Index Laws
categories: Uncategorized
During class last week we made videos showing what we have learnt this term so far. This term I learnt about index laws. Here’s a video summarising what I’ve learnt; (sorry it’s so long)
The Brilliant Bat
categories: Intergrated
Millions in one place, huddled upside down in a cave near water. Waiting for night, time to hunt. The only mammal that soars through the sky. Thought to bring good luck in China.
It’s a Bat! Yes, the bat that’s nocturnal and uses echolocation. These bats don’t suck blood instead they eat the pesky mosquitoes and gnats. They also eat moths and Caddis Flies, bat’s are what you call insectivores.
Some fun facts about bats:
- Baby bats are called pups
- They often live 400 metres away from water
- Bats hibernate
- It’s arms connect to a membrane to create the wings
Physical appearance 
This mammal is covered in fur with a small face and even smaller eyes. The wings are thin to help it glide easily. Bat’s have extremely long fingers that goes through the wings to make them sturdy and strong, not floppy.
Adaptations of the Bat
Behavioural adaptations
Bats have adapted over time behaviourally by hibernating, flying and they became nocturnal to avoid predators and competition for a meal. When food becomes scarce they migrate to a new home.
Structural adaptations
Structurally bats have adapted too. They’ve grown wings to fly, long arms and long fingers for wings. They also use echolocation because they’re blind.
Physiological adaptations
Bats do something called delayed implantation, this is when the female bat can only get pregnant after hibernation ( spring) so the pup is born in summer, with a higher chance of survival ( this is also a behavioural adaptation). Also echolocation because bats are blind.
What other bat facts do you know?
My Favourite Book Chat Book
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Book chat is when we are given the same books and share what we thought about the book. My favourite book chat book from this year was ‘ The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin Maker’ by Matilda Woods. Some more of her books are; The Girl, the Cat and the Navigator, The Girl Who Sailed the Stars, Otto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things.
The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin Maker is in the family and friendship genre. It’s about a boy who’s lost his mother and is hiding from his mean father in the brightest village in the world where fish fly. He has help with a kindly coffin maker and his pet bird he escaped.
I liked this book because it wasn’t easy to read, but it wasn’t hard, but it still made sense. It was also a bit of adventure story and I like adventure stories, it cut right into the action and hooked you in. I’d recommend this to people who like adventure and books that leave you hanging.
Do you do Book Chat? If so, what is you favourite book chat book? If not, would you like to? Why or why not?
Holiday Poem
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This is a poem I wrote to celebrate my favourite Holiday; FRIENDS CHRISTMAS!
Friends Christmas is the best,
With smiles, games and much much more,
Santa as our special guest,
Lunch goodies galore,
Ornament race has started,
run! Run! Run,
Now everyone has departed,
Friends Christmas was fun.
Do you celebrate Friends Christmas?
Family and Friends Holidays
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This blog post is about the holidays my family celebrates. This year I’ve sadly missed 2 holidays. The first one was Easter, because we went to fiji ( all their eggs were melted) and the second one was Halloween, I had just come back from camp just in time for Halloween, but my dad forgot to make my costume.
These are some short descriptions of the holidays my family celebrates (in order):
- New years, New Year is on 1st January. My family celebrates this with our family friends, at their beach house. We always go to the beach, and to finish it off all of us wear glow in the dark bracelets and wave sparklers.
- Easter, again we celebrate this with our family friends at their beach house. The day before Easter we hang up painted egg on the trees. That night their dad reads us a cute story about mother bunny with 30 very well behaved bunnies and she gets chosen to become one of the seven Easter bunnies/rabbits who deliver chocolate eggs. Finally we wake the next day, go outside and collect eggs together. I usually get all the caramel eggs (I don’t like straight chocolate).
- Halloween, this is when we dress up as monsters and walk around going to decorated house saying trick of treat, then they pass you lollies. It’s really fun with friends.
- Friends Christmas, for my family this happens before Christmas, but when all the decorations are up. This involves family friends coming over for lunch and all the children competing in fun events like, make the snow man. Where we get a ball and rap it in toilet paper to make it look like a snow man. Finally we have my dad dress up as Santa giving us early presents. In Australia it’s really hot, so we have a swim in the pool.
- Christmas, we have all our family over, the night before we go to sleep to find the next day Santa ( a made up man who brings children presents) has come. We all open our presents from Santa and our family. We also go for a swim.
What’s your favourite holiday?
Toona camp
categories: Outsoor ed
Last week my class went to camp for 3 whole nights! It was a great learning experience and we all had a fantastic time. It was amazing!
On the first day, once we got we headed straight into activities (after lunch of course). In pairs we were given a close up photo of something around the camp, the pair who found the most won a price. This helped us map out camp.
My favourite experience was expo. (Sleeping in tents outside and not in front of a house). It was my first time sleeping in a tent, and it was really fun assembling it, but a lot hard disassembling it. My pillow got dirty even with two layers separating it from the ground.
It was challenging kayaking even though I’ve done it before. I got muddled up turning it around. I also got extremely worried when we were paddling further away from the shore.
I’ll remember camp by the shoe game, where two teams try to knock over a water bottle using a shoe. They called out your number and you and another person will grab a shoe run and sit down on a box to throw the shoe. First person to hit wins.
I didn’t make many new friendships, but I built on the ones I have. I learnt a lot about them and they probably learnt somethings about me. Like, how much I don’t like fishing (especially when you don’t catch any fish).
We used all of the Positive Learner Attributes (P.L.A.’s). But I think I mostly used resilience when things didn’t go my way. Like the food, I didn’t and don’t like the dinner’s there. I also used collaboration while kayaking, playing tue shoe game and the toona challenge.
Overall Toona was caring and I enjoyed my three nights.
What’s your favourite outdoor activity? Why?
My avatar
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This is my new avatar for the blogging challenge. Of course, it is made to resemble me. My favourite hair style is piggy tails, so that’s mpwhy it has piggy tails. Not everything is perfect it has blue eyes, yet I have blue-green eyes and my smile is a lot wider. My fringe is a lot longer. I hope you enjoy reading my blog post.
Are you doing the blogging challenge.
Hard Road Ahead Reflection
categories: Intergrated
This term’s integrated subject was the Hard Road Ahead. It’s how life was on the goldfields in the 1850’s. We made a diorama (which is a recreation of something but smaller, e.g. shoe box could be a tower) of Sovereign Hill in Ballarat, we went to camp there and had a great time. We were part of it in the ‘Schools Program’. We were given a building to study with a partner.
What I learnt
Life in the 1850’s
It was hard in the 1850’s was bloody and hard. Chinese miners were treated horribly because they were smart and spoke a different language, so people were not happy and treated them poorly because they were different. They had their own small village. The toilets were bushes in the wilderness. This was on the hill so the liquid would run down the hill and polluted the river, which they used to drink and make stew.
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Diorama Map
categories: Intergrated
This term we’ve been learning about Australia in the 1850’s. We went to camp, camp was a recreation of Main st, Sovereign hill, Ballarat in the 1850’s. When we came back we created a diorama of Main st, then drew a map of the diorama. This is the map:
Have you ever been to Sovereign Hill? If so how was it?
Information Book Shortlists
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This Term in Library we have been focusing on the Children Shortlists. The years 4-6 did the shortlisted information books. The book were, Make Believe, Our Birds, Waves, Sorry Day, Bouncing Back and The Happiness Box. The winner was Sorry Day, which I personally didn’t like and gave a 17/30 (based on Visuals, information and layout).
A great information book would have:
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- A bibliography (where they found the information)
- Pictures relating to the text
- An eye catching layout
- Sometimes will have a content
My favourite book was Our Birds, it was made by a 16 year old aboriginal girl who took all the breathe taking pictures herself. The information wasn’t too overwhelming and interesting. At the start of the text to showed you the name of the bird in the aboriginal language.
What’s your favourite information book? Why?