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On Wednesday the 3rd of September, 2008 the early years students at The Lakes dressed up as characters from their favourite books. Lots of people dressed up as their favourite character even some of the teachers. Some people were clowns, little red riding hood, fairies, cat in the hat, witches, princesses, Speaky MacGee, super heroes, Hannah Montana, wrestlers, Pippi Long Stocking(Kathryn), Dorothy, Star Wars characters, the Rainbow Fish (Merle) and lots more.
First thing in the morning we had a
book character
parade in the gymnasium. When we were there we walked around in front of all the home groups and teachers. Some people wore their school uniform but they were still able to watch and some walked around as well. When the kids finished walking around, all of the teacher walked around, we all tried to get high fives form the teachers. After the parade we all got together, all the preps to year 4s, to take a photo.
We also did some other activities during the day including writing our character profile on the person we were dressed up as. We had a RAD day.
Written by the amazing Year 3s and Teachers.
As part of our unit for this term, Our Changing World, we have been conducting some science experiments to see how things change. We made Super starch, which is a liquid and solid, we made play dough, which is a change you can't reverse, and we made a solid out of milk by adding vinegar and heating it in the microwave. The last experiment we watched was the lemon rocket. Kathryn, the mad scientist, put lemon juice, water and bi-carb soda into a soft drink bottle and then sealed it with a cork. When the ingredients all mixed together it fizzed up and the cork flew up into the air. We watched it a second time and this time the cork went so high it hit the roof. It was a lot of fun.
On Wednesday the 27th of August, 2008, The Lakes held their athletics day at Meadowglen Athletics track. We had four teams and they were, yellow- Evens, Blue – Beachley, Red – Jackson, Green-Rafter, and we all dressed up in our team colours. At the athletics day many people won ribbons and everyone who was at the athletics day received a participation award. There were lots of events like high jump, discus, shot put, long jump, relay, triple jump, 800 metres, 200 metres, 100 metres, 1500 metres and some rotational activities for the preps to year 3s. For the first half of the day we did field activities and second half was track events. Some of the teachers ran a relay also, it was against the Cricket Victoria Teenagers who were helping out, the teenagers thrashed the teachers.Teams got points for cheering for their team and having the best chant as well as for coming first, second, third and forth. At the end of the day the green house had the most points, so they won the athletics day. By the end of the day we were all exhausted because we competed in so many events and cheered hard for our teams. Luckily we had a curriculum day the next day so we could rest.By the fantastic year 4s, Kathryn and Steven
book character
parade in the gymnasium. When we were there we walked around in front of all the home groups and teachers. Some people wore their school uniform but they were still able to watch and some walked around as well. When the kids finished walking around, all of the teacher walked around, we all tried to get high fives form the teachers. After the parade we all got together, all the preps to year 4s, to take a photo. 
