Interactive Writing

The day I grew and grew……


Late one stormy night, there was a crack of lightening and everything was not good in the world. Then chaos engulfed my life. Life as I knew it was over.

Bang!!!, a strike of lightening struck my room and I got a terrifying shock. I had been playing in my room with my electronic game boy. I had just got to level 43 of King Kong, when the screen went dead. The controller was jolted from my hands and I felt a burning coming from my hands, reaching up my arms towards my brain.

After the burning stopped everything went black like the dark sky outside, and I collapsed to the ground. I woke up, clutching my spinning head. Everything felt weird and new. I staggered to my mum, she saw what had become of me. She fainted.

Hair, hair, everywhere. Dark, thick, rough hair, like a gorilla. As I made my way to the bathroom, I noticed that my arms seemed to be dragging and I had a desire to swing from mums hallway chandeliers. When I made it to the bathroom, I grabbed the mirror with my ape like hands. A hairy, wrinkly, face, stared back at me.

A strangeness came over me. My legs started to extend. I could no longer see my body in the mirror, the room started to get smaller. My head hit the ceiling of the bathroom.

I suddenly had an urge for bananas. I knew just where to get them. Mrs Jones next door had a huge banana tree. With all my new strength I tore down the house to release me. I looked at Mrs Jones house; a huge King Kong game was blocking my path. I knew the only way to get to those bananas was to play the game.

The game was the hardest that I had every played. When I reached level 43, giant bananas appeared on the screen. I reached in to grab them, but my hand had disappeared into the screen.

With a slurping sound my whole hairy body was being sucked into the game. That was the day I grew and grew.

By half the year 3/4 class


The day I grew and grew……


Late one stormy night, there was a crack of lightening and everything was not good in the world. Then chaos engulfed my life. Life as I knew it was over.

Bang!!!, a strike of lightening struck my room and I got a terrifying shock. I had been playing in my room with my electronic game boy. I had just got to level 43 of King Kong, when the screen went dead. The controller was jolted from my hands and I felt a burning coming from my hands, reaching up my arms towards my brain.

After the burning stopped everything went black like the dark sky outside, and I collapsed to the ground. I woke up, clutching my spinning head. Everything felt weird and new. I staggered to my mum, she saw what had become of me. She fainted.

Hair, hair, everywhere. Dark, thick, rough hair, like a gorilla. As I made my way to the bathroom, I noticed that my arms seemed to be dragging and I had a desire to swing from mums hallway chandeliers. When I made it to the bathroom, I grabbed the mirror with my ape like hands. A hairy, wrinkly, face, stared back at me.

A strangeness came over me. My legs started to extend. I could no longer see my body in the mirror, the room started to get smaller. My head hit the ceiling of the bathroom.

I suddenly had an urge for bananas. I knew just where to get them. Mrs Jones next door had a huge banana tree. With all my new strength I tore down the house to release me. I looked at Mrs Jones house; a huge King Kong game was blocking my path. I knew the only way to get to those bananas was to play the game.

The game was the hardest that I had every played. When I reached level 43, giant bananas appeared on the screen. I reached in to grab them, but my hand had disappeared into the screen.

With a slurping sound my whole hairy body was being sucked into the game. That was the day I grew and grew.

By the other half of the 3/4 class

Free Writing

Letter to Santa

To Santa,
I am so glad that Christmas is coming. Every year me and my family go around the state and look at all the Christmas lights, they are so cool. My favourite part about Christmas is putting up the lights and Christmas tree, I love the decorations. Every year before Christmas night I leave out a glass of milk or glass of water. We always leave some biscuits out like chocolate biscuits, plain biscuits and many more. On Christmas morning we open the presents with my brother, dad and mum. Me and my brother love looking in our stockings but this year I want something different like make-up or a magazine. But whatever you give me I will still be happy.
P.S. Thank you Santa for everything you do.

E.


The Lakes

T- The Lakes P-9
H- Honesty’s the best policy
E- Encouraging school

L- Lovely school
A- Awesome school
K- Kool with a K!
E- Ever so wicked
S- School ROCKS!!!

Montana.


Maths 14/11/08

Today in Maths, Marcus’ maths group did measuring. We measured snail tracks. After we had finished we had to add up all our snail tracks, my snail track was 66cm. Then you had to make your own snail track and colour your sheet. After that you’re done!

Dorothy


BFFL

Roses are red, violets are blue
I’ve never had friends so wonderful like you
We may have fights or disagree on some things
But our friendship bell will always ring
Best friends forever, BFF
We all have each other, that’s the best
It’s nice to have someone there
Who we can talk to, and to share our care
Sharing, caring, loving friends
Our friendship will never end
There is four of us altogether
BFF, now and forever

Sarah

Book Character Day

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.

Science Experiments

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.

Athletics Day

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

The Official Opening of Our School

Here are some comments from yesterday's fantastic official opening of The Lakes P-9 School.

On Wednesday the 13th August John Brumby came to the Lakes P-9 School for the grand opening of our wonderful school. Sarah shook his hand and showed him around. It was a very exciting day. Jayden O

Yesterday it was the opening of our school and we had the Year 5-8's come to our school and they did a song. Mr Brumby came to our school and he was the one that opened the school. At play time, the band played and they sang a song like 'The Nutbush' and lots more songs too. Christina M

Yesterday we had our grand opening at The Lakes P-9 School. Danielle Green came and John Brumby the premier. Harry Jenkins and a lot of photographers were taking photos of the school. They looked through the Prep pod, the 1/2 Pod and also the Year 3/4 Pod. Then we all went to the gym and John Brumby said our school is one of the best schools in Victoria. We also had Jake, Jade and some of the Year 6/7/8's play other different instruments. It was really good! Kyle B

On the 13th August 2008 John Brumby came to The Lakes P-9. He came to open our school. Everyone tried to catch a glimpse of him. He is very nice. He read some of our student stories that we are writing ourselves. I had a great day! Julia D

Belonging

Students at The Lakes have been focussing on our school value of BELONGING!
Last week we completed a 'thinking key' task where children could choose a key to complete.

Key 1 - What should Goldilocks have done to make herself feel like she belonged in The Three Bears?
Key 2 - Imagine an alien visited planet Earth. Explain to him what belonging and friendship means.
Key 3 - What are the similarities between belonging to a sporting group and belonging at school?
Key 4 - If the answer is 'belonging' what could possible questions be?

Here is what Abhishek wrote for key 2:

Dear Alien,
When you come to Earth to stay at my house, I will tell you how to become someones friend like my friend.
First, make them Belong like tell them "You are my best friend."
Then, respect how they are or want to be.
Third (and the most important) try and do everything you have to do in friendship.
Finally, try and help them in everything they do.

Well done Abhi!

Our City Excursion

Our City Excursion

Yesterday, the sixteenth of June 2008, we went on an excursion to Melbourne city. It seemed to take a ling time to get to the city on the bus. When we got to the city we could already see the MCG. When we got off the bus we walked over to the ledge, we looked down and we saw a playground. Then we walked down lots of stairs to get to the playground.

When we left the playground we walked up past Federation Square and up to the Rialto. When we walked into the Rialto, we saw a hallway called, Rialtovision. We walked through the hallway to a mini cinema. The show was all about Melbourne city. When the show finished we went up to the observation deck. We stayed up there for a long time. When we came back down, we went somewhere to eat our lunch.

After everybody had finished their lunch we walked up to McDonalds and had an ice-cream. After that we walked back to the bus past Crown Entertainment Complex and Southbank.

Recount written by Jack B

Our Belonging Bags

In 3/4 we have paper bags that we use to put special notes in.

We created these because the School Value we are learning about is BELONGING!

We had to write our names on the bag and we decorated them.

We then had to draw a name out of the box and wrote a nice message to that person.

Our message had to be full of 'warm fuzzies' so that people in our class felt like they belonged.

We weren't allowed to write 'hot mushies' or 'cold pricklies' because it could hurt their feelings or make someone embarassed.

The rule is that we are only allowed to check our belonging bags on Fridays - which is today!! Hooray!!!

The Escape to Lava Mountain

Julia completed a Spelling Matrix task this week that required her to create a story that included 4 words: Christmas, cat, lava and frog...Here it is...

Once upon a time there were four kids. They were Julia, Nyssa, Taegan and Sarah. They were all going on a holiday to Paris but it did not turn out that well.
They were on a plane ready for take off. They were flying over the pacific ocean when the plane began to bump. It kept on bumping.
Finally, Taegan said, "I am sick of this...I am going to find out what this bumpy ride is caused by, here and now!"
Nyssa said, "Taegan, CUT IT OUT!"
They then had a crash landing on an island they had never heard of. They got off the plane and Nyssa and Julia said together: "WOW!"
Then they saw a volcano. The ground was shaking!
Sarah screamed, "AAAAHHH - help! It's an earthquake!"
"No it isn't it's a volcanic eruption," Taegan said.
"This does not look like Paris one bit!" yelled Julia.
They all pushed and shoved to see the map to try and find a hotel. They found one called the Creepy Crawly Hotel.
They all screamed "eeewww!"
"I hate bugs!" Taegan screamed. "I'm getting out of here. I think i'm going to be sick!"
There were bugs everywhere! Just then the ground shook again. They all looked out the window and lava was pouring down the volano.
"HELP!" yelled Nyssa.
Then, a piece of paper flew in the window.
It said: The only way to stop the volcanic eruption is to get inside the volcano, get away from the lava and float down the river of terrors, then you will find a red button. Press it and the flow will stop.

"Oh my, this is like Christmas but all you get is lava!" Julia said.
Nyssa looked at the clouds... "Hey, those clouds look like frogs and the other one looks like a cat!" she said.
All of a sudden lava came through the window and they were buried....
To Be Continued :)

Cassandra wrote a very entertaining 'fractured fairytale'...

The Fairytale News
"Hello everyone and welcome to fairytale news. Tonight on the show we will be interviewing Grumpy to tell us about why the queen is the way she is. Oh look! Here he comes...Hi Grumpy and thanks for coming."

"Yeah, you're lucky i remembered...I was in the middle of a fight with silly old Sneezy the dwarf.
So why am I here anyway?"

"Remember you said you would tell us about the queen?"

"Oh yeah...well, once upon a time, she was really ugly...and her brother made her pretty...but Snow White is prettier. That is all i have to say - so goodbye."

"So there you have it folks, I am Miss Piggy, Good night!"

The Final Weeks of Term 2

Not long now until we are moving over to the junior campus!
We have begun the huge task of pulling down our wonderful work and packing boxes...what an exciting few weeks we have ahead of us in the lead up to this big event!
Monday 16th June is our City Excursion day.
Wednesday 25th we are off to Science Works.
Thursday 26th we have an exciting day of tabloid activities.
And, of course, Friday the 27th is our last day of Term 2!
Stay tuned for some amazing student work and exciting photos that will help to recount our experiences with you...

Busy Kids and Teachers

We have been so busy in 3/4 that we have totally forgotten to add our fantastic news and updates. So here they are:

Sarah M has created this collage using new and recycled materials. This is an example of one of the tasks in our new Reading Matrix for Literacy Rotations. Well done Sarah!

Our Amazing Victorian Landmarks!

Over the past few weeks we have been super busy researching and creating Victorian Landmarks. Some of the landmarks we have chosen to construct are: Puffing Billy, Luna Park, Federation Square, the MCG, and the Eureka Tower.

Here are some pictures of us hard at work:

Easter Rap

Easter Easter is so fun

Easter is for everyone

Wether you are big or small

Easter is loved by all

Eating chocolate is the key

Eat it for breakfast, lunch and tea

Chocolate usually costs me money

but not now thanks to Mr Easter Bunny!!!!

Ashleigh

Last week of Term 1

We have had another busy week in 3/4. This week we have been doing lots of work about Easter. We have made Easter Baskets, written Easter Poems, drawn Easter pictures and enojoyed watching the Prep, 1's and 2's Easter Hat Parade. Here are some of our Easter Poems for you to enjoy!

3/4's have been busy..........

We have been learning about times tables, helping our bodies and how we get healthy. We have been doing lots of Reading and Writing and trying to get our Pen Licence. Lots of people have got stars on the Pen Licence Chart. This week we have been on our class run twice. We are all trying to run as far as we can so we can get running certificates for running 10km. Today we had a visit from Danielle Green. She spoke to us about the Premiers Reading Challenge and the Premiers Fitness Challenge. We have all been trying hard to get our first reading certificates, for reading 25 nights. So far 22 people have got their certificates. This afternoon, Tanaya, Chloe and Tiana did a dance for the 3/4's during our class meeting. There were great!

Tyler, Ellie and Adrian

What's Happening this Week?

Healthy Lunch Day and Rubbish Free Lunch
This term we have been talking about Healthy Lifestyles and Healthy Eating. Every Wednesday for the rest of the term we will be having Healthy Lunch Day. We are going to measure the amount of rubbish we bring to school and look at how much we can reduce rubbish that we bring to school.

What have the 3/4's been up to?

We have had another very busy week. The 3/4's have been learning about healthy food choices. We were very lucky and had John, Merle's husband come in and cook a Vietnamese Steamboat with us. We have been doing cooking in Lifestyles groups and have made lots of healthy and tasty food. There has been Clean Up Australia Day and our normal Lifestyles and Groups programs.

Here are some recounts of what the students have been enjoying!

This week we all made something healthy. My lifestyles group make a smoothy! YUM!!!!! We put in milk, banana, chocolate and ice cream mmmm........It tasted so nice. I am going to make one myself.

Joshua V

On Monday we got to cook in a Vietnamese Steamboat, with John who is Merle's husband. We had noodles, vegies and chicken in a stock. It was DELICIOUS! I really liked that day of the week.

Julia

On Friday it was Clean Up Australia Day. We all went around the school and picked up rubbish. It was disgusting. We all learnt a lesson which was don't drop litter.

Sara

On the 29th of Feb we had Clean Up Australia Day we were picking up rubbish and saving animals from death. We looked at all the bags and there was a lot of rubbish, that could of killed animals. There were so many bags full.

On Tuesday in our groups we make fruit kebabs, with apples, bananas and pineapple. It was fun. I liked my fruit kebab.

Rebecca

Snake Buster

Snake Buster

On Friday 16th of Febuary, Raymond from Snake Busters came to school to visit all of the students. We got to learn about what to do if we see a snake. We also got to hold snakes, turtles, lizards and frogs.

What a week!!

It has been another extreamly busy and exciting week in Year 3/4. Here are some things that we found to be the most interesting this week.

On Wednesday 3/4 had Groups and I was in Bike Ed with Damian and Marcus. On Tuesday and Thursday we have Lifestyles, with Jackie and Rob in the Gym. We do all different kinds of sports.
Mathew

In 3/4 we have Maths groups and English Groups. The canteen has opened up and the 3/4's can buy food from there. 3/4 is so fun!
Tahneisha

So far this week my favourite part has been groups. I got to do Choreography. It was the best. It does hurt your body a bit. I hope Choreography stays forever.
Tyler

In 3/4 we get to go to groups and there are heaps of fantastic ones for you too! There is going to be some groups for certain ages and some from Year 1 to Year 8. These groups are fun and there's heaps to do! There's Callisthenics, Outdoor Games, Song and Dance and heaps more. And I have a tip for you: IT'S FUN!
Kylie

School Poem

In school there are lots of things to do
There's English and Math and sharing time too
There's reading time, there's cleaning time
And if we're good there's even free time
There are such nice people in the 3/4
And some of the people we have even met before
The 3/4 at The Lakes is such a good place to learn
And there is really cool things you can earn
There are stars on the star chart and raffel tickets as well
If you come to The Lakes it will never be dull.

Free Writing by Sarah M

Hello and welcome to the first blog for Year 3/4.We welcome comments from parents, carers and teachers. We hope you enjoy the site and look forward to reading of our upcoming events, looking at our photos and keeping up to date with all the exciting things going on in Year 3/4.