4A

✨Events and happenings in 4A ✨

There have been lots of wonderful and exciting events happening in 4A over the last two weeks! We have completed lots of learning and participated in a football clinic, creative writing activities, and our school Open Morning for Education Week. It has been fantastic to see students showing enthusiasm, creativity, and teamwork across all of these experiences. We are so proud of the effort and positive attitude everyone has brought to the classroom each day!

Western Bulldogs Football Clinic 🏉

By Lucas

On Wednesday the 20th of May, our class had a football clinic with the Western Bulldogs. An AFL girl named Aliza came out to our school and ran clinics with lots of classes. In the clinic we got taught how to play a football version of rob the nest. She also taught us how to handball. We got into groups of three and we kicked the footy to each other. It was really fun. Some of us need to practise kicking the footy and holding the ball to kick it. Some of us also need to practise handballing and bouncing a footy. 

How to kick a football: To kick a football, you need to hold the ball longs ways with two hands over your foot, you then drop it over one of your feet and kick your foot up to meet the ball. You need to make sure your toe is pointed where you want to kick it and make sure your kick is strong.

How to handball a football: To handball, you hold the ball in the palm of one hand and with the other hand you make a fist with your thumb out and then scoop your hand towards the ball like an ice cream.

How to bounce a football: You face the ball straight ahead and push the ball on a downwards angle towards the ground. Then you catch the ball when it bounces back up.

If you would like to get better at these football skills, you can now practice.

Creative Writing Day with Jodi Toering ✍️📚

By Hayley

On Monday the 25th of May, some of our class spent the whole day in a different classroom doing creative writing with Jodi Toering. Jodi is an author and a teacher. She taught us a lot about how to improve our creative writing. We learnt how to show don’t tell. For example, if you have a topic like pond you can’t use the word pond in a sentence. Instead you have to use the senses like see, hear, taste, feel and smell. Once we learnt those techniques, we got to write sentences about a topic but we had to use our senses to make it more interesting and creative. 

We also got to listen to her read some of her famous books that have lots of award stickers on them. Some of her books are Rain on a Rock and Night Watch. They are really good books you should definitely read them if you can. We also did an activity where Jodi would read us a little text and we had to figure out where it is set, what the main ideas are in the story, and what it makes you think or feel. 

At the end of the day, we pretended we were in a game show and we got to read out our writing pieces that we had done through the day and our classmates had to guess what emotions were in the writing. They had an imaginary buzzer and whoever guessed first got a point. It was a really good day and I definitely learned a lot.