Letter to the Grade 4s of 2020

Dear Grade 4s of 2020

Welcome to the Elkanah Senior Primary.This year is going to be filled with adventures,fun tasks and fun events.You will enjoy your classes and love your new teachers.Grade 4 was super fun for me and I'm sure you'll love it too.We did ILT's,had fun outings and our classes were the best.You will also learn to work with an iPad which is pretty amazing. Your grade 4 camp will come up n so much and make many memories.I hope this year brings you much happiness and lots of knowledge.

from
Teresa

Precepts

In class we were reading about Wonder,a fantastic book that everyone should read.In page 45 to 48 Mr Browne was talking about precepts.Precepts are quotes to live by or quotes to motivate you to do something good.

The precept that I chose to talk about is:"Our fate lives within us,you only need to be brave enough to see it."The reason why I chose this precept is because it teaches us that we cant always be scared of wanting to be what we want to be or to do.Life is quite short and we need to live every single moment.We cant waste time overthinking about your future.Just follow god and believe in yourself.

Digital Footprint

Digital Footprint

A digital is a trail that you leave as you walk through the internet.Your digital footprint could possibly be visible to anyone so you always have to be careful of what you want to post.Before you post anything online you have to think.Your digital footprint could also affect you in the future if maybe a university student or employee sees it  depending on what you're posting.It is very important to be aware of your digital footprint because you don't want to leave a bad trail of yourselves as you go on and about online.People will see that no matter if you deleted it.Someone could've copied or saved it.Always think of who you want to be online.A good,kind positive person or a disrespectful,irresponsible and negative person?Things you post today could always last a long time.
The message that I'm trying to share with the poster is to always be positive,careful when posting online, to think twice and be respectful towards other people online.

Email Etiquette

EMAIL ETIQUETTE

Today we learned about Email etiquette.It is a formal way to email someone.I definitely think it was quite helpful for us pupils to know when answering or sending emails to teachers and for other things in the future.The five points we learned were use salutation,give a specific subject,keep it to-the-point,be professional and sign and proofread.I think the most important point was sign and proofread because we can correct and check spelling errors before we hit the send button.I actually use this point and find it quite helpful.I think it was a great idea to teach us email etiquette.

Stop-motion task

Superhero stop-motion project

3 weeks ago,we had an ILT,where we had to create and mold our own superhero out of dough.My partner was Jena. Our superhero name is Lazerman. He wears a tight-fitting suit with the colors red,orange and yellow.His name is Lazerman because his main power is shooting lasers.Its symbol is a lightning bolt because when we thought of lasers,lightning bolts came into our minds and so we decided that to be the symbol.This character best feature is the laser eyes because you don't need to be too close to a villain to defeat him\her.I think we could improve on our molding,maybe making the character smoother and neater.We should've took our time with it.

Later on we made a stop-motion video on a green background.It was quite a hard task to do since we had to keep the iPad very still.Our villain was called Slimerine,a  small slime monster.We didn't take much time with the video,It was quite quick.After we had finished filming,we edited the video adding sound effects and our voice over.We then chose the background that was going to replace the green blue background.Then we went to the Greenscreen app.It was a pretty easy app to use.We replaced the blue background with our chosen background.Finally,after we finished basically everything we submitted it.


It was a very enjoyable task to do.I hope we can do more ILTs like this.