5/6C’s Class Blog 2008

We’ve bid farewell to our wonderful grade, having celebrated the end of our time together yesterday with our pool party and a Kris Kringle gift exchange.  We had a great year and were definitely the best grade in the whole school – who knows, maybe even in all the state! Maybe in the world? Or the universe? 

The pool party was fun, with the thunder holding off until it was time to get out of the water anyway. We walked back to school in the rain and got wet, but after a day at the pool, no one cared too much. Before we knew it, it was time to say our farewells and go off into the wide blue yonder.

Congratulations to our wonderful grade six students who completed their primary schooling so well – they should all be proud of their achievements this year and are sure to be successful in their secondary schooling. Hopefully many of them will keep up with our blog and their own as well – we’d love to hear from them in the future.

To our grade five students, you are our leaders of 2009. There are many wonderful opportunities for you as you continue your education journey. I am lucky to have some of you in my class again next year – be ready for anything! For those who are moving on to another school or to another grade, enjoy yourselves, learn lots and keep in touch.

Jumping photo by Cross, licensed under an Attribution, No Derivatives, Non Commercial agreement.

The school year is nearly at an end, with next Thursday being our last day as a grade. We are moving to another classroom this Friday, so at the moment everything is being packed into boxes ready to move into one of the “new” rooms. Our current classroom was built in 1915, our new one in 2000, so even though it’s 8 years old, it’s still a NEW room!

We still have Graduation for our grade six students to look forward to next Tuesday – lots of work has been done but we still have to polish up our acts and tweak our slides a bit more.  So much to do, so little time!

”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

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

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Even though we are into the last term of the 2008 school year (and hasn’t it flown by!) I think it’s never too late to adopt a class mascot. While shopping on Friday night these little guys jumped into my trolley and begged to be taken to school – how could I say no to them?
Their names are Mr Happy and Little Miss Sunshine (awww, how sweet. Just like 5/6C!). I’m not sure what we’ll actually do with them; that will be for the class to decide on Monday.

A map of the world

Originally uploaded by Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL

Think you know about the world? Know your countries, capitals and landmarks? Have a go at this game on our wiki – but be warned, it’s hard!

Have a close look at this map – especially where Australia is. This map was made in 1725, well before Captain James Cook journeyed up the east coast. But you can see that about half of the continent had already been mapped by this time.

We’ve been working on VoiceThreads for a couple of weeks now. The process was this:

1. Plan the Story. This involved designing a storyboard with a section for each part of the story – these sections became the pages of our VoiceThread.
2. Draft the Script. This is where we took our initial ideas and turned them into a more detailed story. We planned what we would say in our recordings.
3. Finding Pictures. Then we spent ages collecting the pictures we needed to tell our story. We got them from a range of sources: Flickr, ToonDoo, Microsoft Paint, our own photographs, Kid Pix and our own drawings.
4. Redraft the Story. Then we checked that our story matched the pictures we had found. We made changes to the script so that it sounded fantastic.
5. Produce the VoiceThread. We uploaded our photos to our own VoiceThread and then added our voice comments. Most of us remembered to switch user to our own username, but a couple of us forgot!
6. Embed in your Blog. We had trouble with this because our own blogs are on Learnerblogs and VoiceThread won’t embed into them. Sad.   So we are embedding them into this blog on our VoiceThread page and putting a link on our own blogs so people can find our work.

Image: RuneT on Flickr