#ijumpupanddown4kids

By Stephanie and Julie-Anne

Today we took photos of us jumping up and down against the detention of refugee children in Australia and Nauru. Miss Lee gave us a letter to decorate so that we could then take a photo of us one by one which makes a word after we were all done we made a youtube video which is called  #IJUMPUPANDDOWN4KIDS

We are doing this because there are more than 600 children that are being put in immigration detention. Putting children in detention will not only hurts them, but ruins their childhood.  We realise that not everyone is as lucky as we are and we think it is wrong that there are children our age in detention.  

Check out our video:

Keep jumping up and down against the detention of refugee children in Australia and Nauru!

100 Word Challenge #6

This is the prompt for this week’s 100 word challenge. Your task is to use this prompt as inspiration to write 100 words.  You might write a story, a diary entry, a report, a letter, a poem or in any other genre that you can think of.

Please post your entry in the comments section underneath this post.

Hint: It is always a good idea to write your work in a google doc and copy and paste your 100 words into the comment section. This way, you do not lose your work if there is a problem.

100 Word Challenge #5

This is the prompt for this week’s 100 word challenge. Your task is to use this prompt as inspiration to write 100 words.  You might write a story, a diary entry, a report, a letter, a poem or in any other genre that you can think of.

Please post your entry in the comments section underneath this post.

Hint: It is always a good idea to write your work in a google doc and copy and paste your 100 words into the comment section. This way, you do not lose your work if there is a problem.

A Day in the life of a Meteorologist

http://splash.abc.net.au/media/-/m/528041/day-in-the-life-of-a-meteorologist

Watch this video on Abc's Splash website about a day in the life of a meteorologist, and answer some of the questions in a comment on this post.


Before viewing

What does a meteorologist do?

What information do we get from a meteorologist? How is this information communicated to the public, and why is it important to us?


As you view

Weather man Mark Wilgar explains the priority in the first hour-and-a-half of his day. What is this priority and what else happens during this time?

Mark describes his responsibilities as having two parts (components). In the surface component, what types of data are collected? To gather data from the upper atmosphere, what equipment is used? Who uses this information?


After viewing

Weather information is valuable to many members of the community. Who relies on weather forecasts and what types of decisions depend on knowledge about the weather?

Find out more about weather scientists and other weather-related careers. Would you like to work in this field?


Next steps

Explore the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) website. Observe the radar images of your region within Australia and then identify the current weather observations there.

Notice that there are also weather warnings on the BOM website. What kinds of severe natural events can you find out about?

100 Word Challenge #4

This is the prompt for this week’s 100 word challenge. Your task is to use this prompt as inspiration to write 100 words.  You might write a story, a diary entry, a report, a letter, a poem or in any other genre that you can think of.

Please post your entry in the comments section underneath this post.

Hint: It is always a good idea to write your work in a google doc and copy and paste your 100 words into the comment section. This way, you do not lose your work if there is a problem.

The Year 5 Cloud Detectives

Cloud Detectives

By Natalie, Clara and Emily N

For science, Year 5 have been learning about weather. Miss Lee started out with twitter and tweeted out a tweet asking for pictures of clouds from around the world. 

We got lots of replies and photos from people all over the world. Then, Miss Lee split us into ten groups for the ten different cloud types. We had to make a poster for  the cloud type we were given using Google Drawing. There are ten cloud types:

Stratus

Cumulonimbus

Cirrus

Altostratus

Stratocumulus

Cirrostratus

Altocumulus

Cumulus

Nimbostratus

Cirrocumulus

Also, for homework we were asked to take pictures of different clouds and send them to Miss Lee.  Our class created a presentation which contains the cloud images from our homework and from twitter. The presentation includes the posters that we have created. We were also asked to classify the clouds that were on the presentation. On Monday, we created a map where the cloud photos came from.

Thank you to every one who tweeted, emailed or sent Miss Lee and our class a photo! We really enjoyed using all of the beautiful cloud photos.

Our Presentation

(Click Here)

Our Google map:

(Click here)

What did you learn from this activity?  

Which cloud type is your favourite?

100 Word Challenge #3

This is the prompt for this week’s 100 word challenge. Your task is to use this prompt as inspiration to write 100 words.  You might write a story, a diary entry, a report, a letter, a poem or in any other genre that you can think of.

Please post your entry in the comments section underneath this post.

Hint: It is always a good idea to write your work in a google doc and copy and paste your 100 words into the comment section. This way, you do not lose your work if there is a problem.

Clouds

Clouds

In science we are learning about weather.  The Met Office in the UK has a great poster explaining clouds.   Click here to read their poster and comment below with a fact you learned about clouds.

From: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/7/k/12_0265_Education_cloud_poster.pdf 

100 word prompt #2

This is the prompt for this week’s 100 word challenge. Your task is to use this prompt as inspiration to write 100 words.  You might write a story, a diary entry, a report, a letter, a poem or in any other genre that you can think of.

Please post your entry in the comments section underneath this post.

Hint: It is always a good idea to write your work in a google doc and copy and paste your 100 words into the comment section. This way, you do not lose your work if there is a problem.

Cupcake Fractions

Cupcake Fractions and Ratios

By Alessia and Georgia

Last Friday Miss Lee organised us some fun food activities. She bought cupcake mixes (chocolate and vanilla flavour) and green cordial. There were also other activities like the fraction flag activity. We were split into groups for the day when we did this.   

We made cupcakes using ratios and fractions.   

 

 

We had to mix some vanilla and chocolate then write the ratio and fraction for it. For example 3 spoons of chocolate and 1 spoon of vanilla. The ratio would be written like this 3:1 and the fractions ¾.  

We then did the same with the cordial 20 mL of cordial and 40 mL of water had 1 part cordial and 4 parts water.  It had a fraction of ⅕.

Fraction Maths

Chocolate Fractions

By Abby and Matt D

Our Year 5 class have been learning about fractions. Last Thursday we played the chocolate fractions game.  In the chocolate fractions game we had three chairs at  the front of our classroom with chocolate packs on them.  The first chair had one pack of chocolate. The second one had two chocolate packs on it and the third had three packs of chocolate. Year 5 had to pick which chair would give them the most amount of chocolate.

Kameron had the first choice and that was easy (he chose the seat with 3 packs).  From then on more students had the chance to come up to the front of the classroom to pick what chair they would get the most chocolate from.

We had whiteboards to see what fraction it would be, sometimes all the groups would have the same fraction which is called an equivalent fraction e.g 1/3,  2/6, 3/9. We would have to think and use our fraction brains to figure out the option would be the best and give us the most chocolate.

Which option you would choose?

Option 1- You would have 1/5 of the chocolate (1 bar)

Option 2- You would have 2/9 of the chocolate (1 1/9 bar)

Option 3- You would have 1/12 of the chocolate (1 3/12 bar)

What did you learn from the chocolate fractions lesson?

25 Years of Rights for Children

25 Years of Rights for Children

2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.  Earlier this year Miss Lee's brother Michael (the pilot) came into our class to explain to us why planes stay up in the air.  Well Michael is currently working at the United Nations in Geneva with the Marist Brothers who have a seat with the Rights of the Child.  

Image from: http://www.myswitzerlandtravel.com/geneva-united-nations-building-photo-1.jpg 

He has put together this video to explain to our class what the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is all about.  

What did you learn from the video?  What questions do you have for Michael?  Why do you think the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is important?  Comment below with your answers to these questions.  We will see if Michael can answer some of our questions.  

100 Words Prompt #1

This is the prompt for this week’s 100 word challenge. Your task is to use this prompt as inspiration to write 100 words.  You might write a story, a diary entry, a report, a letter, a poem or in any other genre that you can think of.

Please post your entry in the comments section underneath this post.

Hint: It is always a good idea to write your work in a google doc and copy and paste your 100 words into the comment section. This way, you do not lose your work if there is a problem.

Constructive Feedback

By Abby, Vivian & Jamie

In Yr 5 we use constructive feedback to improve our work by getting feedback by other students in our class and our teacher. We started doing constructive feedback after watching a video about a boy called Austin. Austin is a 1st grader and had to draw a scientific butterfly and to accomplish that he used feedback from the other students.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZo2PIhnmNY

First, we have to do constructive feedback-self you have to write your name, what draft number, then  you need to sign it, write the date, what is your learning goal, what you did well and what you need to improve on.

Next, you have to show your work to two of your friends so they could fill in the constructive Feedback-peer and then you use what they said you need to improve on e.g. If they told you to be more creative you could add some colour to your work.

Finally, you have to give your work to your teacher and they will fill in the constructive feedback-Teacher

Goal

A goal is your aim, or what you want to achieve.

Medal

A medal is what you did well.

Mission

Mission is what you can do to improve.

Thank you for reading our blog post. What do you enjoy most about constructive feedback?

Volume for St Felix

Volume Activities for St Felix

By Paul, Matt D and James

This past week, Year 5 have been learning about Volume. We were given the challenge to create some learning activities for Yr 5 from St Felix. We split into different groups. Some were doing volume and others did displacement. Everyone did an activity: some did game, a tutorial, a song and a quiz. We learnt about the formula of the volume of an object. We times the Length, Width and Height.

Click here to visit our Voulme Site
Find out more about St Felix by clicking here

Try making your way through our activities to increase your knowledge and skills about volume.  Happy Learning!

 Volume Tutorial by Matthew D, James, Jamie and Kameron

 Volume Posters by Clara, Natalie and Trish

  Volume Song 'Do You Want To Learn A New Thing?' by Emily B, Abby, Sinead and Stephanie

 Volume Examples by Julie-Anne

  Volume Millionaire Hot Seat by Angela and Ryley

  Volume Game by Vivian and Emily N

  Displacement Tutorial by Georgia, Angel and Alessia

  Displacement Posters by Jade and Ashlia

  Displacement Questions by Thalia and Thomas

  Displacement Game 'UniDuck' by Paul and Matthew K

 Good Links

What activity did you like? Why?  What did you enjoy most about creating the activites for St Felix?  

The Australian Gold Rush

We have been learning about the gold rush in Australia. We have learnt lots of things about the gold rush such as:

• Near the end of September 1851, there were about 10,000 people digging for gold near ballarat.  
• The most popular goldfields were Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie.
• The ophir mine was near a waterhole.
• Gold was valued from $12,00 to $35 .00 an ounce.
• Women did do mining later on in the gold rush and women used to entertain men while they were digging.
• Gold seekers must pay for a licence in order to dig for Gold.
• Food cost a lot because so much people were getting gold.

What interesting facts have you found out so far?

Yr 5's Gold Rush

GOLD HUNT

Yr5 had a spectacular gold hunt and we found lots of golden nuggets which was chocolate gold coins and had a very fun time finding it.

We did the gold hunt so we can feel how the gold miners felt like when they found golden nuggets.

It was really fun but some had more than others but in the end we all shared golden chocolate coins.

Before we shared the golden coins we had to take a vote between sharing it fairly or keep what you have,

but sharing it fairly had the most votes.

Only some people who have the coins put up their hand to keep what they have but the rest put their hand up to share it fairly.

It was finally done but still some people was moaning and groaning about how unfair it was because other people had more than they did.

Bankstown Council Excursion

On Wednesday the 23rd of July Year 5 and Year 6 went to Bankstown council. We learnt about safety rules such as:

• You are not allowed to put your rubbish on the side of the road
• You are not allowed to park your car on a no stopping sign
• If you go more than a 40 km per hours in a school zone the you will get a penalty of over thousands of dollars or hundreds.

We also participated in a role play about how the councillors vote on a decision.The parts of the role play are the troublemaker (Gabby),the guards (Jade and Jason), the mayor (Georgia) and the 12 councillors (Emily, Gabby, Lilly, Sinead, Ryley, Matthew.D, Jack, Meg, Christopher, Angela, Angelica).

After that, we went to the new library and had a scavenger hunt. We knew which book we had to find because the librarian gave us a tag which said the book name on it. If we couldn't find the book then there were some computers where we could search for the book that we needed. At the end 4 people read a book which had 4 different colours in it so 4 people could read it. Then we read another one.

When we left the librarian gave us a bag with a pencil a book and two pieces of paper in it. Then we went back to school and had music. :D

Year 5 thoughts about the excursion.

Stephanie: “I thought the best part of the excursion was the scavenger hunt at the library”.

Julie-Anne: “I thought the excursion was awesome and cool”.

Ashlia: I thought that it was awesome.

Sinead: It was fun and interesting.

Emily.N: I thought the excursion was fun and cool

Emily.B: I’d rate it a 7/10