This term, 5F students have been learning about Bushfires and Erosion. In Science, students have been researching erosion and its effect on world heritage sites such as Uluru and The Great Barrier Reef. The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble! The water is getting warmer, which is hurting the coral. When coral gets too hot, it turns white in a process called bleaching—and if it stays that way, it can die. The reef is home to thousands of sea creatures, so this is a big deal. Even Uluru, the huge red rock in the middle of Australia, is being affected. The land around it is changing because of different rain patterns and rising temperatures.

In English, students were given the task of writing a news report about a fictitious bushfire at Mt Coot-tha. Students used sources to create the multimodal report. In Australia, bushfires are happening more often and burning for longer, which is bad news for animals, plants and people.

Year 4G – Around the Classroom.

Maths

In Maths this term we have done a lot of work on timetables, division, time and when to round up to 10, 100, or 1000. Now we know that division is the opposite of multiplication we also have been learning about converting seconds into minutes or minutes in hours. We also have learnt how to use a number line to solve time problems, we also use time charts to solve time problems. By Ellie.

Science

This term for science, 4G is learning about ecosystems, organisms, food chains, producers, consumers, and decomposers. We have learned what roles organisms have in ecosystems and what balances and unbalances abiotic and biotic things.

Our Big Science Question:

How do organisms in an ecosystem depend on each other for survival? The big science question can be split up into Science Fertile Questions, like What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?

MRS GREN:

M movement

R respiration

S sensitivity

G growth

R reproduction

E excretion

N nutrition

Mrs Gren helps us remember what qualities a thing needs to be a living thing. By Nina

English

This term in English 4G is learning how to write and deliver an explanatory paragraph about an organism.

Our big question is “How do I write and deliver an explanatory paragraph?” We have 5 fertile questions. We learnt about the difference between an explanatory paragraph and a descriptive paragraph.

On the 9th,16th and 29th of May we went to an incursion to learn more about ecosystems. We saw lots of animals and learned more about their ecosystems and learned about their habitats.

We had fun activities, such as picking up litter around Moore Park and our school (ISS). During this time, we also learnt about producers, consumers and decomposers (scavengers) and found out what the purpose of having producers, consumers and decomposers. By Sophie and Emilia

HASS

Captain James Cook

In HASS this term we have done a lot of work on captain James Cook and how he colonised Australia (or New Holland.) He claimed the land for England. Originally his plan was to sail with scientists and go to Tahiti. Instead, after he sailed to Tahiti, he mapped the east coast of New Zealand and anchored in Botany Bay.

This picture is show-casing the ship captain James Cook sailed on:

Life as a convict

As a convict life on the Lady Penryhn or the Scarborough was tough, because all the convicts were squished together on the ship. In England and in Australia. Some things were the same and some things were different for example:

In Australia they had opportunities.

In England and in Australia they were still treated poorly.

In England they worked inside houses or factories.

Thank you for reading my page for 4G’s Hass lessons. By Matilda. D