2009 Reflections

It has been a great year of grade four this year having Miss Jeffery as my teacher. There is so much we have done during this year.
Term One
In term one our topic was Keeping in Touch. For our topic we had pen pals. For pen pals I had a girl named Anna. Our pen pals came from the U.S.A. Another thing we did was CALC which was fun.
Term Two
In term two our topic was 'This is Australia'. For our topic we did a project on a famous Australian. I did Kylie Minogue as my project. We also sang at assembly. The two songs we sang were 'This is Australia' and 'Botany Bay.'
Term Three
In term three our topic was Splash. For our topic we made penguins out of paper Mache. With the penguins we did some still frame animation the animations took a lot of time. Another thing we did was Marine animals posters. I did my poster on a puffin.
Term four
In term four our topic was Gadgets and Gizmos. For our topic we has an incursion for woodwork. At the woodwork we made Wind up speed boats. I had a lot of fun making them. We also made something called a Whirly gig.
Over all I had a great year four.

Woodwork incursion

Today 4J went to a woodwork incursion in the art room. We made a speedboat. Our instructor's name was George. Some of the things we used were a saw, sandpaper and wood. It took us an hour and a half to make. We shared a desk, but made our own speedboat. We added a little stick and put a woodwork sticker on the stick to make a flag. I had a great day!

Bowling 'Pengmation'

Speedy

A few weeks ago 4J started to read a book called Speedy by Colin Theile.
It was about a boy called Mike who fell in love with a wild dolphin called Speedy . They live in Pebble Bay. Each year the Pebble Bay Fish Festival came round. They hold the fish Festival to find out who is the best fisher in Pebble Bay. In the middle of the book Speedy got hurt. The owners of Speedy called a doctor and he said " the cut was 20ms long ", the people in the book said" do you know how he got hurt" the doctor said " the cut looks like a harpoon shot him.
During the night Dan saw two men cutting something. Then in the morning the saw the mooring line.
In the end it was a really happy book because speedy has a baby dolphin called Slim.

Maths with Miss Marshall

We have been doing a lot of maths work with Miss Marshall. The work we have been doing is addition and subraction which is a lot of fun. The other day the class did a work sheet called 'Secret Code Maths' which was when we had to answer the formal subraction but in codes but up the top it said the number and then the picture to show what the number was. I thought that I was doing it correctly but I wasn't borrowing from the bigger number which made the answer wrong. Then the next day I went on the floor with Ruby because she didn't get it either. Then we worked with Miss Marshall and did some more formal subtraction with MAB and figured out the work sheet. After we finished the work sheet we did some extra formal subtraction in our maths books. Then Ruby and I got it and found it fun.

'LOST IN TOYS'

There was a girl missing, she was gone over night. The police are looking all over for her. They could not find her, not one single piece of evidence. Last night she went to her friends house and did not come home that night. She said to her friend ‘I am going to go home now, bye'. Luckily today she is at home and safe and sound. But the question you want to know is 'Where was she?' She was in a magical world of toys.