Monday, 24 October 2016

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

  

Wednesday, 10 August 2016

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!
   
 





Friday, 24 June 2016

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?

Tuesday, 14 June 2016

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

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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?

Thursday, 19 May 2016

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?

CARES Excursion

Image by FlamingText.comOn Thursday {28/4/16] Year 4 went on an excursion to learn about road safety at C.A.R.E.S in Bass Hill. We were split up into 3 groups; green, yellow and red. We rotated through the skills track, media room and road track. Skills track was a concrete area with cones where Constable Hoza taught us hand signals and to avoid obstacles such as cones, signs and traffic lights.

Next, there was the road track which was led by Constable Amanda. On the road track we learnt the road signs. After we learnt the road signs, we rode on the track where there was  a roundabout, traffic lights, stop signs and many other things that you might find on the road.

After that we went to the media room which was led by the wonderful Miss Lee. In the media room we watched a short clip about Ed’s Amazing Bike Adventure which is about road safety
and helmets. Then we had to answer some questions about the video clip.

We had a fantastic time!

By Jonathan and Calvin

Cross Country

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On Friday 19th April a group of children from Christ the King attended the cross country .  It was a long race , students under 10 years old ran 2000 metres and students over 10 years old ran the 3000 metres. All of us did a great job and we all cheered each other on. We were very tired but we all had lunch and water. It was  great to see other schools because the people that went to the cross country had some friends there . There were people around you to help you if you got sick when you're racing, they were in yellow bibs. If  you made it to the next level you got a ribbon. The colours for the ribbons were blue,green and red. The first 8 people to finish made it to the next level. Congratulations on a wonderful effort to all the participants.

By Brandon and Chanel

Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Year 4's Visualising Glasses

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By Jonathan and Mikaela 


Year 4 have made their own Visualising Glasses. Miss Lee has found a special visualising song and when Year 4 hear that song they heartily put their Visualising Glasses on. When the song is finished and everybody is wearing their visualising glasses Miss Lee reads a story. While Miss Lee is reading the story it is Year 4’s job to use their imagination to visualise and make a movie in their head of the story being read. 












Did you enjoy making the visualising glasses and why?

Saturday, 5 March 2016

How To Train Your Dragon Chapters 4 to 7

We are still enjoying reading the novel How To Train Your Dragon.  Here is an update of summaries of the chapters we have read over the past couple of weeks.

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Chapter 4 by Mikaela and Brandon
Hiccup caught a common Garden Dragon and all the other vikings started to laugh. All the vikings had to train their dragon. Hiccup and Fishlegs were told ahout a book called How To Train Your Dragon. They found it and all it said in it was to scream at them. Hiccup got really furious and now is going to have to train his dragon with his one rules.

Chapter 5 by Amelia
This chapter is about Hiccup talking to his Grandpa, Old Wrinkly about the best way to train a dragon. Hiccup is afraid that he will not be able to train his dragon and so he will be thrown out  of the Hooligan tribe.

Chapter 6 by Francesca and Joseph
This chapter is about the boys finding a sea dragon. This sea dragon was starving, he was so hungry.The sea dragon was buried under there for so long that he got suspended for 700 years.Then the dragon was trying to find his way out but he was trapped sleeping under the deep, deep sea,there was no way out for the dragon.

Chapter 7 by Katrina and Elisabeth
Fishlegs and Hiccup was at Hiccup’s house when the dragon woke up. Hiccup started to talk to it, but he was embarrassed because Fishlegs was there. Fishlegs told Hiccup you can’t talk to it because it is an ANIMAL! Toothless blew out smoke rings. Toothless was extremely hungry. Hiccup knew Toothless wanted fish but, he did not have any. So he asked if Toothless wanted to eat the cat. However, they were using the cat to eat the mice from a room. So Toothless decided to eat Stoick’s beard. ‘Get him off’ yelled Stoick. Hiccup was really tired. So he decided to go to bed. Instead of leaving Toothless in front of the fire Hiccup took him to bed with him. Hiccup told Toothless not to snore too loud so Hiccup could sleep. Well he decided to snore anyway. Hiccup was kept awake in bed while Toothless was snoring. It really cold. Finally, he fell into a deep, deep sleep.

What was your favourite part of these chapters?

Partitioning Scavenger Hunt

By Martin and Max

On Monday 22nd February Year 4 had fun in Mathematics by participating in a scavenger hunt about partitioning.

For homework we had to watch this Miss Lee Tube video about partitioning.  


Then in our Mathematics lesson we searched the playground to find all the partitioning questions.  We worked with groups of 3, 2 or 1.   After we finished we we had to make a partitioning for people to work out.

Check out some of our photos of this fun activity!











What did you like best about this lesson?  Comment below with your answer.

Sunday, 14 February 2016

How to Train Your Dragon Chapters 1 and 2

In English we are reading How To Train Your Dragon.  Check out the summaries of the chapters we have read so far.

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Chapter 1 by Year 4
We were introduced to our Viking characters; Hiccup, Snotlout, Fishlegs, Speedifist, Stoick the Vast, Gobber the Belch, Tuffnut Junior, Wartihog, Clueless.  They were given an initiation challenge to capture a dragon.

Chapter 2 by Isabella
The Vikings were ready for training but, Hiccup wasn’t confident. Hiccup was chosen to be in charge because his dad was the current leader of the clan.  Snotlout did not think that Hiccup should be a leader because he thought he was useless. Snotlout wasn’t the only person who thought about that, even the trainers also were on the same boat.

Chapter 2 by Martin
They were in the dragon nursery. Snotlout pushed Hiccup out off the way and commanded everyone. Hiccup went in first. They all smelled the dragon stench. The dragons were all fast asleep and some were snoring. They were looking for the biggest dragon that can fit in their basket. Snotlout tried to find a Monsterous Nightmare. Hiccup found a dragon that was the right size and put it in carefully. Fishlegs woke up the dragons. The dragon chased the vikings out of the cave.  Gobber punched the dragons away from the boys. The Vikings had to jump out of the cave in the river below, Hiccup nearly drowned down in water.

What have you enjoyed about the books so far?

How To Stay Safe Online

Our PDHPE topic is Cybersafety.  We are exploring ways that we can stay safe online.  We watched a video called #gameon.


After watching the video we created this list of ways that we can stay safe online:

  • Don’t spend too long on the internet
  • Don’t tell anyone your passwords
  • Be careful what you post online
  • Be smart
  • Don’t send messages or pictures to people who you do not know
  • Don’t tell anyone your personal information
  • Only go on age appropriate sites
  • Nothing is free
  • Tell your parents and teachers if something happens
  • Get permission before using the internet
How do you stay safe online?


Saturday, 6 February 2016

Australia Day

In our History Unit we are exploring Celebrations Around the World.  The first celebration we explored was Australia Day. Check out the Fact File we created about Australia Day.  

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Australia Day
Date celebrated: 26th January 
Why is it celebrated? Australia Day celebrates the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney Cove on 26th January 1788.  Indigenous Australians think that we should celebrate the day on another day because understandably for them it is a sad day. 
How is it celebrated? Australians go to concerts, have BBQs and many people from other countries become citizens. The Australian of the Year is announced at a big celebration on the day before Australia Day.


How do you and your family celebrate Australia Day?

Wednesday, 27 January 2016

Learning In Year 4

This year is going to be an exciting year full of many adventures in learning!  We are going to improve our skills in Mathematics, explore the world of Literature through a variety of authors, become chromebook and cybersafety experts, deepen our relationship with God, increase our vocabularies, learn about Australia and other cultures and explore scientific mysteries, just to name a few.  What are you most excited about learning in Year 4? Comment below with your answer. 

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Saturday, 23 January 2016

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