MAY.

MAY.

Inquiry Learning

4W has been investagating the 3 different types of governments which are Federal,State and Local (The City of Knox).We found out the leaders are the Prime Minister,Premier and the Mayor.The Prime Minister is Kevin Rudd,the Premier is John Brumby and the Mayor is Joe Cassari. [by Chloe and Sharielle]

Maths

In our maths this term we have been practising: decimals and place value, rounding off and number facts, polygons and geometric shapes. We have done: math games in class and online,speedy maths, fraction bingo, millionare math and tables knockout. We always enjoy and have fun in this subject and we hope YOU do to! [by Reid-Patrick Chambers.]

Handwriting

Only Trent in grade 4w has his pen licence. We are learning how to do our diagonal joins neatly on the line. We are trying to all do our joins neatly so we can all get our pen licence. [by Tom and Nevah]

Awards
Every week we have 1 to 2 "Students of the Week". The students of the week have been Justin, Ji-Won, Cloe, Samantha and Anthony C. Our School Achievement Award winners have been Blake, Samantha and Sharielle.

The Vegie Patch.

We have been looking after the vegie patch this term. The plants that are in the garden are garlic, beetroot, broccoli, cabbage, silver beet, lettuce and strawberries. We have already picked some of them and sold them to the teachers. We buy more seeds with the money. Our favourite job is caterpillar hunting. We don't like to use any chemicals so every couple of days we catch over 200 white cabbage moth caterpillars.

By Sean and Lachlan

Writing.
In writing we've been writing letters to our penpals in Canada. How we chose our penpals was by Mr Wynde putting the names in a hat and we pulled one out. Mine was Sydney and Isabella's was Beatrice. Also we have been writing to Mr Wynde about our thinking in reading. In the letter we include what we visualise, predict, whatever connections there are and questions we ask about the book. We have also been working on trying to write full sentences and make the presentation look great.

By Kirra and Isabella.

Reading

We have been increasing our reading stamina and continuing our independent reading.We have also been connecting, predicting and using our visualising o finding out who the characters are.skills. As well we have been asking questions about what we are reading. We have been finding out where the story has been set and are. We have all been reading lots of "Lexile" books and doing the quizez to see how well we'ver understood them. Lots of kids have got certificates for achieving higherr levels. Hamish is a reading machine. He is our leader and is on the silver level. We are trying hard to get up to the next level.

BY Caitlin B and Caitlin W

Swimming at School

This year in term 2 we had swimming for the first 2 weeks.Next year we have swimming too. Swimming was very funny. I was scared to jump in the water but now I am not scared.

By Ji-Won

Almost all the kids in our grade did swimming. The place we had swimming was Paul Sadler. On the last day of swimming we played some games. We had 4 teacheres. One in one group, one in another and 2 in another.

By Xera

WHEW, WHAT A TERM!

Welcome to the first entry of 4W's blog for 2010. What a hectic first term we have had.

After a short getting to know you period we got stuck into lots of hard work. Our focus has been developing our reading stamina so we can read quietly for longer periods and on thinking about what we are reading. Our slogan is "Readers are Thinkers". This means we not only read the words but are able to think about what we are reading, ask ourselves questions, make predictions about what might happen and make connections to ourselves, other books and to the real world. We are showing our thinking in our "Reading Reflection Journals" by writing letters to Mr Wynde about what we are reading. This helps us understand what we read. Of course we are also doing lots of practise at home!

In maths we have learnt to read and write numbers to 1 million,, consolidated our addition and subtraction skills, created some fantastic column graphs and extended our knowledge of polygons.

Our multidisciplinary topic has been " Where Do We Come From?" Did you know our families come from 18 different countries? We have learned about how multicultural Australia is and how other cultures have made Austalia a more interesting place to live. Thanks to Xera's mum Argentina, Ashna's dad Hitesh and Caitlin's grandpa John for sharing their immigration stories with us. Their talks were very interesting and gave us a first hand account of a migrant's experiences. We are busy preparing our research to present to the class.

We prepared the vegie patch and planted some lettuce, cabbages and broccoli.

Our daily PE sessions and the cross country have helped to keep us fit.

Students of the Week.
Congratulations to our Students of the Week so far: Stephen, Isabella, Hamish, Caitlin B, Blake and Sharielle. These students have been great contributors to our class.

Whew! I think we're all ready for a holiday!