Mrs May and the Huntsman Spider

While Mrs May was away she had an 'encounter' with a huntsman. She showed us the photo of the spider and then we had to write a 'quickwrite' where we guessed at what might have happened to Mrs May.There were lots of suggestions so we have selected a few to share with you.....

“La, da, da, de, da. AHHHHHHH!” I, I, I, I screamed, horrified, my heart pounding as fast as a rocket jet. A spider, a spider that could put me in a hospital. I better take a look and get some notes. It takes up a quarter of the brick. I’m busy examining it, then suddenly...Ouch, I pass out!!!!

Lucy W

Ahh! I scream as a huntsman spider crawls on my arm. ‘Ok, stay still.’ I think I’ll grab a piece of paper and slip it under the spider. I got the spider off and the spider lived happily ever after.

William

A spider jumps off one brick to another brick, then finally to the ground. Teeth ready, all eight arms ready. Mrs May walks along the grass. She does not see it. It leaps up on her arm. It creeps away slowly while Mrs May stays in pain. It was the bite of a huntsman.

George

As I walk into my brother Mark’s house I say to him,
“Is that a hunstman?”
“Yes” he said, then...

Rubie

The spider climbed up the wall and turned to face me.
“Is it poisonous?” I asked.
“No,” came the reply, “but it has a fierce bite,” he said.
“Ow!” I shouted.
“I should have told you before you did that.”

Lucie

As I place my hand on the wall I feel a pain in my hand. I slowly take my hand off the wall and there I see a huntsman spider. It’s crawling around the walls.
“Ahhh,” I say in fright. I step back, back, far away from the spider. I wish I never, ever meet a spider like that again. What a scary day.

Connie

Mum was walking outside and there was a huntsman spider.
“Ahhhh!” she screamed in terror. With that scream, Uncle Mark raced through the door, grabbed the brick and quickly flipped it onto the other side, squashing the spider.
“Thank God,” said Mum. Uncle Mark just smiled.

Rylee

PLOP! Something dropped squarely on top of my head, then it tumbled down toward my forehead. It trickled down my fringe then dropped to the ground, where it lay writhing in the pain of its fall. I looked down to see what it was that had fallen from the door frame onto my head. My jaw dropped open as I stared at the ground, horrified. Lying at my feet, with its 8 long, spindly legs squirming, was a large, grey huntsman spider. My heart skipped a beat as I tried to remain outwardly calm. Inwardly I was screaming a thousand screams. It took every ounce of self restraint not to squash the spider with my foot.

Mrs May

Student of the Week - Toby

Congratulations to Toby who was the Room 4 student of the week this week. He is being recognised for always being focused on the task, and also for always listening to instructions well and following them very carefully. These are wonderful qualities Toby and you are a good role model of someone who is ready to learn and keen to work.

Party Pack Maths

In Room 4 we have been learning how to undertake statistical investigations.  Mrs O set the class a challenge today involving something we all love....LOLLIES!!!!

She wanted to know if all Party Packs of lollies had the same number of each type of lolly, because Mrs O does not like milk bottles and wants to know if there will always be the same number of milk bottles in every packet.

Also, Mr O'Connell always leaves the green lollies, so Mrs O also wanted to know if there were always the same number of each coloured lolly in each packet.

To begin with, we were split into three equal groups.  Each group had to sort and tally their lolly types, then draw a graph to show the types of lolly contained in their pack.  Every group worked super well, sharing turns at counting the lollies.

After graphing the results, we shared them as a class.  It was interesting to find out that NO there are not the same number of each type of lolly - one group had only 7 milk bottles while another group had 14 milk bottles!  We decided that it was just luck as to whether or not Mrs O gets lots of milk bottles in her next packet.
We also found out that not all bags have the same TOTAL number of  lollies.  The bags are packed by weight, so one group had a lot of small lollies (jellybeans) so their total number of lollies was higher than another group who had more of the heavier lollies (jet planes and snakes).

 

  

 

  

 And finally came the best part.... sharing out the lollies equally and eating them!!!

 

Student of the Week - Kate

Kate could be our student of the week any week!  She always settles to work quickly and works quietly, staying focused on her own work.  She is a motivated learner who shows particular skills in maths.  With your fantastic work ethic you will go a long way Kate.  Tino pai!

Room 4 Mini-Olympics

We wound up our Olympics 'Strive to Excel' topic study by creating a R4 Mini-Olympics.  We were split into six random groups and had the task of creating an Olympic event around the school grounds.  We could use any equipment, but we had to source it ourselves.  Each group had to plan their event, decide on the rules and how it would be measured so that we could work out who the winner was and then demonstrate to the other groups.

MEET THE TEAMS...

The Bulls

Master Markers

Shining Stars

The Swagloaders

The Rippers

The Cheetahs

EVENT 1 - Bush Event
This event was created by the Master Markers team.  It involved students running a course through the trees down next to the playcentre, weaving around trees, up and over a tree stump, down to the carpark, through some of the garden (whoops sorry Mr Healy) and then up the concrete steps and back to the tree behind Room 1.  This was a timed team event with the timer stopped when the last team member made it back to the tree.
Gold medal - Master Markers, 1 minute 12 seconds
Silver medal - Shining Stars, 1 minute 20 seconds
Bronze medal - Swagloaders, 1 minute 22 seconds

EVENT 2 - Playground course
This playground event was created by The Bulls.  This was another team event that involved all team members racing at the same time against the clock.  Teams had to begin on the bars by completing five swings and then running an obstacle course around the playground - up the slide, across the bridge, down the two bars, over the tyres, flipping over the monkey bars, climbing back up the playground, down the two bars again, running through the sandpit and touching the bars to finish.  The fastest team time wins.
Gold medal - Swagloaders, 1 minute 15 seconds
Silver medal (tied) - Master Markers and Bulls, 1 minute 17 seconds
Bronze medal - Cheetahs, 1 minute 25 seconds

EVENT 3 - Scooter and Egg race
This event was created by the Swagloaders.  It involved a team relay race, where we had to scooter weaving in and out of cones to the end of the track and pick up an egg (without going out of the chalk lines), tuck it under our chins and scooter back to our team-mates (without dropping the egg).  If the egg dropped we had to go and collect another egg.  Each time was timed and the fastest team wins.
And YES there were several broken eggs!!!!
Gold medal - Master Markers, 1 minute 23 seconds
Silver medal - Swagloaders, 1 minute 25 seconds
Bronze medal - Cheetahs, 1 minute 32 seconds

Ooops!!!

EVENT 4 - Playground Destroyer

This event was created by the Cheetahs team.  We were back to the playground for another obstacle course, but with a difference.  We had to begin by scrambling underneath a camo net (kindly loaned for the afternoon by Mr Crawford), and then take off at speed scrambling up, over, under and around playground objects, racing to be the fastest team finished.  Due to some last minute changes to this event (as we were running out of time), there were several time penalties for teams taking shortcuts!

Gold medal - Rippers, 1 minute 13 seconds

Silver medal - Cheetahs, 1 minute 15 seconds

Bronze medal - Swagloaders, 1 minute 18 seconds

EVENT 4 - Synchronised Frisbee Throw and Longest Frisbee Throw

Created by the Shining Stars team, these were our first two events that did not involve timing to find out the winners.  First up was Synchronised Frisbee Throw.  This involved two team members throwing a frisbee each (at the same time).  The gap between where the two frisbees landed was then measured by Jenaya (counting her strides).

Gold medal - Emma and Alex (Cheetahs)

Silver medal - Jay and Emma (Cheetahs), Mac and Lucy W (Swagloaders)

Bronze medal - Lucie and Venessa (Rippers)

 

  

Jenaya and Lucy measure the distance between the two frisbees

Following that, every student had the chance to throw the frisbee the furtherest distance.  This was our only individual event in our class mini-Olympics.

Gold medal - George Tabberer

Silver medal - Toby Harrex

Bronze medal - Blake Macdonald

EVENT 5 - Adventure

Our last Olympic event was created by the Rippers.  It was another adventure playground obstacle course, but this time starting outside Room 1 with one team member throwing a ball for another team member to hit. The team then raced around, under and over marked obstacles in the playground and back to the seats outside Room 1.  Each team was timed with the fastest team winning.
Gold medal - Master Markers, 1 minute 25 seconds

Silver medal (tied) - Swagloaders and Shining Stars, 1 minute 26 seconds

Bronze medal - Bulls, 1 minute 31 seconds

And so to the FINAL RESULTS......

Master Markers - 4 GOLD, 1  SILVER
Cheetahs - 1 GOLD, 3 SILVER, 1  BRONZE                             
Swagloaders - 1 GOLD, 2 SILVER, 3  BRONZE
Rippers - 1  GOLD, 1 SILVER, 1 BRONZE
Shining Stars - 2 SILVER, 1 BRONZE
Bulls - 1 SILVER, 1 BRONZE

Congratulations to all of the teams for great teamwork, sportsmanship, friendship and encouragement.

Sports Activator - Soccer

Mitch was back with us last week, working on our soccer skills this time.  He gave us lots of drills and activities to help develop control over the ball.  We had to try and keep the ball close to our feet and use the inside of our foot to kick the ball.

 We also made sure that we could stop the ball quickly by placing our foot on the top.

For a tricky skill, we worked on rotating our foot over and past the ball to try and trick our opponent.

 Then it was on to using our heads.......

 Not everyone was completely at ease in doing this.....

Check out Max's concentration on the ball as it comes towards him!

We look forward to Mitch's next session in a couple of weeks.

Classroom door

Check out our new sign on R4s door. So true!