VISITING THE MIDDLE YEARS

On Wednesday the 18th, the year 3’s & 4’s walked up to the middle years campus. When they were up there they did three activities. The three activities were; games on the interactive white board, stepping stones and last but not least, yellow pages. When we did the Yellow pages , we had to write our name and what we are good at, so if someone needed help they would know who to see about it. With the game stepping stones, we would have a caller who would be the person at the start of the line, the whole class chose who was the loudest person to be the caller. They would have to yell step, and there has to be 2 feet on each rock it’s apart of team work. On the interactive whiteboard we got into alphabetical order of our names, then the teacher put us in groups of 4 and we needed a writer and a timer. We got a sheet of paper and we had to write what we wanted to do next year on the interactive white board, to help our learning skills. We were told that next year at the middle years campus the year 5’s will be learning about the heart and the brain and all of the other parts of the body. All of the year 4’s are really exited about going to the senior campus. Thank-you to all of the year 4 teachers for helping us through the year.

By Ellie and Kylie

Healthy Hamburgers

Ingredients
- Beef mince - lettuce- Beetroot - bread- Tomato - sauce- Cheese grated -onion- Bread crumbs- Tomato paste

Equipment
- Can opener - scales- Knifes - BBQ - Grater -chopping board- Bowls - spoons- Baking paper

Method
- First grab your mince beef and put it in a bowl with onion, bread crumbs and tomato paste.
- Roll little parts of the mixture into balls and flatten them into circles and put them on the BBQ.
- Leave them until they are cooked brown on each side.
- While they are cooking chop up some tomatoes and break up the lettuce.
- Open the can of beetroot and grate the cheese.
- Once they are ready and brown, put them on a plate with 2 pieces of bread.
- Then choose from beetroot, tomato or cheese
.- And finish it off with some sauce

Written by Alisa
Published by Cassie

Local Safety Walk

On Monday the 26th of October 2009 the Year 4’s went on a local safety walk. We walked around the Mill Park Lakes estate. We went to see if we could find any safety hazards or concerns. We found a whole lot of hazards. Eg: pattersons curse, open drains, tall grass, sharp rocks, utilities and algi in the water. We also saw that the lake near the milk bar and Sinners pizza had no rail guards near the water. We were amazed by how many hazards we found. It just goes to show how careful we have to be.

By Tyler & Drew

WE KNOW HOW TO ROCK!!!!!!

On Friday the 16th of October, 4.1 Kathryn’s home group went to music. We were studying African music using bells, shakers and drums. We started to experiment with the instruments and then Gary gave some people some instruments and a beat. When we got to the third group we all got the hang of it. We kept going to the end of the lesson. Gary joined in with the saxophone and everyone got an instruments from the box and joined in.

By Cassie

space writer

One day I looked through a telescope for the first time.
I saw three things through the Telescope.
The first thing I saw was the Southern Cross it looked just like a kite.
The second thing I saw was the 2 points that point to the Southern Cross.
And third the most AMAZING thing of all was Jupiter and two of its moons !!!



By Grae

Imax & Planetarium

On the 3rd of August The Lakes Grade 4’s went to the Planetarium & Imax. First we got on the bus and took off. When we got to Scienceworks we split into our home groups and met up with a man that works there. He let us have a play. There were three sections. We didn’t go in one of them ... that was the house section. The ones we went in were sport and math. In sport there was rock climbing, a little track, snowboarding, skateboarding, a bike and up above was a skeleton on a bike copying you and lots more. In Math there is weight, height, strength, balance, eye sight and lots more. After we did that stuff we went in the Planetarium. The show we watched was a thing about a girl called Anna. Anna never saw her teacher and she had to listen to him through a radio. She learnt about the Earth’s tilt and how the seasons pass. In Winter, the sun would be low in the sky in Summer, it will be right above you in the middle of the sky. In Autumn the sun is just above the Winter sun and in Spring just above the Autumn sun. After that show we saw all the constellations. After all that we hopped on the bus and went to Imax. When we got there we had to be quiet and so we went in one of the theatres and watched some astronauts in 3D in space that went for 45 minutes. When it was finished we got back on the bus and went back to school.

The End

By Drew

space suit making

In the past few weeks the year 4’s have been designing and making space suits for people to wear at the concert. We have all been put into groups of 3 or 4. The group of four got $300 and the group of three got more money. Before we started making the space suits we had and auction from the rare items box. When we finished the auction we are then able to start buying one piece of our suit at a time and when we had got all our equipment we then made the suits. The way the suit has to work is you have to be able to run and jump in it but the suit also has to cover you from neck to toe.The way some groups have done their suits is they’ve bought a shirt from home and used that for a shirt and others have used black ducked for their pants other groups have used plastic sleaves for the arms and more ideas for the suits. Each group has done a wonderful job on their suits. All groups space suits look great
By Mikaela S

Sports Day at the Lakes

On Wednesday we had sports day. We went to a race track. There were lots of things to do, Year 4 and overdid events and Year 3 and under did novelty events. At sports day the scores ended up 4th Evans, 3rd Beachley, 2nd Rafter and 1st Jackson.I am one of Jackson’s house captains and I’m pround that my team one.
By Nathan B

Jackson Wins Athletics

On Wednesday the 5th of August Year 4’s went to the Meadow Glen athletics day track. We left at 9:15 and got there9:30.

We separated into are houses and cheered on our 4 houses
red Jackson
green rafter
yellow evens and
blue beachley.
There were pom - poms to make are cheers and win chants.
At the end of the day people tallide up the scores.
JACKSON WON BY 8 POINTS

by Cassie

My favourite part of Sovereign Hill camp

On the 25th of may 2009 the year fours went to Sovereign Hill.
My favourite part of camp was when we went into the gold mine tour. All of the boys were in front of the girls and Kathryn was behind. All of the girls were scared. The girls stayed close to Kathryn until they came out of the mine. That was my favourite part of the year four camp to sovereign hill.
by Ellie L

My Camp!

On Monday 25th May we left to camp we went to Sovereign Hill.
It took ages to get to Ballarat I was going to fall asleep but I didn’t.
When we got there we made our beds, they were bunkbeds.
After we went into Sovereign Hill it was really muddy and smelly. Then we went into groups I was in Selma’s group so we went into the Mine Tour it was really dark.
I had a lot of fun at camp!
By Eleni T!

My favourite things on camp.

On camp I first did gold panning. I wanted to find gold but I didn’t find any. My favourite show was the gold smelting because you learn a lot of information. By Nathan F

At Camp

On Tuesday morning Kathryn jumped on Debbie then Debbie woke up. Selma and Dani stood there laughing. I liked doing routines in the morning. I made up a lot of moves. Our cabin won 2 times, I was really proud of my cabin. I hope there is another camp soon. Sharmoni

My Favourite Thing on Camp

When we went on camp my favorite thing was panning because I found 5 pieces of Gold. I also bought a jar of leaf gold for $8. When I went panning with Selma's group I found a piece of Gold and gave it to Hannah

Mikhaila

Footy at the Lakes

Today (12/5/09) the Grade 4s had a clinic with some Carlton football players. We got into little groups and did some races and drills. They taught us how to handball, kick and bounce the ball, some people didn’t know how to bounce the ball and so they just touched it on the ground. It was fantastic!! They also told us about their diet, being away from home, and their training and how they work as a team. They came back to our room and autographed some of our things like, diaries, t shirts, paper and footballs.

This clinic taught me how to play football- Cassie
It was awesome I had a great time – Lachlan
It was a great opportunity – Kristian
Today was a very good day to meet some football players – Alisa
I had fun – Brianna
It was awesome and I’m so glad they came to our school. – Dylan A
We were really impressed with your behaviour- Carlton Players (Jordan Bannister, Aaron Joseph, Darren Macaffer)

Recycling Excursion

Today after assembly we went to this place to learn about recycling. Kathryn’s home group and Dani’s home group were there, we saw Sally and Katie, they had bags. Katie told us what we could recycle and what we can’t recycle. Afterward we played a game, Katie chose three team captains Caitlin W, Vanessa and me. Caitlin’s team lost and Vanessa and my team won. Katie told us other things about recycling. She also gave us a poster. I had so much fun. This was fun I wish I could play it again and again. Kristian

Today our home group went on an incursion. The incursion was teaching us how to recycle rubbish. When we got there we sat down. Two ladies were waiting and their names were Katie and Sally. We sang a song. The song sounds like the 7,6,5,4,3,2,1 we can recycle everyone. We played a game called race to recycle. There were 3 teams with people in them. The captains were Ethan (yr 3), Angela and Ellie. In the end Ellie’s team won. We can recycle cans, hard plastic and other things. Nathan F

This morning after assembly Kathryn and Dani’s classes went to see an incursion about recycling. The presenter, Katie told us how to look for numbers on the plastic things. She also told us a rhyme 7,6,5,4,3,2,1 we can recycle every1. We played a game that required us to split into 3 teams. Our team leaders were Kristian, Vanessa and Caitlin W. The game we played was where each team had a bag and everyone would be in a line. You had to put an item in wither a garbage bin or recycling bin. I was in Vanessa’s team. In the end it was a tie between Vanessa and Kristian’s teams. Katie gave us a poster about recycling. Mikaila