Hello from Guatemala!

Hi 3/4B

Are you having fun at school? I am missing you all but we are having a great time in Guatemala. It is a very interesting place with friendly people.

My sister's wedding was yesterday. The ceremony was held in the gardens of a beautiful macadamia nut farm, just out of a town called Antigua.

We are leaving Guatemala tomorrow and I will be back at school on Thursday. I am looking forward to seeing you all and celebrating Christmas together!

Say hi to everyone for me!

See you soon,
From Mrs Hamilton

Taiko drumming

Taiko Drumming

On the 14^th of May my dad and my mum played the Japanese taiko drumming at the Box hill community art centre. Everyone was so excited to play the drumming. When my parents played, everyone was so amazed. We did some playing the drumming too. We were all happy. I’d think that everyone enjoyed. I really enjoyed!

House Athletics

Aussie of the Month!

Well done to Andrew for winning Kerrimuir's Aussie of the Month for September 2011!  We are so proud of you and congratulate you on this wonderful achievement.

Swimming

For 2 weeks we had swimming  .The most fantastic day  was the fun day. We played lots  of games
like this ball game, we needed  to kick the ball to try to make it go firther. The next game we needed it to croll across the mat i got over , when we got out of pool we grap our towel and our shoes and socks and went to the change room we got, dressed  then went on the bus IT WAS SO FUN!!!!   

                                                                BY KELSEY

swimming

 On the first day I was so excited to go swimming. Then when we got to Aquarina first we had to get our clothes off and you had to put your plastic bag and towel on top of everything so you would'nt have to chuck all your stuff out then put in. Then we had to put your bag on the shelves and put your goggles on and go to your cones on the cones it had your swimming teachers name on it so you would no where to go. Then we walked in a line and went in the water.  First it was cold and then after it was fine and in some days you were allowed to go to the outside pool.  After a while we got to do sting ray where you go under the water and do breaststroke but sometimes you can lose your breath.  Then after we went to get our bathers off and  put them in our plastic bag but I always rushed because I wanted to be first so I could sit in the back seat in the middle.  When we were driving back to school I would sometimes sit next to Taya, Yaren or Karrina and when we got  back to school we did work.
                                        
                                                          from Jasmine

3/4B's picture story book

This term 3/4B has done picture story books to read to the preps. Most of us are up to the illustrating our picture story book.  This is amazing that 3 people have already finished. Everyone else is on illustrating or typing. We are all working hard. Thank you for reading.

Still frame animation

This week we have been taking photos of our sea creature to make a video of still frame animation. So far 3 groups have finish taking the photos, and 1 group have made the photos into and video on the computer. every group has to add narration and music on their still frame animation, and it is alot of fun making our still frame animation!!!

picture story book

This term our class has been writing a picture story book. When its finished were going to read the book to the preps and grade ones. Most of us are up to illustrating. its a little bit tricky. At least 3 people has finished. every one else is not but there close. Where trying very hard.


                                                               

still frame animation

level 3/4 have been doing still frame animation.And we have to aim to get around 200 photos.It is very  hard to get all the creatures in place!!!! It is not easy. :( It is fun to take the photos though:) We had lots of fun taking the photos!

Swimming!

Swimming lessons start this week and will be running for the next nine school days (Monday 29 August - Thursday 8 September).

Just a reminder about what to do every day:

• Wear your bathers underneath your school uniform.
• Bring any asthma puffers or medication and give them to the teacher.
• Bring a separate bag with your towel and (if required) goggles/swimming cap.
• When we arrive at swimming EMPTY your swimming bag.  Put your school uniform in the bottom of the bag and your towel ON TOP.  Put your socks into your shoes and put your shoes next to your bag.
• After our swimming lesson pick up your shoes and bag, get changed, and put your wet bathers and towel into your swimming bag.

You might like to practise this at home with your parents.  Following these steps will help us to be organised and ready for swimming lessons, and will reduce the amount of lost property and wet school uniforms!

Book Week dress up day

water watch

Yesterday I did water watch we caught bugs.  It was funny. the bugs were running fast the bugs are funny because the bugs don't want to get into my spoon and they run very fast.  They are hard to catch!

Hooptime

25 kids from 3/4 A, 3/4 B and the 4s From 4/5 A went to hooptime 2011. It was at knox basketball ground, Boronia. There was three teams, one was the kerrimuir Rabbits, they were rookies, there was kerrimuir Mavericks, they were Future stars,they also won the grand final, and the team I was in was Kerrimuir magic, they were Future magic too. It was just for fun so if you lost it doesnt really matter. We all got a McDonalds voucher, a certificate and a sticker. We all had a fantastic time.

     

Water Watch macrorinvertebrae

On Tuseday the 16 I did water watch ! It was really fun because we got to get the spoon and we found lots of animals and and I even found a FISH. I caught a really big fish that was trying to escape from the container .I have to say the fun part of that day was pobably picking up the fish and the boring part was when we had to identify the animals. We didn't just find fish we also found weird and weider things in that tray.The only really bad part was when the lady had to go and we had to pack up. But I can't wait till the next exciting to do!!

sea creatures

3/4B and 3/4A are making sea creatures. There was a selection of fish,shark,whale and dolphin. Most people chose sharks. We have started to papier mache. The white paper is harder to do, than the newspaper. The papier mache is really fun... But also tricky! When we were done with the papier mache, we will paint the sea creatures.

By Joel

Waterwatch



All the 3\4's walked down to koonung creek.When we got there 3\4B got to play a game it was about birds and wet lands. Julie put down ropes ,the colours were Red, yellow, Blue and Green. Then there wascoloured cards, we had to try and get them, but we were only aloud 1. We were birds. It was kind of tricky because there was a lot of people and we had to grag them as quickly as we could. I had a good time I can't wait till the next one!:)

Taroona High music performance

A visit from Taroona High School concert band and big band (from Hobart, Tasmania).

Circus Skills excursion

Here are some photos from our Circus Skills excursion to the performing studio at the end of Term 2.  It was SO much fun!  Mrs H tried the hula-hoop but was told she wasn't very good..!!

Welcome to Term 3

A big welcome back to all students and families as we start Term 3 at Kerrimuir.  I hope you all enjoyed the school break and were able to spend time relaxing and having fun.  We have an exciting and busy term coming up including our annual Swimming Lessons, Book Week and Footy Day.

The Level 3 topic for Term 3 is 'Splash'.  We will be learning all about water - the marine environment, water cycle, water distribution, conservation and water safety.  As part of our Splash unit, students will be working on some still-frame animation stories involving sea creatures!

Please continue to visit our blog regularly.  We hope you enjoy our videos, photos and blog posts about all the things we do at school.

Class party!

On the 9th of June 2011 we had class party with 3/4A. It was 12:30 to 1:00.

On the class party we got to bring our favourite things. Example: DS, i pods.
I brought a Rubic cube game. David brought his i pod touch. Josh brought his white DS.

I was playing David’s i pod touch. I played Ninjump and the Buddy. Aryan played on my Rubic cube game.

It was one of my best days!!!

Posting letters

In term two we posted letters to other people. We posted the letters to our family members and we also did one to our pen pals. It was so fun sending our letters. We also got stamps to put on the letter which we got from the teacher.

Class News

I ride a motor bike and I wanted to show the class my motor bike helmet. So I showed it for news. It is a Honda helmet too. I showed it on 11th of June 2011. I do not have any other motor bike helmets.
I ride a Honda XR70 it is about the size of a normal bike.
I ride on my family’s farm I think it is about 12hunded acres of land.

Open Night

On the day of open night we sang a song called I just called to say I love you. I sat in the front of the stage. My mum heard that song when she was little, in Vietnam, and now. Not everyone liked that song, but my mum does. I really like that song, I hope nobody will laugh at me and my mum. My mum came into my classroom and saw my work. I had a fantastic night. I hope everyone else did as well.

By Cindy

When I first came to Kerrimuir the first thing I became excited about was the Maths measurement. The second thing which I became excited about was the students height writing in my maths book. I like maths the most. I like maths the most because it's interesting. By Lakshman

Hockey Clinic and Gala Day

We played so much hockey today, it was fun. We learnt how to stop the ball and which side to use to hit the ball. There was a guy that came from Doncaster his name was Viktor.

On the 23rd of March 2011 we did hockey with Victor. He was really good and we played lots of games. We learnt how to hold the hockey properly, dribbling, how to stop and loads more. We played a game called spider.

Antonyms

3/4B are working on Antonyms. Antonym is another word for opposite. Like for example: hot and cold or wet and dry. We even made posters. They are all great ones. Then we are going to turn the posters into a BOOK! This what our posters had.

polite and rude, full and empty, young and old, sell and buy, messy and tidy, hot and cold, short and long, rich and poor, hard and soft, clean and dirty, nice and naughty, light and dark, hello and goodbye, up and down, dead and alive, good and bad, brave and scared, and finally on and off.

This is what our posters looked like:





By James and Andrew

Cross Country

On Tuesday 17th of May the whole senior school had house cross country. We had to run 2 kilometres. It was hard!!! 8 people in my class got into district. I came 11th. I was proud of myself. We all had a great time. By Stefan

On Tuesday the 17th of May we did house cross country. I came 11th in cross country and Maya came 1st and Jess came 6th!! They got in district! From Kelsey

Well done to ALL the grade three to six students who ran in their age level races. In 3/4B we have many enthusiastic runners and several students either won their race or placed in the first few runners.

Congratulations to Riccardo, Joel, Maya, Julia, Jess, Koetsu, Josh and Jasmine who qualified for district cross country. We are proud to have so many high achievers in our class!

Mrs H

Super Egg and Kerrimuir Gift

On the last Friday of term one Kerrimuir had super egg and Kerrimuir gift race.
First we waited until end the of snack when it was time for super egg time but before you came out you had to go and get your egg. Then you went to the FFG and sat down and waited for the other classes to come. In the whole school there are 13 classes and when the thirteen classes came we started. In each class was a winner to challenge other people who won in their classes and Jemima won the whole thing.

By Aliya

Here is the 3/4B class Super Egg race from the last day of Term 1. Well done to everyone who participated, and a special congratulations to Dakota the winner!

Circus Skills

For the past few weeks each class at Kerrimuir has been enjoying some fantastic workshops with circus performers. The students will be sharing about their experiences soon, but for now here is a photo to enjoy! Well done Aryan and Andrew!

Mrs H :)

Education Week

It's Education Week! To celebrate the week Kerrimuir Primary School is holding a School Open Night this Wednesday 18th May 2011 from 6:00pm to 7:30pm.

All classes in the school will be performing or presenting work in some way, so be sure to come along and celebrate the students' learning achievements.

Level 3 will be performing two songs on Wednesday night in the Multi-Purpose Room. Both songs relate to our integrated studies topics from Terms 1 and 2. Following the songs there will be an opportunity to have a look in our classrooms and see displays of the fantastic work students in Level 3 have been doing in Terms 1 and 2.

We hope to see you there!

Aussie of the Month

Kerrimuir Primary School runs a fantastic values program which can be viewed in detail at the KPS website. To recognise outstanding members of our school community, students who choose to live the values of our class and school are nominated for the "Aussie of the Month" award.

For the month of April, the following 3/4B students were nominated by their peers - Joel, Chris, Mia and Maya. All students in 3/4B demonstrate the Kerrimuir values and deserve to be recognised, but unfortunately there can only be one winner! 3/4B voted and the winner for April was Chris. Well done! Chris was entered into the whole-school draw to win Aussie of the Month, which was drawn on Friday 6 May. Unfortunately Chris was not the winner this time, but we congratulate Chris for his efforts and for being such a wonderful class member. All of our past nominees and winners are listed on our blog for you to see.

Library!

Great news - the library at Kerrimuir will be officially open from Monday 9 May 2011. 3/4B will have a 1/2 hour session of library each week on Friday afternoons. Students will need to bring a library bag on Fridays if they wish to borrow books. I encourage all students and families to make full use of our fantastic new library facilities and borrow books to read in class and at home. In Level 3 we recommend 15 minutes of reading every day at home (on top of any reading done in class). This can be recorded in your Reading List and signed by a parent/guardian.

I have noticed many students continued reading in the school holidays and filled in their reading lists. Well done!

From Mrs H.

Welcome to Term 2

Welcome back to Kerrimuir for Term 2! We hope your holidays were fantastic and that everyone enjoyed the extra long break. 3/4B are straight back into the action, with many exciting things happening in the first few weeks of term.

The Circus Skills program started this week, and we all enjoyed having a go at spinning plates, hula hoops and diablos (including Mrs H!) In a few weeks the program will conclude with a special circus skills excursion.

NAPLAN testing will occur next week for the Grade 3s on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings. After the tests we will have a lovely relaxing excursion on Friday 13 May that combines our Japanese, Art and Music programs. Some special people will be performing at the Box Hill Community Arts Centre - the family of our very own Koetsu in 3/4B!

Soon we will be starting our new integrated studies unit - Keeping In Touch. It will be great to learn all about different types of communication technologies used in the past and present. And together with 3/4A, we have an exciting opportunity to 'keep in touch' with Year 3/4 classes at another school!

Finally, on Wednesday 18 May some students will be attending the Cottee's Schools 5-a-side soccer competition. We are taking six teams to this comp and we will be proud to represent Kerrimuir as we compete against other schools.

WOW! There are lots of things happening in Term 2! Please have a look around our blog and feel free to send us comments because we love to read them.

Scienceworks Excursion

Simple Machines song

Simple Machines video Part 2/2

Simple Machines, part 2/2

More educational games & videos on Simple Machines at NeoK12.com  

Mouse Trap by 3/4B

We have been playing the Mouse Trap game to learn more about simple machines. It was great to watch when all the machines worked together and the trap worked! Here are some photos of our game.

From Mrs H and 3/4B