These are some of the things that we have enjoyed doing this term in 4A…
SCIENCE
This term in 4A science we have been learning about materials and their elasticity, absorbency and fire retardancy.
One of our extremely fun activities was designing our own toy. We designed cool boats, planes and cars on paper. We learnt why certain materials were used in certain areas.
Another unforgettable experiment was testing fire retardancy by putting a fireman’s suit near FIRE! The chemical in the suit is called “Proban,” the chemical will self-extinguish itself when removed from the fire source.
- By Arun Rajayogan and Senne Woolley
ACCELERATED READER
Accelerated Reader is a program that allows children to do quizzes on books that they have read. You get words and points for doing quizzes! If you read one million words you get to be in the Millionaire’s Club…For getting into the Millionaire’s Club you get a trophy, a place on the club plaque, and get invited to the Millionaire’s Club party.
COME ON READ SOME BOOKS!!!
- By Jack Martin, Cain O’Neill and Garren Furtardo
MY CHINESE TEACHER
Our Chinese teacher’s name is Regina and she has been teaching us Mandarin. Regina lives in Beijing. We’ve learnt to count from one to twelve in Chinese and we can sing the happy birthday song. Regina has shown us Chinese food like dumplings, rice and noodles and taught us how to use chopsticks. Also, one lesson we watched a video that Chinese kids like, it is a funny panda song. We’ve learnt so much Chinese this year.
- By Finley Ryan and Blake Vos
TIMES TABLES CHALLENGE
8×8=64 9×8=72 10×8=80 11×8=88 12×8=96
YAY!!! I did my eights in under 20 seconds! In 4A, this year we have been learning our times tables by trying to say our 4,6,7,8,9,11 and 12s in less than twenty seconds at a time. There have been three people so far that have completed the whole thing Sophia, Garren and Cain.
- By Molly Jones and Sophia Costin
4A IS WORKING HARD FOR ENTREPRENEUR’S DAY
4A is preparing for a special event called Entrepreneur’s Day. This special event is when we make stuff and sell it to the Pre-Primaries all the way to the High School students to raise money for a charity. This year we have chosen to raise money for Compassion Australia.
We are all working very hard. We are meeting with our groups every Tuesday afternoon to work on our banners, posters and other stuff. We are striving to be amazing on Entrepreneur’s Day!
- By Georgia Spiranovic, Alira Lund, Anne Mitz and Melvin Byl
