Merry Christmas

I can't believe how quickly this year has gone.

Well done performing your play last night. It looked fantastic and you sounded great.

Wishing each of you a relaxing and joyful holiday time. Look forward to seeing everyone next year.

God bless

Mrs Lehmann

Balinese communities

As our unit of work comes to an end, the final aspect of living in community we need to look at is another culture's community. We will look at a Balinese community and draw comparisons between their community and ours. Please follow the link to the webquest and complete the worksheet.

Balinese community webquest

Volunteer organisations in the community

Using the scaffolding sheet and the link below, look at the different organisations and investigate how they help others in the community.

volunteer groups

Communities in Australia

In class, you will be given a town to research. Please click on the link for the town you have been given.

Bathurst

Parramatta

Tamworth

Cairns

Katherine

Broome

Port Arthur

Mildura

Katoomba

Broken Hill

Papermaking process

Click on the link below to view and read the steps invovled with making paper.

Papermaking

Ecological Footprint Calculator

Follow the link below to see how many planets are needed to support your lifestyle.

Footprint Calculator

Products and services

This term well will be looking at how technology is used in the everyday products and services we use. Below are some Youtube videos showing how certain products are made. Note the use of technology in each of these clips. These videos will be viewed in class on Friday.

How it's made- Chocolate

How it's made- frozen french fries

How it's made- frozen pizza

How it's made- Ice cream

How it's made- Potato chips

Studyladder

Following the success of Studyladder (Smartkiddies) last year, 3/4 will be using this online maths resource this term. Students have already been given their user names and passwords to access the work allocated to them on this website.

While students will be using this as part of this terms maths program, they are also welcome to use this website at home.

Have fun!

www.studyladder.com

Damper Recipe

For those of you who enjoyed cooking and eating the damper we made in class today, here is the recipe. There are plenty of other recipes available. Maybe you can give them a try too.

Ingredients

3 cups self-raising flour

¼ cup powdered milk

1 cup water

Pinch of salt

2 tablespoons caster sugar

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180ºc
2. Pour all of the ingredients into a large mixing bowl.
3. Mix ingredients together until combined.
4. Spoon mixture into a large zip lock bag. Make sure air is out of bag before sealing it. Knead mixture.
5. Open zip lock bag and push bag inside out to remove mixture from bag.
6. Place dough into baking tin
7. Place tin into oven and cook for 20-30 minutes
8. Enjoy.

Themed Day

Dear Parents and Caregivers

This term, Year 3/4 has been studying the British Colonisation of Australia. In order for students to gain a sense of what life would have been like as an early settler, students will participate in a themed day on Thursday 23^rd June 2011.

To help enhance this concept, students are encouraged to come dressed as a convict, a free settler, a British Officer or any other person from the early settlement period. Remember, Op Shops can be a great source of inspiration when creating costumes.

If unable to dress-up for the day, please wear your school uniform.

Captain James Cook

Here is some information about the life and achievements of Captain James Cook. This with help with your empathetic reflection.

csusap.csu.edu.au/~rcarpe02/index.html

Task

Students compose an empathic reflection based on the life of Captain Cook. They introduce themselves as Cook and reflect on events in his life including his discovery of the east coast of Australia.

My Neighbourhood

You will be using the website below to create a neighbourhood.

http://www.landcom.com.au/mini-sites/my_neighbourhood/index.htm

Can not wait to view your creations.

Consquences of colonisation for the Aboriginal People

Use the link below to investigate the consequences colonisation had on Aboriginal People. Answer on sheet provided.

http://www.skwirk.com.au/p-c_s-17_u-504_t-1361_c-5239/consequences-of-british-colonisation-for-aboriginal-people/qld/consequences-of-british-colonisation-for-aboriginal-people/colonisation-resources-power-and-exploration/british-colonisation-of-australia

Welcome back

Welcome to Term Two. Hope everyone had a good holiday. I can't wait to hear about them.

This term we will be learning the British Colonisation of Australia. If you have any interesting artifacts, please bring them in to share with the class.

Spelling City

Today my spelling group visited the Spelling City website. This is a great website where students are able to practise their weekly spelling words.

If you would like to use this website at home, go to www.spellingcity.com. Go to 'start here' and write your words in and then press the green button to play games. There are a number of different games to play, all using your words. Enjoy.

Old Photos

Here is the link to view the historical photos of Blackheath on the Blue Mountains Library website. You can also look up other Blue Mountains towns.

http://photosau.com/bluemountains/scripts/home.asp

Happy viewing

Photographic Competition

Mountains Christian College Photographic Competition is on Friday the 4th and Saturday the 5th of March from 10.00am- 4.00pm.

If you would like to enter photos into this competition, please hand them into the school office by Friday the 25th February 2011.

Welcome 3/4

Welcome to 3/4. This term we will be looking at local history. If you have any old pictures, local history books or anything else that would be helpful, please let me know.