Zoo trip

On Tuesday room 12,13,14, and 15 went to the zoo!!!It was so much fun, we did lots of things like looking around at how the zoo keepers inspire the zoo animals, we did a scavenger hunt, and a quiz. We went there because our teachers wanted to show us how the zoo keepers inspire the animals, and also as our end of year trip. My favourite part of every thing was seeing the mummy tiger try and soothe the baby tiger, by rocking it back and forth in its mouth, it's crying was sooooooo cute, me and Mrs Gunn only got to see it for a little while because somebody spoiled it by yelling and scaring them away: (!!! The hardest part for me was walking, my feet were giving me so muck pain

My favourite animal was the Graffias  

I got to see clipy again

Wool God Eyes

Room 14 has been making god eyes. Mrs Gunn showed use a video clip of a lady making one, we made them as Christmas presents.

How to make a god eye

Materials

• Wool more than one colour
• Hot glue gun
• popsicle sticks 2x
• scissors
• buttons
• sequins

Steps

1. first get your hot glue gun and very carefully hot glue it together so it's a cross (you might want to get an adult to help you)
2. Get your coloured wool and wrap in around your sticks going up and down twice, then turn your stick and do the same thing but the other way, now repeat. 
3. Now do a quarter turn and wrap it around the next stick, then do it again to the next stick, and again and again and again, remember to always do a quarter turn.
4. Eventually you will run out of wool so you can chose to either stop or tie some more string on and keep going.
5. Once your done prepare for the hard part. . . tying!!! You put your finger on the stick wrap the string around your finger and put the string through your finger and stick then do it again.

If you follow these steps correctly you will be able to make a wool cat eye!!!

Vincent Van Gogh

Room 14 has been focusing on Inspiration this term,
but we  have also been focusing on Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent was a famous painter. He was born in 1853 on the 30th of March, he died on 29th of July 1890. he started painting in his late 20's. there were three artists that influenced Vincents work:

• His brother Theo
•  Millet
• Gauguin

This is a photo of MY  Vincent van Gogh art work. It was really hard because we had to do an out line with our rubbers!!!!!

Buddy Day Creation

Room 14  has participated in buddy day this year. We had to make a buddy that will be sent off to other places. Room 2 and room 14 were put into four groups. We made a plan and a picture, slowly our buddy came together to make Steven Proctor. I'm soooo proud of me and my team, Steven's looking good!

Speeches

On Wednesday we had speech finals, I was really nervous. I was disappointed that I didn't come a placing but I still very proud of myself.

Fractions

Something that I have learnt in my maths class is fractions, they are pretty hard. Something new I have learnt in my maths class is where to put fractions on a number line.

Class speeches

This is a picture of me saying my speech. My speech was about Nick Vujicic, I chose this person because he has no arms or legs and he shows excellence. He shows excellence because as I said he has no arms or legs but he can still do lots of stuff EG: play cricket, soccer, run, swim, and lots of other things too. I'm am proud of my speech because it got me through in third place in the finals, But I came a tie with Jack! So I have to give my speech to the class again, Dang it.

swim for life

Sweet tweet

Perimeter

Today we had to measure the perimeter of our house. The perimeter of my house is 100.34m.

This is what we had to do to do it:

1. We had to find our house on Google earth
2. Next we had to click on a icon that looked like a ruler
3. after that we had to draw  around our house, and it will show the perimeter of your house

Cross country

Last Friday we had cross country, at minogue park. The year 5 girls were first, that was my group, I was sooooooooooooo nervous. We had to go to Mrs Workman for stretchers. The hardest thing for me was the stretchers that we had to do. The thing that I'm the most proud of was coming first!!!
I enjoyed finishing my race.

I came 1st, and it was cool because Gina and Amelia had a tie on second place!

Shared Story wirh David St School

Personification

We write personification sentence, here are some of mine:

• The chair is as bad as my brother at putting on make up.
• The house was miserable because of loneliness
• The house's floor broke with a low heart

Those are my personification sentence, hope you liked them.

Writers club

I finished my writers club story today. It was fun working with someone else, Oh did I forget to tell you that we worked with David street school to make the story. This was so exiting at writing time each day to see what our buddy had written. I worked with Rhiannon and a girl from David street school, I write most of the story with our buddy because Rhiannon was away the hole time we write it, she was sick, but she help with the first paragraph. It was so fun and I can't wait to do it again.

All my paddels

Yay, on Friday I got all my TRUMP paddles. We started getting them in term two. Our class hosts would have a success criteria and we would try to get a tick for each thing we had to do (It was cool 'cause I was the class host for Thinking) It's so cool that I got all my paddles. This is a picture of my waka with all my paddles on it!!!

Writers club

This term the writers club is doing a story with David street school. We are doing this 'cause it is something that the writers club has never done before, and Mrs Gunn thinks it will be fun. I am looking forward to the part where David street school writes back ( that's the purpose of it ) The picture below is the one I have to write about. Well it starts like there once was a panda. That's all I can tell you of my story, I can't wait to start it.

Doug Willson

last Monday room 14 has a special surprise person come in. It was the famous Author 

DOUG WILLSON   

He talked to us about his books and gave us two of his new books that hasn't even been released yet!!!

We asked him some questions, I asked when he figured out that he had dyslexia. He also told us that he was going to write a story about. . . .ROOM 14!!!! we all have to have a nick name and I think that my one should be: Green bones

Space Dave

A few days ago space Dave came in to talk to the senior syndicate. Three things I have learnt from him are:

• There are millions of billions of Galaxy,
• In 1,000 years another galaxy will crash into our galaxy,
• And most of the stars you see in the night sky are planets.

We also got to go to the observatory. The cool thing is that we got to see Saturn!!! I can't wait to go back to the observatory, maybe next time we might see Venus.

Relating is the way to go!

This is a movie of relating to others do's and don'ts, hope you enjoy.

My war poem

The War 

Oh, no, I was running out of time, soon I would have to fight someone I didn’t want to fight. I could tell I was running out of time, The sky was coming alight. My shattering bones made a rattling sound in their place, My face turned pale white as I heard a ‘BOOM,’ I could taste the dirty air running into my mouth, Where was it coming from? It might infect my heath, It was then I noticed that the war had started, I was so nervous that I accidentally farted. I could smell the smoke going up my nose, Now I was tremberling in my heavy clothes, I could hear my comrade being shot, and screaming to the ground. It was happening everywhere, Left, right and all around. Now I wish that I had never came, And now I know that the war is no game! By Leah McAnnalley

Tennis

We got to write a recount about what ever we wanted, and I choose tennis. This is my recount:
listen to ‘Leah's tennis story’ on Audioboo

My phonetic Alphabet name

listen to ‘Leah's Phonetic Alphabet name’ on Audioboo

Swimming sports

This is a picture of me  at swimming sports (I'm famous)

House Captains

Am I a House Captain?

Today is Monday, and on Monday we have Assembly. Also today they announced the House Captain. Batton was first La-Equah, next was Gina, next is . . . . . LEAH  YAY YAY I'm a house captain. I went up got my bage, I was to busy admiaring my bage to listen to any body else. I can't wait to see what a House Captain gets to do.

These are the House Captains from Room 14 : )

give it a go

Swimming

All About me

My name is Leah. I'm nine years old. My favourite colour is green, and I love, love, love, MONKEYS.
I am a year five in room fourteen at Vardon School. So far this year I've  enjoyed being a year 5, and going swimming(even though it's FREEZING). Something I want to Achieve this year is my spelling trust me it is my spelling.