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