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Excursion to the City
Article posted December 13, 2012 at 09:50 AM GMT+9 •
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On the 11th December 2012, our class went to Perth city to look at old buildings. At 8:45 we went to Bull Creek Train Station in some of the parents of children in our classes cars. I was in Shabrina's Mum's car with Kristina, Shabrina, Ryan, Ryan's Mum and my Mum. When we arrived at the train station Mrs Lowe picked up the ticket.
We caught the train to Perth Underground and then walked up to the Red CAT stop. We went on in two groups. I was in the 1st group of people on the bus. We were also in smaller groups with one parent controlling us. In my group was Lukas and Harry and under the controls of my Mum. We hopped off at Mercedes Collage and walked to the Perth Mint.
When we were in the mint a man called John took us round. He asked us questions and told us lots of information about gold discovery in WA and Australia such as the names of three important nuggets, the Hand of Faith, the Golden Eagle and the Welcome Stranger. We then went to a gold pouring show where we learnt about smelting gold and making coins. Trent, who was the guy doing the gold pouring, had to wear protective clothing that had three layers, Aluminum, Kevlar and Wool, so that if some hot gold spilled out, it wouldn’t burn him. We were then free to look at other gold bars and coins in the gold display. Emily told us that her Great Grandparents found one of the nuggets on display, the Golden Beauty.
The Hand of Faith:
The Welcome Stranger:
The Golden Eagle:
The Golden Beauty:
After the Mint we had morning tea outside the mint and then walked to Governor's House where the Governor General of WA lives. We didn't go into Governor's House, we just talked about it's history and importance.
We then went to St. John's Cathedral and had a look at it's history and architecture. Outside the Cathedral was a very modern-looking sculpture that didn’t fit the place it was in.
We then went to London Court, a reconstruction of a classic London street. I met my Dad there and he walked up London Court with my Group. It was (Fake) snowing in London Court at the time and there were caroler’s which made it look like a street in the movie A Christmas Carol.
We then walked to the Wesleyan Church where we looked at the architecture of the building. It had massive spires on it and stained glass windows, like St. John’s.
We then had lunch at Raine Square. I had teriyaki chicken sushi with a lemon, lime and bitters. While we had lunch some people did a work sheet from the Perth Mint.
We then caught the train back to Bull Creek and some people went in cars but my group and two others went in the bus back to school. We all made it back to school just in time for Edu Dance.
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Article posted December 13, 2012 at 09:50 AM GMT+9 •
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My Wordle
Article posted November 8, 2012 at 07:11 AM GMT+9 •
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This is my wordle. A wordle is a thing where you write in words about a topic e.g Yourself, Maths, Birds, ect. Mine is about me and my interests.
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Article posted November 8, 2012 at 07:11 AM GMT+9 •
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Gardening Update: 2 of November
Article posted November 2, 2012 at 07:02 PM GMT+9 •
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On the 2 of November we had buddies. We thought that we should show our buddies our garden. We firstly showed them a slideshow of pictures and told them about what each picture was about. Then we took our buddies outside and showed them the chickpeas and lentils. We explained anything that they didn't understand or knew.
One of the mum's in our buddie class is going to help us cook the chickpeas so we thought it would be nice to show our buddies around our garden.
This is what the chickpeas and lentils look like now. There quite big and a few are starting to dry out which is good because it means that were closer to being able to cook them. Here is a picture:
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Article posted November 2, 2012 at 07:02 PM GMT+9 •
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Gardening Update: 28th of September
Article posted November 2, 2012 at 06:35 PM GMT+9 •
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Today Mrs Coleman (My Mum) came in again to talk about how the chickpeas and lentils were going. We pulled up one chickpea plant with bacteria on it, one that didn't, one lentil and one lupin (Another type of plant in the gardens that's not good to eat) to see if the bacteria had done it's job.
The chickpea that did have bacteria on it had very pink nodules on it which meant that the bacteria was doing its job. The chickpea that didn't have bacteria on it had a pink that wasn't as dark as the other chickpea's nodules and the nodules were smaller. The lentil's nodules were small with a pinkish tinge to them. This is because they were meant to have bacteria on them to but we couldn't get the right bacteria to put on them. The lupins had lumpy nodules that were more on their stems to their roots. Their nodules had a lightish pink tone to them.
Here is a picture of the nodules on one of the plants:
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Article posted November 2, 2012 at 06:35 PM GMT+9 •
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Notch the Guinea Pig
Article posted September 28, 2012 at 04:37 PM GMT+9 •
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Notch is my friend Evan’s Guinea Pig. He is black with brown bits here and thereHe is quite large, about the size of half a newspaper. He is named after the creator of Minecraft, Evan’s favourite game at the time he got Notch. He has two cages, one outside and one inside. Notch is sometime aggressive and is scared of loud noise and lots of people around him. Notch once broke his water bottle because he was greedy for water. Here is a picture of Notch below.
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Article posted September 28, 2012 at 04:37 PM GMT+9 •
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The Arts of Melbourne
Article posted August 20, 2012 at 05:51 PM GMT+9 •
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Melbourne is a colourful, vibrant city full of artwork. There are temporary arts and permanent arts.
1. URBAN/STREET ART:
Melbourne's laneways are full of incredible pieces of art including some of the foods (Which are soooo good!) Some of the pieces look like they took a lot of effort and time. My favourite piece was a cute looking fly with big buldging eyes and what looked like cracks in his wings.
2. MALI IN THE CITY:
Mali in the city is a temporary event to celebrate Melbourne Zoo's 150th birthday. At the end of the exibition they will be auctioned off and the money raised will go towards the Zoo's Victoria wildlife program. The statues themselve's are life sized statues of the elephant Mali, who is the first elephant born at the Melbourne Zoo. My favourite one was the one Mali had done herself, called Self-Portrait. I liked it because it had elephant kisses on it.
That's really all the artwork I got to see in Melbourne when I visited. Maybe if you ever go to Melbourne you might see some of Melbourne's great arts and more.
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Article posted August 20, 2012 at 05:51 PM GMT+9 •
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Winter Festival
Article posted July 12, 2012 at 04:41 PM GMT+9 •
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On the 11th of July 2012 my family went to the winter festival in fremantle. There was a giant block of ice for skating on. We had already purchased our tickets so we went ot the ticket booth and showed them our tickets. They gave us a stamp to show the ice skate hire people. We got our ice skates and put them on. We went onto the ice rink and started to skate. I was really bad at first but after a while I got the hang of it. There were these plastic seals that you could hire for $5. My brother sat on one while my dad pushed him and I held one 'til I got the hang of it. I skated around the rink for a while with my brother and my dad. Finally it was time to get of the rink. We took our skates back and walked over to Joe's Fish Shack for dinner. After dinner we walked to Baskin Robbins to get some ice cream for dessert. Finally we walked back to the car and drove home.
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Article posted July 12, 2012 at 04:41 PM GMT+9 •
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Plant Project
Article posted July 1, 2012 at 04:23 PM GMT+9 •
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Article posted July 1, 2012 at 04:23 PM GMT+9 •
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Cross Country
Article posted June 26, 2012 at 06:39 PM GMT+9 •
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On Tuesday the 26th of June Oberthur’s annual cross country was held at Burrendah Reserve.
We left school at 9:00am to walk to Burrendah Reserve because it was cheaper to walk then catch a bus and Burrendah Reserve wasn’t very far from school. When we got there Mr Johnson walked us round the track. The year 2-5 track is 1.5 kilometers long and the year 6-7 track 2 kilometers long. When we got to the end of the track the year 5 girls went to the start line to race.
The year 5 boys race was next. This was my race. When the year 5 girls started to finish I started walking over to the start line. When I got to the start line I did some stretches and line up to start. Mr Johnson said “Ready, set,” and then he blew a whistle for us to start. I started to run and overtake people. When I was 200 metres from the finish I used every little bit of energy left in me to sprit to the finish. I crossed the finish line and went to get my water bottle and have a bun to eat. Here are the top 4 year 5 boys:
1st Eric
2nd Bart
3rd Zac (Me!)
4th Lucas
Once the year 2/3 boys race had finished the year 2-5’s walked over to McDonalds to get lunch but I don’t like McDonalds so my mum took me to Hadley’s to get a pie. After my mum and I bought a pie each I went home to eat our pie’s. My mum gave me a chocolate to reward my great effort. I went back to school with my mum but we where there before everybody else so I just went back to class.
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Article posted June 26, 2012 at 06:39 PM GMT+9 •
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Inter School Orienteering
Article posted June 20, 2012 at 07:46 PM GMT+9 •
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On the 20th of June 2012 Oberthur’s inter school orienteering team went to John Forest National Park to compete against other primary schools in an orienteering race.
The bus left school at 8:45am for the 1 hour trip to John Forest National Park in the Swan Valley. Our bus driver got lost at some roadworks. When we finally got there it was almost time for the 1st pair to go. They went at 10:00am I was paired up with Lucas and we left at 10:46am.
When we were in the bush we started finding all the checkpoints. They need to be found in order. When we got to finding number 5 we got a little lost. We took a wrong turn and went down the hill instead of up it. We ran next to a gully and bumped into a dead kangaroo. It’s foot was caught on some barbed wire and half of it’s body was missing. We quickly ran away from it. Lucas and I decided to go up through some long grass to a granite bolder. The bolder was very slippery and didn’t have many handholds but we still climbed to the top of the bolder and jumped to the track. When we finally found number 5 we knew were we where going.
When we got up to number 9 it was on the other side of a wide gully. Lucas and I walked across a shallow bit and I slipped and fell into a deeper part of the gully and got submerged in water from my knees down.
We ran on until we reached number 14. I stamped the card, Lucas ran on to the finish and after I stamped the card I ran after Lucas to the finish line. We handed in our card and went back to our shelter.
We were very eager to start the course.
Running in to the finish.
Wet, muddy and exhausted after the race.
The map we used in the race.
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Article posted June 20, 2012 at 07:46 PM GMT+9 •
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About the Blogger
Hi, I'm Zac and I'm in year 5. I have a little brother. I like swimming, reading and element collecting. Please leave comments.
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