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Toonalook

Nov2

Our second camp for year five camp was Toonallook. Toonallook is our school camp in the gipsland lakes, Victoria. Toonallook is four hours away from my school so my class spent half a day on the bus. We went for four days and three nights.

On the first day half the class did bike riding and half the class did kyaking. I did bike riding. After lunch we were introduced to the game Kingball. (a version of four square). After dinner we played a game called the shoe game. (It was about throwing shoes).

On the second day in the morning  we went on a water police boat and explored the rest other half the class did kyaking and half the class did bike riding, so I did kyaking. In the afternoon we went to a park and did a water colour lesson. On the second night we went on expo. (camping in proper tents). There were three people in each tent but there were an odd amout of girls so I had 2 people in my tent so there was lots of extra space. Sleeping in a tent wasn’t that bad, it was quite comfortable in the tents.

On the third day we went on a speed boat to a nearby town called Painesville. My group went fishing in the morning. For lunch we went to an island and it was someone’s birthday so we got cake. In the afternoon we went for a bike ride and spotted 24 koalas. On the last night we continued our water colour session but people were tired and homesick so we went to bed early.

On the last morning we did the Toona challenge. That is where you get a photo and you have to figure out where it is and look for a 2 letter combination.

Hard road ahead

Nov2

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

Nov2

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

A few tips for camp

Jun21

Dear Future year 4 students,

I have a few tips for camp.

1. Go to the top of the giant swing. Even if your’e scrared it’s really fun when your’e on on it.

2. When you cook damper, cook it very slowly. I remember almost everyone in my group put their damper so close it burnt really quickly. Also some people’s damper fell off the stick.

3. When you do the list of 4 people you want in your cabin, choose people who won’t talk very much so you can get to sleep easier.

Did you enjoy camp?

From Paige

Year 4 Camp survey

Jun7

Here is a survey that I created about year 4 camp.

My survey

My results

Why do you think the least amount of people answered wildlife encounter?