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May 4, 2012 · 1 Comment · Mrs S

Hi 4\5 DS

We are having a quiet day around our campsite today so I have time to add a quick post to share some of the things I have seen so far on our travels.

On The Rail Trail

We stopped at Wangaratta for a few days where we rode our bikes on some of a great bike track called The Rail Trail. The trail follows an old railway line and you could ride from Wangaratta to Bright but it might take a while! Why do think it might take a while?

We then visited a tiny town called Temora where we stayed at a camping area right near an airfield for light planes. You can buy a block a land that has access to the runway and taxi ways so that you can build your house with a hanger for your light plane. There is a very good museum there with lots of working aircraft on display. As we were packing up to go on to our next stop we heard a plane taxi-ing down the runway. It was a Spitfire and we were able to watch it do acrobatics above us as we left.

Camping At Temora

A Spitfire taking off.

We also stayed at Bathurst so that we could visit the Jenolan Caves. We went for a cave tour through the Baal Cave and saw some very pretty crystal formations. The road into the caves area is very windy and narrow so for part of the day it is one way for a section so that tour buses can get there without creating road blocks.

We visited Tamworth and Ballina (where it rained lots) and because it was so wet we drove straight past the Gold Coast and Brisbane before choosing to stop at Maroochydore. It was so wet when we travelled that we saw none of the high rise buildings of the Gold Coast and none of Brisbane. There were record rainfalls on that day for the region we drove through.

At Australia Zoo during the main show.

While here at Maroochydore we have visited Australia Zoo (loved it!), gone on two boat cruises, seen Underwater World, looked at more aircraft at the Queensland Air Museum,  ridden along the river on our bikes, driven in the rain to the hinterlands and looked at Noosa in a rare patch of sunshine.

Mrs S

Have you been to any of the places I have visited? How has the weather been in Hobart?

 

 

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Name Fractions

April 23, 2012 · 5 Comments · In The Classroom, Student Post

Mrs S was internet cruising one day when she came across a teacher’s blog with an interesting idea for looking at fractions and words. She also found the picture pinned onto several Pinterest picture collections. Here is Holly’s post about our exploration.

Before Easter we were concentrating on our names and looking at how many vowels and consonants are in our name. We wrote them as fractions.  We also worked out the fractions for our spelling words. For example Holly has 1 vowel and 4 consonants and my name has 5 letters so it would be 1/5 of my name are vowels and 4/5 of my name are consonants. Then when we were done we got to write down our names on a piece of paper using bubble writing. Then we drew Zentangles inside the letters. Also we made a nice border around our word and now they look awesome.

regards

Holly

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Word of the Week – environment

April 18, 2012 · 4 Comments · Spelling

Our latest word of the week is environment. We looked at this because it has the same tricky part to spell  as government. Watch our animoto.

Environment begins with “env”. Please leave comment to share some more words that begin with “env”.

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One Topic and two student posts – Australian Football League

April 16, 2012 · 5 Comments · Finding Out, Student Post

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AFL is an Australian sport. You have 22 people in each team. You have 18 people on the ground playing. 4 people on the bench including one substitute just in case people get hurt.

The rules are: no sling tackling, no tackles over the shoulder and no holding the ball for over 15 metres without bouncing.

Goals – there are 4 posts, 2 big ones and 2 small ones. If you kick the ball through the big posts you score 6 points. If you kick it through the small posts you get 1 point. Also you have 4 quarters which have 20 minutes.

Harrison and Jack

Football is a great game. The rules for under 11′s are:

  • no tackling
  • no pushing
  • no punching
  • no kicking people
  • no sling tackling
  • no high tacking
  • no holding the ball
  • no tripping
The quarters are for 15 minutes and we have 4 quarters. Then in between the quarters we have 5 minutes rest and for a huddle to talk. We have 18 on the field at one time and 3 subs.
Will and Sam
Do you play a sport or you might even play football (AFL)? Please leave a comment about your sport.

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Our Egg Babies

April 7, 2012 · 2 Comments · In The Classroom, Student Post

Hi to all our blog visitors,

For the last 4 days before the Easter school holidays our class started a challenge called the Egg Challenge. Ms D challenged us to create a character out of an egg (the egg was not cooked so it was very fragile) and look after it for the week. The tricky thing, though, was that we had to take them everywhere we went at school and try not to let them break!

We dressed our eggs and gave them faces, hair and created houses for them. It was really cool to meet all the eggs and visit their houses. Every egg and and house was very different. They were all very colourful and creative but the houses couldn’t be coated in bubble wrap, tissues or anything that would prevent the egg from cracking. One house had a rumpus room and another had a great looking fireplace that glowed red with the help of a battery operated light.

Eight eggs died (cracked or got dropped) during the week and when they did we made R.I.P. signs and sticky taped them to the spot where they were dropped. One egg even had a coffin, made by its owner, with flowers on the top. It was heartbreaking when the eggs died.

It was awesome to meet all the eggs and their different personalities.

Phoebe, Emily and Lewis

Have you ever participated in an Egg Babysitting challenge or something similar with a fragile object? What kind of house would you build for an egg to live safely in?

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Easter

April 6, 2012 · 2 Comments · Student Post

Dear Bloggers,

Easter is coming up and we are all very excited and we have made Easter cards already and we  just cant wait any longer. We need your help with this easter hunt can you do it Easter Egg Hunt. It is quite hard.

Are you going anywhere? Where are you going?

Regards Ayla

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Word of the Week – government

April 2, 2012 · 2 Comments · Finding Out, Spelling

Here is our next word of the week. A little later with the posting owing to a weekend watching racing cars for Mrs S.

 

The tricky part is the difference between what we hear when we say government and how it is written. We swallow the sound of the ‘n’ and so often leave this out when we write the word.

Can you think of any other words like this? Please add a comment to our post to let us know of any other words.

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Decision Making

March 28, 2012 · 2 Comments · Finding Out, Student Post

After Easter the Grade Fives and some of the Grade Fours from our school are going to Parliament House in Hobart, Tasmania so we have been working on decision making. On Monday we had to write about our most important decision we have ever made. We wrote it like a letter to our teacher.

We have been bringing in newspaper articles from our local newspaper to display on the wall of our room.  The articles are about people making decisions that change their lives. Here is an example:

see the article online at:http: //bit.ly/H8pXBT

What is the biggest and most important decision you have ever made? Did it change your life? 

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Word of the Week – dehydration

March 23, 2012 · 7 Comments · Finding Out, Spelling

Here is our latest word of the week. Take a look at our Animoto and see what observations we came up with this week.

Well done to Jess who added a new observation to her work to let us know that dehydration may be found between the guide words defy and demolish in the dictionary she was using.

Guide words are very important when we use a dictionary.

They can be found at the top of the page or a double page spread. The first guide word shows the first word on the page and the opposite guide word shows the last word on the page. This means that you can quickly look at the top of the page and work out if your word can be found in between the two guide words. Have a go at this game, Rags to Riches, and test your knowledge of the alphabet and guide words.

Mrs Krebs left a comment on one of our earlier word of the week posts. She challenged us to find a /shun/ word that is not a noun.

/shun/ sound but not a noun?

We are still searching and have not found any yet. Can you help?

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Friendship means …

March 20, 2012 · 22 Comments · Student Post

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Dear Bloggers,

My name is Ayla and our class has been doing work about friendship. At first we had to find poems about what we thought was friendship like this poem  and so on. After working on our own poems I thought maybe it would be a good idea to interview the class about what they thought friendship meant to them. I also did one teacher and the principal. Right now I am making all of it fit together. But all of the interviewees said similar things about what are the most important qualities of friendship. They are being loyal, trustworthy, accepting, kind and caring.

Please leave a comment on what you think friendship means to you.

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