Our Amazing Animals

Written by Jaimie O’Riley & Sascha Villiers

Photography by Sofia Toro & Jennifer Kefalas

We have got quite a lot of animals in our school. Lots of the other areas have animals, as well as the 3/4 area and also outside.

The first one are the chickens. They are the ones that live outside next to the playground. We feed them our compost but sometimes kids in the school feed them weeds. We haven’t named them yet but maybe we should.

In the 3/4 area there are the bearded dragons (actually they’re just lizards, not dragons!) Their names are Steampunk (the boy) and Naga (the girl). The 3/4 students get to feed them frozen vegetables and crickets. We also have been cleaning their bowls and their tank. Their tank has lots of rocks and logs and red sand, just like their natural habitat. The crickets eat carrots and apples and that makes them fat and juicy for the lizards!

We also have gold fish on our area. There are ten of them. We feed them gold fish flake food obviously! They don’t have any names because there are too many to name.

Finally there are the tropical fish which we have just got. We feed them tropical fish flake food. There are around about sixteen tropical fish. Some are tiger fish with big whiskers, there are two white shark fish and there are lots of colourful ones. One of the fish sucks the glass and the thermometer and keeps them clean.

We think that it is really great to have animals in our classrooms. They are really interesting to look at and they teach us about different types of animals.

All Together - The Moreland Rock Experience

Written by Rayan & Lola

Photography by Sengul

Moreland Primary School has been holding an end of year school concert starring The Senior School. This is all of the kids in years 3-6. First we had to vote from a selection of songs to perform at the concert. The 3/4s ended up choosing We Are The Champions, Happy, On Top Of The World and Roar.

There were seven class songs and three smaller performances by some of the grade 3\4 girls. We also had a performance by the senior school’s rock band and they played instruments and sang.

We had our first performance on the 11^th of November. We have asked students from the 3/4 area about how they were feeling on the night and all of the emotions they were going through. Nini said “I felt really excited but nervous at the same time!” After the performance Asra told us, “I felt good since I thought that we had done well and I am really happy and proud of myself. But at first I was nervous and had so many butterflies in my tummy.”

Deakin said “I wasn’t feeling that confident at the start but after a while I started to feel much better.”

Sascha said, “I felt shy performing in front of parents but was tickled pink after the performance. I was satisfied with my act. I thought myself and the girls did really well singing and dancing to Break Free by Ariana Grande since everyone was ecstatic! My Grandpa said I was a super star which made me happy!”

At the first performance we had a little over 100 people and that was great! It was a great experience for the parents to see their children singing and dancing with their friends. It was lots of fun and was exciting for all of the children!

The last performance is on the 13^th of November and we think that we are going to be awesome! We hope that all the parents come and see the act and that they all love it!

Having heaps of fun at camp and exploring liquids and solids

 Written by Deakin Seiter, Miles Balaam-Gunderson, Haname SIbley & Noah Ryan

Photography by Ramy Ramadhan & Simon

This term the grade 3/4s went on camp to Cave Hill Creek for two nights. We got there by bus, it was two hour drive so we stopped at a park for morning tea. When we got to camp, we got introduced to Tim and then unpacked our bags.

Then we started our activities at 3pm. We had six activities and these were archery, rock climbing/abseiling, low ropes, mountain bikes, bush cooking and hut building. The food we had was delicious. For dinner we had lasagne and chicken with vegetables. At each meal, one group had to set up and clean the table.

Even though we were away from our families, camp was exciting and so much fun. And we are so looking forward to going on camp again next year.

In the first half of term two, the grade 3/4s had ten RMIT students come in to visit. RMIT is a university, which teaches people how to be science teachers. They visited us to teach us about solids and liquids. There were three groups; we all did the same activities but at different times. They told us all about molecules and atoms, which are in literally everything. The molecules move fast if it’s hot and if it’s cold they move slower and also come closer to each other.

The first activity was melting ice and you had to think of a fast way to melt the ice in a bag. The second activity was to melt chocolate in a microwave. You had to guess if a big block of chocolate or broken pieces of chocolate would melt faster. The last activity was melting ice cream. You had to guess if the chopped-up ice cream melted faster than a scoop of ice cream. We really liked learning about solids and liquids and really hope that the RMIT students come back again next year.