Month: August 2019

Book Week

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Last week was Book Week at Carey. As a school, Carey voted on the short listed books. We had to fill out a sheet and give a ranking out of 10 for the visuals, the information and the layout which would then lead to a total out of 30. The short list books were…

  • Sorry Day
  • Make Believe
  • Waves
  • The Happiness Box
  • Our Birds

I voted for the book make believe because I really liked doing all the optical illusions and because I think the book was layed out really well so it made it very intriguing. Also because I think that the author made reading the information very interesting and fun.

A good information book has great visuals. A good visual has realistic pictures and it is not a picture of the internet because that is copyright and because it is better to use your imagination rather than somebody else’s.

A good information book has clear information so that you can learn from the book and understand what the book is trying to tell you.

An amazing information book states the sources because you want to know were the author got the information and so that you can use those sources to research and learn more about the topic.

What was your favourite short listed book and why?

 

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Camp Reflection

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Last week the year five’s went on camp to Sovereign Hill, Ballarat. As a grade, we stayed there for three days researching and getting to know the life of the 1850’s. Whilst we were in Sovereign Hill, we did several things from the sound and light show to shopping around the town. 

One of my personal favourite activities was the school program. During the school program, we were split up into classes and dressed up as a child from the 1850’s. The classes each had a school to go to. 5S went to the school St Alipius. When we were there, we were taught all sorts of things that people in the 1850’s would have done. We learn’t how to speak a bit of Irish Gaelic, how to write in copper plate, how to write with a quill and ink and lots more. Also, we got to play with toys from the 1850’s. The girls were taught how to do some sewing and the boys were given a drawing book to practice drawing. 

One thing that I learnt when I was at Sovereign Hill was that life on the gold fields is very different to the way that people live now and that lifestyle has changed tremendously over the past couple of centuries. My favourite thing at Sovereign Hill was the school program because I really enjoyed learning all the different things and getting to play a role as a person in the 1850’s. 

A PLA that I used during the school program was imagination because I had to imagine that I was from the 1850’s. Another PLA was curiosity because I was curious to find out what we were going to learn next.

 If I could enhance this program then the one thing I would enhance would be the pricing of the products the shops sold because in my opinion I think that some of products that they sold at Sovereign Hill were overpriced so you couldn’t get as many things as you would of liked. But overall I think camp was very fun.

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Haiku Poem

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 Cherry blossoms bloom,

The sun shines high in the sky

  Spring has arrived here,

Sun rays break through clouds,

Heat swivels around the place,

  Summer has arrived,

 Leaves rustle in wind,

Red, orange, brown paints the path,

 Autumn has arrived,

  Frost layers the earth,

Snowflakes trickle down on trees,

  Winter has arrived.

 For the past few weeks in literacy we have been focusing on poetry. This is an example of a Haiku poem. A Haiku poem is a Japanese poem. The first line has five syllables, the second line has seven syllables and the last line has another five syllables. One feature of a Haiku poem is figurative language. Figurative language is when a person writes phrase and includes an expression that is different from a literal interpretation. For example, “The word is on the tip of my tongue.”

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