You need to pick a vegetable you would like to grow and find out information about it.
For filling out your vegetable fact sheets here are some useful websites:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0218e/A0218E14.htm
http://www.gardenersnet.com/veggies.htm
Otherwise you can google useful terms: your vegetable name + kids + garden + growing
We have already been doing some exciting stuff in the classroom.
We have been exploring in our EXPLORE STATIONS.
Welcome to S3Discworld’s blog.
Just in case you missed it here is the note home that was sent last week.
Dear Parents/Caregivers,
My name is Ms York and I will be your child’s classroom teacher this year.
Our class is named S3Discworld after the fantasy world in the Terry Pratchett novels. We will be exploring his novels and other fantasy worlds throughout the year.
Our class blog is http://themenagerie.edublogs.org/. It should be updated every few days so check back to find out more about what is happening in the classroom.
I have requested that students bring certain stationary items to school. These items help your child participate fully in the lessons. These supplies will have to be replaced throughout the year.
Your child may also want to have coloured pencils, textas and other coloured pens which can stay in their pencil case.
Students are required to bring a blue school hat and I have asked a water bottle to participate in class sport. Sun-Cream may also be advisable.
Our class have PE on Wednesday and Library on Thursday. For library each week your child will be required to bring a library bag in order to borrow. If needed this can be purchased from the school office.
Our classroom rules are:
Homework has started and your child will have homework every week. At minimum they are expected to
Tasks will be added to this to coincide with their classwork. It is their responsibility to have homework done and in their bag by Friday however encouragement at the beginning of the year may be needed. You will be contacted if your child has missed more than 3 weeks homework throughout the term and they will be missing out on a fun classroom activity to complete it.
Our daily schedule includes:
During the week we have 2 teachers in our classroom regularly. On Monday and Tuesday we have Mrs Economy helping us during Math and Reading time. On Wednesday and Thursday we have Mrs Filacouridis working with the class during the same periods.
As our lunch times have changed there is a large time during the middle of the day for class, students are encouraged to bring a piece of fruit or a vegetable to eat so they can have a fruit break. Fresh fruit or vegetables only please.
We are exploring Gardens and Sustainability over the next two terms. We will be looking at creating a class garden and students are exploring the idea of doing this hydroponically.
Every two weeks you will receive a summary of your child’s work in class. This enables you to keep up to date with what work they are completing and the standard they are doing it at. I have asked that you sign each page to acknowledge that they have shown it to you. This means they have responsibility for their own work which they will need for high school.
If you have any concerns or questions please don’t hesitate to organise an appointment with me.
Hello all,
A new year with some new students and some old. Welcome to our blog.
Our class name is S3Discworld after the fantasy world in the Terry Pratchett novels.
What have you learnt so far about Discworld?
Now you have practiced the KEY WORD STRATEGY last week, I want you all to do it on the same page and we shall see who can follow instructions. Please take the time to read the entire post and complete this task properly.
You assignment this week is to go to this site which shows a different area in Africa from last week .
We are looking at the Swahili Coast.
Remember we are working on our picking of the BIG IDEAS.
To do this you will use a strategy called KEY WORD STRATEGY.
You will need a whiteboard and a marker.
As you read the overview page write down the key words that jump out at you. You can always rub out ones later that you don’t think are as important as some you find afterwards.
After you have read through (you may want to read it twice) and noted your key words you are going to come back here and post a reply.
In this reply you will use your key words listed to write a short summary of what you have read. No cheating and looking back at the other page.
I would also prefer if you put your keywords in CAPS throughout your summary.
Ms York
Due to our rearrangement of literacy stations I am not going to assign you all jobs.
You assignment this week is to go to this site which shows a different area in Africa from last week and pick a page you would like to summarise.
We are looking at the Savanna.
Remember we are working on our picking of the BIG IDEAS.
To do this you will use a strategy called KEY WORD STRATEGY.
You will need a whiteboard and a marker.
Pick a page you are interested in and as you read it write down the key words that jump out at you. You can always rub out ones later that you don’t think are as important as some you find afterwards.
After you have read through (you may want to read it twice) and noted your key words you are going to come back here and post a reply.
In this reply you will use your key words listed to write a short summary of what you have read. No cheating and looking back at the other page.
I would also prefer if you put your keywords in CAPS throughout your summary.
Ms York
Hi Class,
This week we are doing something a little bit different for our blogging.
You will have a look at a site and report back here on what you have found.
You will also be assigned different parts of the site to read so that you can complete a summary and become experts in that area.
Remember a summary is the main ideas of what you read and goes from the text to your head to the blog not from text to blog – it needs to be in your own words – no copy/pasting.
I would like you to put 5 main points that you found to share with other people.You still pair up and do it separately in your pairs.
The site is Sahara.
David, Charlotte, Sanjay and Saleh – you will be looking at summarizing the Overview page which is the one that pops up when you click that link
Puni, Madalyn, Christina, Tristan – you will need to click in the top left and click “the people” and you will be writing about the Taureg – there are links next to the picture on that page.
Hussain, Riley, Mustafa, Jason – you will need to click “the people” and click “traditions” – you can also click on that page the different objects to find out more.
Serena, Andy, Sarah, Mysur – you will need to click “the people” and click “music”
Angela, Chloe, Dominic, Rikki-Teina – you will need to click “eco info” and “animals”
Jade, Diala – you will need to click “eco info” and “topography”
JJ, Imran, Zinedine – you will need to click “eco info” and “vegetation”
Giang, Joanne – you will need to click “the people” and “recipes” and give a summary of the cuisine (food) eaten in the sahara and a summary of the recipe, also compare it to something you know of in Australia or another cuisine.
Remember 5 points in your own words.
Enjoy
Miss York
Enjoy the holidays!
And will welcome you back on the 10th of October.
Check in and let us know what you are doing on your holidays.
Miss York
A star-forming cloud teeming with gas, dust and new-born stars.
By Patrick Mahony
Looking up at the night sky, you might think that the number of stars goes on forever. This, however, is not the case. Like us, stars are born, they grow, and they die. Unlike us, their lives are much longer, some living for billions of years. Astronomers have known for fifteen years that the rate at which new stars are being born has been decreasing since the Universe was just a few billion years old. Now, astronomers from the CSIRO have shown why.
Stars are born inside giant clouds of gas called nebulae. The main ingredient of these massive clouds is hydrogen gas. Gravity starts to pull these hydrogen gas clouds together. As the hydrogen becomes more and more compressed, the temperature rises. When the temperature gets high enough, the hydrogen gas molecules combine in a process called nuclear fusion. This generates even more heat, more fusion happens, and eventually a star is born.
The CSIRO astronomers looked at galaxies billions of light-years away. The huge distances involved means that the starlight from the distant galaxies is not from today – it’s from billions of years ago. Looking at these stars is like looking back in time. The further away the stars, the further back in time you can see. Astronomers can learn much about the early Universe by studying these stars.
The astronomers can indirectly measure the amount of hydrogen in these galaxies, and they compared the distant, older galaxies with closer, younger galaxies. They found there was much more hydrogen in the older galaxies than the younger ones, so there were more stars being born.
The problem is that once the hydrogen gas is locked up in a new star, it can’t be used to make more stars. Hydrogen gas flows into galaxies from the not-so-empty space between the galaxies called the intergalactic medium. Billions of years ago, stars were using up hydrogen faster than it was flowing in from the intergalactic medium. As the new stars used up the hydrogen, the rate of new stars being born decreased.
Hey Guys,
Thought I might let you know that this starts tomorrow.
You can login here with your mathletics username and password and participate. It lasts Tuesday and Wednesday.
Ms York
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