On the 17Th of September our school is having a fair day. Each class will has to setup and run a stall but some of the older classes are doing two or three stalls. Our class is doing two stalls these are nail painting and mock- tails. Mock-tails are a non alcoholic cocktail. We are deciding on one of two different mock-tails, one is called sunrise and the other one is called summertime soda. Sunrise has red cordial, soda water and orange. Summertime soda has orange juice, grapefruit juice, lemon juice, caster sugar, soda water and vanilla ice cream. The nail polish stall is going to be run by the girls. Fair day is going to be this Friday.

Here is a storybird that I made for 7 to 9 year old kids

A story about a gray elephant riding in a new green car on Storybird

On the 22nd of June 2010, 12 students from our school met at Blackwood train station at 7:50am to catch the 8:08am train into the City. It took about 30 minutes to get to Adelaide Central Station. When we got there we walked to the Adelaide Convention Centre, which was where the Writers Festival was being held. After that we walked into the main presentation room where we found seats and sat down. About 20 minutes later the Introducer started welcoming everyone to the festival and introduced the first author. His name was James Moloney, he talked about how he became an author and he gave a really funny presentation. Some of his books are The Book of Lies,The Master of the Books and the Book from Baden Dark.

After that 6 of us stayed in the main presentation room for Phil Cummings’ presentation and the other 6 went off to see Christobel Mattingly. Phil talked where he got his ideas for his stories from and how he wrote the Wang Wang and Funi book for the Adelaide Zoo.I found it really interesting. Some of his books are Breakaway, Tearaway, some of the Solo books series and Angel. After he had finished we went outside and ate our recess.

About 20 minutes later us 6 went to go to the Christobel Mattingly session. She talked about her books and how she thought up ideas and the people who have asked her to write about their stories. Later we went back to the main presentation room and saw Alice Pung. She talked about how she grew up in China and Cambodia.

Next we had to rush out of the convention centre and go to the train station. We caught the 1:02pm train back to Blackwood station. When we got there we got there we split and Chris, Olivia and I went into Cheryl’s car back to school and the rest went in Mrs H’s and Jackie’s.We got back to school at about 1:34. I really enjoyed the excursion..

This year our class has been working on a play called Robbin good and her merry hoods. Last thursday we had the day matinae and at night the final production.
These were the characters:

Sheriff of Rottingham: Orlando
Maid marion: Millie
Robbin good: Jessica
Sly spy: Chris
Eye spy: Erin
Fryer luck: Damo
Soldiers: Me, Kyle, Jesse and Oscar
Hoods: Madz, Amelia, Rachael, Zoe and Trevy
Big yawn: Kathleen
Little yawn: Emily
Maid westfield: Zoe
Protesters: Bethany, Eliza and Alice
Diners:Chelsea, Bethany, Eliza and Alice
Waitresses:Tori and olivia

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This year I am playing on the year 6/7 footy team for our school this year.
We have currently played five games and won 2 and lost 3.
The teams that we have played were Magill, Unley, Mecedes college, Glen osmond and one that I cant remember.

On Friday the 7th of may the two 6/7 classes and the 5/6 class went on an excursion to the museum, Art gallery and the Botanical gardens. We caught the train from Blackwood station at 9:00 and we got there at 9:40. When we got there we had to put our bags in a special bag safe because we were not allowed to bring our bags in to the art gallery. Firstly we looked at a painting called the Honey Ant dreaming by Clifford Possum. It told a story about the women digging for  honey ants because of the sack on its back full of sweet liquid it was a source of food for the aboriginal people.

 Next we went to the museum to look at the new level on biodiversity. We had a quick look around then our guide called Chris called us in and talked about what Biodiversity is and how humans affect it. Later he split us up in to groups of 5-6 and he told us to go and look around the desert animals exhibit, he let us look around for a couple 0f minutes before he called us back in and gave us cards that we had to explore the biodiversity floor and find the correct answers. We got the card called Temperate creatures. It took us a while to find where the exhibit was because it was very small and hidden away. We had to talk as a group and discuss what insect and bugs/ animals we should keep in the city and those we should try to get rid of. Later we went in the dome which was in one of the exhibits. Next we watched a video about the last Tasmanian tiger, which died in the Hobart zoo in 1936.

 Then we walked to the Botanical gardens which was about 10 minutes away from the museum. Firstly we looked at the Water Lily pavilion which housed several Water Lilly’s in all sizes. I learnt that at night the waterlily let off a sweet scent which attracts lots of bugs and insects. Later we found a nice patch of grass and we ate half of our lunch and we played a mini game of gang up chasey.

 After that we walked to the festival plaza and ate more lunch. Then we played another game of gang up chasey. After that we walked to the Adelaide train station where we caught the 2:06pm train back to Blackwood station, we then walked to Apex park were we played another game of gang up chasey while we were waiting for our parents to pick us up. We had to take James back to school. I really enjoyed the excursion because we learnt a lot of things about biodiversity and it was really fun.

Here are some links to the Museum, Art gallery and the botanical gardens

Museum

Art gallery

Botanical gardens

Here are some pictures…

Adelaide Waterlilly pond in the botanical gardens

adelaide botanic gardens

Adelaide's Art gallery

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This Term our class has been a part of a competition called the Mary and Max competition, for this we had to build a character that we made up and write an word description about our character that we made. The materials we used were Plasticine, paper and matchsticks. It took us several weeks and we submitted them last friday.

Mary and Max is a story about a lonely man who has asperges syndrome creates a friendship with  little mary who lives in Australia with horrible parents.

Here is a link to the acmi website and my descriptionMeet George the crocodile

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This term, our class us doing an inquiry about celebrations. We had to pick 5 celebrations from 3 different continents around the world.

I chose the Chinese New Year, Running of the Bulls,Yom Kippur,St Patrick’s day and one that lots of people haven’t heard of – the Sentosa flowers festival, held on Sentosa island just off the coast of Singapore.

I’m just going to tell you some facts about these celebrations.

Chinese New Year

• Chinese New Year lasts for 15 days.

• The purpose is to celebrate the start of a new lunar year

• Was called the spring festival hundreds of years ago

Foods

• Bamboo shoots – wealth
  
• Black moss seaweed – wealth
• Dried Bean Curd – happiness (note: fresh tofu is not served because the color white symbolizes death and misfortune in Chinese culture).
• Chicken – happiness and marriage (especially when served with “dragon foods,” such as lobster. Family reunion (if served whole)
• Eggs – fertility
• Egg Rolls – wealth
• Fish served whole – prosperity
• Chinese garlic chives – everlasting, a long life
• Lychee nuts – close family ties
• Noodles – A long life
• Oranges – wealth
• Peanuts – a long life
• Pomelo – abundance, prosperity, having children
• Seeds – lotus seeds, watermelon seeds, etc. – having a large number of children
• Tangerines – luck

Running of the bulls

• Also called the San Fermin

• Officially begins on 7Th of July every year

• Held in Spain, Portugal, some cities in Mexico and southern France

• The run is 825 metres and takes about 3 mins

Yom Kippur

• One of the holiest days for the Jewish people

• During Yom Kippur Jews fast for 25 hours

• Fasting means that no one cannot eat or drink for 25 hours

• Children under the age of 13 and people who are ill do not have to fast

St Patrick’s day

National holiday in Ireland

When?

24 Jan to 1 Feb

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Last week on the Saturday I went to cricket.

When my dad and I got there we took the gear bag out of the car and went into the oval that our school team was playing at.

Next we took the gear out of the bag and put it on the ground ready for the other team members to be padded up.

Our openers were Kyle and Chris.

Chris, Jeremy and Callum all got out on the first ball because there was a really quick bowler.

I went in next and I got 29 then I retired.

Later I came back in again and got  7 more runs in one over.

We scored 119 runs off 20 overs

Kyle: 3 runs

Chris: 0 runs

Callum: 0 runs

Jeremy: 0 runs

Jacob ( me ) 36 runs

Jesse: 6 runs

Ryan: 4 runs

Damian: 28 runs

Orlando: 8 runs

There were 4 byes, 27 wides and 3 no balls

Next we bowled. I was wicket keeping for 10 overs and then I would swap with Ryan.

Chris: 0 wickets

Callum:2 wickets

Ryan: 0 wickets

Jesse: 0 wickets

Damian: 0 wickets

Jeremy: 0 wickets

Jacob: 0 wickets

Kyle: 3 wickets

Orlando: 0 wickets

The other team scored 106 runs

6 byes, 10 wides and 4 no balls

We won  119 runs to 106runs

What sports do you play?

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Hi

I found some Maori words that I thought I should share with you.

Maori is the  language of the original people of New Zealand.

So here they are!!!!!

A is pronounced as in “rather”
E is pronounced as in “ten”
I is pronounced as in the “ee” in “seen”
O is pronounced as in the “oa” in “board”
U is pronounced as in the “oo” in “bloom”

Maori- Pakeha

Tena koutou – Hello ( formal to many people )

Tena koe- Hello ( formal to one person )

Kia ora- Hello (informal )

Kia ora koutou- ( informal to a large group )

Haere mai- Welcome

Haere ra- Farewell

Ka pai – Good or well done

Ka pai nur- Very good or very well done

Numbers 1-10

Tah- One

Rua- Two

Tora- Three

Wha- Four

Rima- Five

Onu- Six

Whitu- Seven

Wahu- Eight

Iwa- Nine

Tekau- Ten

E noho- Sit down

E tu- Stand up

Whakarogo mai- Listen to me

T. tiro mai-  Look at me

Turi turi- Shh!

Kia ora tamatiki ma- Hello children

Ke te pehea koe?- How are you feeling?

Ke te………….- I am……………..

Pai- Fine

Koa-Happy

Ngenge-Tired

Porangi- Crazy

Werawera- Hot and Sweaty

Mata kai- Hungry

Mate- Sick

I got these words from Mr Breech when he came over with a school choir from New Zealand.

Hoped you liked them.

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