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

Grace O's "or" Poem

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

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!