Yr 5 production!

The production was a big success!! Everyone was amazing and everyone had a terrific time! I was one the 6 brides, I was the bride of Victoria, I had 3 bridesmaids Matilda, Dillion and Will. 

Highlights 

One of the many highlights for was getting to do it with all my friends! I liked that it was a funny play too! The humour made it better. And I think I also learnt a lot about acting and I’m looking forward to doing another play again soon. Another big highlight was watching the tea ladies at the start, when they handed out their cups of tea and sandwiches! And their funny talk with the audience!

Challenges

A challenge for me was getting into character, it was a little bit hard at first to be all posh and stuff, but then once I got the hang of it, it became a lot easier. Another challenge for everyone was getting the cricket scene perfect we practiced that one over and over again until we go it right, I think it was one of the best scenes of the play!

What I learnt

I learnt that I actually like acting. I had a pretty good time on stage and every time we did it I got more and more confident. I also learnt about acting, like facial expressions, gestures, how to project my voice and the different tones of voice for different situations.

Special Thanks

A massive thank you goes to miss Quodling! She as the producer and did an amazing job of getting everyone ready and helping us rehearse. Another it thank you goes to Emma Ingles, she helped us with our acting and getting into character. And last but not least…. Graham! He put out all the sand, (and cleaned it up too)and he helped carry all the props.

Deep in the tropical African forests lives the almighty gorillas, who are not ones to harm others but get too close to a member of their troop and you’ll hear the pounding of their huge fists on their muscly chests showing you the aggression and anger of what you have done or will do.

DIET

Gorillas are vegetarian so they mostly eat: leaves, bark, vines and stems, bamboo and some fruit. They are quite fussy eaters, with big appetites, so would very hard to please! The gorillas opposable thumbs help them to grab food, pick up their kids, knuckle walk and climb trees. 

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

They are fully black, except for the male silver backs. And they have big hands with thick fingers, they also have fingernails just like us. Their nose is a shiny dark black colour but the shape is hard to describe. They have massive nostrils and feet similar to ours but again a lot thicker and bigger. Another structural adaptation is their short legs, their short leges help to support their heavy body weight.

HABITAT

Their habitat is in the tropical forests of Africa where there is lots of tall bamboo, bushes and vines, it’s never hot there, it’s always either cool or cold, it rains quite a bit there but the gorillas are used to that.

Picture from: national geographic 📸

The One And Only Ivan

My favourite book chat this year was the one and only Ivan.

I think the genre was animals. 

It was a story about a gorilla who lived in shopping centre and he and all the other animals are unhappy, but then a baby elephant came and she was forced to do tricks like all the others but she didn’t want to, therefor she was scratched with a rake.

I liked this book because it was heartwarming and it had some really kind characters in it as well. I also liked the fact that they weren’t angry, most people would think that animals like gorillas would be angry but they were all the complete opposite.  

What was your favourite book chat book this year? 

On the 25th of December, my family celebrates Christmas!! Christmas is a special event, we eat special foods and do special things. In my family we have a special Christmas Eve dinner with special ham, gravlax, salads, desserts and much more! Christmas crackers too, (they’re my favourite ) And then on Christmas Day we catch up and celebrate with whole entire family! We give and receive presents. But….. on Christmas morning we wake up really early, my brother and I go downstairs, look at the presents under the tree, and go and wake our parents up. They have their coffees ( which takes a really long time)  and then we open up the things Santa brought us, we also have a special Christmas breakfast, we have Pantone!  (which is an Italian Christmas cake) And sometimes we even go and visit bobby!  

Camp was amazing!!! I really enjoyed the kayaking, I wasn’t great at it but it was heaps of fun! I accidentally kept splashing my partner when I was trying to turn, she mainly did that part. The water was freezing and we got really wet!! I also loved the bike ride, we did lots of koala spotting too and we saw 29 koalas!! The were all so cute and it was really cool the way they hugged  and sat in the trees. 

EXPO!! When we first got there it didn’t really look like much but then when Lara and Laura showed us how to put the tents up and they all went up it was AWESOME!!! The tents were surprisingly easy to put up and actually quite big as well!! It got really dark at night. We played duck, duck goose heaps and we also played empires. After that, we went to bed.

I can’t wait to go to Toona in Yr 6!!

Have you ever seen a koala?

LIFE IN THE 1850s

Life in the 1850s was messy, dirty, gross and hard. There were dodgy people all over the the place and everyone lied about their occupations. You couldn’t trust many people at all, and there were so many illnesses going around the is a very high chance of getting one of those illnesses.

1850s BUSINESSES 

businesses in the 1850s were not cheap and actually quite unfair they would rip people off. And sell you dodgy things that don’t work or aren’t what they say they are.

EUREKA STOCKADE

The Eureka stockade is like a barricade made out of sticks and wood, the miners built it to keep the troopers out, but there was a sneak attack on the 3rd of December on Sunday the battle lasted for 15 mins.

SCHOOLS PROGRAM

I learnt so much in the schools program, like how they used to walk, talk, and learn. The teachers were very strict and not very nice, you had to pay monthly schools fees of 2 shillings and if you didn’t have the money you could bake them a pie or pot or something.

I had so much fun at sovereign hill I hope to go back again!!

Sovereign Hill

Sovereign hill was an absolute blast! I learnt so much and had so much fun! Wandering around the streets there was pretty awesome too we saw all the old shops and what they would sell, I quite liked seeing the horses and carriage we also got to pay them, that was a highlight for me!

I learnt so many things about the past, like things about the mines and exactly how deep they are (very deep) I learnt there were boys and girls toys, we had to be in height order all the time from shortest to tallest and the boys had to wear knickerbockers. Life was hard back in the days and kids didn’t have it easy especially with those outfits!

I think one of the PLAs I displayed was courage I was courageous and I tried new and different things I have never done before on of them being the mines, it was really dark down there thank goodness there were lights! I also displayed knowledge remembering and talking about the eureka stockade, and all other history things.

There is nothing I would actually do improve this program except the women wear puffy dresses!

I quite enjoyed the Ora I found the last part really cool because all the settings were there right in front of you and I loved how the stockade just popped up and so did the flames.

Overall I had a great time at sovereign hill and hope I can go back again!

Me and my buddy Erkut read the book stick man, we both really liked how the book rhymed, we also liked how it went through the seasons and Christmas we thought it was a fun twist! We thought the drawings were quite different and clever. A couple things we didn’t like were how repeated because it it wasn’t needed all the time and maybe they could have put something else in.