Posts Tagged ‘open classroom’

4T 2019 Nativity Play

Caring Mary, Trustworthy Joseph, Cruel King Herod and Three Wise Men…of should I say women? 

To finish off the Term 4, 4T explored the testaments of Luke, Matthew and John to piece together the events leading up to Jesus’s birth, the Nativity. We explored the characters and what traits they have. The students then used this knowledge to write their own scripts, with their own interpretation and flair, plan their costumes and rehearse their actions.

4T have performed to their peers in Year 4, the residents at our local nursing home and today will have their final presentation to their parents and Year 2 buddies.

Check out the 4T student blogs to see their individual reflections.

In the meantime, here is a video of our surprise finale at yesterday’s nursing home visit.

 

Meet the Scientist

The Year 4 ‘Design Your Own Experiment’ project culminated with a ‘Meet the Scientist’ afternoon, where the Year 4 scientists shared their thinking with family visitors and the school community.

Here is a snapshot from the afternoon:


4T, leave a comment with something that you have learnt from this term’s Integrated Unit or what worked well at our Open Afternoon and something you are still wondering about.

Convict Day

The 4T students were nowhere to be seen on Monday, in their place were dirty, untrustworthy First Fleet convicts! During the day, the convicts participated in many different activities. 

The convicts, smiling on a rare occasion!

They completed water colour paintings of their ship, re-enacted scenes from the 18th century and created their own love tokens. Outside on Cluny, students mapped out the actual size of one of the First Fleet ships. Safe to say we were all mystified as to how they fit so many convicts on ships that were not that big!

 

In the afternoon, the convicts were relieved from their duties for a short time to share their expertly written convict diaries and other learnings throughout the term with the free settlers (parents).  Some convicts were even sentenced on the spot by a special guest appearance, Magistrate Mitchell himself!

Be sure to check out the individual student blogs for their own recounts of Convict Day.

What is the most interesting thing you learnt about convicts?

Meet the Blogger

On Monday afternoon, the 4T students put on their ‘blogging expert’ hats and welcomed family, school staff and friends into our classroom to demonstrate and explain their learning of the digital world this term.

Adults were encouraged to ask the students lots of questions to help their learning.  This list of questions helped them know what to ask:

  • What is a blog?

  • Why do you blog? What are the benefits?

  • How do you stay safe while blogging?

  • What makes a quality blog post?

  • What makes a quality comment?

  • What tips would you give to someone who wants to start blogging?

  • Can you show me around your site?

  • What’s the difference between the dashboard and the site?

  • Can you show me how to create a post?

  • How do you leave a comment?

4T’s visitors

The adults were all SO impressed with the students’ ability to answer these questions in such detail they even admitted to learning a thing or two in our surprise blogging quiz for the adults in the room at the end of the session.

What was your favourite part of the afternoon?  Why? OR Tell me about your Digital Citizenship poster and why you think its theme is important.

Grandfriends Day

To be grateful means to display deep appreciation for something done or received.

Today the students in 4T showed enormous gratitude towards our special visitors – and we had a whole lot of fun!

The Year 4s started off with an impromptu song along with our Bumble4 conductor and music teacher Mrs Summers on the deck. Click play below for a small snippet:

Then, together with our grandfriends we had to complete a sheet called figure me out where we had to think of an answer to a question. Eg. What year did you start Prep? We then had to come up with an equation for someone to solve so they could learn our answer to the question. ‘This is trickier than some of the maths I did at school!’ one of the grandfriends was overheard saying.

4T with their special visitors

We then went off to a wonderful assembly where we heard many uplifting musical items and were reminded of the importance of the special people in our life who support us, love us and who we can turn to at anytime.

Leave a comment with something that you are grateful for and why.
4T, can you also share one of your equations you created with your grandfriend.

Hello 2019!

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Welcome to the 4T 2019 Class Blog!

New year, new teacher, new opportunities to connect around the world!

We have had a couple of exciting first weeks, settling in to our new class and participating in many school activities such as Chinese New Year and meeting our buddies at House!

We have had many discussions about how we want to feel and our expectations of others and ourselves at school which led into creating our Learning Expectations for the year, so that we can come to school everyday and feel happy, safe and motivated to learn!

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Meet the Scientist Afternoon

The Year 4 ‘Design Your Own Experiment’ project culminated with a ‘Meet the Scientist’ afternoon, where the Year 4 scientists shared their thinking with family visitors and the school community.

Here is a snapshot from the afternoon:


4T, leave a comment with something that you have learnt from this term’s Integrated Unit or what worked well at our Open Afternoon and something you are still wondering about.

Convict Day

“Goodmorning M’am.”
“I’ve got the scurvey!”
“Watch out for them giant rabbits!”

The 4T students were nowhere to be seen on Monday, in their place were dirty, untrustworthy First Fleet convicts! During the day, the convicts participated in many different activities. 

4T Convicts

They learnt calligraphy, re-enacted scenes from the 18th century and created their own love tokens. Outside on Cluny, students mapped out the actual size of one of the First Fleet ships. Safe to say we were all mystified as to how they fit so many convicts on ships that were not that big! 

A variety of activities throughout the day

In the afternoon, the convicts were relieved from their duties for a short time to share their expertly written convict diaries and other learnings throughout the term with the free settlers (parents).  Some convicts were even sentenced on the spot by Magistrate Mitchell. 

Our Meet the Convict Afternoon

Be sure to check out the individual student blogs for their own recounts of Convict Day.

What is the most interesting thing you learnt about convicts?

1/4 down..3/4 to go.

In true 4T style, the end of Term 1 is near but we are nowhere yet near done. Our last week is shaping up to be a very exciting race to the finish. 

  • Our school is one of the 30 schools around the world that are part of the ‘G20 Schools.’ The principals of these schools meet annually and share their country’s culture, ideas, thoughts and challenges on schooling. 2018’s theme is ‘Changing us in a Changing World,’ and for the first time, the conference is being held at our school in Melbourne! On Monday, the principals part of this group will give a special presentation about their homeland to the Junior School. 

 

  • Later that day, 4T will put their ‘blogger’ hats on and unveil their blogs to our school community. They are expected to be able to explain the benefits of blogging, how to stay safe whilst online and show guests around their dashboard and site.

 

  • Showing gratitude and being thankful for all that we have is an important value. 4T will be writing letters to members of our community that have had an impact on our lives at school during Term 1.

 

  • Tuesday kicks off our Year 4 focus of Community Service. We will be visiting a nursing home and interacting with the residents. Check out the individual student blogs to see their recounts of the afternoon.

 

  • Our week will end with a very special Easter Service of Worship. All Junior School students will rotate through a range of activities including prayers and songs to celebrate the Easter Story.

What is something that you are proud of in your first 9 weeks of Year 4, and why?

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