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

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Our Google map:

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What did you learn from this activity?  

Which cloud type is your favourite?

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