Quality Comments!
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This week in the student blog challenge the topic was quality comments so this is what I made.
What do you think quality comments should have?
My Avatar
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Everyone that blogs should have an avatar. Avatars help you keep safe online by not showing your actual face and just a cartoon one.
I made my avatar last year with the app Cartoonify. It has blonde hair and blue eyes just like me in real life but a lot of other people have blonde hair and blue eyes and that’s the trick with avatar. They look like you but also a lot of other people as well.
This is my avatar.
What does your avatar look like, or what would it look like?
Books, Books Glorious Books
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In library we have been talking about what sort of books and genres we like.
My favourite genres are historical fiction and family and friendship. I like these genres because they are quite complicated and realistic reads and normally the scenes from the story could easily happen in real life. Sometimes they are even based on real stories! A book that I would recommend is The War That Saved My Life. It is a amazing book that is set in the time of WWII. It is about a girl called Ada who bravely escapes from her cruel mother with her little brother Jamie.
The book chat book I am reading at the moment is Inheritance. It is about a 14 year old girl called Nic who has moved to her grandfathers property in Country Victoria. Her mother died the day she was born and her dad abandoned her to work on a cruise ship.She discovers she can time travel. She sees the bad things her ancestors have done in the past and she wants to stop them.
Year 4
categories: School Events
Dear Future Year 4’s,
I hear you’re coming up to 4LX next year.
Here’s three things you should know:
• In year 4 you get your pen license so you can write in cool pens instead of grey led.
• You also have a lot more independence because you don’t need to check with the teacher heaps.
• Because your not in Hickman you feel like everything is a lot calmer and less busy.
A couple of things to look forward to are:
• Camp because you get to go for three days and 2 nights and the activities are really fun.
• The Nativity play is also super fun because you can audition for parts and you get to wear costumes and be really funny.
A time I laughed was when I was on the giant swing.
A time I was challenged was when I had to run in division athletics.
I am proud of how much I have learnt in grade 4
I always remember Mrs Lennox saying was “It’s not my class it’s our class.”
Information Report and Diorama
categories: Integrated
This term we have been creating dioramas on natural disasters. I researched and wrote my own information report on cyclones. Here it is:
At the end of the unit we showed our finished dioramas to our year 2 buddies. Here is my diorama:
Whilst creating my diorama l found it challenging when I couldn’t get my cyclone to move and I couldn’t get my cyclone to hang up.
What type of natural disaster would you most like to research and why?
Divisibility Video
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We are the near the end of year and have learned many different strategies to help us in all areas of maths.
One particularly interesting method to help you to divide big numbers can be to know the divisibility rules.
Each group in our class investigated one divisibility rule and has made a video to share so that we can all learn from each other.
My group made a video on the 7’s divisibility rule.
This is my video
What divisibility rules do you know and what are they?
Weathering and Erosion
categories: Integrated
In integrated we are learning about weathering, erosion and deposition and how natural and human events change our landscape.
Weathering is when something in the landscape breaks down. This can be caused by water, wind, animals, plants and ice. Erosion is moving the weathered object away. This is usually caused by wind and sometimes water. Deposition is where the natural object ends up. This can be centimetres or even kilometres away from where the object was weathered.
My class and I went for a walk around the school and found these examples of W.E.D (weathering, erosion and deposition).
What are some examples of W.E.D in your neighbourhood?
Story Graph
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Planning your writing helps you have a better understanding of what you are writing about and so you can split your writing into paragraphs.
A story graph is one way to do this.
This is my story graph.
I read the story ‘Daddy Lost His Head‘ and plotted the events on the story graph. Have a look below:
Can you think of an alternate backfill for this book?
APS Athletics
categories: School Events
As soon as we arrived I was fascinated by the crowd of eager kids ready to start. I was at APS athletics about to run in the 200m sprint. My friends Ava, Audrey, Niki and Sarah also got into the APS team. They were going to run in the 4x100m sprint. Sarah and Niki were going to run In other races too.
We got to the grandstands but Niki had to go because she had a race. After that we had to wait ages for another race. My Dad said he was coming but he came just as the announcement came on the speaker for my race. I was really nervous but also excited. I ran as fast as I could and I came 4th out of 9 which I am very happy with. Ava, Audrey, Niki and Sarah came 1st in the 4x100m sprint so they got into regionals.
Click this link to see a video of me running.
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What is your favourite sport and why?
Judging Books
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This term in library we have been reading and judging the CBCA information books. To judge books properly we made a criteria where we had to look at the visuals (illustrations, photos, maps ect.), layout and information and judge them out of ten. We also wrote notes on why we gave the scores we did.
I voted for an amazing book called Sorry Day by Coral Vass’s and Dub Leffler. It had colourful and realistic illustrations and it described what actually happened on Sorry Day really well. Sorry Day compared little things that happen to us and big things that happened to Aboriginal people. For example the little girl Maggie got lost which you might think is a big problem but next they had an illustration of a child being taken from her family which is by far a bigger problem.
What three things would you take with you if you were stolen from your family and why?