Hi there,

Today I’m going to be talking about ‘Leadership day’ this was a day when we got together with other year 6’s from another school, i was in purple team! This group had Me, Harvey, Ananya, Izzy, Lara, Stav, Henry, Charlie, Michelle, Abby, and Jack. We had to compete in many challenges such as who can build the largest paper tower, and cup/ cup stacking. The one I’m talking about today is… The planking competition!

The planking competition was about which team could hold the pose plank for the longest period of time. But we had to have over half of our team planking which since we were 11 we had to have 6 on at a time. We made a word when we needed to swap, ours was purple, imaginative right? Seriously i liked it though. The person couldn’t get up till the replacement was in the planking pose, it stated with Harvey, Charlie, Abby, Michelle, Lara, and Jack. After a bit we got the hang of it. But each time the replacement didn’t hear somebody others would say “___ said purple! We need the next person for them.” Towards the end it was harder we were getting weaker. But we tried extra hard remembering the prize was food. It motivated us one team down, then the next. Before we knew it we were i the last 4 teams. It gave us more pressure. Until the unthinkable happened to us. Out! Said the judge. We had only 5 on.

The winners were the Lime green team. They left to get their prize but they were asked “if you could would you share your prize with everybody else?” They said yes! Turns out the prize were icy poles, they were so good.not all winners are mean, they were a good sport.

Something things I learnt was that I can hold a plank, I’m good at listening to my team mates,and it was actually fun, as soon as they said there was a food for the prize it motivated everyone you could hear all the gasps. Something i learnt about my members, well they are all smart, strong and they all know how to communicate with each other for the most part clearly.

Thanks for sticking around and reading about my first Leadership conference,

Bye!

-Matilda

Term 4, week 8, the most stressful week of all, the year 5 play, great, just great! This will be the end! I might fall off the bottom of the world.My main character was the 10th federationist my extra characters were a convict and brides maid the others in the bridal party were Will and Dillon our bride was Lotti. In the convict scene we had to mark out all the territories of Australia it also included Max and Will “stealing” a pocket watch from Governor Phillip(Harvey) and Harvey pulled out a phone in the 1900s!

Now the cricket match has started this is the most important match in history would Australia join forces or remain 6 separate colonies! In this cricket match before I was able to bowl Henry Parks(Tom) dropped dead then when it can my turn well these were my lines

“10th Federationist: We could give the vote to the women!”

“ The games stops, crowd: WHAT!?!”

“Eddie+Bruce:  I beg your pardon!”

“10th Federationist : We well we, could give the vote to the ah, women?”

“10th Federationist: or or not, it was just an idea you know, I thought we were making a great new country and-, bad idea very bad idea don’t know what got into me there sorry, sorry.”

So I was all for women then some people ripped off their beards and were women! I was a women but I had to pretend to be a man. Also after this Queen Victoria dropped dead on the cricket field “long live the uh- King!” That didn’t go down well with the first women. Our play was a funny version of Australian history.i would like to give a shout out to all the tea ladies because they kept in character and they were so energetic and that was my year 5, reflection on the production

-Matilda

Crunch….crunch….crunch….it pounces. Catching a small lizard, the Fennec Fox hears everything with it significantly large ears. It blends into the desert floor because of its sand coloured fur, this helps it keep safe. Water? No the fennec fox doesn’t need much. This fox lasts days without water. It’s on the go the Fennec Fox can run on all the hot rocks and sand because of its thick fur on the pads of its feet. You don’t want to be in the desert with this creature in malting season!

The Fennec Fox is the smallest of Fox in the world! The Fennec Fox has large ears and a bushy black tipped tail, their colours can vary from white to a pale reddish orange. If you see something small and furry but your not sure if it’s an animal or sand and you’re in one of the areas that I will be talking about later, it’s probably a Fennec Fox, try not to scare or make it frightened, because if you do it will become agitated and will either just swipe or snap.

They are usually found eating insects, lizards, small mammals, bird eggs, fruit, bulbs, Omnivore, and when water is available in they take it. They eat many things such as those if they can’t find them they will eat dried/dead plants.

They are nocturnal so you fill not find them in the day if you do by chance find them they will be in a deep hole that they live in during the day. This is because they don’t want to risk getting caught/ killed by bigger animals/Predators, so they use the technique of hunting at night so it’s easier to catch prey because they can sneak up on their sleeping victims.

You can only find them in the Deserts of Northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The places you will find these creatures are in the specific deserts, you cant really find them in any other deserts around the world, like you will not find them in Australia, Russia, USA, as a last thing that I am saying because there are many places that there are not found so to make it more simple I am going to say Asia, so if you find a Fennec Fox in these areas it would have been brought there by someone or something.

So this is my blog post of my learnings/findings about fennec foxes during our adaptation unit thank you or sticking around for this’s blog post I hav enjoyed doing all the research it has been really fun and enjoyable writing this posts thank you
-Matilda

Hello! 

Today I’m going to be talking about my favourite book chat! If you didn’t know, book chat is a thing we have where we get to pick out of a selection of books and get a set time to read it right now my book chat is ‘Saving Winslow’! Anyway into the book! The book I chose was……. Snot Chocolate! By Morris Gleitzman, so if you have read my previous posts you will see that my last favourite book chat was Once by Morris Gleitzman, back to Snot Chocolate! So this book is one of the more funny books he has written, it has multiple stories, within it my favourite was Kumquat May! This story was about a girl who was in a group with April and June, she would always bring her Grandma’s dumplings to school as all their breakfast but one day she found a new girl (July) had replaced her with… toast!? They told her they didn’t like her dumplings anymore, and she decided she wanted to make a comeback! When they made toast and jam for everyone in the school she decided to swap their jam for hers (it was kumquat jam) the school liked hers more, and the other girls  (April, June) regretted dumping her for July! That was only one of the stories it’s genre is humour! It’s was a hilarious read and I would recommend it to ages 8-14 maybe even to 15! I hope you enjoyed reading about my favourite book chat!

-Matilda

Hello , 

Today I am talking about a holiday that I celebrate with my family! The holiday is…………….CHRISTMAS! So today I’m talking about how my family celebrates Christmas! First the night before we look at some houses in our area and how they have decorated next we all stay in one of our rooms and put biscuits and milk and carrots out on the table, next we go to sleep early. Now in the morning we all together as a family open gifts from each other and ones from Santa Clause but our Christmas isn’t all just about presents that is only 25% of our Christmas maybe even less! Now we get dressed into nice clothes and we have a nice day at either our Grandparents, Aunties, or our home with some cousins, Auntie, and Grandparent, we have pork and crackle (pork rind) and just spend time together when we get home we get into our PJ’s and say our good nights then we go to bed and that ends our Christmas! Thank you for reading how me and my family celebrate Christmas.

Oh and we dress our dog up!

-Matilda

Hello, 

This is my new avatar! It has greyish green eyes like me and glasses I think that even if this avatar was trying to be realistic it doesn’t have some of the features I have like HearingAids and earrings but it is a good picture for my online self and it has a khaki hoodie because I like hoodies and I like the colour khaki (muddy green) and my skin colour is olive and my lips are pink so I did my best to recreate myself

But your online avatar is not exact it is similar!

That is my new avatar,

-Matilda

Fired Up! REA- Ummm err never mind, TIRED, we were tired and felt terrible, I was happy because I got to sit next to Eleanor on the way there and back, soon morning tea came we ate our home made recess it was good but, nope still tired, ahhhh I finally fell asleep for 20 minutes, wow, my cabin was AWSOME! Whyyyyyyy I need to go to the toilet I woke someone up, wait what is that! A kangaroo! Ugh 4th time lucky.

We got back from camp on the 17th of October it was so fun if you’re wondering we went to Toonallook! It was one of the first times the year 5’s went on the expo which is where we sleep in an actual tent! It was so fun my class saw 31 Koala’s on Raymond Island and 1 just as we were leaving on the bus so we saw 32 Koalas in total! We stayed there for 4days and 3nights! My group went kayaking then biking then fishing it was so fun we caught no fish and me and my friend went on a kayak together and then she was behind me and when I tumbled because of the thick sand she then fell on top of me! And after Kayaking we got to swim in the water! It was freezing.

My favourite part was playing king ball which is like a big version of 4 square but it was circles and if the ball hit the dirt it would mean your out it had 4 parts Dunce, Jack, Queen, King I got king quiet a bit, but as soon as I did I got out, oh well better luck next time!

That was my journey at camp Toonallook! I am excited to go again in year 6!

-Matilda

What Makes A Good Information book?

A good information book has real and or true information that makes it interesting but gives you real and fun facts. It also contains amazing and most of the time unbelievable facts it also needs to have pictures and clear ones to balance out the words with pictures because if you have to many words at once it will either get boring or to hard.

What is your favourite shortlisted book?Why?

 

My favourite shortlisted book is bouncing back! Because it is a true story and it is heart breaking that it is happening and because I has amazing pictures and not to much text!

wh at are your answers?

Bye!

-Matilda

Our First Contacts Australian History Unit

In Term 2, we had to take on the persona of a First Fleet convict. We reseached what life was like back then and wrote an historical narrative based on their life and experience coming to Australia as part of the First Fleet. Read one of my journal entries below.

I’m a convict

May

25th 1784

“Please it just be a little thing!”

“NO! You  ain’t be  stealing anything on my watch. I won’t allow it you’ll get caught by the Bow Street Runners!”

She don’t know nothing I won’t get caught I can’t get caught! She being a brat I tell you brat!

I thought to myself. That night I ran out of the ‘ouse I took all me anger out from what my wife said on this little lady, then I jumped a fence and took linen that was probably worth bout, 20 shillings all a sudden I heard

“STOP THIEF!!!!!”

 DAM IT I OTTA GO!! I thought, but before I knew it they out ran me trapping me in a corner. The next day I was in court! “John Anderson Age 24 Crime Assault and stealing linen worth 20 shillings punishment TRANSPORTATION! “Oh no.”

Signed  J.A

May

26th 1784

“TO THE HULKS WITH YOU!!!” yelled one guard. “What’s transportation?” No body answered. That made me even more nervous

that no body even knew where we were going

Maybe transportation is when you get hanged in a different place. I didn’t know what it was

but either way I was nervous. When I got to the hulks they put shackles on me ankles, wrists, and neck they  scraped my skin away and it was rather painful over the time of an hour it started to stink of privy I had to leave me mate and me family behind it was hard

“LIGHS OUT!!”screeched a guard with a croaky throat. 

Signed   J.A

May

12th 1787

Today we started to board the ship I was on the Scarborough we could see

all the ships the Charlotte and the Friendship. There’s no friendship on that ship seams like there’s a match ever day and night they never at peace.

May 

13th 1787

The hatch closed by the first hour me neck was already throbbing in pain 

wish down under would be just a little bit taller the rashens were only limited there be only bout 12 little boy

Oh well. Smelt like raw human faeces couldn’t  see nothing pitch black all me ears could hear was screams of terror.

We made a stop at Cape Town we just picked up some fresh food and water than we left.

Singed J.A

January 

14 1788

Today we sailed the mini boats to Botany Bay when we got there

we saw sand, big rabbits, brown Indians, and some trees that grew upwards! Now that’s something new

but what I  be most curios bout was we were told it was New Holland a land with no people and why would people live in the end of the world

Any way it was not fun living there.

On the first day 12 convicts were killed either by the guards or the Indians something that the Indians had and did were they had sticks that

Looked like curves and they had no clothes on? This confused me.

Singed J.A

January 

15 1788

It’s the second day at Botany Bay

It okay but today me new mate got in a fight with an Indian but now me mate is diseased oh well. 

January

18 1793

Just a few more months before I go but I really like it it here at Botany Bay it calm I have grown to like the Indians there kind but they might be making us go oh well.

Signed J.A

 

Did you know Australia used to be called new holland?

Matilda