Behind the News

 BTN

By Mahrae and Gabby N

For the past few weeks in Year 5 we have been watching BTN.  We watch BTN every Tuesday.  BTN stands for Behind The News. BTN is like a news show.  The sections of the show are the wire, score, some times it has a poll or a quiz.  The reporter is Nathan, Natasha does the wire and Sarah and Rebecca are the interviewers.  Some stories that have been reported include:

• What it’s like to live in a war zone
• The fires in parts of Australia
• Electing a new pope and government
• Should high school start in year eight?
• As well as many other interesting stories. 

We have a BTN discussion group with a Year 5 class at St Anthony's Clovelly. (You can check out their blog by clicking here) We share our opinions with them about what we have thought about the different topics. Thanks to Mrs Quealy and Year 5 at St Anthony's for joining in the discussion with us! We enjoy watching BTN and we all thank Miss Lee for letting us have the opportunity to watch it as well as enjoying it.

What has been your favourite story and why?

Image from: http://splashlive.abc.net.au/res/images/author-avatar_Nathan.jpg 

Language of Cause and Effect

Language Of Cause And Effect By Mikayla And Luke

In Year 5 we have been learning about cause and effect. Language of cause and effect, is used to make the reader see why something has happened. It also makes our writing more interesting. Some examples are:

• Smoking can cause lung cancer.
• In order to have a good  life you need to have a positive attitude.
• The volcano erupted and it caused the animals to leave the jungle.
• Humans have legs so that they can walk.
• The boy kicked the ball, consequently it went over the fence.

Some Examples Of Language Of Cause And Effect :

Purpose words and `phrases

• in order to
• so as to

Results words and phrases

• brought about
• was an effect of

Causative words

• provoked
• is caused by
  
  
  
  
  Can you think of an interesting sentence using language of cause and effect? Comment below.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars

By Kathleen

This is how the shooting stars work:

Every afternoon Miss Lee chooses one person, who does something extra special, to receive a shooting star. They receive a raffle ticket as well as a gold star. Their name gets recognised on the special door. 

Their name is recognised:

Their name will not be written on the the background of the door but on a cut-out star that Miss Lee gives us. We then write our name on the star and use blue-tack to stick it on the purple painted background.

Some examples of people who already received a shooting star:

Mahrae 

Ashleigh 

Luke 

Gabby.N 

Christian.B

Michael.V

Jason 

Christopher 

Tracey 

Lily 

Dylan 

Georgia 

Mikayla 

Christian.E

Pope Francis I

The New Pope

By Mikayla and Luke

       

The new Pope is Francis the first. The conclave met in the Vatican for two days.  The first time smoke came out it was black which meant there was no pope elected yet. The second time the crowd of thousands were amazed when they saw white smoke after only 2 days. They saw that he was an 76 year old Argentinian cardinal who was now a Pope to 1.2 billion Catholics all around the world. His real name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He gave his first blessing on Sunday at the Vatican. He blessed over 100000 people. Here are some photos.

Football Gala Day

Football Gala Day

By Christian E
    

On Thursday 14th March Years 5 and 6 went to Gillman Reserve to play touch football.  Firstly, we chose how we wanted to play. Then we all got in our groups. After that we split up into 6 fields and played different teams. After a couple of games we took photos and then we walked back to school. Thanks to Ryan and Mr Fieni for the great day!

Mrs Haney's Challenge

Comment below with three interesting things that you have learnt about:

• How a pope is elected
• The new Pope
• St Francis
• Sistine Chapel

Measurement in the classroom.

Gaby's Measurement

By Gaby S and Luke

My task was to measure how long it takes me to walk to the 3 doors in the classroom from my desk. To get to the front door it took 6.6 m.  To get to get to the art room door it took 1.26 m.  To get to the computer room door it took 5.34 m.  Have a look at my video showing my work.

Project Compassion: Coin Weight

Coin Weight

By Mikayla and Jasmine

On Tuesday 5th March, Year 5 had a competition between all 6 tables. The whole idea of the competition was to have the heaviest weight made up of coins. The winners were the harlem shakers with 350g, they also got the highest amount of money which was $21.30. Everyone else tried very hard and we raised a large amount of money. Check out some photos from the challenge.

Sinking, Sailing and Soaring: Sail Types

Science Boat Sail Experiment

By Meg & Emma

On Tuesday the 5th March Year 5 CTK made boats with different sails. Each one made it to the other end of the pool in a different amount of time. Some of the sails were made out of newspaper, plastic bag, cardboard, napkin, foil, red star fabric, garbage bag, plastic sleeve, maroon fabric, silk, red fabric, and felt.

This is a chart of how long it took to make it to the other side of the pool and what type of sail they used.

Boat	Time
Angelica, Jason  Felt	7 seconds 50 milliseconds
Christian B, Clare  Newspaper	6 seconds 25 milliseconds
Gabby N, Mikayla  Blue Silk	7 seconds 97 milliseconds
Christopher, Michael N  Garbage Bag	11 seconds
Kathleen, Luke  Red Silk	9 seconds 22 milliseconds
Georgia, Michael V  Cardboard	9 seconds 21 milliseconds
Emma, Ashleigh Red Star Fabric	5 seconds 53 milliseconds
Mahrae, Jack  Foil	6 seconds 19 milliseconds
Dylan, Gaby S Yellow Paper	6 seconds 66 milliseconds
Tracey, Charbel Napkin Boat	5 seconds 47 milliseconds
Jasmine, Lily  Plastic Sleeve	8 seconds 06 milliseconds
Meg, Sarina Plastic Bag	6 seconds 35 milliseconds
Christian E, Samuel Crimson Silk	6 seconds 47 milliseconds

All of the sails were placed in cut up milk bottles and cartons that Yr 5 have been bringing in for a week. The fastest one was Tracey and Charbel’s Paper Napkin boat. CONGRATULATIONS!

Whole School Project Compassion Week 3

Caritas Hand By Mikayla and Christian B

On Friday 8th of March, our whole school participated in a hand design to raise money for Caritas. We started off by doing a whole school meditation. Then each teacher chose some people in the class to put some coins on the outline of the hand.  We raised enough money to do the outline of the hand and even make some nails. In Week 1 our class raised 127 dollars, Week 2 we raised 61 dollars and 50 cents and in Week 3 we raised 47 dollars and 95 cents.

Sport: NRL

NRL

By Jack and Georgia

This year CTK are doing NRL for sport. The NRL person who is  helping us is Ryan.  We are learning how to pass and kick. We have NRL every Thursday and we are practising for the gala day next Thursday.

Have at look at the photos below:

Make a video of your own at Animoto.

Electing a New Pope

It is a pretty exciting time in the Catholic Church at the moment.  We have been finding out about the process of electing a new Pope.  Have a look at what we have discovered.

How a New  Pope is Elected

By Angelica, Sarina, Jasmine

The cardinals are lined up into rows, there are 117 cardinals around the world voting to be a pope. The cardinals are locked in a room. This meeting is called a conclave .

The doctor and cook go with them into the conclave. The cardinals are only allowed to drink and eat bread and water.

The cardinals pick their candidate and write it down on piece of paper and put in secret ballot 4 times a day. They do this 2 times in the morning and 2 times in the afternoon in the Sistine Chapel.

To choose the pope the candidates need 2/3 of the votes. They burn  the ballot papers and and use the colour of the smoke it signal the result to the public.

Black smoke= No result
White smoke = new Pope

If they pick a Pope they use a chemical to form white smoke.

When they have chosen the Pope, the Pope chooses his Papal name and signs the paperwork.  Then he appears on the Vatican's main balcony to deliver his apostolic blessing.

Check out the list of ALL Popes:   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popes

Gabby N has created an excellent presentation explaining how a new Pope is elected.

Subtraction

Subtraction Card Game

By Luke and Christian E

Year 5 have been learning about how to subtract big numbers with a strategy.           

First you  grab a deck of cards and put  them into rows. Then starting with the ones you minus them one by one, until you finally have your answer.

Length: Jumping

Measuring Jumps

By Mahrae and Clare  

On Tuesday the 5th of March our class  had to measure the biggest jump we could do. Here is the highest result of each student written in centimetres:

Christian B	218 cm	Christian E	280cm
Meg B	142cm	Mikayla F	232 cm
Georgia B	316 cm	Charbel H	181cm
Luke D	316 cm	Samuel H	260cm
Kathleen D	34cm	Sarina H	168cm
Lily D	270cm	Jason I	200cm
Jasmine E	165cm	Christopher J	275cm
Dylan K	190cm	Gaby S	254 cm
Jack M	291 cm	Mahrae S	217cm
Gabrielle N	225cm	Emma T	189cm
Michael N	244cm	Tracey T	215cm
Angelica O	175cm	Ashleigh T	199cm
Clare T	224cm	Michael V	53cm

The highest in Year 5 was 316 cm made by Luke and Georgia.Here is a video made by Mahrae, Clare and some help from Miss Lee and Lily.

Bring Your Own Device

BYOD Rules

By Christopher and Christian.B

We have been lucky enough to trial bringing in our own device. These are the rules for the devices:

Your device is your responsibility.
Your device must be clearly labelled.
Bring it home each afternoon.
Bring it to school fully charged.
Download all apps software at home.
Keep away from liquids.
Do not use 3G/4G.
Only G rated apps and content.
Only use for educational purposes.

Do not use on the playground during recess, lunch, before or after school.
Taking photos or filming videos for any purpose other than as directed by the teacher is strictly forbidden.

Year 5 created comic touch photos showing these rules. Have a look at the movie we made using these photos. 

Yr 5 Cultural Backgrounds

Have a look at the awesome infographic created by Michael V about Yr 5's cultural backgrounds.

Note:  If you can not change the infographic to see the cultural backgrounds of our parents and grandparents try opening in internet explorer. 

Yr 5 Cultural Backround | Create infographics

Project Compassion Whole School Week 2

Caritas By Samuel and Christian.B

At CTK as a school we placed coins on the playground to make the word Caritas.

Yr.5 made C

Yr.4 made A

Yr.1 made R  

Yr.2 made I

Yr.3 made T

Kindy made A

Yr.6 made S

Boy Overboard Chapter 4

Boy Overboard Chapter 4

By Clare

Year 5 have continued reading Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman.  In chapter 4,Bibi stepped in a mine while going back home.  Jamal ran to Bibi once he heard the news from Yusaf.  Jamal said to Bibi to take her foot off slowly and he will put his foot on.  Jamal told Bibi to go back home with Yusaf.  A few minutes later after Bibi and Yusaf left, Bibi came back and gave Jamal a big  hug, Bibi pushed Jamal off the mine luckily the mine didn’t explode and they were safe and sound.  Year 5 have created some comics on what happened in chapter 4.

Here are some of the Comics that Year 5 have made:

By Gabby and Clare

By Luke and Ashleigh

By Tracey and Sarina