Parkhill Kids

With this crossword maker, you can create your own crosswords!

Here are some recycling or environment games that you can enjoy

Earth Day

Michael, Michael, Go Recycle! – pick up all the litter and put it into the correct bins

Visy Enviromaniacs! – try a number of games with an environmental theme

Now go out there and save the world – on your computer!!

No, that doesn’t mean we’re putting weblinks through the recycling factory, but, it does mean Miss Ryan has been very busy finding useful sites for you to visit! These sites will be all about our topic for this term – the four Rs! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle… and, hmmmm, what do you think is the other one?

Meanings – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Ollie Saves the Planet – information and games

Home Recycling Survey

Recycling Story

Reuse Quiz

How you can reduce waste

Waste Reducing interactive word search

Recycling Questions Answered

Online Recycling Games

Information about Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

So get clicking! Learn all about it!

Our grade 3 students have been hard at work studying for their NAPLAN tests, the national testing program. They will be on next week, from the 12th to the 14th of May. You can find information at the NAPLAN website, but there are also practice tests online at Smeebu. Good luck, grade 3’s, I know you’ll do your best!!

Miss Ryan really likes these! It’s a good way to practice your parts of speech – your nouns, verbs and adjectives (and other things). Give it a go – it’s wacky fun! (If you’re not sure, there’s help at each of these sites.)

Mad Libs

More Mad Libs

Wacky Web Tales

Welcome back to what looks to be another busy year in grades 3 and 4 at Parkhill! We’ve been pretty quiet on our blog, but no doubt that will change as the year gets going. Wondering what the title means? That’s the name of our Integrated topic this term, looking at rules and laws.

We’ve got a new Smartboard in the area, so to celebrate, here are some games and learning objects that will expand our understanding of rules and laws… (BTW, you will only be able to view these at school)

Here’s the soccer game, with some rather unusual rules that need to be fixed

A road rules slideshow, or are they laws?

Neighbourhood Charter – where you identify the rules/laws being broken, and try to fix them

Your Charter: the swimming pool – like the Neighbourhood Charter, only at the swimming pool

Your Charter: outside the school – like the Neighbourhood Charter, only outside the school

Take a Vote: make it fair! – looking at voting for a school captain (watch out for unfairness!)

Well, I had lots of fun. What did you think? Post your comments below…

We’ve got two big events coming up – our excursion to the Botanical Gardens on Friday the 5th of December, and then, a week after, CAMP! A number of notices are outstanding, so, make sure that you get them back to school ASAP (that’s as soon as possible). You can download the notices from the wiki if your dog has mistakenly eaten them!

Clip art licensed from the Clip Art Gallery on DiscoverySchool.com

Here’s a digiLearn activity all about time…

Sadly, and shockingly, our classmate, Matt Condon and his mum, were killed in a small plane accident on Friday. We are all really stunned by this, and have been talking and thinking a lot about it. If you want to put any thoughts, ideas, pictures or writing up about Matt, or to him, then go to the wiki, and head to the Memorial page.