This is a very important day in Australian culture and takes place on April 25th (we will be on school holidays so held our service early). On this day we remember the all of the military personnel who have given their lives to uphold the freedom and democracy that we know is important to Australians.
On April 25th 1915, many Australian and New Zealand soldiers took part in a ferocious battle at Gallipoli in Turkey. The fighting was intense on both sides, and there were many casualties. The bravery and courage of the Australian and New Zealand troops was immense and we are very proud of these soldiers who fought for us many years ago.
Today, we remember and give thanks to all the many of thousands of people who have fought for Australia in battles and wars all over the world. We thank them for their bravery and rmember them on this day.
At our school ceremony each class made beautiful wreaths to lay alongside the Australian flag. The SRC representatives placed the wreaths on the stage, then we listened to the bugle call, the one minutes silence and the trumpet.
Despite the heavens opening and almost washing us all away, we had a visit from Natalie from the Waste Watchers team. Natalie was an expert “Water Watcher” and we spent the afternoon …….
Revising what we knew about the water cycle:
Talking about how to save water at home:
And sharing suggestions for conserving water:
There was time to talk, to listen, to think, to answer questions, to ask questions, and to come up with great ways or reducing, re-using, and recycling water.
Earth hour is a time where all electricital appliances are turned off to conserve electricity for 1 hour.
Globally, Earth Hour will be held 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm on Saturday night, but we wanted our school to participate so we are having earth hour this morning.
Earth Hour has made us think about:
How we can save electricity
How we can be in the future
How it was in the past
How it can help the future
Global warming
Sleeping!!!
Don’t forget if we use too much electricity we could be back in the DARK AGES!!!!!!!-(boom tish).
The CSIRO came to visit again and we had a great morning learning all sorts of things about Chemistry.
We were able to do many experiments to see how chemicals and substances reacted when mixed. We looked at acids and alkalines, we measured temperature changes, we made slime and mixed, observed and predicted what might happen next.
We think that we will explore Cool Chemistry further, back in class for the next few weeks. Stay tuned!
The other week we did some beginning of the year testing.
It is called diagnostic testing and we do it so that we can identify some areas to focus on in the coming weeks.
We did spelling, maths, reading and writing tests.
We helped mark the tests, and then we used coloured highlighters to highlight areas that we need to focus on. We also wrote these areas of focus onto post-it notes so that we can make them into targets or goals for us to work on.
Each week we will have time and opportunities to work on these areas in class, and as we reach our targets we will place it on an achievement wall in our classroom.
What should our targets be written on?
Here are some ideas, but you could offer suggestions in the comments section:
arrows
spaceships
stars
What do YOU think – do you have targets in your class? What do they look like?
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