Bike Education & Harmony Day

Written by Daniel Fisher & Faisal Yousuf

Photography by Nini Abdul-Wahed & Asra Saad

Harmony Week was great! Harmony Day is a day where we all celebrate everyone’s countries and cultures. But because we have so many kids, we celebrated over a whole week! On Monday we had an assembly and nearly everyone dressed up in their national colours or dress.

Then we had soccer matches in our grades with boys and girls games. 

The 3/4s games were on Wednesday, the 19^th of March. Before each match we all huddled in a circle and we had to share something about our countries. On Friday that week, it was the teachers versus students soccer match. The teachers won by 2 goals because the score was 1-3.

This term we have been doing Bike Education with our instructors and we have been enjoying it.  Some of the bike activities were where we did a slow race and we all found it t be a lot of fun. Some of us had to put our feet down, but we all eventually did it right.

The location of our Bike Ed classes was the Moreland Primary School oval. We also learnt how to ride around cones. Some of us crashed and some of us were also skidding around the corners on the track. We had a ton of fun. We learnt about how to do a bike ABC safety check which stands for air, brakes and chain. We checked the air and chain and brakes and some of us had to borrow spare bikes.

We also had to have helmets with no cracks or holes because that could mean that a damaged helmet might break or snap. But once we did that, we were free to start riding. We were happy to have our class at the oval as it was full of gum nuts that made it slippery, so riders with smooth tyres would drift constantly. We also put on our brakes at corners and some of us would have to fix up the witches cones if they were knocked over. It was heaps of fun and we all learnt how to ride safely!

Explorer Project & Rocket Writing

Written by Hassan Bakir & Ayaan Taherani

Photos by Ali Hussein & Adam Zayat

The 3/4s have set off to do a project about their favourite world explorer on their computers. Personally, I think that this was the best thing we have done so far this year. We had to include their personal facts, their lifetime, the reasons why they are famous and some maps and pictures. Some of the explorers that we chose were Vasco de Gama, Abel Tasman, James Cook, Zheng He, Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo and others.

This is a good project for the students to learn about different explorers. It’s also great to learn how to use iMovie and iBooks Author, so they are able to make movies and books.

I spoke with Ali and asked him a few questions about the project. Ali said, “The explorer project is really fun to do and my explorer is James Cook. He said, “I chose iMovie because I like it more.”

Every Monday in the 3/4 area we have been doing Rocket Writing. In Rocket Writing you have a sentence starter that the teachers give you and you have to use the sentence starter to begin your story. When you have done your story then you have to type it up on your laptop.

These are the sentence starters that we have used. “I found one millon dollars...”, “I looked up...” “I looked in the box...” and “I put the key in the lock...”     

  

 

Rocket writing teaches us to use better punctuation such as capital letters and full stops. I spoke to Najma, a student in the area, and his opinion was that rocket writing was fun and that it improves your grammar, spelling, handwriting and your thinking.