Charlotte

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**//Hi I'm Charlotte, I'm Australian !//**

 * 2/12/13 My Reflection of Year 2013 **


 * From being new to old, year 5 has been mind blowing for me anyway, with 567 China Camp and our leadership roles that all students from year 5 and up had achieved. These are my favorite highlights of the year! **


 * At the start of the year everyone achieved a leadership role. Everyone wrote an application for a role whether it was the SRC, ICT leader, Art leader, PALS, P.E leader and many more! Now I’m a SRC member, representing Grade 1G. About every 3 to 4 weeks all members attend a meeting whether it’s in the locker room or in a class room, we talk about new things we could do to make our school more enjoyable. I have also achieved many awards from being good in classes, improving in subjects like Maths and finishing house point cards to collect for our sports houses (The one I’m in is called Flynn!) **


 * In Term 3 we had our adventurous 5 day camp in….. China!!! 5 teachers came along Mrs Houston, Mr Kemp, Mr Burrows, Mrs Woolly and Zhou Lao shi to help translate. We went on Sunday at 5 pm on Singapore Airlines. In the plane I sat with Mrs Woolly on my left and Shea on my right. We had a midnight flight back and forwards, and arrived at Beijing Airport at 10 pm. The moment I stepped out of the airport all I could see and smell was tonnes of smog! As we hoped on the bus I felt dizzy and tired after along 6 hour flight. When we got to the hotel we were all excited to find out who we were sharing a room with and I was fortunate to have Shea share the room with me! We manage to try lots of different activities each day, my favorite were going on the bullet train – that went up to 300km but didn't feel like it, walking through Florence town – that turned out to be an outlet but was copied really well by the real town, The Trishaw ride around Hutong – which was a beautiful town with old shop houses and an amazing lake, climbing the Great Wall and more! It was the greatest camp I have definitely been on. We got back on Saturday at 6 in the morning. I was so tried when I came back but excited to tell what I did and learnt the whole time I stayed in China with my peers! **


 * Next year I would like to improve on my typing because I’m quite slow at typing and I want to focus on placing my fingers on the right keys to touch type. Also on converting fractions to decimals. **


 * 22 Days 6 hours 12 minutes 36 seconds till Christmas and 27 days till my birthday! **

**28/11/13**  **This week our class finished our debates, our team was the affinitive team with the topic of "Guns** **should be banned”** **. I was the affinitive speaker, Oliver was second and Alethea had the hardest job with being the third speaker .This is a part of my speech (that Alethea help me with)**  **Over 1,811 people died in California 2010. A major factor in this death number was caused by guns, which caused the death of 1,257 people. It is definitely clear that gun usage all around the world is unacceptable with these shockingly high numbers!**  **There are many other statistics to show why guns should be completely banned, but, using guns is basically killing our own species. Not only does guns affect the human environment, but in also affects other animals that are now extinct due to hunting, such as: the famous dodo bird, the Tasmanian tiger, the great auk, the passenger pigeon, Zanzibar leopard, the quagga and many more! Hunting must be stopped, and the best way to do it is by banning the use of guns. Therefore all guns should not be used to affect our environment and our race. By: Charlotte**  **Also we started a new topic** ** "Climate Change is changing extreme weather" **** I am in the negative team with Zac and Tara. ** **Also since the Philippines had the dreadful typhoon we helped by raising money and had a mufti day to help them.** **It was my Dads birthday 21th and Mia’s on the 20****th** **Happy Birthday!!!**

**6/11/13**

**Hi everyone this week has mainly been revising on topics that we have learnt for our end of year assessment.**

**In technology Mr K is teaching us with digital photograph. We’ve had two lessons so far for this term because of the musical, Mr K lets us to go and explore the playfield and different rooms in the PLC for our photos. We are focusing on angles of subjects; Alethea, Shea and I took lots of fantastic shots from a far distance!**

**In English we are using this website called** **__readingeggs.com__****. Where everyone gets an avatar and apartment and you have to read books from the Library then asker the questions which if you get them all right you achieve eggs that are money that you can spend on furniture, clothes, pets, wallpaper and many more!**

//** I was so nervous it the first time I have ever had a lead role in the Musical, I was one of the main characters new friends. I love acting, it was so exciting for me! **//
====//** Today an actor and a musician visited our school and preform a act about William Shakespeare, they turned it into an audience show like the X Factor but Shakespeare Factor instead it was one person acting as more than 5 contestants. **//====

//** Happy Halloween everyone! **//
//** 23/10/13 **//

//** This week is mainly our musical because it's in one week. I was sick yesterday so I missed some of the new moves. Bacisly all the girls in our class have pompoms except the girls who play instruments either it's Yellow or Red and all the boys have Netballs to dance with in the background in our scene. We are the first performers' with the scene of a old schoolyard, with the song "Remember the days of the old Schoolyard". Mr Kemp and Mrs Houston made up the moves for the girls and boys in our class. **//

//** Today at school was casual dress also known as" Mufti day", it was so much fun! **//

**//18/10/13//**

**//Hi, this week was the second week of Term 4. So far this term has been the musical practice, walking up the hall in the ELC then going through it then walking back down again. Some of our days we only had one subject to because of all our ruin trough’s. Our musical is called “The Journey”, I’m one of the main character friends. My lines are “I think she’ll be really nice!” & “I hope she’s in my class.”//**

**//In math this week and last week we did coordination’s, which I really enjoyed. I got through the sheets quietly & quickly.//**

**//In science our new topic is the solar system I think I know the planets in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune & the Dwarf planet Pluto. My favourite planet is Neptune also known as God of Water. We’re writing postcards about our favourite planets to our friends and family.//**

Term 3 Reflection
This term was amazing!!!

I think the best part was when most of the middle years went to china for camp! I shared a room with Shea, in the very corner of the building on the 3floor. (I think?)

My favourite places were: The shichahai sports school/Kung Fu Panda show, going on the bullet train which went for about 15mins, The Great Wall that was really tiring, the temple of Heaven, Going around Hutong by Trishaw and The Summer Place. We did a lot in one week! :D ^o^ I also like our poem recites, my was about nicknames. <span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px;"><span style="font-family: Segoe Script,sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px;">I came 5 <span style="font-family: Segoe Script,sans-serif;">th <span style="font-family: Segoe Script,sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px;"> and got in the top 5 now The top 5 people get a choice to recite to the parents next term, I’m so excited.

<span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: Segoe Script,sans-serif; font-size: 18.66px;">After about lunch time on one of the days we had disco it was Awesome! Someone came in and teach us how to dance with steps. Those were my favourite parts of this term

<span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: Segoe Script,sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px;">**//18/9/13//** <span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: Segoe Script,sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px;">**//This week we mostly have done finishing our off work. On Monday in the morning everyone presented their Poems my was about Nicknames I put it further down my page I was a bit scared at first and once Miss Houston called my name I became so excited, when I was saying it, it felt like I wasn’t actually talking that was strange but I manage to do it and I came in the top five, I’m fifth. Since, I’m in the top five a get to present it in front of our parents. In history we are finished off our project on Dome City.//**

<span style="color: #4bacc6; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px;"><span style="font-family: Segoe Script,sans-serif;">**//On Tuesday most of us presented; I didn’t get to finish off my presentation because it was home time but lots of the pickup kids got to see it real close. Everyone loved it especially Mr Kemp//** **//^0^:P :D//** <span style="font-family: Segoe UI Symbol,sans-serif;">**//❗❗❕❕//**

6/9/13

//** "My uncle calls me "Betty,"while my grandpa calls me "Beth. **//
===//** "My brother calls me "Dizzy Liz"or sometimes "Lizard Breath."My teacher calls me "Betsy"and my friends all call me "Bess."I find these nicknames more annoyingthan you'd ever guess.I wish that they would call meby my real name instead.I simply HATE those nicknames,see, my real name is Fred. **//===

** and getting free time just before bed time. **
__ Monday 29th July __ //** Tian'anmen Square - It's a huge place but half way through it started to pour with rain. **// //** The Forbidden City - The forbidden city is a imperial palace that the emperors from Ming dynasty used. It was ruled by 24 **// //** emperors during the mid to later Ming and Qing dynasties. **// //** Tea House - It's a very elegant place with lot's types of tea such as Jasmine Tea and Black Dragon Tea most tea's are good for health like the Black dragon tea's good for beauty and blood pressure. **// //** Shichhai sports school - At the school we learnt Kung Fu with Pro's, It was pretty hard but easy at the same time. **// //** Kung Fu Panda Show at Sports School Theatre - The show was a great experience it's funny but at the same time just a great overall show for kids at all ages to watch. One second there's a panda with nun chucks and the other theirs a lady with her toes to her head it's amazing. **// __ Tuesday 30th July __ //** Tri-Shaw ride - I went on the Tri-Shaw with my friend Tara. **// //** Making Dumpling - We walked to a old fellows house to make Dumpling. I think I did a great job :) **// //** Temple of Heaven - The Temple of Heaven is a little bit like the forbidden city but the emperors don't live in the temple, they pray in summer for rain to grow the crops, spring for crops and winter they pray for having the rain and crops. ( I think ) **// __ Wednesday 31th July __ //** Great Wall of China - I think the wall was the hardest active we did lot's of the steps were uneven and it was even harder in the hot sun **////** . **// //** Ming Tombs - The Ming Tombs is a beautiful garden full of tombs, we went to Changling tomb where the main emperor was buried. **// //** Wow we didn't do much on the third day. **// __ Thursday 1st August __ //** Bullet Train - The Train went up to 300kmh but it didn't feel like it at all **// //** Florence Town - It actually look like Italy but it was a outlet so we didn't do much. **// //** Tianjin Culture street and Food street - The locates were selling dead snakes, pigeons and spiders. **// __ Friday 2nd August __ //** Bird Nest and The Cube - They were much bigger than I imaged. **// //** Old Beijing Move up - That was amazing picture/movie, I loved it. **// //** The Summer Palace - The summer palace was a great place were the emperor mother stays when their old. **// //** Xiushui Market - That was so much Fun I bought earing on that day for my mum. **//

//** to talk about the building they have desgined. ^o^ Here is my timetable: **//


= Reflection on Term 1 and Term 2, Grade 5, 19/06/2013 = ===//** Term 1 and Term 2 has been fantastic with the tablets, Field trips and Leadership roles. I have loved learning new ways to figure out problems in most subjects, such as English, Maths and Drama etc. Also I’m looking forward to next terms exciting China Trip and learning all about the history. **//===

**//__ Art __//**
=== In Art this term, Mrs Knight taught our class how to explore colours with tints, tones and shading. For example when mixing a colour with white it become known as a tint, when mixing a colour with black it called shading. When you combine both colours with white and black it’s known as a tone. From these skills our task was to create a master piece of building with different colours .===

**//__ English __//**
===//** This term in English’s classes, since Naplan was part of term 2, we focus on our persuasive writing. I have already included my (first draft) persuasive piece on my page. I have learnt a lot about persuasive writing and my skills are developing as the term come to the end. I’m using more conjunctions in my paragraphs today. **//===

**//__ PE __//**
===**// We have learnt skills in soccer, cricket, athletic such as long jump, shot putt and running. Last week we attended five days of swimming lessons, I learnt a new stroke called ketchup, it’s basically freestyle with a slower arm stroke. //**===

**//__ Mandarin __//**
===**// In Mandarin, we learnt how to have a conversation about, not feeling well, being sick, and having pain in different parts of the body and so on. We also learnt about farm environment and farm animals. //**===

__ History __
=== In history we learnt about the 19th century, immigrates that moved to Australia. For our assessment, I paired up with Alethea, we researched and did a presentation on the Torres Strait Island. We used Prezi, the website to create our presentation. ===

5/6/13
===//** This is Alethea and my project on **// T**__orres Strait Islanders__ //this is our second one because we lost the first and because we didn't have so much time we didn't get time to complete it. Enjoy!!//** ===

//** your have to go back to the start. **//
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**// This week for history homework, we had to choose one of these topics: //**

 * ===**// Gold Rushes //**===
 * ===**// The Industrial Revolutions //**===
 * ===**// The Great Famine //**===
 * ===**// Highland Clearances //**===
 * ===**// And any other big event that happened in the 19th century. //**===

In technology we are learning about creating surveys. We used Survey Monkey to build this quiz about Cybersafety - we will be using this to help assess our learning
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//** I like how we have different teachers for different subjects then we can do the subject better. **//
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media type="custom" key="22224536" = 18/2/13 = = I'm so excited because of the holiday break is coming up, I'm going back to Australia to seen my family and friends, which I haven't seen for a long time, especially my best Friend Lucienne, I call her Nenna and we met when we were four years old. I'm going to visit her in Australia YA!! = = = = At school we still haven't got the tablet keyboard yet, when will it come!! Also at school today I learnt how to my an avatar widget. =

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