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

24 Hour Time

St Felix Maths Collaboration

By Georgia and Clara

During the last 2 weeks, Year 5 have been working hard on making 24 hour time resources for St Felix. The resources that were created were: a tutorial, 2 posters, 2 songs, a presentation, 2 games and a quiz. St Felix was learning about elapsed time and prepared questions for us. We communicated on google hang out and they shared their questions for us to figure out. We created a website that contain all our activities and St Felix had a look at the website. We had so much fun with St Felix, and learnt about elapsed time in a fun way. St Felix were very friendly towards us and repeated their question whenever we didn’t understand or hear clearly. Their questions were quite challenging , but we managed to figure out the answer using our brains, whiteboards (and sometimes calculators). We’d love to do another google hangout with St Felix someday. It’s an experience we’d never forget! :)

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Robotic iMovie Trailers

Robotic iMovie Trailers

Year 5 have spent this past term exploring how to program Lego Mindstorm Robotics.  We began the term with incursion with Fizzics Education where we had a great opportunity to learn about programing.  We have also have had the chance to explore the iMovie app for iPads.  After lots of planning, programming, directing and editing Year 5 brings to you our Robotic iMovie Trailers.

Roborection by James, Clara and Thomas

Attack of the Robots by Jamie, Kameron and Natalie

Guns and Mysteries by Matt D, Stephanie and Angel

Robodeath by Jade, Matt K and Vivian

Love is in the Air by Ashlia, Abby and Thalia

Broken Love by Sinead, Emily B and Julie-Anne

Grandpa's Day Care by Georgia, Alessia and Trish

Godzilla Mad Man by Ryley, Paul, Emily N and Angela

Nursing Home

                 Nursing Home Visit                             

                                    By: Ashlia , Clara and Natalie

On Friday the 2nd May, we went to the Bass Hill Nursing Home. We sang songs, talked to the elderly people and had some fun. We sang ‘I am the light’, The rainbow song and our school song. We talked about what they liked about school, when they were young and we tried to make them feel young again.

At Bass Hill nursing home, they care for the elderly,

in a quiet street. At the nursing home, the staff  cook food for the elderly. Also at the nursing home, there is a hairdresser available and the elderly can have their laundry cleaned. They also have regular church services for elderly. The family and friends of the elderly can visit them and be involved in activities throughout their visit.The people who help make their meals for the elderly.The elderly have a fun hour in the nursing home.

It is available 24/7 every day and the family members can visit anytime. The nursing home was there for the past 30 years, and residents their enjoy their time there. The nursing home we visited, is called ‘Allity’.   

At the nursing home in Bass Hill, it was approximately a 15 minute walk, from Christ The King to Bass Hill Nursing Home. When we arrived at the nursing home, there were beautiful artworks that hung on the walls of the nursing 

Here are some Year 5 student’s thoughts about the nursing home visit:

Matthew D: I thought it was very exciting but a long walk,  but overall it was a pretty good trip. We got to sing to them and meeting them and also making them feel good.

Thomas: I thought it was nice.

 

Natalie: I thought it was great fun.

Ashlia: It was great fun and the old people are really nice.

Clara: I thought it was really fun to sing songs,  and get to know the elderly.    

NAPLAN

NAPLAN Test!

By Matthew D and Stephanie

Year 5 started a massive test called NAPLAN that was done by children all around Australia. Some of the types of NAPLAN styles are language conventions, writing, reading and numeracy. A child has to complete NAPLAN if they are in years 3,5,7 and 9.

You  get your results later on in the year (September). You get 40 to 50 minutes to finish the test. You have to be silent during the test so the other children can have full concentration at all times.

The full NAPLAN takes a few days to finish because you have to do different tasks on different days. You have to either color in a bubble to pick your answer or you have to write the answer in the box. We also got sweets in every test we did :-).  They were waiting on our desk when we came in to the classroom.

 

WRITING

During writing we had to write an exposition or you can do a narrative about the topic that the you are given. It should be about 2-3 pages. You had 30 minutes to finish the test. We also got about 5 minutes for planning and about 5 minutes for editing.

LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS

During language conventions we needed to answer 51 questions. We are not allowed to say what the questions were, but a majority of students from our class thought it was pretty easy. We had 40 minutes to complete the test and every one answered all the questions.    

READING

During reading we needed to answer 38 questions. We had another book that we needed to look at the stories and then answer the questions. The was an easy one and every single student answered the questions. We had 50 minutes to finish the test.

NUMERACY

During numeracy we needed to answer 45 questions we had 40 minutes to finish the test. There were lots of different types of question e.g. The were graphs on who voted more on the topic, addition, subtraction, minus and division, there were some very hard questions and some super easy ones. We were very lucky to get some blank paper to do our working out on.

What did you think about NAPLAN?

Year 5 Mathematical Magicians

Subtraction Magic Trick!

By Clara L and Matthew K

In Mathematics in Year 5, we are learning about Addition and Subtraction. In Subtraction, Miss Lee showed us a very smart subtraction trick. This trick is for subtraction sums with lots of zeroes and it must end with a zero. These are the steps to a subtraction trick that will make you extremely smart! There will also be an example.

Step 1: Write the problem.            9, 000, 000

                                              -     874, 392 = ?

Step 2: Take away 1 from the first number.       8, 999, 999

                                                                    -   874, 392 =?

Step 3: Figure out the problem.    8, 999, 999

                                       -   874, 392                                  

                                              ________

                                             8, 125, 607                                                           

Final Step: Plus the 1 that you took away on the 2nd step.  8, 125, 607 +1= 8, 125, 608

So, you can do a sum with 50 zeroes and get the answer right!

The Little Refugee

The Little Refugee

By: Natalie and Ashlia

We have been reading about the Little Refugee. The Little Refugee is written by Anh and Suzanne Do. The story is based on Anh Do’s journey to Australia. This story is about hungry, thirsty and poor people who have to leave Vietnam and travel to Australia. While they were on their journey the refugees' food and drink is ruined by a storm. Later on the refugees saw a boat. They were so happy until they saw a pirate came out of the boat. The pirates boarded the refugee's boat and stole all of their gold and jewellery. They even tried to throw a baby over the side of the boat. Luckily the pirate changed his mind. Before the pirates left the refugee's boat one of the pirates gave them a bottle of water that saved their lives. When they arrived in Sydney a nun gave them clothes but their was only one outfit for a boy and the other one was a girls outfit. Anh's mum had to dress Anh's little brother Koha as a girl.

Here is what Year 5 had to say about the book

"It is a good book for children to read about refugees." Clara.P

"The book was interesting." Stephanie

"It is a great book!" Trish

"It was awesome!" Sinead

"You always want to know what is next." Clara.L

"It was pretty good." Matthew.K

"I rate it 8 out of 10." Emily.B

"It is a excellent book." Ryley

What was your favourite part of the book?