Our class is a Year Four class with 32 students. Twelve are girls and twenty are boys.
Our fantastic teacher is Mrs Piper. She is the BEST! We think we are very lucky because most of us had Mrs Piper last year for our teacher.
Our ages are 8 and 9 years old. Most of us were born in Australia but some of us have parents born in another country.
Art The Sea Gliders Fractions Art
We have been doing different art activities to do with the sea.
We have made Sea Mobiles, Cellophane Fish, Tissue Paper Fish, pictures of different levels of the sea and what lives there. We have also drawn pictures of The Smallest Whale.
We painted our window to look like the sea and then put are cellophane fish on it.We made the Sea Mobiles by tracing around templates of animals in the sea. We then painted or wax crayoned the tracings and when finished we cut them out and hung them with string from a fish net which hung from the ceiling in the centre of our classroom.
The Sea
We are learning about sea animals like dolphins, sharks, whales, octopuses, seals, sea snakes and dugongs.Octopuses live for three years. During a breeding season a female octopus lays 150,000 eggs! They have very good eyesight, eight legs (but you know that) and they are usually found in caves and in between rocks. They are molluscs and their relatives are squids, snails and cuttlefish.
Seals are mammals. Their scientific name is arctocephalus pussilus doriferus. Females are usually 120-125 centimetres long and weigh 50-120 kilograms. Males are usually 200-225 centimetres long and weigh 220-360 kilograms. Newborn Australian Fur Seal pups are almost black on the back. Seals live on the coastlands and waters of southeastern Australia.
Whales are mammals. Some different kinds of whales are Blue whales, Southern Right whales, Sperm whales, Killer Whales and Humpback whales. The dolphin is related to the whales. Killer whales and dolphins are examples of toothed whales.
Gliders
With Mrs Watson we made some Hang Gliders.Some went a long way and others dropped to the ground because they didn't fold the wings correctly.
- We made them by folding origami paper in half lengthways and then folded them in half again to make quarters.
- We then opened the paper out and folded the top two quarter corners into the middle and turned the paper over.
- Next we folded the paper in half lengthways again and folded the wings down so that two thirds was below the middle folds.
- We then held the thick underneath section and went outside and flew them.
Fractions
We made some favourite food fractions using paper plates, tissue paper and crayons to show our favourite food. Then we wrote a fraction story about the food and cut the plates in quarters, halves, thirds, sixths and eighths.
We have also played fraction games with dice.
