Leadership day

 

 It  all  began when the nerves crept up inside me. When our name  where called to see what group we where in my heart sank with nervousness . I was put in the dark green group and I only really knew one person in the group. The rest I knew but wasn’t  really close to and obviously the donvale  Carey  kids i wasn’t close at all. When we walked down to metcalf hall i started to feel more open minded with all the happy faces in the room. All the Carey Kew kids sat down in there groups waiting for the Carey donvale kids to arrive. We all were waiting  patiently for them to arrive. Minutes after the Donvale kids arrived . They all found there way to there groups and everyone sat down. I instantly remembered a  donvale  girl  that was in my  group that used to play soccer and i remembered that we versed them twice. So i  instantly had a connection with her. We had six people in our group . At one stage  we got to know a little about each other and that helpled me get to know everyone in the  group little bit better.  

I had learn’t that being a leader is someone who is making connections and making sure everyone in the group is happy and feels safe and feels open to share new ideas. Leadership day made me  grow as a person and now i know how to  make new connections which different people that i am not familiar with  and work as a team to active things together. Our group had some  set back while doing activities but that didn’t stop us from having a go  at new challenges and to try our best as a team and to communicate to each other better from the experience of the previous challenges before. 

Overall the day was an amazing day getting to know knew people and experience different  challenges and communicating to each other to make sure we all agreed  on what what was said. I think our group had really connected together and we really had a go which is the best thing you can do. I learnt that all of us are leaders in any way shape or form and how we show leadership is in our hands we can show leadership and set a great example only if we put our minds to it. We  all can motivate our self’s to be the best that we can be. 

 

 

 

       

Polar bears

They have survived many months on the frosty land. They  have lived through harshest of arctic conditions and way more. They are a well known animal that live in the Arctic They  watch the birds fly across the sky sweeping through the cold brushed air. They watch their predator as they walk alone. With their warm

coated fur they can survive up to 33 years. Polar bears can drift about on gigantic pieces of ice. Polar bears can swim to survive swimming through water for many hours without any problem at all, for example if there was a danger or threat they could enter and be safe in the water, swimming great distances without any trouble. 

Physical Appearance 

 Polars bears appearance makes them look friendly at times .Polar bears fur is light in colour and therefore provides the fur camouflage that fights and reflects the glare of the ice. Polar bears  normally have longer necks and relatively small heads. They also have short round ears and a short tail. This is because, smaller ears have less surface area than larger ears and longer tails and therefore it helps maintain the body warmth. Polar bears normally and 2.2-2.5 meters in length. 

Diet

Polar bears are a well known animal for eating ringed seals, some types of walruses, beluga wales and beard seals. After polar bears eat a meal they can go up to 5 days without eating. Polar bears are a carnivore animal in the bear family. 

Polar bear Adaptations

  Structural 

Polar bears fur is light colour and there for it provides the fur to camouflage against the ice. Polar bears fur is also hollow there for it traps the air inside and assists buoyancy in the water. Polar bears have wooly, insulting layer of under hair which is covered by relatively thin layer of fur.

Physiological 

Polar bears have very thick fat and fur that keeps them warm in such cold weathers and also enables them to swim in cold waters. 

Behavioural            

Polars bears white fur helps them to blend in with the snow. Aggression occurs between males durning breeding seasons and males when males attempt to steal food but is caught by other polar bears. Polar bears dig dens to protect themselves from the cold wind. 

Facts 

Baby polar bears are about two feet (3m) long. Polar bears can smell prey from up to 16k away. 

After reading my post on polar bears, is there anything more you would like to know or have an interesting fact to share about these furry kind snow creatures?

Year 5 Production ( Hanging on the bottom of the world )

 It all started with us finding out who our character is. Their nerves crept up like a whirling storm. 3. 2. 1. Hannah [ Bruce ]. And Eddie was Cameron。The two main characters. I was Ecstatic. My character was a boy with a beard also with a suit. I had 66 lines to learn off by heart and first I had no faith that l would remember all my lines but over time I got better. I started to have faith. I couldn’t have learnt my lines without my mum. She’s was always practicing with me. My mum was doing  all the other lines that weren’t mine. 

I also got allocated to be a convict and someone in the crowd in the cricket scene which was at the end of the production. The production was about Australia history. I am now going to explain all the scenes I was in. 

The second scene was the start of my lines. The 2nd scene was about the tea lady and Bruce and Eddie. Bruce and Eddie were commentators. Bruce was angry at the tea lady’s because they were wasting time. Bruce told them to get off because we were starting now. They finally got off. The next scene I was in was after the tea ladies got off. It was about the brides Eddie couldn’t not stop talking about how beautiful they were. I got really annoyed at him. The brides were representing the 6 states coming together. These were the brides ( South Australia, Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia, Tasmania. )  Western Australia was late and the others were not happy with her tardiness. And then Queen Victoria came in. I kept interrupting the queen but I just wanted everyone to know  she was a special part to us in Australia. 

 

But Eddie had to be his normally annoying self and had to say  (what’s she giving away then). And he kept arguing with me and The Queen. 

Then came Captain Cook he thought we couldn’t speak English. He was a complete wast of Eddie and Bruce’s time. Then we ran away because he’s shoulder pointed a  gun at Eddie and Bruce.  

Then came convicts I was one of them singing a song about the first fleet. Acting sad and had nothing left but sadness. We did the dirty work by  making Australia into their 6 separate colonies. 

Then we both waited me and Cameron. Then we went on and saw another Bruce and Eddie. Which we were confused about.We looked back at the script and saw the mistake. But we kind and let them finish the show. And so they did. 

  We all couldn’t have done this without all the teachers. And especially Miss Quodling who made the play come alive. 

This was a great show. We all had put so much work and effort into this and it had payed of. 

Shout outs are Cristiano he was a governor he has put so many expressions and he really acted his character out. You could tell he was passionate about his character. 

 

 

Have you ever performed in a play.   

Front Desk

Front   Desk by Kelly Yang.

The genre of this book is world culture and family and friends.

It Touched my heart into so many emotions about fairness, it was a heart touching book. I couldn’t believe how people got treated like slaves to ungrateful,  nasty people. Working all day to keep their families nourished with food and water and with a roof over there heads, sleeping in cozy beds. It made realise how fortunate we are to have everything we do especially when others struggle to have the basic needs required to survive. This book made me think twice about others needs instead of what I think I need as my life is a lot more stable. Where as others  have little or nothing at all.

This book is about a girl named Mia. Mia and her parents went to America leaving everything and everyone behind in China and arriving in America with just themselves and nothing else. Mias parents went go work for Mr Yao who was a very selfish and rude person. He has a son named Jason who I just like his father selfish and rude. Mr Yao also owned a motel. Mia and her partners needed money fast for Mia school fees so they went to work for Mr Yao. Mia kept on coming up with wonderful ideas for Mr Yao’s motel which he kept on shutting down.  Mr Yao would raise his voice and say that Mia was a dumb child. Mia confidence grew as she started to work at the front desk of the motel, whilst her her parents were working hard in the laundry washing and drying towels. If anything broke like a washing machine Mia’s parents had to pay to fix as Mr Yao refused to pay for anything out of his pocket, he was a very stingy person.

Mr Yao lied to Mia’s parents that he will pay them well for their work but you probably guessed it he lied to the and paid them very little to nothing at times. He would use excuses and they were left once again with nothing.

Mia and Jason went to the same school and they were constantly annoyed with each other,  Jason was constantly stealing her possessions and treated her like dirt just like his father did to her family. No one believe her when she told them how cruel Jason and his father were to her and her family because she was Chinese. Jason made everyone hate her accept one girl who developed a close friendship with Mia. They joked and helped Mia’s dad at the motel at times as her friends dada was a tradie and could fix things.

Eventually Mr Yao decided to sell the motel to Mia’s parents but the question I ask you is how did they save all that money to buy the motel?

Read this book and you will know.

Will you read this book or not?

Name day

Name day is a celebration which us Greeks celebrate. Name day is mainly about celebrating your name. Your name day is a different date to your birthday. My name day is in January  where’s as my birthday is in June. On my name day my family gives me a present ist mostly my mum that gives my a present. The name day Is represent your Greek name. My Greek name is Joanna in Greek it’s Ιωάννα. My cousin has the same Greek name as me. And so my grandpa name is also Ιωάννα.

Name day is  normally celebrated with family. It’s like a second birthday. It’s about  acknowledging  the person Greek name.

 

What  significant  celebrations  do you and your family celebrate?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Camp Toonallook

The bus was finally moving ready setting Go.  As I see my mum fade away in the distance.  We have now hit half way to our destination. As we pull over we have hit Yarragon area. We had stopped for about 15 minutes for a quick fruit snack  /  recess break. And we starting filming our video for your camp experience. We hit the bus again and watch Mr Bean. I balled our of laughter with how he acted and that at times he didn’t think he just did. 

Then finally I saw the Sign Camp Toonallook and then I know all the ride bus has paired of we hopped of the bus grabbed your bags and pulled them on the gravel rockers. Man the rocks where like mud sinking you in. Anyway we stopped at a bench and met all the people that where at Tona including = 

. Josh = outdoor ed staff 

. Grace = outdoor ed staff 

. Jesse = outdoor ed staff 

. Emily = year 11’s that came with us 

.  Charlie =  11’s that came with us.

. Tris = she cookies all our yummy meals 

. Mrs Collins = music teacher from our school that came with us on camp 

. Mr Benwell = our teacher back at our school 

And most importantly 5B students. We had played many games but before we did that we got a tour to understand what every thing is. Then we found out your tent group I was with, Mia, Lelia, Scarlet, Sarah and myself. Some of 5he activities / what we did where

. Gaga Ball 

. King ball 

. We went to a island called ( Rahman Island ) 

. Toona challenge = a bunch of games to see who could win. The team names where Visco and The Champions over all our team Visco won we had to make a chant and a dance and we played other games it was a lot of fun. But all the thanks to the years 11’s for setting up the games. 

. Kayaking

. Toon storm= a really fast boat that took us to Raymond island 

. Anther boat named the ugly Betty which took you across  the water to the other side

. Watching kangaroos

. Kohala watching 

. Photo scavenger hunt = that the year 11’s set up all around toona. We had photo of something on the toona camp sight and only a slim part of it. Then we ran to find it. When we found it there was a number on it then we had to run back to our peace of paper and write it on there.our team only got three done. 

. Expo = which is where we camped out the night. We had to set up our own tents

. The shoe game= a fun game where there was two shoes  in the middle and two people were on a cushion. And there was a drink bottle in the middle and you had to run and get the shoe and run back and hit the shoe I got it once in my first try. 

. Game empires 

. Fishing = didn’t catch anything this year 

. Watching the amazing sunrise in the morning. 

. Game Bang 

. Bike ride games = who can come last without falling of your bike. 

Over all my favourite game active was the shoe game and kayaking. 

Some PLA’s I had to show was home sickness I was missing my family and my home. 

Days went by time flew and our friendships with the outdoor staff grew and with the year 11’s as well. Then it was the last day packing our days. Our video was done we had so many smily faces. Here is our video. 

Have you ever been to toonallook?

This is me

This week our class has participated in a blogging challenge. Our first challenge was to make an avatar  representing yourself trying to make it really close to what you look like. This is a photo of my avatar. As you can see I have blue eyes in my avatar that because I do have blue eyes some people think there green but there blue. In my avatar photo I have an aqua top because my favourite colour is aqua.

 

What does your avatar look like?

Hannah

Hard Road Ahead

This term 5B have had a blast we have had a amazing experience while learning many things we  haven’t done before. Here let me take you on a wonderful experience we have all had. It all started when we got put into partners I was working with Nic. We where told we had to chose a building to make for a diorama we both really wanted the Eureka Hotel but a another group wanted the Eureka Hotel too. So me and Nic were being the bigger people and letting them have it so we chose the Criterion Store.

 This whole term was forcing in integrated the Gold Rush. 

Then we went to Sovereign Hill. We got  all packed for the 1850’s we all had a ball we learnt so much down in the mines, we learnt about rights and justice while we were there we had a booklet.  On the booklet we had actives to do. We had Map activities and a wish list so we could buy things. And most importantly notes. To jot down anything about our store we were doing so me and Nic went into the Criterion and added notes so when we came back to make our diorama so we both had ideas what we could  put in the store. We meant about the eureka and learnt about the gold mines 

Then we had a school program which was posh and 1850’s style. Then when we got back we  hit diorama making while making we were told to make a second small place on the diggings we choice the Waterloo we both originally wanted to make the Eureka Stockade for our 2nd square but we we’re adaptable and changed but really happy at the end with our outcome. 

Some PLA’s we had to to use was 

. Creative = to come up with ideas to make our diorama 

. Collaboration = to work together to get things done 

. Resilience = to make sure we could help other if there’s wasn’t done 

These PLA’s are what we had use for our diorama making. 

This hole until has been and rid we have all out our heart into learning new things and the Eureka stockade and the important dates that happened in Ballarat also the gold rush we also learnt about. We went to a museum where we saw the real flag from the stockade – sadly some parts are missing. And I learnt about Henry Wise at the museum.  We had been given a person and we learnt about them on these screens. 

We have learnt about what is was like back then. We went panning and I was lucky enough to find gold. This whole until I had to show 

. Resilience = to step into someone else’s shoes 

. Learning Carefully = listening to important key dates and people 

. Courage = to make a realistic diorama 

The year 5’s are now getting ready to act a play set on the gold rush 

Do you know anything about the gold rush if so what?  

 

 

Sovereign Hill Map directions / Coding Robot

This week we have been making  instructions  for our diorama map which we created. We made a map of your class diorama then made  directions in our maths book then recorded it. Here’s a video of the directions. There are 2 videos the 2nd one is about we  program a robot to go around our class diorama. 

 

 

Have you ever  programmed a robot?