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The Plank

It was leadership day, a day where activities took place, but not just normal activities…activities that helped you become a better person. We were joined by other students we didn’t know. We took our seats and listened to one another. It was a great start to leadership day. But what was coming up was the…..plank!

There were 5 people out of 7 (or) 8 doing the plank. I wasn’t as good as some people but I tried my best to keep it all together. It was such a new experience. Personally, I have never really done a plank, but I’ve seen other people do it. This time we were doing planking. Each group had to send 5 people down to do a plank. There were a few other people ‘taking a break’. Each group had to stay in a plank for as long as they could. There had to be 5 people planking, if there wasn’t you would be out. You also had to make sure you were planking properly, otherwise your team would be out too. There were also ‘judges’ that checked on your group usually to see if you were doing everything properly. Those are the rules for the game…but what did, really happened??

5, 4, 3, 2, 1…PLANK! Everyone squashed to the floor, trying to hold there strength. I squashed down with the rest of my group. I got into the plank and it began. I  tried to stay in the plank for as long as I could but then I called out “switch”. Our teams ‘plan’ was to yell out switch when we needed to switch with someone that was not planking. The thing was, that wasn’t our best plan. To be completely honest, sometimes I yelled out switch because I thought I was tired but I knew I could stay up for longer. Unfortunately some of our team mates didn’t get heard. One of our team mates yelled out switch 5 times but none of us reacted. Sometimes we only had a 2 second break. Our group had a lot of tension. We were all yelling out switch at the same time but we all didn’t know how to react. Then, all of a sudden one of our team mates that were sitting out realised that only 4 people were planking, which meant we were out. Even tho we got out we all learnt something and we all tried our best.

I learnt so much from this experience. After one activity I learnt a lot. Like I said, I never usually plank so I was quite new to planking. At first I didn’t know what it was! But luckily one of my team mates told me. When I started planking I looked at everyone in my team and I knew that some of the people in my team were as uncomfortable as I am.  I learnt a lot more about team work and communication. Communication isn’t just talking, I learnt communication can also be other things too. For example, someone waves at you, that is an action and that action means hello (which is a source of communication). Our groups communication skills could have improved the slightest bit, but nothing is perfect. I built on my teamwork skills. We needed to use a lot of teamwork because we all had to focus and we had to know what was going on. We also had to be aware on how everyone felt. We had to make sure that we were all feeling comfortable. We all had to be a team and work together as a team. I loved learning new things and doing new things!

Leadership day was such an amazing roller coaster. Everything we did taught me so much about myself and others. I can’t wait for next time!!

Emperor Penguin Adaptations

If you don’t know what an adaptation is, here is a quick description~ An animal changing/or doing something to fit the environment.

Antarctica. A place of snow, ice and most of all the coldness. -30 degrees every day. But one animal seems to manage. An animal, with striking patterns of black, white and yellow. An animal that weighs 100 pounds. An animal, called the Emperor Penguin. 

The Emperor Penguin is very unique. It doesn’t look or sound like a normal, everyday Penguin. What they do have in common of every other species of penguins, they have a lot of fur to keep warm. They also have there peers to keep warm too!

The Emperor Penguin has a lot of structural features. These contain adaptations. They grow less fur as they grow up. When they are a baby, they have grey (sometimes black) fur. When they are an adult, they grow black, white and yellow fur. They also grow less fur as they grow up. The Emperor Penguin also do contain (even as an adult) a lot of layers of feathers. You can’t see the layers of feathers usually because, all of the layers are sometimes built into the skin, for the Penguin to keep warm.

The Emperor Penguins behave differently to what normal birds/flightless birds act like. Penguins huddle together for warmth. Sometimes there is even hundreds and thousands of penguins huddling together for heat. Penguins don’t create nests because, they usually lay eggs on the ground by the shore. Almost every Penguin does this, but some create nests. Male Penguins (Emperor Penguins) sleep for 20-24 hours a day! Now, that’s a lot of sleeping! When female Penguins lay their eggs, they usually pass it on to the male.

 

The Emperor Penguins do different things to most Penguins like, they can dive for a depth of 1,800 feet! That’s really deep especially for a Penguin. They do this to catch fish for their chicks. Penguins also eat krill and squid. Emperor Penguins can hold their breathe for up to 22 minutes, they do this to catch as many fish as possible again, for their chicks and maybe even themselves to eat. Speaking of food, males can not eat for over 100 days! I couldn’t even do that!

 

The Emperor Penguins are a really unique species of Penguin. They have really unique adaptations too! 

 Have you ever seen a Penguin in real life?

What species of Penguin is your favourite? Why?

Bibliography:

coolantarctica.com

worldbookonline.com

antarctica.gov.au

 

Year 5 Production Reflection

The Year 5 Production was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from the play. It was awesome!

The year 5 production was about Australia’s history, in a funny version. It was packed with funny jokes and it was just simply funny. The play (Production) was called Hanging On The Bottom Of The World because Australia is hanging on the bottom of the world. The stage had a painting of Australia on the floor with colourful patterns. There was also sand outlining the painting of Australia. The stage was set up really well! The person who had control of the lights made us light up! 

I was a few roles. I was a Chinese miner, a convict and (my main role) The First Woman. And I was in a lot of scenes. With the Chinese miner, we came into the Goldfields in a Chinese dragon form. We surrounded the gold miners and a First Official talked about the Chinese not being allowed in Australia. As a Chinese miner, it was unfair and I was angry. When I was a convict I had to act sad and tired. I added a little limp when I walked, to act more like a convict. My main role (The First Woman) I had to act angry because women didn’t have the vote. I loved being all of these characters!

I was the First Woman in the production. The First Woman protests against women getting the vote. I (The First Woman) appears in the cricket match (Scene 17-19). There are a lot of different scenes and stories throughout the production. When I appear in the match I wear a beard and pretend/act like a boy. I pretend to be apart of the cricket match and do stretches. It starts off when one of the cricket players say ‘we could give the vote to the women’? Then thats my time to pop out of the field and rip my beard off. Then I say my lines. The First Woman was a very important part of the play since that was a big thing that was apart of Australia’s History (getting women the vote).

The cricket scene was very important, not just because of my role, because two very important people were in the cricket scene. They were Alfred Deakin and Edmund Barton. Edmund Barton was the first PM of Australia and Alfred Deakin was the second PM of Australia. They both were a part of the cricket game. So was Henry Parks. Unfortunately, Henry Parks died in the Cricket Match which meant he missed federation. In the cricket match, there were two teams, the Federation Team and the Anti Bilites. I was going for the Federation team. 

There were a lot of highlights and parts I enjoyed. I love acting and getting on stage. I enjoyed watching the other classes perform their version of Hanging On The Bottom Of The World. I liked how they did since it was slightly different. I really liked the costumes. I wore a really cool convict shirt that made me look like a convict. I also enjoyed just simply being in the show! It was an amazing play!

I loved being apart of Hanging On The Bottom Of The World. It was funny, even I laughed. I will always remember this play.

Have you ever been in a production/play? If so, what was it about?

My Favourite Book Chat Book

I have a lot of favourite Book Chat Books. Every book I read this year was amazing. But my most favourite book I have read out of all the books is The Other Christy By Oliver Phommavanh. Now, Oliver is one of my favourite authors! I also read Dont Follow Vee. Another book by Oliver. 

I think The Other Christy goes into the Family and Friendship genre because, it’s about Christys grandpa and Christys friend. It is packed with drama about her family and friends! It is also about Christys life and what she goes through behind the scenes, but mostly, it’s about Christys family and friends and what she thinks about them.

The story is about two girls in the same class and both of their names is Christy, just it’s spelt differently. They are both completely different. One is rich, the other is poor, one is messy and one is clean. They are completely different. One bully’s the other and it’s just not right for them to be around each other. One is quiet and shy and the other is loud and popular. But, are they a perfect fit? That’s for you to find out.

I enjoyed this book so much because there was always a cliff hanger and always something to look forward to. I loved the detail that was put into the book and how interesting it is. The story line is unique and I loved how exciting, sad, angry and happy the book was. The book gave me mixed emotions and I always could get a good picture on what Christys life would be like just from reading the book! It was amazing and I just simply loved it!

I loved this book so much and I hope you will love it too! It’s filled with everything you could imagine and it’s so entertaining!

Have you ever read an Oliver Phommavanah book?

What’s your favourite book/author?

Christmas Holiday!

Christmas is a big celebration that me and my family celebrate on the 25th of December. I love Christmas because I get to see friends and family.

Christian’s celebrate this day because of the birth of Gods son. Jesus (Gods Son) was born on Christmas Day (25th Of December). Jesus is a big part of me and my family’s life because we all believe he was our saviour. He gave us everything that we have today, so we celebrate on the day he was born, to thank Jesus for all he has done for us. Jesus is a big part of our lives and that’s why we celebrate Christmas, to thank Jesus.

On Christmas we put up a Christmas tree. Some people place the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve morning, I place the Christmas tree 3 or 2 weeks before Christmas. We put special decorations on the tree called baubles. They all come in different designs. Some have patterns to do with Christmas, and some are figures that we use on Christmas Day. Such as a Christmas tree, reindeers and Santa. Some Christmas trees have stars at the top of them. The star represents the star that popped up in the sky when Jesus was born.

Baubles:

On Christmas morning, each child who celebrates Christmas, from 0-18 gets presents bellow the Christmas Tree. There is a man called Santa who puts the presents below your tree on Christmas Eve night. So, when children wake up they run to the tree and open their presents. Santa is a Man with a white beard, and he wears the Christmas colours. Well, mostly one of the Christmas colours. The Christmas colours are red a green. Santa’s full name is Santa Claus, he rides on a sleigh every night delivering presents to every child who celebrates Christmas. He has 4 reindeers who guide the sleigh at night. Not everyone believes Santa even people who celebrate Christmas, but I do.  Here is a photo of Santa and a reindeer:

A reindeer:

People create different times of food on Christmas. One of them is a ginger bread house. People create a house with icing, gingerbread and many other decorations. A ginger bread house is a small house that ginger bread men live in. The house is made out of ginger bread and icing. We also make a fruit/Christmas pudding. Christmas pudding is really good (in my opinion). There are different types of Christmas puddings. There is plum pudding, fruit pudding and for desert, chocolate pudding. Some people on Christmas Day make pudding or make ginger bread houses.

Gingerbread house:

Pudding:

Christmas time is also a time to celebrate and meet up with family members. But don’t forget, Christmas is not just about getting presents from Santa, it’s also about thanking Jesus. 

Do You Celebrate Christmas? If not what is a holiday you celebrate?

 

All About My Avatar

Hi everyone! Today, I got to create my own avatar! Containing how I look and what my personality is all about. I created my avatar on this website: https://www.cartoonify.de

Here’s a photo of my Avatar:

 

I have long dark brown hair, as you can see. My hair goes down until just below my hips. I still want to grow my hair longer. I love my hair and will never dye it. I just get a lot of knots sometimes and it’s hard to brush!

I have hazel coloured eyes. If you don’t know what hazel is it’s brown and green together. The brown starts at my pupil and then goes into a dark green.

My pink jumper represents my love for the colour pink! I have a lot of pink jumpers, dresses and tops. I love high neck jumpers because they’re comfortable and they’re great for winter!

My love for pink (background and lips) also represents how much of a diva I am. I love dresses, high heels and anything pink. 

This is all about my avatar. Hopefully you have learned a bit about me and can’t wait to see if you are similar or different to my interests.

 Do you like pink? If not what your favourite colour?

What colour hair do you have?

Hard Road Ahead Reflection

This term we have done a integrated unit called Hard Road Ahead our gold rush unit. We have done a lot of activities to do with the Gold Rush including camp!

I learnt a lot of things during this unit. Before this unit, I didn’t know anything about the Gold Rush. Now I know so much! I learnt a lot during camp. I learnt how teachers would teach back In the 1850s. Children back then would learn 1-18s times tables and copperplate writing. The toys they played with were made out of wood, they were not like the toys we play with today. You would write with a special pen and dip it into ink. During this unit I also learnt about the James Scobie affair that happen in 7th of October 1854 where James Scobie got murdered at the Eureka Hotel by publican James Bentley. I also learnt about the conditions people lived in back in the 1850s. The first option you lived in was a tent, then a hut and then a cottage. Some rich people would have much larger gardens and houses than a cottage. Even though a cottage sounds nice you still would have to go to the toilet outside and have a bath in a small bucket. A cottage was still cramped and small. I now know a lot about the Gold Rush thanks to this unit.

I struggled sometimes in this unit and sometimes I didn’t.  When I did it could sometimes cause a lot of challenges. Some challenges I face were. When there was not enough glue for the glue guns and you had to be patient. Because, getting towards the end of the diorama making, people needed glue for the glue gun but the glue got used a lot more at the start of the unit. So, we didn’t have enough glue at the end of the unit. This required collaboration and communication to solve this problem. It also required patience. Because, sometimes we need to communicate and collaborate when we were sharing the glue gun and patience because not all the time you got to share the glue gun with people. Even though there were challenges there was always solutions. The diorama making required some challenges.

Some highlights of this unit was definitely camp. I loved how we got to learn and experience the 1850 style, which helped me a lot in this unit. The diorama making was a highlight too. Me and my partner, Kobe made a replica building of the 1850 Builders And Undertakers. Everyone had there own building to make which created a mini town of Sovereign Hill. The end result was incredible! That why it was such a highlight. I had a lot of highlights in this unit and I personally think this unit was incredible,

I learnt a lot about my partner and my self during this unit. I learnt that my partner was a hard and efficient worker. I didn’t think he would be that way but when we started to work together then I realised. I learnt a bit about myself that I actually loved making the diorama. It was fun and I also learnt that I am creative when it comes to making stuff. I came up with some cool ideas and so did my partner too. 

This was an amazing unit and I enjoyed everything about it. The camp, the diorama making and the book. This is one of the best units I have ever done! 

Do you know anything about the Gold Rush? If so what?

What is your favourite 1850 Sovereign Hill building

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