Alethea

2 December, 2013 Hi all. This is my year reflection:

 Term 1, we get our tablets:D This was very exciting, to get the freshest technology in the market? This sounded insane when you are 10! But apart from tablets, everyone was thrilled that we were the first ever people to be part of the first-ever AGS middle-years. Instead of having one form teacher that you basically have for every subject, we had different teachers for different subjects. The main highlight for Term 1 was basically getting used to having a whole floor to yourself (Which wasn't very hard), the tablets and the way the middle years operated. But when it came to Term 2, it was probably the most quietest term as nothing really stood out that term.

 Term 3, basketball and China Camp:D Basketball came before the China Camp, so I shall start with basketball. For PE, we had been doing basketball for the past term. The girl's 11 & under basketball league was available then, so I decided to try. I really enjoyed playing for the AGS waffles (Yes, a very quirky name for a basketball team.), we definitely weren't the best, but we weren't the worst team. Our best match wasa probably one against CIS, where we won 20-4. That was a victory. The China Camp was something that was very memorable, it was 5 nights away from my parents! The Great Wall of China was something one didn't climb everday, let alone a lifetime! That was a very unique and awesome moment, the icy wind clowing on your sweaty face and ripping through your hair, the view. It was a very good day. Wang Fu Jin Street was a gory sight, no blood, but instead, bugs. It displayed very odd and 'edible' foods, some which I was greatful I didn't have to eat. This included: Starfish-on-a-stick, crickets, snails, breaded shark meat, fried pigeon, cockroach-on-a-stick, scorpion that still squirmed and many more that would make lose your appetite, or worse. <span style="color: #ff003f; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 130%;">But, China was a great experience, it showed me many different cultures and I saw many remarkable places. That was a camp that had no words to describe it, it was just plain.... FANTASTIC!! <span style="color: #ff003f; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 130%;">Term 4, the musical and a recount:D <span style="color: #ff003f; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 130%;">The musical was a school play that included everyone from school in it. I was part of the main cast, Ms Hart was who I was acting as. When it wasn't our turn to be on stage during the rehearsals, we did school work on chairs in the MPH. There were two competitions; the recount and this New Zealand drawing competition. The New Zealand one was where we had to draw a New Zealand related piece of art. The New Zealand HighCommisioner would then choose the best artwork. Mine was a drawing of a kiwi in the middle with teh NZ ferns and korus as the border, wish me luck! <span style="color: #ff003f; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 130%;">The recount challenge was this competition that was school wide. We had to write a recount about our whole year at Avondale, which had to be 500-700 words. I spent many weeks doing this short passage.

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #eb990b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 190%;">15 November, 2013 Howdy y'all. On the 12th of November, was my birthday:D I celebrated with donuts at snack. I didn't go to school on the 13th and 14th of November, because no one could take me to school. My mum usaully does in the morning, but she couldn't because she is pregnant- well she was. 13th November! The day after my birthday...

This week was my group's PALs week. The group I was in -Felicity, Oli P & Kaelan- headed to the ELC to do the pals. While Felicity and Kaelan ran a ball game, Oli P and I ran a tagging game called stuck in the mud. It's basically freeze tag. It was very succesful, Oli P and I even started to play the game with the little kids! We reported back to Mr Burrows the as mission positive, Felicity and Kaelan however, were not so succesful. Let's just say there were quite a few people playing naughty and cheating.

<span style="color: #47e70a; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">7 November, 2013 <span style="background-color: #d50867; color: #44f2f2; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Greetings fellow viewers! <span style="background-color: #d50867; color: #44f2f2; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Today was Oli C's birthday, so he brought in delicous donuts. Click HERE!!! to go to his page. <span style="background-color: #d50867; color: #44f2f2; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">This week was normal, apart from today. It was one-up day, a day where the year below goes up to the year they'll be in next year and learn what it will be like. The year 4s came up and the middle years teachers played a slideshow presentation and talked about next year. I got paired up with a girl named Sue, we're basically buddies when it comes to year 5 and year 4 sessions together. She's cool. We did a scavenger hunt where two buddy groups joined together to make 4. Mr Burrows paired Sue and I with Matthew from year 6 with Sam from year 4. I think we didn't do to bad in the scavenger hunt.

In Humanities, we are doing extreme weather. Mr Kemp gave us a task to find out the difference between a tornado and twister and also a hurricane a cyclone. The difference between a tornado and twister is none, they are exactly the same, twister is consedered slang as tornado. The hurricane and Cyclone are also the exact same, just different names and in different areas of Earthn they are called either the hurricane or cyclone.

22 October, 2013 Hi all! It's been exactly a month since I've last updated this page... SORRY! Today was the first day I played the piano with Sam, who is a new girl. We're playing 'the old schoolyard' by Cat Stevens. It's quite an easy song to be honest, well, Sam is playing the right hand and I am playing the left. I am also Ms Hart in this musical, I have 41 words in 3 lines.

There is this writing competition that is going on throughout the whole school, th category I am in is the middle years one. It's a recount of the whole school year so far, and I am not exactly great in this writing field. In my category the text has to be 500-700 words long...

22 September, 2013 <span style="background-color: #5b12aa; color: #f83ef8; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Hello people of Earth! <span style="background-color: #5b12aa; color: #f83ef8; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The following is a reflection. Enjoy! <span style="color: #0a9354; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Term 3 Reflection

This term, with China Camp, isn’t exactly what I would call a ‘normal’ term. China was very enjoyable and I learnt a lot. The highlights of this term would be the humanities project where we had to build a city, on the moon! To help us with the project, the middle years visited the Singapore City Gallery. This project was fun and interesting, and I learnt that city planning is much more complicated that one would’ve thought. In English, we have been writing narratives. On the 18th of September, you can click on a file to read it. I haven’t finished it though. We also learnt about poetry and got to write a bit about it. In math, I learnt about division and different strategies and shapes, 3D & 2D. We also learnt many other things. In PE, the middle years went offsite and did basketball and hockey. For drama, the middle years were doing the same thing, POEMS! This is my poem:

How can I wind up my brother, When I haven't got the key? How can I turn on my charm, When I can't even fund the switch? How can I snap at my mother, When I'm not a crocodile? How can I stir up my sister, When I'm not even holding a spoon? How can I pick up my feet, When I'm not to fall to the ground on my knees? And how can I stretch my legs, When they're long enough already!

Parents, they ask the impossible!

I also did a second poem as I found the first poem rather short. It is a limerick, here it is:

There was once a school boy of Rye, Who was baked by mistake in a pie! To his mother's disgust, He emerged from the crust, And said with a yawn, where am I?

Well, I guess this is the end of my term reflection. Thanks for reading! Bye!

19 September, 2013 Hi all! In basketball, we won the first match, 13-3, NISS. We sadly lost, 4-5, CIS. The game with CIS was //very// close.

<span style="background-color: #800080; color: #03fefe; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">18 September, 2013 Hi world! Today, I had PE with Mr Kelly. We went offsite and did hockey. Today was the day the teachers assessed us on our hockey skills. After that, we played a matched, girls vs boys. The boys won:( but they only won by 1 point!)

In maths, we are learning about 3D shapes. Since it's the end of the term, I had to do a sheet where there were addition and subtraction sums; and another sheet where there were basic multiplication and division sums such as 11x12. I hope I did well!

In English, we are writing narratives. I have yet to finish mine, but here's what I've done: Do you think that it is publishable?

<span style="background-color: #fd7f30; color: #d2f970; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 170%;">13 September, 2013 <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Hello all! <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">The cross-country was canceled due to heavy rains, so instead we had the cross-country today, at a closer venue to school. 2.5 km was run by all the middle years and year 4. The lucky year 3s ran 2 km. I came in 5th place.

There was a school disco at lunch time. It was fun and the songs were good.

12 September, 2013 Hi awesome viewers! there was my first basketball match, against ICS.The second one was a friendly, against the SAMS.(We won this one:) the third one was against the hardest team, the sharks. They apparently trained everyday, but since it's summer only 2 of the sharks turned up so they had to get random people. Some were sharks, but au a younger age. Overall, it was something I enjoyed.

4 September, 2013 Hi all! This week is an ordinary week, apart from the cross country which is tomorrow! I'm __very__ nervous. Charlotte, Lara & I are the same level in running, so the heat is on with this trio! The year 5 & 6 girls are running together:O Good luck to all!

Today, we had offsite PE. The topic is hockey. Last week it was basket ball. (On that note, I got into the team!:D)

In hockey, we dribbled, scored and played 2 short matches each.

Wish me luck with the cross-country!

30 August, 2013 Hello world! This week was a bit out of the ordinary, as we had Oli Pettigrew come to our middle years. He told us about this show on discovery kids called 'kids vs film.' There are auditions where you and a buddy will audition for this show where you create a 2 minute film and a camera crew go around filming you. It's harder than you think though, the film has to be profesional, educational & entertaining. Shea is my buddy and we plan to make a music video of 'everything at once' by lenka. We willl sing, play the piano and do funny things in the video. (Oli said people go for funny.)

Also, there was a basketball tryout for 11 and under, I tried out, wish me luck!

My narrative for english is now past 2,000 words! It's about a girl inventor who finds out that Aldo Rudolph Hiller is planning to takeover the world. Can she stop him? Is the real person trying to takeover the world him?

<span style="background-color: #5b12aa; color: #00ff00; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Bye! Thanks for reading!

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #e23f3f; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 190%;">16 August 2013

Hey all! Wow, it's been a long time since I've last been on! This is the first week back from China, it's good that there is no time difference here and China. I really enjoyed 'The Great Wall of China,' I did a handshake with Shea on an ancient wonder! I enjpyed climbing the wall, it was awesome. I got a a medal that said ' I Climbed The Great Wall!'

The first week back, the day started with maths. We were learning division, but the topic changed soon because we got the hang of it.

<span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #6f35a0; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 190%;">18 June, 2013 Hi awesome viewers! This is my term reflection: Scratch was a huge part of this term. The middle years were lucky enough to have Ed help us with Scratch day. I've learnt so much about computer games and the making of them. Click [|HERE] to go tho scratch. In drama, meledramas were the star if this lesson. Shea, Georgie, Charlotte & I created a cool meledrama called ' Tall Terrfying Tower.' Do you think 'The Scary Skyscraper' is a better name? Anyway, in PE, the middle years have been going offsite for swimming and soccer. I think I improved in backstroke and freestyle in swimming. In soccer, I think I improved in aiming better and in having stronger kicks. My goals for next term will be; to improve in mandarin, to have neater hand writhing & last but not least.... to extend my learning and style in writng and english. I hope this reflection is up to the standard middle years teachers want it to be.

OMG. I just realised that on Friday, AGS' Foundation Day is coming up! :0

WOW! Over 200 views! Please check out this cool wikispace that Lucy, a girl called Jahanvi who left last year & I made. Please then leave a comment or some feedback on our wall wisher on the home page. Click here to go the wiki. Enjoy, and I hope that you learn something new!

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<span style="background-color: #f262a5; color: #0898e7; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Hi! <span style="background-color: #f262a5; color: #0898e7; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">I'm doing this during goal/ wiki time. I learnt in technology how to make a 3D shape. This is mine:

<span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #6f35a0; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 190%;">11 June, 2013 Hey! Yesterday,I did the first choir practice, at the end, Ms O'Henlen (The teacher who runs the choir group.) asked me at the end of the practice to join the choir, not just for the national Day song, for real! That also means that I'll be singing in Foundation Day.The songs for Foundation Day are 'I still call Australia home,' 'I am Australian' & 2 other songs in Maori. One is called 'Pokorake Ana' and another one. (Sorry! I don't know the title of the other song.)

<span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #6f35a0; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 190%;">5 June, 2013 Hi! Ms Hart wants me to host the National Day assembly. She also wants me to join the choir for a song about our country. I've agreed to do them. Here's a peace of school work,Charlotte and I are doing a project in history on Torres Strait Islanders, and why they moved to Australia. In the peace of work, the words are meant to go with the picture.



31 May, 2013 Hi!:) <span style="background-color: #43e943; color: #53a8f2; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">I'm sooo glad NAPLAN is over! The maths was really hard. <span style="background-color: #43e943; color: #53a8f2; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">In health, we're learning about self esteem.

30 May, 2013 Hello! I'm really excited about the school musical, 'Rock Through The Ages.' Today at school the teachers went into detail about it, it really sounds fun!

<span style="background-color: #44f2f2; color: #5b12aa; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">NAPLAN isn't that bad, it's easier than I thought. Tomorrow is maths, in my opinion the hardest of them all! <span style="background-color: #44f2f2; color: #5b12aa; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">English was the funnest and easiest of them all. (Small tip to those who suffer from nerves: Try yoga, or breathing excercises.)

By [|google images]

[|Reading Eggs] is a cool website that helps you with english, spelling and reading. Ms Houston showed us this website during english time.

<span style="background-color: #6f35a0; color: #00ffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">This week has been different, with NAPLAN, Ms Houston away on Monday and Tuesday & Mr Kemp away on Wednesday, Thursday & Friday.

22 May, 2013 Hi! This is just a brief reflection on this week: Mon: There was drama, I worked with my group on the meledrama 'Terrifying, Tall Tower.' Tue: Music, Ms Jing talked to us about the musical ' Rock through the ages' & then Claire and I worked on our six hand piano piece. (Ms Jing is the 5th and 6th hand.) Band practice after school. (I'm playing piano.) Wed: I had a piano class after school. The middle years went offsite for a PE lesson. Sadly, it rained so we had to spend 30 minutes undr shelter waiting for the rain to stop:( So we only had 90 minutes left in the lesson. It's the only PE lesson every week.) The topic was football. We played a couple of matches.

Here's a history project from last week that I forgot to upload:

20th May, 2013 Hi there viewers! Today I had drama and I am in a group with; Shea, Charlotte & Georgie. We are doing a play on meledramas and our play is called 'Terrifying Tall Tower.'

The subjects and teachers: PE: with Mr Burrows or Mr Kelly Maths with Mr Burrows <span style="background-color: #f91ef9; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Mandarin: with Zhen lao she English with Mrs Houston Science with Mrs Houston <span style="background-color: #a74cf4; color: #40ecec; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Art with Ms Knight Technology with Mr Kemp History with Mr Kemp Music with Ms Jing Library wiht Mrs Martin

My mentor: Mrs Houston

I forgot to tell you one fact about me, I LOVE GYMNASTICS!! :)



Pics by Google Images. Gymnast: Jordyn Weiber, my favourite gymnast!

5 May, 2013

Hi! Sorry for not being on for such a loooong time. I must say, the year has gone by rather quickly! Science has been interesting, I'm learning about light & Ms Houston set us a project where we have to teach someone about something to do with light or how the eye works. Shea is my partner and we have decided to make a poster on artificial and natural light.In maths, 5A have been doing 2012 NAPLAN tests, the test in in 3 weeks! :o In english, Ms Houston is revising grammar and punctuation and has been setting us the previous year's NAPLAN test.

Anyway.... here is a project with English, persuasive:



22nd March. 2013 I've finally finished the editing for my group's film, so that means the comercial is finished1 Today, the whole of the middle years have a showcase and parents are coming. Here are my projects for the showcase:



1. History, Cleopatra. Enjoy!:)



2. Science, North-American beaver power-point. Enjoy!:)



3.Maths, Measuring Angles with a protractor.Enjoy!:)



4 March, 2013

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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22 February, 2013 Finally,the keyboards have arrived!😃😉😄😋😂😆😝😍😅😖😜😤 Now we can bring the tablets home!😊

Click HERE to go to a wikispace I highly reccomend. I created it along with Lucy and another girl called Jahanvi who left ags last year.

During leadership week, some students did speeches. They did speeches because they were trying out for different types of leadership roles, such as: SRC member, subject leader, eco-green comitee & pals captain. As I'm in year 5, those were my options, but the year 6 & 7s got somedifferent roles, the SRC member was the only one the year 6 & 7s can't do.

I made a speech to be an SRC member, 7 other students battled with me for the precious 5 places for the year 5's. Some students ( Like me. ) have been SRC members before and enjoyed it alot, so they are appyling again. The teachers who decide the roles are announcing the roles on Friday!

Recently, I read to year one, not the WHOLE class, but one on one. In the first year one class, I got a girl called Fran. Fran read to me first, then when she finished I read to her a funny book called 'Mixed up fairytales.' We both had a good laugh.😂 In the second year one class, I got a boy called Oliver, he read to me first, then I read to him 'Edwina the Emu.' It was a odd yet funny. I had a great time reading to them.

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The first few weeks are AWESOME in school. A leadership camp is going to be held next Wednesday, I'm REALLY exited!😁

Hi this is Alethea! I hope to share my learning on this page.

Today at school, we played around with our very own dell latitude ten! I'm actually using mine right now to edit this page! I feel very fortunate. 😇

This is a cool tablet that helps me with my learning