Gold Excursion

   The  Australian Gold Rush   

 By Lily, Luke & Mahrae

Year 5 have been learning about the Australian gold rush, we also went to

Belgenny farm to find out more about the Gold Rush in Australia. We had a good experience and we had a chance to get to dig and pan for gold.

Firstly we all met the tour guide and went to the town hall, and he told us the generation of the gold rush. After that, we pretended  to be shepherds and rounded sheep. When we finished we checked their skin and sure they were healthy. We also had to check their teeth. We learnt that if they have four big teeth you half it and that is how old they are. Then we heard a bell ring, we ran to it finding a man saying that the Gold rush had just started and we went to the bank to get our fake money and licence to dig and pan for Gold. Next, we got ourselves into groups of 5 or 6 and put our money together, then we went to the shop to buy all the things that we needed (shelter, food, pans, buckets) and we bought our shelter first (tents) and built it up using pegs. After that we got to make some damper buying all the things we needed and while we waited for it to cook we went for a ride in a wagon, (but we had to pay) and we went to a river to pan for Gold. We found lots of Gold there and it was very fun too. We also went to a place where you could dig for gold. Then we ate our damper, weighed our gold and Ashleigh, Georgia, Mikayla and Clare won the gold weighing competition. So then we said our goodbyes to Belgenny Farm and also we got to keep the fake gold.

NAPLAN

GOOD LUCK 

YEAR 5 AT 

!!!NAPLAN!!!

Year 5 are about to do their NAPLAN tests. Here is a timetable of when we do each test:

Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
Language Conventions (40 minutes)	Reading (50 minutes)	Numeracy (50 minutes)
Writing (40 minutes)

Good luck to Year 3 as well as Year 5

By Clare and Mahrae

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!

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 

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.

I was hungry

✝ Matthew 25:31-46 ✝

By Michael V and Mahrae

We heard a story from the bible written by Matthew in the chapter 25 verses 31 to 46.

I was hungry and you gave me food
I was thirsty and you gave me a drink
I was naked and you gave me a clothing  
I was a stranger and you welcomed me
I was sick and you took care of me
I was in prison and you visited me

We have been thinking of ways we can live out these actions in our lives.

If somebody is hungry you give them food by giving them money for food.  We help people by bringing food for the Vinnies Christmas hampers.
If somebody is thirsty, you give them water or any other liquid.  By donating to project compassion we help them have clean drinking water.
If somebody is naked or does not have enough clothes, just donate them clothes to wear.  You could put the clothes you grow out of in a charity clothing bin.
If someone is a ‘stranger’ or new to the school you can welcome them.
If someone is sick, you can always take care of them and visit them.  We will visit the elderly people in the nursing home this year.
If you have a friend that is imprisoned, you can visit them. You might also have family overseas that is unable to come to Australia so you could talk to them on the phone.

We used the app comic touch to create freeze frames showing how we can live out this passage from the bible.

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!

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?