The Scientist Who Needed A Friend

Jake had an idea to create a mystery story about a scientist and his appearance in a school yard. The children in the playground are playing with Moshlings. The scientist does his best to find himself a friend.

Let's take a look at the video:

The Lion Cub

Gyda wrote such a good story about an African Reserve that it was turned into script for a puppet theatre. When a lion cub is found by itself and wounded, the team at the reserve go into action. Gyda hopes that you enjoy her story.

Counting down... 3. 2, 1, action

A Touch of Greek Mythology

James, Robert and Ibrahim wrote stories based on the Greek myth about Medusa. Jordyn had fun using her puppet in the role of Medusa. Neve works the narrator puppet.

Let's take a look at how their story pans out.
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Sharing our Puppet Theatres at Syndicate Assembly

After writing narrative stories, a number were selected to be re-written as script for puppet theatres. We had fun making our wooden spoon puppets and having parents come in to work with us during the making process. They looked so real when they were finished. We spent two weeks learning the scripts. Some of us took them home to read for homework.

Last week we ran the Middle Syndicate Assembly so that we had an audience to perform our puppet theatres to. The video footage of each puppet theatre is posted separately because of their length. Find the Puppet Theatre label and the title that you would like to view.

The first video is based on Toby's mystery story about the pyramids in Egypt. Toby was interested in the treasure recovered over the years. He wanted to know what happened to it. Maybe some families from our school were in Melbourne for the recent Tutehkahmen exhibition. Passages of Toby's story were used in this puppet theatre.

What problems could exist? .....

Athletic Results

Team 18 had a wonderful day on Tuesday at St Albans Athletic Sports.

1) Our boys relay team won the Year 3 relay event.

2) Girls 7 years

Piper Wilson-Bungard took first place in; shot put, high jump, long jump and sprints.

Lydia Mercer-Beumelburg came second place in shot put and Gyda Jolley second in discus.

Neve Vangioni came third in shot put, discus, high jump and long jump.

3) Boys 7 years

Jackson William came second in high jump and third in sprints.

Toby Lambert came second in long jump.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate these children. They made us all feel very proud of them. All of that training paid off.

Our Big Day Out at Orana Wildlife Park

Our Orana Wildlife Park Visit:

On Wednesday, Room 18 went on a bus trip to Orana Park. The drive was pretty calm until we hit a bump in the road. It felt like we were on a roller-coaster for a short time.

When we got to the park an educational ranger met us near the entrance fence. His name was Toby. Toby explained a few of the rules (re safety) and then let us enter through the gate. He led us into a large room within the park where we could leave our bags. Then we went into another room that had seats similar to that of a theatre. Two other education people met us there.

We followed our guide outside and headed for the lion's den. One of the lions was bigger than all of the others. A family of lions including the mother were all cuddled up in one corner of their yard because it was quite cold. The big lion stood a few metres away to keep watch. We saw the large cubs play with each other. The mother lion got a little cross at times.

Next we went to see the Spider-Monkeys. They came out of a small opening in their house to get to their island. 'Magnificent at swinging!' "I wish I was able to do that." I thought to myself.

After that we went to see the Lemurs. They were sitting on ledges peering out at everyone. We also visited the rhinos and got to feed the giraffes. That was my favourite part. Finally we saw the Meercats. They were digging lots of holes in the sand. I was on guard too!

We were hungry by that time so we went back to the education centre for some lunch. After lunch we had some time to visit the tigers and the farmyard before saying goodbye to the park rangers, getting on the bus and heading back to school. What a fun day we had.

Reported by Robert

Thank you to Jordyn's mother for the photographs:

Our Award Winners for Week Eight

Congratulations to our award winners this week.

The award for achievement went to Gyda for the progress she has made in reading and writing. This week Gyda read to the class from a challenging text. She enjoyed the opportunity to share her literacy skill with her peers and laugh at the humorous content.

Toby was awarded a certificate for his courteous approach to sharing during team assignment. Toby displays many of the values that St Albans School works towards; respect, community, showing initiative and creativity. What a great example he sets .

Jake achieved the Heart of Achievement this week. Jake has demonstrated such a positive attitude to his work and continues to strive for excellence in all that he does. We particularly like Jake's questions and the interest he shows in our Inquiry subjects.

Congratulations and well done to these students.