Showcasing our work

This term we had been working through our inquiry topic about the beginnings of Melbourne. We discussed that every good inquiry topic should have an action at the end where we can give back to the community. We chose to share our findings with the other classes in the hope they would learn something new about Melbourne. We split into 4 groups- Batman, Fawkner, Hoddle and the Hoddle grid. As each class came in in small groups, they each heard a small presentation and rotated to the next station. As each student and teacher left the classroom we asked them to record something they learnt. At the end we had a sheet of paper that was filled with comments over 2 meters long!!

Sovereign Hill Slideshow

Sovereign Hill

Stay tuned for photos from Sovereign Hill....

This Thursday is Important

Don't forget to bring your HOMEWORK and have your permission slip for our EXCURSION returned before Thursday!!!!

BOLTSS

Yesterday in 5/6MK we studied BOLTSS. BOLTSS is a list of things that every map has to include. They can be a key to reading a map. They're a must need accessory.

• B stands for Border. This is the perimeter of the map.
• O stands for Orientation. This is the little compass or the north arrow.
• L stands for Legend. A legend is a key to the map that tells you what the symbols mean.
• T stands for Title. This tells you what the map is about.
• S stands for Scale. This tells us about the measurement of the map in real life.
• S stands for Source. This tells us where you got the map from.

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Orienteering champions!!

Today we competed in the regional orienteering championships with the grade 3-6's from our school against 13 other schools. We really enjoyed our day walking or running to check points scattered across cardinia reservoir. we had 4 place getters from our class! Chloe and Charli were paired together and they came 3rd, Nikita ran the course herself and came 3rd also and Joel came 2nd. After that they announced the overall winner and to our surprise...we won!!!

Lighthouse Boys

This evening, some of the grade 6 boys from our class got the chance to present their hard work to their teachers and parents at St. Joseph's College. For many weeks now, the grade 6 boys in our class have worked with 4 year 10 boys from St. Joes. They got together every Monday afternoon and Thursday mornings and in 3 teams worked on either a debate or a short movie. Tonight we watched the debate against St. Thomas Moores. The topic was "Drugs should be allowed in sport". Our boys presented some wonderful arguments and their rebuttals we perfect. They ended up winning the debate too which was awesome. Congratulations to Josh and Rik who were part of this team.

 Damon and Ambrose were part of a movie team. They presented a trailer for a movie about a prison break. Whilst there were no talking parts, their acting added with the intense music looked and sounded wonderful. They should be very proud of their efforts.

 Riley and Lucas were part of a group that created a short movie where they imitated Bear Grylls. They "taught" us how to survive in school. Their mix of sarcastic humour and simple imagery was very entertaining. All the boys should feel very proud of their efforts. Mrs Kowalski & Mrs. Sheehy attended the evening and were extremely proud of the boys too.

Melways Races

At the moment in maths we are learning about location. Today we focussed on grid references and the symbols that are used in a Melways. Mrs Kowalski asked us to create a legend based on the symbols we saw on our map. We also had Melways races. Surprisingly we found this really fun even if it did make us really nervous when it was our turn. There was just so much pressure! Mrs Kowalski would call out a street name and the suburb and we had to race our partner to find it correctly in the Melways.

Fundraising fair

Every year we hold a fundraising fair where we create stalls and the whole school brings in purses full of coins to by lots of yummy treats and play lots of fun games. All the money that we use at the stalls is donated to our foster child, Shantilil. We have been doing the fundraising fair at St.Joseph's for a many years now and this year we raised $1900!!! It was a lot of fun

Swimming

Over the past two weeks we have been participating in our yearly swimming program. At 11.45 every day we walked to the pool or caught the bus if it was raining. We learnt new skills about different swimming strokes and about safety in and around the water.

On the second last day of our swimming we had a pj day. We had to wear pyjamas to swimming and learn about survival techniques whilst wearing our pyjamas. We all thought it was really tough to swim while we were so weighed down by our heavy clothes.

On the last day of swimming we had a fun day. We were able to participate in some awesome activities. We got to go on the water slide, have fun relay races against one another and swim through 'seaweed'. By the end of the two weeks we were exhausted, but we had a great time.

Gangnam Style

It's everywhere at the moment! On Friday afternoon we were so exhausted after a full two weeks of swimming so Mrs Kowalski let us have some "chill" time after we cleaned the classroom up and got our homework organised. Before we knew it, we had our dancing shoes on and we began to all dance along. We had a great time feeling confident to dance in front of one another and have a laugh at the end of two busy weeks.

History of Melbourne

Here is a link to the information we read in the classroom about John Batman and the colonisation of Melbourne.

Click HERE to go to the information

There is also a list of the important names in the founding of Melbourne below.
Important names document

The tiny seed

As it was an ace spring day the other day, Mrs Kowalski let us do a fun art activity.
First we needed to paint our paper. We needed to layer up to 3 colours of paint onto an A3 sheet of paper, green onto one half of another piece of paper and up to 2 colours on the other half of the paper.

Whilst we waited for our paper to try, we read The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. Mrs Kowalski explained to us that Eric Carle goes through the same process when creating his artwork, except for the fact that he paints on tissue paper. As we didn't have any tissue paper at the time we used regular paper.

After the paintings were dry, we cut out petals from our largest coloured painting. We used the green painting to create the stem and leaves and the smaller coloured part to create the middle of the flower.

 

 

Rather than wasting the left over pieces of painted paper, we used them to create a border around our flower. Here are some of our paintings

Welcome Back

Welcome back to term 4!! Can you believe that it's the last term of the year?!?!
A reminder to have your swimming gear with you everyday for the first 2 weeks of the term.

Please remember to bring your portfolios back to school this week also. I'm sure your families loved having a look at the hard work you had been doing in term 3!