Nov
10
2015

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This term in term three an amazing well known author came to visit the grade 5’s. Morris Glitz man! He signed our book for us if we ordered one of his books. That was the best day of year five library ever.

This term we did three pieces of art from book week books. The art from the books were: The stone Lion, Pig the pug and Fire. I enjoyed this because we had to use water paint and be careful how we painted and how we designed our art to make the colors pop.

We all so read the book week books from 2015 book week. Some of them were happy some of them were sad and some of then were funny . I could not pick my favorite book and i could not pick my least favorite . 3 of them were the most annoying books I have ever read in my life. Lots of them had really good morals to them which i enjoyed the most.

Sep
01
2015

Confirmation snap shot

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It was Sunday afternoon and i was singing at the choir. The girls getting their confirmation had dresses I didn’t expect that they would be wearing. I thought that they would be wearing Eucharist dresses but instead they wore Sunday best sort of dresses. I was singing in the choir with the microphone nearly in front of me! We had song books that were plain white with all the songs in them. I think we sang loud and clear and best yet, because I attended I get pizza for lunch on Friday supplied by the teachers!

Aug
11
2015

Literacy Lumanary

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For book club this week our role is to pick an important paragraph and say why you chose this Paragraph. This was mine for Judy moody:

AAAAAAHHHHH! Screamed stink. He ran out of the bathroom hat crashing to the floor and stars flying everywhere. “Mum, Dad! There is someone in the toilet!” Judy moody, rocky and frank pearl fell to the floor laughing.

Page:135

Line:1-7

Chapter:The funniest thing ever.

I chose this Paragraph because it was important to the text. This is because Judy was looking for something funny to add to her poster for school, and in this paragraph she found something that was the funniest thing ever to add to her poster.

Jun
25
2015

Living Museum Reflection

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This term we learned about the gold rush so the teachers decided to put on a living museum by the students in Grade 5.

we had to pick a specific person in Australia’s history. I chose to be a women on the goldfields. When i started researching about the women on the goldfields i found someone called Eliza Hobson.  Eliza had 7 children and 2 husbands. This is because she had 3 children with John Perrin but sadly broke up with him, so she married John Robson and had 4 children with him. When the day came i was quit nerves but the more i preformed the easier it became. I think i did very well and when i made a mistake i covers it so none ever knew.

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Jun
24
2015

what is coding?

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Information and Communications Technology

Term 2, 2015

 

What is Coding?

Coding, in the simplest of terms, is telling a computer what you want it to do, which involves typing in step-by-step commands for the computer to follow.

Computers are not clever things, however they are very obedient. They will do exactly what you want them to do, so long as you tell them how to do it correctly.

Why is coding important?

Code powers our digital world. Every website, smartphone app, computer programme, calculator and even microwave relies on code in order to operate. This makes coders the architects and builders of the digital age.

Student Learning Grades 3-6

Throughout Term 2 during ICT Classes, the students in Grades 3-6 engaged in a series of self-paced online age appropriate lessons from code.org.  Each year level were required to complete set CODE lessons by the teacher to create their very own custom built games. They were required to follow directions to enable them to investigate different problem-solving techniques, Persist with difficult tasks, Strive for Accuracy by completing the task using the minimum amount of scripting blocks and Take Responsible Risks by trying something new and having a go!

The students learnt how to create sets of instructions to move characters through mazes, along pathways and in different directions using script blocks such as move forward/backwards, Repeat and Loop.  Each lesson increased in complexity and relied on students using their prior knowledge from the previous lessons.

Student Reflection:

What I learnt/worked well for me I learned that you have to keep trying until you achieve your goal.

 

The challenges I faced were trying to get the right amount of ingredients to make the honey and trying to work out a more effective way so that i could complete the stage without having to do it again.

It would be even Better If the puzzles were a little bit easy at the start to make sure i knew what  I  was doing. And it also it would be even better if i watched the mini movie to help me understand what i was supposed to be doing in code. 

 

Here are some of my stages i completed:

code quiz stage 7         coding stadge 11

May
13
2015

Letter Writing-Convict

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                                                                                                                                      Sydney cove

                                                                                                                                   Australia Sydney

                                                                                                                                        4012

To my dearest loving mother,   

 

I miss you dearly and  i wish i was back home with you. I deeply regret stealing that piece of bread. I only did it because i was starving and needed Something  eat.

that burned my feet

My journey over to Terra Australis was horrific, there was life threatening diseases with cruel and harsh people onboard, that made me feel restless. I felt unsafe and feared my life would end.

 

When i arrived the land was nothing like it was at home. There was boiling sand  that burned my feet and when the wind blew the sand flew onto my face which felt like a thousand needles stinging me.

 

I’m being treated so badly and if i don’t know what i’m doing i will get the whip. I’m petrified of the whip so i do everything i can to make sure my work is at standart.

 

When i arrived there  were strange people on the land, they spoke a completely different language that i did not understand. They looked at me startled as if they had never seen someone like me before.

 

I miss you dearly and i hope to hear from you soon.

All my love from Frances xx

May
08
2015

Writing

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Ella and the Great Wizard of OZ.

So off Ella went to the great Wizard of OZ, she heard a sound and freaked out,

“Oh my I better get out of this place!”

On her way out she heard a shout she looked around then there was a blackout. Then all of a sudden she saw someone and that someone was a fairy godmother.

“Hello dear how are you?”

“I’m not really supposed to be talking to you.” “Why because I’m a stranger?” “Yes, yes that is why. I’m a little frightened so good bye.” “But wait dear child you don’t understand! Just wait a few seconds and listen to my command. “What would happen if I listened to you”? “All your wishes will come true. Can I make a wish for you? Fine go ahead my dear”. “I wish that you would leave me alone.” And if you don’t I will get the phone. That’s not very nice my dear and because of that I‘ll disappear so off she went so Ella continued to go to the wizard of OZ. When she arrived she opened the door and there he was.

“Now how can I help you”?

“Well there is one thing you can do to help me”. “And what is that my dear”?  Well I have not even got a single friend all I wish for is my life to end. So the Great wizard of OZ killed her and turned her into a bunch of fur. So Ella lived happily never after.

The End

By Georgina Muir 5k

May
08
2015

Authors Hour

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In Authors Hour I have been writing a story here it is:

Sally and Chloe

 

Where the great valley is and the animals play near the water whole there lives a tiger and a Fox. Their names are Sally (the fox) and Chloe (the Tiger).

One day Chloe said: “Do you want to go to the woods and have races?” “Yes but first we have to go back to my house”. Said Sally. “Whatever For?” You’ll see. “Race you!”

When they got to the house Chloe asked again, “why are we here?” Shhhhh! You have to be quiet I’m trying to get to the biscuit tin. Said Sally. “Ok I’ll be on guard to see if your mother comes.” “Got them.” Sally whispered. Now we can go to the woods.

“Yay!” “Said Chloe were here!” “Yes now where do you want to race?” “Over Here. Ok, Ready set ….GO! “I’m going to beat you!” “No you’re not I’m going to beat you! In the end they became a draw and they both started laughing.

“Let’s have a biscuit all this racing is making me hungry.” “Yum this biscuit is yummy” “Yes I quit like them myself.”

Meanwhile Sally’s Mother just came in from hanging out the washing and decided to have a biscuit. But when she looked in the cupboard the tin and biscuits had disappeared. “Where on Earth could they be?” She started looking all over the place but she could not find them anywhere, now she was getting mad.

Back at the woods where Chloe and Sally where eating all the biscuits they decided to go back to the Sally’s house to have a play.

When they got their Sally’s Mother was not impressed. “You girls have some explaining to do!” They both knew what Sally’s mum was talking about. “Hand over those biscuits.” “We didn’t take them.” “Really now, then why is the biscuit tin missing?” “Fine we did it.” Said Sally. “You to have got yourselves in a whole lot of trouble.” “If you told the truth strait away you would have got yourselves in a whole lot less worth of trouble.”

“No because you lied you will not be going to the woods for the rest of the week”. Sally and Chloe both knew not to answer back because it would make the situation worse. They both accepted the punishment and decided to make an apology card. When they gave it to her Sally’s mother was very thankful and for that they got a big hug which is what they both loved. That night once Chloe had gone back to her house Sally’s mother tucked her into her little bed of leaves. Sally had learned her lesson and promised herself never to do that again.

The End

 

 

 

The morale of this story is not to lie because when you lie it makes the situation a whole lot worse.