After watching some Charlie Chaplin movies, Marsden had a lot of fun planning our own short films, filming them and then converting them to 'old style' using a really fun app called Vintagio.

Our school held a Halloween Dressup day on 31st October. All of the children were asked to donate a gold coin and the money raised was donated to the NSW Bushfire Appeal.

A few weeks ago, after watching some short Charlie Chaplin movies, we worked in small groups to create story boards or plans for our own movies in a similar style. Unfortunately, we have had so many other things happening that it took 2 weeks for us to get the opportunity to actually make our films. We used an incredibly easy to use app called Vintagio. This is the first group's creation. Visit our blog again soon to see what the other groups create!

On Friday, we created some beautiful Spooky Silhouette artworks as Halloween is coming up. The idea came from one of Mrs Chegwidden's favourite websites, Art Projects for Kids. We used a compass to draw the moon. then added purple and blue oil pastels, blended together for the spooky night sky. Finally, we added the dead tree trunk and some of us added bats hanging from the tree. We think they look fantastic!

We love our Grandfriends and we invited them on the 23rd of October to share our wonderful school. Before the day, we made fantastic cards for our Grandfriends. In Marsden, a lot of our grandparents live overseas, but 5 children had Grandfriends who came.

At 12.30, all our students who had Grand Friends coming went to greet them and show them around. They came to our classrooms and we showed them our classroom, our work and our class blog.

This year, all of the classes at Warwick Farm are named after an Australian author. We are Marsden, named after John Marsden. One of his most popular books is Tomorrow When the War Began, which has been made into a movie. It's a book for older kids.
 
Even though our name is Warwick Farm Public School, there are no farms around us. Maybe there was a long time ago, but most of the homes around us were built around the time of the Second World War, so there hasn't been any farms for a very long time. The closest farms are about 20 minutes away. Our school is about 30km South-west of the centre of Sydney. There are a lot of unit blocks around us and single story homes. Our school is next to a creek, so we have a lot of native birds in our playground as well as families of ducks. We also get some Red-Bellied Black Snakes.

Our final term in Marvellous Marsden has arrived. There are just so many things that we are looking forward to as we approach the end of the year.

This Term we are going to be studying Global Connections, and we will be learning about how Australia is connected to other countries, about other cultures and about Aid Agencies that help other countries in need. We are hoping to Skype with schools in other countries to help us to learn about their cultures. We are looking forward to learning even more complex maths and we are really looking forward to blogging with our 'Blogging Buddies' in Canada and USA. We start our Gymnastics program next week and are very excited about it.

The Year 6 Farewell is something we all have in our minds, even though it won't be until the 10th December. We are designing invitations and thinking about decorations. Term 4 is when we nominate our school leaders for the following year, and 8 of us are thinking of preparing speeches in the hope of being elected. We only have one boy and one girl Captain.

The highlight of Term 4 is going to be Multicultural Day. On this day, all of the students at our school come dressed in their cultural clothes, perform dances and songs, and bring amazing food from their cultures to share at the 'Culture Crunch'.Warwick Farm has MANY different cultures from all over the world. Just in our class, we have students from the DR Congo, Vietnam, New Zealand, China, India, Russia, Serbia, Macedonia, Afghanistan, Samoa, Phillipines, Tonga, and of course, some of us were born here in Australia.

There are so many other things that are going to make this Term fantastic and we look forward to sharing it all with you here.