Awesome Art Show

Just a reminder to all of our wonderful families that the Fraser Awesome Art show will be held tomorrow (Friday 13th September) and Saturday (14th September). We would love to see you all there to share in some of the incredible artworks produced by our students and teachers. We will also have a fantastic raffle and yummy BBQ running over both days. Look forward to seeing you then!

What was your favourite piece of artwork from the art show?

History - Canberra

The Dahls have begun learning all about the history of Canberra. We started with some learning about the indigenous people that lived and farmed in the Canberra region. As part of our learning we had a go at building a village using natural resources such as leaves, bark, sticks and clay.

What is something you have learnt about the history of Canberra?

Grandparents Morning

Thank you to all of our wonderful Grandparents that have shared some learning with us this morning. We hop you have enjoyed seeing all of the amazing work that your loved one has been doing here at school.

What was your favorite activity or learning that you saw this morning?

Father's Day 2019

We hope all of our dads and carers had a wonderful Father's Day yesterday. Below are some photos from our Father's Day Breakfast on Friday last week.

Eco Ernie Earth Fair

Last week we had our Eco Ernie Earth Fair, where we got to share all of our amazing learning about the different Biomes of the world with all of the other classes at Fraser. We had written information reports, quiz questions, poems and made word searches to share. 

Readers' Workshop, Creative Arts and Little Bits

Each week we have been continuing to focus on our personal reading goals by making our thinking visible during Readers' Workshops. We have been working on different strategies  to help make us better readers. Some of our strategies include using a BME, Topic-Subtopic-Detail, Chapter Ends... Stop!, Tic Tac Toe, Questioning Web, Uh Oh Phew!, Character Traits and Story Structure.

We have also been working hard during Visual Arts, on some amazing new artworks ready for the Amazing Art Show next term! Take a sneak peak...

You didn't really think we would show you our finished works of art, did you? 

Each of our classes also takes turns rotating through both tennis and Little Bits (Digital Technologies) lessons. Currently the Whoopsysplunkers are going out each week for tennis and the Mugglewumps are participating in Little Bits. This week the Mugglewumps used Little Bits modules to form an electronic circuit in order to create a Bubble Flute.

What reading strategy are you currently working on and how does it help make you a better reader?

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Excursion

On Wednesday this week, all of our Year 3/4 students in the Dahls, had the incredible opportunity to be able to travel to Sydney to view the musical, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Capital Theatre in Haymarket. We had an amazing time and it was an experience many of us will never forget! 

Some of our favourite parts included;

"When Mike Teavee was sent across the stage in millions of tiny pieces to the TV and came out shrunken" - Alex H

"When the Oompa Loompas came on stage and danced to the songs" - Ashlynn C

"All of it!" - Jacob C

"When the Oompa Loompas pranced around as each child was taken away" - Kate L

"When Violet Beauregarde ate the chewing gum, it was funny watching her blow up like a blueberry" - Ekkamneer J

"My favourite part was when the Oompa Loompas were tap dancing on the stage" Bailey V

What was your favourite part of the musical?

Eggstravaganza

We have been incredibly busy in the Dahls over the last few weeks. Last Friday we all participated in our Technologies Eggstravaganza. We were each given the task of designing something that would protect our egg from a large drop onto a concrete surface. Once we had drawn and labelled our design we used our egg-cents to purchase items from the teachers to make our design. We had to make sure that we used materials in a sustainable manner so that we did not have any waste. Next we all went outside and tested our designs by dropping them from the top of the wall outside the canteen onto the concrete below. Some of eggs looked a bit different after their drop. Finally we had to appraise our designs by writing about what we would change or do differently next time or how we could improve on what we had made.

After testing what is something that you decided that you would add to or change from your original design ideas?