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Year 5 play

Recently, we did a year five production. It was about Australian history with a twist. There were nineteen scenes based on Australian history. Based on. It was supposed to be a funny version. 

First the tea ladies were on giving out samwiches and tea but then Bruce and Eddie kick them off. At the start the play represented the federation in 1901 by have brides that were supposed to get married to each other to be a country. During it there are commentators who are called Bruce and Eddie. At the start Bruce is angry because Eddie is annoying and Eddie is just annoying. In scene six Bruce gets so annoyed that she makes the brides go off so she can give Eddie a lesson in history.

Then Captain Cook supposedly interrupted them and scared them off the stage. Then he plant a flag and calls Australia New South Wales. Then tea ladies interrupted him and see the first fleet. The first fleet come in singing The Eye of the Needle. Then Captain Phillip starts naming states and all the governors come on. I was a governor. 

The governor part was about getting rid of the convicts then the nuisance of tariffs and customs. In the end my character get angry about not being able to travel between colonies.  Then I say (You don’t have to read it all) (Hello, at last, I can’t tell you what I’ve been through to get here. It is ridiculous. Here we are British colonies sharing this huge continent of Australia. We speak the same language share the same customs and so on. Yet we treat each other like aliens when it comes to tarrifs and customs. If we all got together, federated into one nation we could abandon all this nonsense and allow free trade and travel between our conies. What do you think?)Then my character gets very angry and throws a bag. 

Then a prospecter yells “gold” after finding gold. Then music comes on ,

Gold (gold) ,

Always believe in your soul,

You’ve got the power to know, 

You’re indestructible,

Always believe in, that you are,

Gold (gold)       

Then heaps of fortune seekers come on looking for gold. Then the Chinese miners come on and there is an argument because some people don’t want the Chinese in australia.  So there is a cricket match to decide wether australia federates to keep the Chinese out.

During the cricket match the players all try to give reasons on why Australia should federate or not. But Henry Parks who is on the federation side dies. Then the queen dies because what happened in real life was that the queen died during the time the Australia was deciding to federate or not.

At the end of the play we 3 women come out of the match and try fight for womens rights. Then we sing the song eye of the needle to finish the play. 

For the play we had top wear black clothes and then put something on top to signify what your character is. What I had to wear was a suit jacket with a white thing underneath my collar. I hated the costume. When I first saw the costume I wished I wasn’t a governor so I wouldn’t have to wear it.

Have you ever done a play? Write a comment about it.

Penguin Adaptations

Penguins are tough. The can survive in the polar environment of Antarctica. But some penguins live in, Victoria Australia, South Africa, South America and New Zealand. Antarctic penguins spend a lot of time in the water because to them the water seems warmer than the below zero temperature in Antarctica.

Emperor penguins can dive up to 530m below sea level. Emperor penguins weigh 38kg so that might help them dive so deep. Adelie penguins on the other hand weigh 5kg. When Emperor penguins dive they have to hold their breath 20 minutes so they can dive deep. A penguins wings are not for flying but swimming. They can swim at 13k per hour. But at short bursts they can swim at 40k per hour. They are classified as flightless birds.

Like other birds penguins have feathers. A penguins feathers are used to form a waterproof layer to keep them warm and dry. When a penguin is born they have soft and fluffy feathers so they do not keep them warm or dry. That would be the parents job. 3/4 of a penguins insulation is their tightly packed feathers. They also have a layer of blubber (fat) to keep them warm and have food reserve for if they can’t find food.

When a penguin mates it’s for life. Soon they will lay eggs in the winter so the penguin chicks are ready to help catch food in Summer. When a parent goes to find food for the chick the chick is told to stay in the same place. When the parent gets back they can only recognize each other by the sounds they make. So if the chick is not where the parent left it leaves the chick will be in danger. But when they call out to each other they can only hear if they are in a 10m radius. So it would be hard for them to reunite.

A penguin eats a variate of sea life like fish, (mainly fish) also squid, crabs, shrimp and krill. For a small animal a penguin eats a lot. In one dive a large penguin can collect 30 fish. Penguins will eat lots of food from their blubber so in the winter when they don’t catch as much food they still have fat to burn. They will also collect lots of food for their chicks.

There are many types of penguin. There is estimated to be between 16-20 species. Species vary in the way they look like some are black and white while some also have an orange beak. Surprisingly to many people penguins don’t have gills. So they had to adapt so now emperor penguins can hold their breath for 20 minutes.

This term for our science unit we were researching animal adaptations. We had to research an animal and write a blog post about their animals adaptations. Most adaptations are to survive like a penguin learns to hold their breath and to dive deep.

What animal would you do a project like this on?

Hard road ahead

The 1850s, an unfair corrupt place. People would get punished for the smallest things. Money was everything. If you didn’t have it, you’d be left for dead and treated like dirt. Many people would bribe police officers to ignore their criminal activity. The government were unfair and made people pay for licenses. Licenses were 30 shillings and in those days that was a lot of money. Businesses thrived in the harsh conditions because there were limited places to get things and people could charge as much as they want. There was a big difference between rich and poor. The poor had barely enough money to survive and the rich had enough to buy what they please. Many of the poor were Chinese. Chinese were treated even worse than the European people. There was a riot between the Chinese and European people. The governments solution was to ban the Chinese from landing in Victoria so the Chinese solution was to land in Robe and walk 500km to Ballarat.

This term my class have been learning about the gold rush and Eureka stockade. We went to Sovereign hill for camp. We also made a diorama of the Sovreign hill. We did it be making one building with a partner and putting them all together to make a huge diorama. We learned so much about life on the diggings in the 1850s. We went in the mines and Sovreign hill and learned about what happened in them like the welcome nugget being foung and racism about the chinese.

                                       What do you know about the 1850s?

Camp

Not long ago I went to Sovereign hill for camp. We went fo 3 days and 2 nights. 2 of those days we participated in the school program (we went to school and were treated like children from the 1850s) 

On the first day when we arrived we went to the museum M.A.D.E. We learned about mining licenses and how a lot of miners couldn’t afford them. I learned a lot like how girls go first (I think girls should still go first) and girls got married at the age of 15. In the school program we had to line up in our height order. 

While we were doing the schools program we did handwriting with a pen and ink. People who are left handed had to write with their right hand.  This is because people think the left hand is the devils hand .

On the second night we went to a light show called Aura. The light show was in three parts the first was about how the world was made and how gold was created. The second part was about indigenous people and how they knew how to find gold but they thought it was useless. The third part was about the lead up to the Eureka stockade.

On the third day we went gold panning. I didn’t find gold but a few people in my class did. We were aloud to bring $25 dollars to spend and a lot of people went to the lolly store and bought raspberry drops

4T’s Nativity play

     

Christmas is almost here and people are starting to celebrate but do you actually know how Christmas began. 4T is making a play showing people how Christmas began. It is the story of the nativity. 

The nativity is where a girl named Mary got pregnant at the age of 15 or 16. Most people would think that is crazy now. In B.C times that was normal. Women then would marry at young ages to men who were  in their 30’s. That is a big age difference. Mary was not having a normal child she was going to be having the son of god. She was told to call him Jesus by the angel Gabriel. In those times women who weren’t married and had a child received the stoning penalty. The stoning penalty is where people can throw stones at you til you die. You can tell that Joseph Mary’s soon to be husband Joseph wasn’t going to be happy. You might not have been able to tell he he wouldn’t be happy. That is because you probably think that they were going to get married Mary wouldn’t be killed and happily ever after. It wasn’t as simple as that though. Mary and Joseph were arranged to be married and Joseph was contemplating wether to go through with the marriage or not. Joseph was about to choose no when an angel visited him and told him to marry Mary. After they got married they had to go to Bethlehem to register for a census. When they were in Bethlehem there were to many people and nowhere to stay. So Jesus had to be born in a stable. After Jesus was born a new star appeared in the sky. After he was born many people visited him and gave him gifts.  Not everything a was happy though as King Herod was jealous of Jesus and wanted to kill him. So an angel visited Joseph and told him about King Herod so Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus flexed to Egypt until people wishing harm to Jesus died. They then went to Nazareth.

In the 4T’s nativity play we wrote our own scripts and had to audition for our parts. I got the part of the angel. There are 2 angels and I got the one with the name angel. The other angel was called Gabriel.

Beneath our feat

I In our integrated unit this term we have been about fascinating natural disasters. We each picked a natural disaster we interested in and researched it. I chose to research tsunamis. After we research our natural disaster we wrote an information report and made dioramas. My diorama is of a tsunami midway of hitting a city.  

               My diorama

My plan

Tsunamis are hydrological disasters meaning they have to do with water. Usually tsunamis are caused by an earthquake under the sea. Tsunamis occur in the ring of fire 80% of the time because tectonic plates moving more often making tsunamis more common. 

                                                                                                                                                                                          

What I enjoyed most was making my diorama because I liked being creative and doing something different. I also liked making my diorama because you could do whatever you wanted with it. It was also fully done by myself and I am proud of the way I did it.

This is my information report:

                                                               Tsunamis

Researched and written by Paige, 4T, 2018

Tsunamis are huge waves that rush to the shore. They are caused by 2 tectonic plates moving against each other. This disaster is a hydrological disasters meaning they have to do with water.

After tsunamis there are lots flooding and floating debris. There is debris because when  they hit there is enough strength to destroy everything in its path. So the materials from building get dragged away in the water. This disaster is measured by height and strength. After a tsunami hits, the effect of flooding can last for 2 or more hours. 

 

                            A tsunami hitting a town

Causes

Tsunamis are commonly caused by earthquakes under the sea floor. This disaster more commonly occur in the Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean is where most tsunamis have occurred. This is because tectonic plates in this area are making earthquakes more common. Tsunamis always occur on the coast. 

                  A drawing of the cause of a tsunami.

Effects

Tsunamis bring the effect of flood, destruction and even death. They go through houses and leave people without the simple resources they need to survive. People are left without food, water and medication from their houses being destroyed. People are left to live in the dirty water. Animals habitats are also destroyed. Depending on which country the tsunami hit in can take years and lots of money to restore the landscape. 

                                        The effect of a tsunami

Fast Facts

The word tsunami means harbour wave in Japanese.

When a this disaster reaches shore it can grow by 10 times.

Bibliography 

https://www.natgeokids.com/au/discover/geography/physical-geography/tsunamis/

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Weathering and Erosion

This term we have been focusing on landforms and how they change. Landforms change by wind or water hitting them and then dirt and dust move. This is erosion. After erosion happens weathering is next. Weathering is when dust gathers and becomes a rock.

This is a video about weathering and erosion that I made.

Are there any examples of weathering or erosion around your house? If so then leave a comment explaining it.

4T science lab

We have been busy designing, carrying out and creatin presentations for our very own experiment.

The time has come for us to share it with you.

We will have them on display in the 4T science lab where you can meet the 4T scientist yourself.

Here is a sneak peek at my experiment.

 

What do you hypothesise will happen in our experiments?

 

Hands on science visit

 


This term we are learning about science.

Last week we participated in a school visit from Hands On Science. We did lots of experiments like seeing how flammable materials were and testing how strong different types of paper are.

My favourite experiment was the testing how strong the paper was.

Here is the science report for what we did:

Last week we participated in a school visit from Hands On Science. We did lots of experiments like seeing how flammable materials were and testing how strong different types of paper are.

My favourite experiment was the testing how strong the paper was.

Here is the science report for what we did:

Aim: To see which type of paper was the strongest.

Hypothesis: I hypothesise that the butcher paper would be the strongest because it was the thickest. I also hypothesise that the tissue paper would be the least strong because it was the thinnest.

Variables:

Measure: how strong the paper is.

Change: the thickness of the paper.

Same: how we measure using Newtons        

 

Materials:

-butcher paper

-paper towel

-newsprint

-tissue

-copy paper

-holder

-scale

Method:

1. Put the hook through the hole in the paper

2. Get people to look at how many Newtons for when you test it.

3. Pull the paper until it rips

4. Write your results on a piece of paper.

 

Convict day recount

“William Bryce,” the Magistrate yelled. 2 people walked towards him. 2 convicts named William  Bryce who both stole a looking glass. That’s very unlikely I thought to myself. It was finally convict day. We had been learning about the convicts who came to Australia on the First Fleet. On convict day we participated in different activities like making love tokens, old fashioned handwriting and drama. At the end of the day the parent came and could ask us about what it was like for convicts who came on the First Fleet.

Some photos from convict day

Suddenly, magistrate Mitchell walked into the room.

He said “I only have time to sentence 6 convicts because I’m meeting Mr Footy Socks afterwards,”

After he sentenced the 6 convicts he went to see Mr Footy Socks. But I doubt Mr Footy Socks is a real person. I think magistrate Mitchell just used Mr Footy Socks as an excuse to go home.

What did you like about convict day?