Got-Game Dance

Got-Game Dance

In Term 3 we participated in. Got-Game Dance.  It was on every, Wednesday. Before we started to do our dance routine we did, Star Jumps, Stretches, Touch our Toes and lots more! Got-Game Dance was lots of fun! We presented our routine to our parents at the end of term.

   By: Isabella

  

Year 4 Excursion

By Francesca, Mikaela, Edmond and Jonathan

On 4th of August Year 4 went on an excursion to The Hyde Park Barracks, because we are learning about convicts. We were separated into 2 groups and we had a look at all the cool things at the museum and and we listened to stories. When the convicts were naughty they would get hit with the Cat-O-Nine tails, which is just a whip but it has 9 ropes from it and at the end there are knots that cut through the convicts skin.

We went to a room where our guide made a little rat nest under pieces of floor boards, when they opened it they pulled out a fake rat. We got to touch some of replica the items that were from long ago. After that we got to dress up as convicts and did a play. We were even able to sleep in hammocks. Then we go to go outside and make our own bricks out of sand the way we made it is how the convicts used to as well.  Afterwards we made a brick wall out of foam bricks like the pattern on the buildings, it was 2 bricks horizontally and 1 brick vertically. We had to work together to make our wall and keep it from falling over.

When we finished at the Barracks we had lunch and then went to a park and played, we had to do a scavenger hunt this is how it went, we all got a piece of paper that had the letters A-Z spaced out and we had to write something that we could see beginning with that letter. It was so fun! When we finished at the park we went to St Mary's Cathedral and there happened to be mass on,  we lit some candles and prayed. It was such an amazing day!

   

 

What is courage?

In Religious Education we are exploring the Holy Spirit.  In particular we are looking at the gift of courage.  As a class we discussed what courage means. Then we each had to use Google Drawings to create a picture that explains what courage means to us. Have a look at the video of all our pictures.

How can you show courage this week?

Vocabulary Memes

We have been working really hard at our vocabulary. Have a look at some of our sensational vocabulary memes.

By Annabelle and Mikaela

By Jonathan and Nathan

By Mia and Martin

By Isabella and Joanne

Vocabulary Challenge

                    

This week for vocabulary we had to use our vocabulary words like luscious, gale, thrilled, jostling, gazing and ferociously to type some descriptive sentences.

What we had to do!

firstly we had to sign in our computer and open the Google Form Miss Lee sent us following that  We had to choose some of our vocabulary words to write some descriptive sentences.For example:

I was Thrilled to go on the roller coaster.or another example: I was ferociously writing on the computer to get my homework done. As we submitted the sentences they appeared on our smartboard. continuing that  who ever got  on 10, 20, 30, 50, 300, 350 or 260 got  table points . Lastly the person wrote the  most  sentence got 10000 points for their table and 1 signature. Our class goal was 100 sentences and we ended up with 314 sentences. Great work Year 4!

By Deleena and Gabriella

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Chapters 9- 21

Here are some more chapter summaries from the marvellous book 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.'

Chapter 9

Charlie came home from school, Grandpa Joe was the only grandparent awake.  Grandpa Joe had a purse with some money in it.  He told Charlie to run to the nearest corner shop to buy a Wonka Bar. The opened it together but there was no golden ticket.

Chapter 10

Mr Bucket lost his job and the family began to starve.  One day when it started to get cold, and the snow started to fall, Charlie tried to conserve his limited energy.  On the way back from school he was the hungriest he had ever felt. Suddenly, he saw a 50 pence piece half buried in the snow.  He decided to buy just one luscious bar of chocolate.

Chapter 11

Charlie is in the shop and he decides to buy a chocolate bar with the money he has found.  He is so hungry and is delighted to devour the first delicious bar.  He then decides to buy a second bar and as he opens it he discovers the golden ticket…..the one he has been hoping for.  Some people in the shop try to buy it from him but the shopkeeper advises Charlie to run home immediately and not to stop or talk to anyone.

Chapter 12

Charlie rushed home screaming to his mother saying “I’ve got the fifth golden ticket, I’ve got the fifth golden ticket.”  His mother and the four old grandparents stared in shock until Grandpa Joe jumped out of bed in excitement. Mr Bucket came home and read the instructions of the golden ticket aloud to the family. Mr and Mrs Bucket decided that Grandpa Joe would go with Charlie to the factory tomorrow.

Chapter 13

All the golden ticket finders were standing outside the gates waiting for them to open up. All the children except for Charlie were jostling to get to the gates. Finally a church bell rang and the gates opened up, to all the children who found the 5 golden tickets.  

Chapter 14

The children and their parents got to see Mr Willy Wonka.  Mr Willy Wonka was dressed in a purple coat, a top hat and had a small goatee on his face.  He was very excited and spoke very quickly. He ushered the winners into his factory.

Chapter 15

Mr Willy Wonka opened the door to the chocolate room.  The winners were amazed at the sight.  There was a tremendous chocolate waterfall, a grass made from swudge and lots of edible plants. Across the river they saw tiny little men, called Oompa-Loompas.

Chapter 16

The Oompa- Loompas are from a land far away from where Mr Wonka’s factory is. The Oompas-Loompas lived in a land called Loompa Land and the only thing they liked to eat was cacao beans. Mr Willy Wonka made a deal with them, he said if they come to work for him he would give them all the cacao beans they want. The Oompa-Loompas agreed.

Chapter 17

Augustus Gloop was eating the chocolate from the river and then suddenly he fell into the chocolate river and got sucked up the pipe.  Mr and Mrs Gloop were very worried about their son, so the Oompa-Loompas took them to the fudge room to find him. The other Oompa-Loompas sang a song about Augustus.  

Chapter 18

Mr Wonka ushered the winners and their families into a tremendous pink boat. The boat took them through a tunnel that had different doors leading off to amazing rooms eg Creams etc.

Chapter 19

All of the lucky winners and their families entered the Inventing Room.  Mr Willy Wonka was thrilled to show them his special invention- the Everlasting Gobstopper. You could keep sucking the gobstopper and it would never get smaller. There was even Hair Toffee that allowed you to grow hair, beards and moustaches.

Chapter 20

Mr Wonka showed them an amazing machine.  It was a gum machine that made a special strip of gum. The gum was like a three course meal; tomato soup, roast beef and potatoes, and blueberry pie.

Chapter 21

Violet decided that she wanted to try the piece of gum.  She could feel the tomato soup running down her throat into her stomach.  She could also taste the roast beef and blueberry pie.  Unfortunately, the blueberry pie caused her to turn blue and swell up into a blueberry. The Oompa-Loompas led her parents away to the juicing room.

What has been your favourite chapter so far? Why?

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Chapters 1-8

This Term we are reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory By Roald Dahl. We will be keeping you up with our progress through the chapters. Here are our summaries for the first 8 Chapters.

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Chapter 1

The Bucket Family is a very poor family.  Their son Charlie is a lover of chocolate unfortunately he only gets a chocolate bar once a year on his birthday.  To make things worse he lives near Wonka’s Chocolate Factory.

Chapter 2

After dinner Charlie went and sat with his grandparents who began telling him about the wonderful Mr Willy Wonka. Mr Willy Wonka could make marvellous but absurd creations like making chocolate ice cream that never melted and chewing gum that would not lose its taste.

Chapter 3

Grandpa Joe told a story to Charlie. Mr Willy Wonka built Prince Pondicherry (an Indian Prince) a castle made out of chocolate.  Mr Wonka warned the prince to start eating the palace, unfortunately he did not and on a hot day the palace melted. Grandpa Joe also informed Charlie that no workers went into the factory and no workers left the factory.

Chapter 4

Grandpa Joe continued telling Charlie about Mr Willy Wonka.  He said that Mr Willy Wonka had to close the factory because spies were stealing his ideas. One day the chimneys started bellowing smoke again but the gates were still closed.  Through the windows the shadows of little workers could be seen.  Just then Mr Bucket came in through the door saying ‘Mr Wonka will open the factory to a lucky few!’

Chapter 5

Willy Wonka had an article in the newspaper announcing that he was going to hide 5 golden tickets in his Wonka Bars.  These golden tickets would allow 5 children to enter his chocolate factory.

Chapter 6

The whole world was searching frantically for the golden tickets.  Augustus Gloop (an extremely fat boy) found the first golden ticket. A spoilt girl, Veruca Salt found the second golden ticket. Who will find the next golden tickets?

Chapter 7

It was Charlie’s birthday, he woke up and went into his Grandparent’s room. There was great suspense as he carefully unwrapped his chocolate bar birthday present. The chocolate bar was a Wonka’s Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight. He was hoping that there would be a golden ticket under the wrapper. Unfortunately, there was not, it was just a bar of chocolate.

Chapter 8

The next two golden tickets were found.  One was found by Violet Beauregarde, a world record holder gum chewer.  She had been chewing her current piece of gum for a solid three months. The other ticket was found by Mike Teavee, who loved watching gangster and shooting movies.  Mike Teavee collected toy pistols and wore them around his body.

Who is your favourite character so far? Why?