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!!!