Lara

media type="custom" key="23338818" I was so excited on the first day, just thinking about all the opportunities I would get to have being in the middle years at Avondale. Since then Avondale Grammar School has gotten even more fun and exciting than it was back then. We get to do the most amazing things ever like go on very fun and fascinating camps and we have the coolest teachers in the world, they give us one on one mentor sessions once or twice a week. As I got home on the first day I was jumping up and down like a hot potato, just thinking about all the new and exciting things we were going to get to do. That very first day was awesome we all found out that we were going to get our very own tablets to help us learn, we almost use them in every class! This year has been more like high school because we go to different class rooms for different lessons. I have been really enjoying going to different class rooms because it means that we get the chance to be in a different surrounding with a different teacher. Term one was a great success, we all learnt a lot and enjoyed the term. Avondale Grammar School is a really good sporting school, if you try out for something there a 90% chance that you will get into the team. At my time in Avondale I have been in a lot of the sports teams like swimming, athletics, cross country, netball, basketball and soccer. I absolutely love the fact that Avondale is a small school because it means that we can get into all of the sports teams. In Avondale we are always there for each other, we stick up for each other in times of thick and thin, no one blames each other for a little mistake, and that’s just one of Avondale’s many Qualities. THIS CAMP WAS THE BEST CAMP EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! This term was my favourite term because we had our middle years’ trip. This year, in term 3, we went to China for a week; we got to do and try the most amazing things. We did lots of awesome things like go to famous Chinese temples like the Temple Of Heaven, Ming Tombs and The Forbidden City. We also took a walk down Culture Street- it was the most disgusting thing we did during the trip! There was fried pigeon, scorpions on a stick (they were still moving), boiled snakes, dog and cat. It was really gross as I am sure you can tell!! Though there were lots of gross foods there were also a lot of really good traditional foodslike roasted duck, dumplings, traditional sauce noodles, goubuli buns, sweet and sour pork, rice and tofu. I absolutely love the sweet and sour pork, it was really, really good. My favourite thing we did was climb the Great Wall of China. Honestly, I feel pretty lucky to have climbed the Great Wall before my mum and dad have. Term 4 was a really busy term because we started our musical. Nearly every day for four weeks we would go up to the hall and practice. Our musical this term was called… The Journey!! It was about a girl who is going to a new school and is very shy; she then goes on a big journey through time and she tries to communicate with all sorts of creatures. Then she finds out that people on earth are way better than the creatures on other planets. Then she comes back to earth and makes lots of friends at her new school. In the musical this year I got to sing a duet with a really good friend Tara. We sang a song called Reflections; it is in the movie called Mulan. I really enjoyed singing in front of a big audience and I honestly think that this year musical was a really, really good one. Over all this year has been a VERY good year because we faced a lot of our fears in China and through-out the year. This year I have learnt lots, like in Maths, English, Science, History and in Music. I think that my favourite subject this year has been music because you get to let out all of your feelings and emotions and just relax. This year has been my favourite year at Avondale because of our China camp as I spoke about in paragraph three, IT WAS THE BEST CAMP EVER!! So overall this year has been great and if you choose to come to Avondale than I am sure you will say the same thing. -By Lara Gabor, 5A THAT WAS MY RECOUNT FOR 2013!! NOW I WILL TELL YOU 1. This year I have achieved lots like I have gotten way better at maths and English and also I have gotten better at better leader and we do this thing called pals every week where we go and organise a game for a certain age group and then we host it! 2. I think that the biggest high light for me would be our china camp where we all faced some pretty strange things and I also enjoyed all of the sports carnivals that we have had this year like swimming, athletics and cross country. 3. Though I have gotten better at maths I would still like to get better than what I have gotte. I would also like to get better at music because I love learning new songs and tunes. -thank you for reading… -Lara
 * __ AVONDALE GRAMMAR SCHOOL 2013 __**
 * 1) WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED THIS YEAR
 * 2) THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS YEAR
 * 3) WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO INPROVE ON NEXT YEAR!
 * __20/9/2013__**
 * This wonderful term has Unfortunately come to an end so I am going to fill you in on some things that have happened this term. This term we have done a lot of cool things like in the second week of term we went to China where we saw lots of beautiful old Chinese Temples and tried lots of different but delicious food. We also went to the city gallery to look at the town planning because we are doing town planning in humanities. In English this term we have been focussing on poems, We all had to memorise and put exaggeration, expressions and actions and into the poem we had and preform it in front of the class. In the last 2 weeks of term in math we have been learning more about shapes and the faces, edges and vertices it was really fun because its easy and shapes are cool. So that was pretty much a small some up for term 3 of 3013!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! **

Hello! today we had the cross country. it was so fun it was quite hard though, but I finished that is always a goal of mine to finish what you start. I came in fourth place out of the girls in my class hopefully I will get into the interschool cross country team!!!!
 * __13/9/13__**
 * __23/8/13__**

In drama we we had to get a poem so that we can preform it in cool expresions: the poem I chose is called Oh, I wish I looked after my teeth. [] media type="custom" key="23662298" CHINA CAMP 2013 YEAR 5 media type="custom" key="23591776" This term (term 3) all of the year 5, 6, 7's went to china for camp. China was very different to most country's because of its culture and also lots of the food and buildings. There were some very strange foods such as... and some of there traditional good foods were so they are the weird foods and the good traditional foods.
 * __12/8/13__**
 * hello today the year 5's and 6's went to the city gallery. We all got to look at the city planning because in history we are learning about city planning and how it changed since along time ago and how it is now.**
 * __9__****__/8/13__**
 * fried pigeon
 * curled up snake on a stick
 * stabbed scorpion and crabs that were still moving on sticks
 * cow intestine and liver
 * puppies (dog)
 * kittens (cat)
 * swashed baby chicks on a stick
 * roasted duck
 * dumplings
 * traditional sauce noodles
 * goubuli buns
 * sweet and sour pork
 * rice
 * tofu

we also went to a lot of cool and exiting places like and that's were we went in china
 * 1) the forbidden city
 * 2) tian a men square
 * 3) temple of heaven
 * 4) the great wall
 * 5) ming tombs
 * 6) jet lees school of art
 * 7) hutong street
 * 8) birds nest and the water cube ( the Olympic stadiams in Beijing)
 * 9) food street
 * 10) Florence town(based after the one in Italy)

__**19/6/13**__ In history we just learnt about some of the individual emigrants to Australia like... and a few others we had to do some quick research on them witch was really fun!!!!!!!!!! here is a link to a website on blaxland Lawson and Wentworth. click below [|cool website click here]
 * Blaxland
 * Lawson and Wentworth
 * Caroline Chisholm

__**18/6/13**__ in English we have been learning how to do a melodrama .we all got into groups and made up our own script. Im in a group with Paris, Zac and Oli P** we made a melodrama called "TORTURE IN THE CASTLE" it is really cool **
 * here is who acts as who in the story **
 * ** Lara (Katrina-the hero) **
 * ** Paris (Penelope-the damsel) **
 * ** Oli P (Joey-the evil sidekick) **
 * ** Zac ( Salron-the villain) **
 * here is what a melodrama is **
 * click a link below **


 * [|not real funny melodrama] **
 * that is just a funny melodrama a real melodrama goes something like this... **
 * The damsel gets captured by the villain and the villain gets his sidekick to tie up the damsel, the damsel is in a lot of distress, the hero arrives and saves the damsel the villain and sidekick get tied up, it is a happy ending **

In science we have learnt a lot about the eye.
we also learnt about the different types of light like... we also learnt about the parts of our eye like... these parts are very important for us to be able to see
 * man made light
 * electricity
 * and light from animals
 * scalera
 * pupil
 * optic nerve
 * iris
 * lens
 * cornea

[|here watch this cool video about the eye]

in TECHNOLOGY we year 5's have learnt how to make a 3d shape on a word document.make the shape Then group the shapes to put it on power point here are 2 that I made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! here is a cool thing you can make with word why don't U give it a go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 * __ 13/6/13 Thursday __**

**__ Saturday 8th of June 2013 __**
here is an adorable photo of a kitten that I put on to Microsoft office word and made look pretty and cuter CUTE ISN"T IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**__ FRIDAY 7TH OF JUNE 2013 __**
media type="custom" key="23270636" __** Thursday 6th of June 2013 **__
 * This a history project on Torres Straits **
 * Me and My friend Hugo made this presentation on Prezi **
 * hope you like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! **
 * Today in technology we have learnt how to do a header and a footer . **
 * I also learnt how to send it as a PDF file . **
 * here is the work that I did. **


 * you now with a header and a footer knowone else can edit the work!!!! **



__** Friday 31st of may 2013 **__ Hi everyone!!. Year 5 all just finished naplan today. Everyone is so excited to have finished naplan. Today we did the maths test it was really fun.The maths test was my favourite because I felt confidant with the questions we had to answer. __** Monday 27th of May 2013 **__ This week we have our Naplan test and it starts on Wednesday. If you go to home you can look at the timetable for our tests we have one everyday till Friday!! __** M **____** onday 20th of may 2013 **__ click on the link bellow for a great surprise, hope you enjoy the survey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [|SURVEY: Click on this link for a great survey]

__**Sunday 19th of May 2013**__ At school year 5 is practicing for the naplan test. The test is coming up in two weeks. I'm a little bit nerves, at least I have done one in year 3.We have practiced afew of the tests like one of the math tests, and some English tests

__**Friday 17th of May 2013**__ In history we are learning about migrants to Australia. We got set an assignment about the different people who emigrated to Australia and why. We had a choice of... I chose other because I wanted to do something know one else was doing. I did Ten Pound Poms. Ten pound pom was a scheme set in the 20th century to get more population in Australia and some other reasons. Here, watch this slide show. It will show you more about the ten pound pom scheme!!!!!!!!!!! INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO WATCH THE SLIDE SHOW
 * the Irish potato famine
 * the gold rush
 * industrial revolution
 * eureka stockade
 * highland clearance
 * other
 * 1) go to the slide show button at the top
 * 2) press watch from beginning
 * 3) to change slide press arrows, enter or space button



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.
 * __Monday the 4th of March 2013__**

media type="custom" key="22360566" media type="custom" key="22234114" media type="custom" key="22224576" media type="custom" key="22219362" width="90" height="90" YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I GOT ARTS LEADER I GET TO LEAD SOME ACTIVITIES IN ART AND MUSIC media type="custom" key="22219332" width="134" height="181" This is a little video that I made last week

Hi last week on Wednesday we all went on a leadership camp to learn some traits that leaders have to show like: . team work . taking risks . courage . trustworthy . kindness . honesty the way that we learnt all of that is by rock climbing, play teamwork games and by really getting involved in the activities.

On Thursday we did more things at school involving leadership. We played games where we had to communicate with our team without talking.We all tried out for leadership roles like: l.subject eaders .pals leaders .school council leaders .S-R-C leaders I hope to find out what I got soon out of those roles soon.

On Friday we did some more leadership things. Us year 5's went to hear the year 1's read to us, then we read to them. I hope that by us reading to them it would have inspired them to read more.

Hi how are you I am Lara and I am going to be editing this page
 * //__ Hi I'm Lara __//**