War

Today Maria Gerard brought in her Grandad's and Great Great Grandad's War medals and personal items such as dog tags, diaries and pay books. Maria also had information about her ancestors war experiences.

Mrs Marris read a dairy entry to the whole class from Maria's Grandad's diary. It was interesting to hear a first hand account of a day at war. The class is learning about Anzac and it was really good to get an idea about the war and what it was like.  

By Rm 17 Students

Why does Mentos and Coke make a fountain?

Coke/Diet coke is a sugary fizzy drink and Mentos is a mint lolly

With a pitted surface.When you mix Mentos and Coke it fizzes

And foam shoots into the air.Pitted surfaces are small holes

Like the moon.They are so little that you can't see them.Diet

Coke and other fizzy drinks have carbon dyoxide.Carbon 

Dyoxide is gas.

Skipping

This term we are skipping for Team Woodend Workout. We have been skipping in pairs and with the long ropes and single ropes. We have been learning new skills and tricks.

Novel Term 4

We are reading this book Lucy Bee and The Secret Gene!!!!

Lovely Miss Caygill reading to us :]

                          

TODAY'S HALLOWEEN

I hope I see a lot of skulls and zombies. I'm going as a clown with a fake chainsaw. I want to get a lot of lollies and see some pumpkins with some ghosts I hope you go or went. By Nathaniel and Jacob.

Year 8 Dinner

On the 9th of December the Year 8 students are having the Year 8 Dinner. This will be very exciting as this is their last year. They are all super excited for this fantastic event and can't wait! We hope all students attend!

A.V.A.I.L.L.L

These are some DVDs we are watching in AVAILLL and we just finished watching Hook. Now we are watching the March of the Penguins.

Athletics

Last week on Friday we had athletics day and we had heaps of fun and 

It was really cold but it was great. On the day we held long jump, high jump,

Sprints, discus, shot put,long distances and relays just for fun.

Here are some photos that Mitch and Alex made on a different day lol

That is Mitch doing long jump

This is Alex doing sprints

Diwali Art

This term we are learning about different festivals. Right now we are learning about Diwali. This is a Indian tradition to welcome dead lords and goddesses into their homes. The festival lasts for 5 days from October to November. Currently we are making Rangolis which is a beautiful patern that is created by laying delicate powder on the floor. On the nights you set off fireworks into the sky and light candles in the home.

This whole festival is to show awareness of the good light.

Athletics coming up!!:)

At the end of term three we started getting prepared for athletics day which is on the 24th of October. We have been training hard. So far this term we have been rotating at different events such as discus, sprints, long distance, etc. for practice. 

We are all looking forward to this day, it's better than work lol. 

We have been getting our sport coaches to teach us some techniques for athletics, today we did high jump and long jump with them which was really fun. :) For long jump we got told to use not only our legs but to use our arms to help us jump further. We all improved with their help. 

For high jump we use what everyone calls the scissor kick, which is throwing your legs over the bar in a scissor formation, this way is the best/easiest. 

Athletics is great. 

This photo is of the class getting taught some skills,from a distance.