5/6C’s Class Blog 2008

”Once upon a time lived a girl named Tracey. But thats in the past of course, she’s dead now. I’m here to tell you the classic story of How My Friend Was Murdered!
It was a dreadful night and the rain was pouring but worst of all, there was a killer in sight. Her name was Micky and she was known for her craziness of murdering people with an axe.
That night Tracey was out for a walk as well as her chooks on a leash. She saw a dark shadow in the distance. Suddenly it came charging for poor young Tracey. Tracey reconised the muscley figure of Micky and decided to start sprinting.
Tracey was much too fast for Micky and her tough abs so instead she just threw the axe straight into Tracey’s back. But that didn’t stop Tracey, she kept running with the blood running down her back and on to her chooks.
Eventually Tracey started to slow down from starvation so she headed towards her mega shredder factory where she put all of her chooks into a mega shredder and ate them all up. Except for one which she ate raw. Just as Tracey was licking her fingers from such a good meal she forgot all about the killer that had been stalking her. When Tracey wasn’t looking, Micky and her evil powers pushed Tracey right into the largest shredder. Out the other end came Tracey sliced, shredded and dead.” 

”AND THAT’S THE STORY OF HOW MY FRIEND WAS MURDERED!”

The End

By Stacey and Nikita

This term we have been studying Australian Parliament and how it works. We have also been running our own parliaments, pretending it’s the real thing.

First it was Miss R’s grade vs Miss K’s grade. They were fighting about longer school hours. Second it was our grade vs Miss R’s grade fighting about one hour of television a night for kids. In the first argument between Miss R’s grade and Miss K’s grade, Miss K’s grade won; and in the fight between our grade and Miss R’s grade it was a draw, 22 votes to 22 votes.

Then it was our grade vs Miss K’s grade an the topic is that Australian families could only have one pet. There were lots of arguments presented against this law, especially when we worked out that we had 100 dogs and 60 cats in our grade alone!

Class parliament is a great way to learn about how laws are made and how to make a good argument.

By Jarrod and Josh.

Note from Mrs C: there was no fighting, really! Just spirited debate.  

A new student has joined our class!

He is black and white, cute and furry, little and playful, he is Otis!

 Our new class member Otis is a tiny little kitten, snow white, with black smudges! He was brought in by Stacey who will take him home every night and on the weekends. We had to have a class meeting first and we discussed a lot about bringing in a chicken, fish, kitten or bird. Then Stacey had a marvellous idea!! She would bring in her little kitten Otis, as her cat gave birth to a perfect bunch of new born, little fluffy kittens! So we decided we would take care of Stacey’s kitten.

And he is gorgeous! He has had a few great adventures, sneaking around the classroom and the library until finally, after all that walking and sniffing, he got terribly exhausted and fell asleep under the bookshelf in the library! Cute!! He will play with anything he can find that is small enough. He climbs up the chairs and loves to play with peoples’ shoe laces. Otis’s eyes are trash green and his fur is black and white and he has a beautiful brown nose. Otis loves to sleep in his cage and he always cuddles up with his teddy, which isn’t looking so good since Otis ripped both arms off it! Danger Cat! By Cointha, Bradley and Darianne.

A couple of weeks ago our class went out to plant a plant called, “Red Chocolate”.  Everyone was a part of it and some people had to move a plant that was in the wrong spot. All classes had a plant to plant. There was a pattern for where the plants went. It went green, purple, green and so on. There were different types of plants – there are longifolia “Katrinus”, “Apricot Queen” and “Red Chocolate”.

Everyone got their hands dirty, especially  the ones that were playing in the mud by digging the hole. We got the “Red Chocolate” plant because our teacher is mad about chocolate!

It looks great outside near the office now. Everyone had a great time helping to plant the plant

Last year the teachers made up a great tradition. It involves a lot of hard work for the teachers and students; everybody in grade 6 will make a quilt square. It will be 16cm squared which involves your name and something that describes you. You can have anything you want on it. All of our grade made cardboard squares that were laminated and stuck up in our classroom as a grade quilt. Grade 6 students also had to put their design on fabric,  and when they were done all of the teachers sewed the squares together. The teachers then took it to the quilt shop to be quilted.  Then they will hang the quilt so everyone can admire it at the Grade 6 Graduation.

By Zoe and Kayla.

In class we are reading the American novel “Riding Freedom”, by Pam Muñoz Ryan. The novel’s genre is historical fiction, which means that while many of the characters and events in the book are non-fiction, or true, other characters and details have been invented by the author to help make the book more interesting, make sense better, or to fill in gaps in history. The book relates to our current study of Government and Elections as the central character, Charley, is believed to be the first woman to vote in a U.S. Presidential election – although officials didn’t know that at the time!

When we have finished we will write a review to post on our Books page.

The Wordle below was made using a discussion guide for “Riding Freedom” on the U.S. Scholastic website.