Today was the official opening of our new Performing Arts Centre on Campus. It was a special moment and a long time coming for the Campus. All involved did a magnificent job. Please find below a brief video of the history to this project and the obvious benefits it now has to our Campus. Thank you to Phillip Elms who produced the video.
Author: Mr. Baldock (page 27 of 50)
The Year 3s from both Mr Baldock and Miss Verrusio’s classes recently went on a camp to Woodhouse. It was a one night two day camp. We stayed in the ‘Bunkhouse’. We had two great camp leaders in Marc and Michelle from Wilderness Escape who organised and ran the activities for us while on camp. We also had some great parent helpers in Donna, Jacqui, Sue, and Tanya.
This was the year 3s first experience of a school camp and for some their first camp experience. Please find below some photos and slide shows of some of the activities the student’s took part in.
Warm Up Activities
After taking all our gear off the bus we had recess. Straight after that Marc and Michelle introduced themselves and went through the rules while we were on camp. After that the students participated in a few warm up games (pictured below).
Billy Cart Construction / Racing:
Our first activity was billy cart construction and racing. Due to the rain Marc had organised for us to construct our billy carts under cover. Marc demonstrated to the students what the procedure was to construct the Billy Carts. He taught the students the correct names for each of the parts. Then the students were arranged into groups, to construct their billy carts. After the carts were constructed and they passed the inspection by Marc they were ready to race. Each team had to assemble on the track next to a tyre. After each lap, each team had to pit stop and change their role in the team. After each team had completed their laps they had to stand in a line quietly to be in the running to win. Below is a slide show of all the action.
Rope bridge construction:
For our second activity we had to go to the Pine Forest to meet up with Michelle. Michelle showed us how to make a spider web rope bridge between three close trees. After Michelle’s demonstration we divided into groups and then set about constructing our own rope bridges. We were given a time limit and a pretend scenario that a flood was coming and this was one way to save ourselves. Below is a slide show of our rope bridges.
Nature Treasure Hunt:
We went on a nature treasure hunt with Michelle. We divided into teams and we then had to set about finding the items on our lists. It was great fun. Below is just a few photos of our treasure hunt.
Talent Night:
The students had a great time presenting their talents at our talent night. Our parent judges did a fantastic job at coming up with great comments and feedback for our performers. Congratulations to Piper and Bernie for coming first with their dance routine, Sophie and Georgia for coming second with their comedy routine and Caitlin for coming in third place with her dance routine. Photos of this event will be coming soon.
Camp fire cooking:
On the second day Marc showed us how to make damper. We could include all sorts of extra ingredients in our damper such as chocolate, sultanas and marshmallows. Some of the students chose to make their damper and cover it in alfoil, while others chose to roll the damper around a stick. Once the students had completed this it was time to cook it in the camp fire. Marc instructed us on how to cook safely on a camp fire. When it was ready the students were really pleased with the results. Below is a slide show of our cooking efforts.
Environmental Water Study:
Our next activity was going on an environmental water study with Michelle. She gave us a very informative talk about the local creek environment. We then were given the opportunity to explore the creek with nets and buckets to see what water creatures we could find. Some of us almost ended up as water creatures! Below is a slideshow of our water explorations.
Challenge Hill:
Our last activity was to take on Challenge Hill. Due to all the rain we were restricted as to what equipment we could have a go on, but we had a lot of fun anyway. Below is a slide show of a few photos. There will be more to come soon.
Thank you:
I would like to say a big thank you to Marc and Michelle from Wilderness Escape for running such a fantastic camp for us. I would also like to thank our parent helpers Donna, Jacqui, Sue, and Tanya for all their help and support and a thank you to Miss Verrusio for all her efforts while on camp. Both Miss Verrusio and I were very happy with the efforts of the students. It was great to see them working so cooperatively together while experiencing new activities and having a lot of fun.
Year 3s what was your favourite memory from camp? Leave a comment.
The class and in particular Joshua were very excited to receive a letter from Author Tom Skinner. Joshua had written a review of Tom Skinner’s book ‘Round Fish Square Bowl’. Tom Skinner read Joshua’s review and sent him a letter containing two cards, thanking Joshua for his terrific review. It is great to know that our work is being read by many different people, but it is always special to receive this personal response to our blog posts. Thank you Tom Skinner.
Here is the link to Joshua’s Book Review of Round Fish Square Bowl https://mrbaldock.edublogs.org/2011/08/29/book-review-round-fish-square-bowl/
In Science we have been busy learning how to classify animals. We started off completing an activity where we had to classify lots of pictures of animals into groups. The first two groups we needed to sort our animals into were vertebrates and invertebrates. Vertebrates are animals with backbones and Invertebrates are animals without backbones. We then needed to sort our vertebrates group into a further five groups. A description of these five groups can be found below.
Birds
Birds have a back bone, they have feathers. They lay eggs in a nest. The eggs have a hard shell. They have a steady body temperature. Examples: Eagle, Hawk and Falcon.
Written By Kevin
Illustrated by Alex
Fish
Fish have a backbone, fins and scales. They lay eggs in water and use gills to get oxygen from the water. They do not have a steady temperature. Examples of fish: Stingray, Puffer Fish and a Shark.
Written by Joshua
Illustrated by
Amphibians
Amphibians have a backbone. They lay eggs in water. During their life cycle they change from a stage when they live entirely in water to a stage when they can live in water and on the land. They do not have a steady body temperature.
Examples: Frog , Toad, and Salamander.
Written by Luke
Illustrated By Isabella B
Mammals
Mammals have a back bone. They have hair or fur on their bodies.They have live babies and they feed their babies with milk. They use lungs to breathe. They have warm blood which means they have a steady body temperature.
Examples: Lion, Tiger and Monkey.
Written by Alicia
Illustrated by Mikayla
Reptiles
Reptiles have a backbone. They have scaley skin. They lay eggs on land. They have lungs to breathe, but they dont have a steady body temperature. Examples: Snake, Turtle and Lizard.
Written and Illustrated by Josh
Do you know any interesting facts about Birds, Reptiles, Mammals, Fish or Amphibians? We would love to hear from you via a comment.
Click on the following link to have a look at a post displaying our RBL artwork on the Campus Library Blog and leave a comment.
http://campusrc.edublogs.org/2011/09/05/why-i-love-australia-mr-baldocks-year-23-class/
Well August has come to an end and so to has our Family Blogging Month. I would like to say a big thank you to all the students for encouraging their family and friends to comment on our blog. We had 170 comments from family and friends during Family Blogging Month. Thank you also goes to the family and friends of our students that made the effort to comment. The students and I enjoyed reading your comments and loved getting feedback on our work. During August we also broke our one day visitor record. In one day we had 167 visitors.
Congratulations goes to Luke and his family and friends for winning the Family Blogging Month Challenge. Luke has won the opportunity to set up his own blog. We look forward to seeing his blog in the future.
Below is a small sample of the great comments we received.
Vinnies do a great job helping people less fortunate than us don’t they girls?
This was a great summary of their visit to your school. I hope you continue to support them.From Martin (Dad)
Great to see your story published to the web…I’m very proud of you Em.
Great job Piper & Isabella.
Clear instructions and great pictures.
I can’t wait to get out on the swings now!
Hi Ronan. Very well done on creating your own blog. It is very imaginative and has great pictures to go with it. I love the names of your characters especially the name of the Giant. Keep up the good work.
To Elise,
I think your Glog is fantastic. You put a lot of effort into your Glog . From looking at your Glog about Albert Namatjira I now know lots about him. Well done!
From John’s Dad
Hi Luke,
What a great story. You have put in a great deal of effort into this story. I will be very intersetsed to read any future stories.
Keep up the great work. Love Nanna (Luke’ s Grandmother)
We would love to see the involvement from family and friends continue. Happy commenting. 🙂
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