Class 4 is full of hands on action and lots of joyful noise!  This term during break times, the children have embraced creative design and building in the sandpit and have worked together harmoniously to bring a whole landscape to life!

In the classroom the second main lesson block on Norse Mythology has allowed us to explore the written word and speech.  We have investigated past, present and future tense, speech marks, sentence types, parts of speech, revised nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, as well as introduced prepositions.

The Norse theme has allowed us to play Viking bowling and Viking Chess.

We also have had the opportunity to master the Viking lucet cord making tool that we made in woodwork. 

Our paintings of Yggdrasil the world tree with the Midgard serpent are proudly displayed on our classroom walls as we consider all the happenings from the Norse Myths that occurred in the setting of this ‘World Tree’

In the realm of music, our Nine Worlds call and response song was a lot of fun.  We are learning a recorder piece which explains the perspective of the giants to gods and humans. 

To begin our Fractions main lesson we ‘fractured’ a block of ice with ‘Thor’s hammer’ as part of our introduction to Fractions.  We cut apples into halves, quarters, eighths, sixteens, thirds, sixths and so on before making apple pies.  It was interesting to see what fractions we could cut the pies into!  The pies were warm and delicious with spices.  Many thanks to Sophia for helping us with the cooking.  We are reading an imaginative poem about the making and selling of Apple Pies which helps with the concept of equivalent fractions.  Giants and hungry customers devour fractions of the pies and we are left to ponder the remaining portions.

During our bush walk and bush observation time we have been practising mindfulness and using our senses to explore the details and changes in the flora and fauna of the bush.  This week's discussion focussed on whether the season was changing from Djeran to Makaru and what signs would tell us that the change was underway.

Here is a sneak preview of some of the colourful woodwork panels that we made as part of the screen wall for our Class 3 Bike Shelter building project.  Many thanks to Heather for following through with this creative, artistic and practical project.  They look terrific!