Bushfire Paintings

Bushfire Paintings

By Jasmine and Meg

We have been thinking of those involved in the recent bushfires around NSW, particularly those in the Blue Mountains. On Wednesday 24th October Year 5 painted pictures of bushfires with burning trees. The background is made with red, orange, and yellow paint blended together. We used black oil pastels, white oil pastels and a lead or black pencil to make the trees. We used the white oil pastels to smudge the tree.

We also wrote prayers underneath about the fire brigade and those around them to keep  them safe. Here are some of the prayers:

Dear God,

Please help the people fighting the fire succeed. Please help the people who lost their homes, and protect the fire fighters and people who are near the fires.

Amen. By Tracey T

Dear God,

Without the Fire brigade there would probably probably already be hundreds dead, please help them to fight the fires and keep them and those around the fires safe.

Amen. By Meg B

Dear God,

Please help the fire brigade to stop the fires and keep all the people whose homes are threatened and gone to find a new home.

Amen. By Jasmine E

Dear God,

Thank you for the fire brigade please help them to stop the fires so that we can be safe and happy Amen.

By Luke D

Literacy and Numeracy Week

Literacy and Numeracy Week

By Meg And Jack

On Tuesday the 30th June Year 5 celebrated literacy and numeracy week by participating in 6 different stations. Each station was a game which you would play with your table groups. Station 1 was called I See The Light, 2 players left the room and decided on a word, they then went back inside and had a conversation about the word and the players had to listen and when think they know the word they say I See The Light. Station two was telephone pictionary. Station three How, where, why and when. Station 4 was go fish with homophones, and station 5 was bingo. Station 6 was called 31, each player had to put down a counter on either number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 until you get to 31, the player who got to 31 is the winner.

What Some People In Year 5 Thought Of It

Jack: It was very very fun it was a great lesson.

Meg: I thought that it was very fun and was a cool way of learning.

Samuel: It was so fun and good for learning.

Mahrae: I had lots of fun and especially enjoyed the game ‘ I see the light’.

Overall, this was a really great maths lesson and was very fun.

Which activity did you like best?

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

Noun Rap

Noun Rap

By Meg and Jasmine

In class Year 5 have learnt the noun rap. The lyrics to the noun rap are:

Noun Rap

A noun is the name of a person, place or thing,

like Sam in Sydney with a ball of string.

An adjective, an adjective describes a noun,

like a big, wide smile on a painted clown.

Verbs, verbs, are doing words,

they like to move and fly like the birds

An adverb likes to add to a verb

and tell you more about the word.

Nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs

learn these carefully and you will be superb

Year 5 got split into 5 groups and each group got a verse. We then recorded the groups doing their verse. We all had a lot of fun doing it.  

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!

Bulldogs Visit

BULLDOGS VISIT

By Mahrae, Meg and Christian E

On Monday 11th of February a couple of Bulldogs players came to our school and talked to us about bullying.

We watched a video about bullying, we learnt that bullying can happen anywhere. We also learnt that bullying can happen when you are any age and in any sort of way.

They also had a few competitions were the kids got to go against the bulldogs.There were push up competitions, another one was passing the ball around your body to another person, passing the ball around body versus one of the Bulldogs players and many many more.

Some kids had the opportunity to ask the Bulldogs a question such as:
How many people are in the Bulldogs?
Did you play for any team before the Bulldogs?
How long have you played for the Bulldogs?
Everyone found out that Trent played for Manly before Bulldogs and many other interesting facts.

Thank you to Mr Fieni for organising the visit!