we sorted the groups out. there was only three groups. The groups were Red, Greenand Blue. i was in Red group.

All the groups splited up. Red group went to see the Emus first. Then we went to see the other animals like Reptiles and platypuses.

Then we went to see a bird show. there was four birds. First was a Eagle then an Owl and then an Eagle again and again.

After we went to see the bird show we went to feed the Kangaroos. We fed them chopped carots. It was prety scary but it was fun.

Then we went to classes. Before we went in we went to see Kurmit the Owl. He was a torny frog mouth. the person that was incharge passed him around to have a pat. thenwe went inside and saw lots of different animals like reptiles, anphibians and mammals. First she passed the reptile. He was a type of lizard.

Leaf Australia

2010-04-23T14:36:00.006+10:00

On Friday Zachary,Parmeshvar and I were raking leaves .We made this huge pile and it kind of looked a bit like Australia so i said "This kind of looks like Australia why don't we turn it into Australia?" and they said "Sure!" so we started making it look like Australia slowly it started to look like Australia. We almost forgot about Tassie but I Remembered when we almost finished.

Super Egg 2010

2010-03-29T22:16:00.002+11:00

Tilly Comes to School

2010-03-24T09:51:00.008+11:00

On Wednesday I showed my dog to our class. My dog is called Tilly and she's a girl. My Dad came with our dog and all of the class went outside. Then my dad and I brought Tilly around for everyone to pat. Nikita kept on asking, "Can I hold Tilly? Can I hold Tilly?" Nikita finally held her.

Then we went around again for every one to hold or pat after my Dad left all of the class went to the taps to washed their hands and tipped the water from the buckets on to the plants.

Storm Report

2010-03-19T14:29:00.005+11:00

A couple of weeks ago there was hail at 3:00 and it hailed first before raining. At 3:00 I was at the swimming pool finishing off my swimming lesson when it hailed and a man was locked out when there was an emergency lock down. Half the lights went out and only the main lights were on. They had a siren and the man locked out was hit by a hail stone but it was luckily it was a small one so he did not bet knocked out or any injuries. It lasted for about a minute or two then heavey rain lasting for 15 minutes.

Cane Toad Information Report

2010-02-25T14:20:00.004+11:00

In Australia there are millions of cane toads! That may sound like a lot and it is! Each female cane toad can lay 30 000 eggs at a time. This is a big problem in Australia. These pesky toads are causing problems for native animals and pets.

Cane toads can be found in warm, northern parts of Australia such as Queensland, Northern Territory and the top of Western Austrlia. They live for five to ten years in the wild and eat anything from mice or insects to dog food! They are nocturnal and usually can only be seen at night. Their eyelids are transparent so when they blink you can still see their eyes.

Cane toads came to Australia more than 70 years ago. At that time there was a problem with beetles eating sugar cane crops. The toads were introduced from South America to eat the beetles which they did successfully. Although one problem was fixed, another one was created.

Native Australian animals and pets often eat cane toads. Cane toads have small glands of poison in sides of their necks which kills the animals. Cane toads are breeding a lot and there are so many around that native animals are becoming vulnerable and some are even in danger of extinction.

Some Australian scientists are trying to stop cane toads from causing harm to native quolls. They have come up with an idea to make sausages out of cane toads but not the poisonous bit. They also add a chemical that causes vomiting. The scientists put the sausages out where a lot of quolls live. Then they leave the scene adn the quolls come out and eat the sausages. The quolls vomit and they they don't like the taste of cane toad. LAter when they find real cane toads they won't eat them.

Cane toads have become a real problem in the northing parts of Australia. They were introduced to eat beetles that were destroying cane crops. The toads are poisonous to native animals. Scientists are coming up with ideas to stop cane toads. We hope the native animals will learn not to eat toads!

Scary Poems

2010-02-24T14:12:00.004+11:00

On the 22nd of February Holly and I were doing literacy rotations. We were doing English in a box. We chose one about poems that include scary monsters. So we made a poster with two poems and a lot of pictures of monsters and weird creatures. I did the poems in my literacy book first to think of the two poem's and Holly did the pictures we also both coloured in. It was fun and quite easy.

Goblins and Gules scare you at night
But during the day they don't give you a fright
They're weird monsters just in a way
Vampires drop blood from the past to today
So stay alert and be afraid!

Alphabet of a Great Student

2010-02-12T13:17:00.004+11:00

First Week 2010

2010-02-08T14:19:00.005+11:00

On the first week of school 4J were thinking about what makes a good student. In our literacy book we wrote down what makes a good student like be polite, keep going and try your best. We also talked about Persistence, Confidence, Getting Along, Resilience and Organisation. We wrote those words on paper keys and thought up words like never give up, try your best and be brave to show what each one meant.

Creating a Learning Community

2010-02-08T14:18:00.005+11:00

We started school for 2010 with C.A.L.C.(Creating a Learning Communnity. We did a Y chart of a sucessful classroom, 'You Can Do It!' posters, a great student alphabet chart, 'Who Am I' activites and class and CARE values. 4J is really having fun with C.A.L.C.

THANK YOU 4J

2009-12-17T20:44:00.005+11:00

I would like to thank all the students in 4J for helping to make 2009 such an enjoyable year. I have been most impressed with the way you have all helped each other out and worked together. We sure have had a lot of laughs along the way!

Thank you also to the parents and other family members who have been supportive of our school program, checked our blog regularly and left us comments. It's nice to know that people at home are interested in what we have been doing at school.

It is with some sadness that I say goodbye to this year's 4J class! I wish you all a very Happy Christmas, a safe summer holiday and a all the very best for 2010 as you move on to Grade 5 and some of you take on school leadership positions. I have confidence in your abilities! Go for it!

From Miss Jeffery

2009 refletions

2009-12-17T14:49:00.012+11:00

This year has been a good year I think for everyone because most of the class has their pen licences. I have enjoyed most of our activities that we have done this year. Some of the highlights have been Camp at Candlebark Farm. I enjoyed all the activities at camp, but I liked the Super Swooper the most because it went so fast! I also liked canoeing a lot because I did not capsize with my partner, Elly. I liked the people who was in my cabin. They were: Holly, Zoe and Sara.