Class News
Year Five News - by Year 5 Students
English
Last term in English, 5A learned how to interpret a poem and transform it to a narrative. We started with the Man from Ironbark, Waltzing Matilda and Fur and Feathers. It was a wild experience and we came up with some very interesting results and some funny slang language. Here’s an example from Leila. As the man grew bored of exploring the park, he stumbled around until he found a nearby park bench.
Here’s some more wonderful work from 5A. This is an example of Fur and Feathers from Lottie. One unusually foggy morning in the old wrecked town of Walgett the giant emus formed a football team. Their bright yellow shirts lit up the red dusty field. When the thumping kangaroos came to watch them play they would sit and laugh and call them ‘butter fingers’ because they had no hands.
That is a snippet of some of 5A’s wonderful work. For our assessment we did high explosive by Banjo Patterson. This is a poem about a dingo pup that goes and hunts for himself then gets scared at an egg cracking, thinking its gunshots. The rest of our work is as eggcelent as the bit I showed you before, but since that was our first one we still had a lot of time to improve. And since our work is so good we will probably all get B+’s. We also used lots of formal language, verb groups and noun groups.
In conclusion I think that our year 5 class did eggcelently and we all deserve a round of applause. We learned how to transform a poem to a narrative and we learned how to replace boring pronouns to interesting ones. We learned how to use the best noun and verb groups and some excellent formal language. That is why I like English a lot.
Written by: Elizabeth Howie
Science
Last term in science we learnt about electrical circuits. As part of our learning we made a steady hand game. We made our steady hand game out of a battery, a coat hanger, a light bulb/buzzer. As a result Year 5 know more about electrical circuits. This was the most exciting science unit that we ever had.
By Chris
Sports Day
During the third week of term three, the entertaining annual sports day took place. The two teams Waratah and Banksia competed in exciting events such as shot put, long jump, high jump, running races and novelty events. The children from Years 3-6 who did not participate in long jump and high jump played fun games and engaged in thrilling activities, known as the novelty events. Each child worked their hardest in every activity and event and the day was memorabile throughout the entire term.
At the end of the day, the age champions were announced as well as the winning team. Overall Waratah achieved the title of winning but both teams played excellently, they were great sportsmen and both showed great appreciation towards the day. Even though no one from our class 5A achieved age champion every student showed great effort and determination throughout the entire day.
By Leila Davis
STEM
On Friday the 13th September, Year 5s went to a STEM (science, technology engineering and math) at Everton Park State High School. We left our school as a group and got there about 9:00 am. When we arrived at the high school we were separated into two groups, my group went to exercise physiology where we learned lots of cool facts about your pulse and how fast it beats when you exercise. Most people found it tiring but I found it quit easy. We had a small snack break and then got straight back into our second activity.
This activity was defiantly one of my favourite, we were doing robotics and learning how to code them. We did lots of cool moves like the perfect square. Once you had it done and dusted you would move onto the coding the robot to play soccer. My team won 1-0.
We then went onto another activity called the noodle challenge. The challenge was to build the tallest tower out of one 1 meter of string, 1 meter of tape and 20 pieces of spaghetti. The tallest one was 18cm but my group beat it by only two cm and we ended up winning.
After that we all got a free sausage sizzle and cordial which was really yummy. We then went to wood works where we got to see a real lazer cutter in action. We got a freshly cut sample as well to take home. We then went to make a catapult out of paddle pop sticks. There was a competition of how far, how high and most accurate. We didn’t do too well in that but it was still fun. After we finished that we reassembled and got ready to head back to our school.
By Ollie K
We are all looking forward to an awesome last term.
Mr Chinn and the Year Five team.