Language of Position

LANGUAGE OF POSITION WITH FREDDOS

On Monday the 22nd of July, year 5 did a task for Text Types. The task was to take a photo of the freddo and use Language of position to describe where the freddo is, some year 5’s did this with a partner but others were on their own.  

A lot of year 5 did heaps of photos but Mahrae & Lily got the most they did 24 photos!! But Ashleigh also did a great job because she had 23 photos!

Well done girls!!!

And these are some examples:

These are some examples of what we did on the Monday, 22 July. We had lots of fun doing this because we got to eat the freddo!!!!

BY: Georgia & Emma!!

Statement of Position

Statement of position

By Emma and Mahrae

On Friday 3rd of May, Yr 5 tried to write the best statement of position for the topic Everyone should learn to cook. We tried to use rhetorical questions, alliteration, language of opinion and interesting sentences.  We wanted to make it really interesting for the audience. Here are some of them:

How would you like to be a famous chef like Jamie Oliver? It’s as simple  as learning how to cook. Common sense determines that learning to cook can lead to many things. For an example you can become a  professional, surprise your mum for Mothers Day’s or even be able to know how to cook in the bush when you’re camping.

By Mahrae and Emma

Have you heard of Jamie Oliver? I bet you have. He’s one of the most famous chefs in the world. How would you like to be someone like him? Five stars restaurants, your own TV show, adored by the world. Common sense determines that if you want to be like him then you have to learn to cook.  Reasons you should learn to cook include passing down generations of delicious recipes, saving money and even making money!

By Mikayla

Does your kitchen rule? It is true to say that your kitchen will rule if you learn to cook. If you learn to cook, the chances you will be a natural are high.  There are so many famous cooks out there, you could be one, you could even have your own TV show. Wouldn’t your mum love to relax on her birthday and Mother’s Day?  If you learn to cook she can!

By Meg

Wouldn't it feel good to be owning a five star restaurant, or owning your own cooking tv show? That is what cooking can do for you. It can be left with no doubt that everyone should learn to cook. You could learn to cook yourself, save money and even be one of the famous chefs. You could be Adriano Zumbo, cooking famous desserts or Jamie Oliver, cooking famous dishes that taste sensational. Would you like to be a professional chef, watched by millions on tv?

By Michael V and Samuel

2D Shapes

 2D Shapes

   By Mahrae & Emma

In Mathematics, we have been learning about 2D shapes. 2D shapes are shapes that you can not hold. We have been learning about parts of a circle and different types of triangles like scalene, equilateral, isosceles and right angled triangles. We enjoyed learning it very much. We had to create a google drawing of a 2D shape. We had to write how many corners and sides it had we then had to record the answer by talking into the microphone on the computer.

Check out our video below!

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!

How many marbles?

Foil Boat Experiment   

By Emma and Georgia

Yr 5 did a Foil Boat Experiment which is where you had to make a boat out of foil that could float on water. The aim was to put as many marbles as you could in your boat and the winner was the table with the most marbles in their boat. Each tables’ score was bigger than their first attempt.

This was the score board:

Chatterboxes: 1st Attempt: 17 and  2nd Attempt: 49

Gangsters: 1st Attempt:  67 and 2nd Attempt: 153       (winner)

Ghostbusters: 1st Attempt: 34 and  2nd Attempt: 106

Treblemakers: 1st Attempt: 45 and 2nd Attempt: 106

All Stars: 1st Attempt: 60 and 2nd Attempt: 67

Fantastics 6: 1st Attempt: 15 and  2nd Attempt: 148

The Gangsters table won again and other tables thought how they can improve
The Chatterboxes said “We thought we could improve on the boat size.”
The Ghostbusters said “We thought we could improve on the length”
The Treblemakers said “We thought we could improve by not leaving any gaps in the foil.
The All Stars said “We thought we could make it wider so we could fit more marbles”          The Fantastic 6 said “We thought we could improve on their length like
the Ghostbusters.”

Foil Boat Design Challenge

The Foil Boat Experiment

  By Emma and Kathleen

We had to design a boat with our table group that could hold the most amount of marbles.    
After planning our design on paper we then had the opportunity to make a boat out of foil.  We then got to put our boat in the water and we also had to put marbles in it to see who got the most in their foil boat.

Amount of marbles that each boat could hold:
Gangsters: 67
Treblemakers: 45
Ghostbuster: 34
Chatterboxes:17
Fantastic 6: 15


The Gangsters table were able to have the most marbles in their foil boat.  We had to evaluate our boat to see what we could fix or replace to make our boat hold more marbles. In the treblemakers evaluation they realised they "needed to not leave any gaps and create a thicker platform." The Ghostbusters thought their boat sank because "Water starting coming into the boat and made it sink." The Fantastic 6 discovered that they needed to re-look at their design "Because the boat fell on it's side which made the water go in the boat."


We will be trying this again and see if we can improve the number of marbles our boat can hold.

Boy Overboard

We have just started reading Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman.  We spent some time looking at the cover of the book and predicting what we thought the novel would be about.  

Have a look at our predictions:

http://linoit.com/users/MissLee/canvases/Boy%20Overboard

Chapter 1

The next lesson we read Chapter 1.  Below are a couple of the summaries written by students in our class. 


In chapter one Jamal, Yusuf and their friends were playing soccer. Then Jamal's sister Bibi came and started to play with them. However it was illegal for girls to play soccer and they did not want her to play. They were scared because it was illegal and they might get caught.  
By Charbel and Christopher

In chapter 1  Jamal was playing soccer with his friends and his sister came along and wanted to play. He wouldn’t let her play but she still scored a try. There are three rules why he wouldn’t let his sister Bibi play.
1. Girls aren’t allowed to play soccer 
2. She’s not allowed out of the house without her parents 
3. Girls have to wear a headscarf to leave the house.

We think it is unfair that girls can’t play soccer and that they don’t have their own teams for Afghanistan.  
By Emma and Mahrae

In chapter 1, Jamal and his friends were playing soccer but he couldn’t score a goal. His sister  Bibi comes and made the kids so scared because it was against the law for girls to play soccer. They all tried to get her but they couldn’t and she scored a goal which made her brother happy. He was happy but then angry at her because she broke the rules. The others were scared so they ran home leaving them. They were scared they would be caught with the girl playing soccer. Bibi wanted to play again so she ran to the desert to get the ball and Jamal chased after her.  
By Michael V and Jason

Have you read chapter 1 of Boy Overboard? What did you like or dislike about the chapter? What did you think will happen next?