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.

Pi numbers

On Thursday the 16th of July grade 4J were finding out things about circles. We went out to the asphalt to draw some circles. We also learnt about "pi" and we wrote the first 257 numbers of "pi". Today we had calculators and Miss Jeffery and I found a formula that = 3.14159265 which are the first 8 decimal digits of "pi". The sum was 360 divided by 114.591559. You can test it on the computer because it doesn't fit on a calculator.

Koonung Creek Walk

On Monday we went on a walk to Koonung Creek. There we saw all kinds of birds we saw some ducks at the creek. Gavan was taking samples of the water. We talked about if there were any connections to the Yarra River. It was a tiring walk and most of us sat down as we stopped. Mrs V took the photos. The water was dirty when you looked in there. We took a group picture so everyone was in there. We had that walk because our topic was SPLASH!!!!! On the way back everyone was tired and floppy.

Welcome Back for Term 3

We got back from our holidays just about a week ago and we have are starting term 3.
Our topic this term is SPLASH! and we are going to do some work on water, coastlines and habitat enviroments. We made a wordle with all our topic words and it looked really good.We also went on a work to Koonung Creek and took some samples of the water. We are really excited about this new term and we can't wait until we have some fun. We are really looking foward to this term and also can't wait for the next one!

Miss Jeffery's 30th Birthday

I had a lovely day yesterday for my birthday and it was nice sharing it with another birthday girl, Mrs Italiano! The kids in 4J certainly spoiled me by singing Happy Birthday twice (very loudly) with 30 claps. Thankyou very much to Gavan and Belinda for bringing in delicious cupcakes and 30 helium balloons in my favourite colours! What a surprise! Thankyou also to Racael, Cathy, Alison and the staff at Kerrimuir for the beautiful flowers. It was a very special day.

The Lastest Craze to Hit Level 3....

All the girls from 4J, 3/4C and 3V did a special hand thing in a huge circle. All the boys danced in the middle of the circle. The hand thing is called Peter Pan. The girl who made it up is Catherine. Miss Jeffery and Mr Chaffer video taped it. We got to watch it on the interactive whiteboard. The words go like this: "Peter Pan is a man. He can fly through the sky. Tinkerbell is a girl. She can fly through the sky. FREEZE!" and we all had to freeze. It was so Fun!!!

Our Gardening Week

These past few days our class has been gardening after lunch. We have been sweeping, brushing, emptying buckets of water from under the drinking taps and picking up rubbish. During lunch and recess some of our class and some of other classes did some sweeping. We are doing this because it helps our school. On Friday it was our last day of cleaning the school. Anna and Alex got a certificate for cleaning.