Tuesday, September 7, 2010

SECOND LAST WEEK!


My, my what a busy term it has been and how quickly the weeks have flown by!

Tomorrow is our allocated day to attend the Life Education van although non-choir members had their session today with 5Pa.

Our spelling words for this week are as follows:
chatter channel chapter chuckle
champion challenge charity cheeky
chicken cheerful mischief speech
satchel fetch patchwork stretcher

Our challenge words:
certainty specialty cruelty safety
loyalty society personality university
electricity publicity authority security
reality subscription introduction retention
intention description reduction recognition

This week we will have our meeting about early Australian explorers and how they demonstrated (or didn't) the leadership qualities we thought were important for leaders of expeditions.

I hope the choir had a great time in Ballarat today! :)

Mrs C

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

IT"S BEEN A WHILE....



Goodness me, it's been a while since my last post but now we're back in action.

Here are this week's words:
nearly dreary appear disappear
tearful fearful sheer career
engineer cheerful auctioneer profiteer
merely sincere sphere hemisphere
revere adhere

Don't forget your homework for this week is 'The People in My Pocket'. Make sure you've covered all the bank notes by the end of the week. Why were these people chosen to be on our bank notes?

:) Mrs C

Monday, August 2, 2010

WEEK THREE AND THE TERM IS FLYING BY!



Well done to Jake, Ben, Audrey and Sophie for winning the Grade 5 hockey competition today...a fantastic effort!

Here are our spelling words for this week:

Grade 5 words - focus on the 'air' sound:
bare care dared share scare
spare stared prepare prayer bear
wear tear there where chair
pair fair hairdresser downstairs

Extension words - focus on homophones:
heard herd
council counsel
compliment complement
stationery stationary
principle principal
there their
straight strait
idle idol
sheer shear
practice practise

HERE'S A HINT...
Do you have trouble keeping THERE and THEIR straight? Remember, start HERE to get THERE.

I hope your projects on Famous Australians are progressing well. Keep working hard to make sure they are ready to be handed in on Thursday 12 August.

Have a great week!
:) Mrs C

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

FAMOUS WATERFALLS


Today we were talking about famous waterfalls and I mentioned the highest waterfalls in the world. Did you know the highest waterfalls are the Angel Falls in Venezuela in South America which are 979m high. Huge!!

The Victoria Falls are considered to be the largest waterfalls in the world. It is located in the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe and has the Zambezi River as its source. It stretches for a width of 1.7 kilometres and also falls from a height of 108 metres.

The Niagara Falls is one of the most powerful waterfalls in the world with about six million cubic metres of water flowing per minute. They are located on the Canada-America border in North America.

Interesting!

Monday, July 26, 2010

SPELLING AND STUFF

How can you divide up this shape into four IDENTICAL sections?



This week's spelling words are:
anybody bathroom broadcast grandfather
homewards photograph waterfall download
software hardware coconut microwave
herself nobody homework lifesaver
password desktop

Our extension words are:
different abbreviation parallel
recommend accommodate harass
accomplishment Canberra embarrass
approximately cinnamon graffiti
eccentric interruption mayonnaise
possession successfully necessary
commitment confetti

Have a great week!
:) Mrs C

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

FAMOUS AUSSIES AND SPELLING



Remember that Wednesday night is PROJECT NIGHT for you to make progress with your FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN project task. This week you should have decided on your six questions (or more if you like), making sure that each will give you interesting, detailed answers.
To help you with good sites to use for information, I have included a list of sites in the side panel.
Remember to plan your time wisely and take care with the presentation of your work. See me if you want to know if you're on the right track.

This week's spelling words are as follows:
bitter blossoms market costume signal mixture
comfort blister winner husband collect common
climate cement famous final nature pilot
pupil radio

Our challenge words are:
chandelier
overwhelming
parachute
chauffeur


:) Mrs C

Saturday, July 17, 2010

TWO CHOICES

5C - this is the story that I read to you the other day. Maybe you could share it with your family. I'm sure they would appreciate it too.

TWO CHOICES

What would you do?....you make the choice. Don't look for a punch line, there isn't one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice?

At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question:

'When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection.Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?'

The audience was stilled by the query.

The father continued. 'I believe that when a child like Shay, who was mentally and physically disabled comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child.'

Then he told the following story:
Shay and I had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, 'Do you think they'll let me play?' I knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but as a father I also understood that if my son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.

I approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, 'We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning.'

Shay struggled over to the team's bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt. I watched with a small tear in my eye and warmth in my heart. The boys saw my joy at my son being accepted.
In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three.
In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as I waved to him from the stands.
In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again.

Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat.
At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game?
Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.
However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay's life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact.
The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed.
The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay.
As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.
The game would now be over.
The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman.
Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.
Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman's head, out of reach of all team mates.
Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, 'Shay, run to first!
Run to first!'
Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base.
He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.
Everyone yelled, 'Run to second, run to second!' Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base.
By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball . the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team. He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head.
Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.
All were screaming, 'Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay'
Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, 'Run to third! Shay, run to third!'
As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, 'Shay, run home! Run home!'
Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team'That day', said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, 'the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world'.

Shay didn't make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making me so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!

We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the 'natural order of things.'

So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice:
Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the process?
A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats its least fortunate amongst them.

Monday, July 12, 2010

TERM THREE - YIPPEE!!


We're back for Term 3 and all geared up to work hard!


Look at the picture...does it move?


Your spelling words for this week are:
build built
bring brought
seek sought
buy bought
think thought
mean meant
kneel knelt
sleep slept
speed sped
catch caught
teach taught
grind ground


I have already been asked if you will be changing desks this week...the answer is YES. We will aim to move by Friday.


:) Mrs C


Wednesday, July 7, 2010

YES, HOLIDAYS ARE FUN!


I do hope you are all enjoying your holidays. Have you been watching the action at Wimbledon or keeping up with the World Cup in South Africa? I guess it wouldn't be so bad that Australia lost to Germany if they go on to win the whole competition. I am looking forward to returning to school and having a look at the footage Mrs P took of your performance at the final assembly. Everyone I have spoken to said it looked fantastic which certainly made me very happy! :)
THANK YOU so much for the beautiful bunch of flowers and the card that I received just after coming home from hospital. That was very kind and much appreciated.

I have included a couple of sites (at the side) you may want to have a look at....but only if you feel like THINKING!!!!!

Enjoy the rest of your holidays!

:) Mrs C

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

I'M BACK!!


I have finally finished writing reports...they'll be going home next week. So here we go again!

Can you find answers to these questions about the upcoming World Cup?
Which two countries will compete in the first game of the Cup?
Can you name at least six of Australia's players?
Can you name 4 of the host cities?
Who is Australia's main goal keeper?
Which teams make up Group D?
Which country won the last World Cup and where was it held?
How many of the competing countries come from Europe? How many from South America?
Here are some puzzles for you to solve:
How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off anything? There is nothing attached to it and no-one else catches or throws it back to you.
Your last good ping-pong ball fell down a narrow metal pipe embedded in concrete 30cm deep. How can you get it out undamaged, if all the tools you have are your tabletennis bat, your shoe laces and your plasic water bottle, which does not fit into the pipe?
Think! Think! Think!
:) Mrs C


Wednesday, May 26, 2010

YIKES...I'M SORRY!!


Yes, Billy, you are meant to keep me on my toes so I keep up posts on our blog but I'm afraid that over the next two weeks I'm not going to be able to do this. Why? Because I'm really busy each night writing your reports and don't really have any spare time to do fun things like jazzing up our blog. So, sorry, just wait till the week after next and I'll really get stuck into it again.

By the way, the picture is of me!!!


:) Mrs C

Monday, May 17, 2010

THIS WEEK IS EDUCATION WEEK!


This week you will commence the presentation of your Natural Disasters projects. I'm looking forward to seeing your work.


It's Education Week this week and the school will celebrate it with an Open Evening on Wednesday. This is when we will show our movie '5C's Advertisements' to your parents...and won't they be impressed. I think it will probably go on to be shown at next year's Academy Awards...and the cinematography...what can I say!! We even know when the ACTION will occur!! Let your parents know that we will start showing our movie in our classroom at exactly 7:30pm. Be there!!


Our spelling words this week are:

loop ooze snooze stool gloom

groom broom choose foolish bathroom

truly emus soup group troupe

mule


Our challenge words are:

taut sought secretary excellence

absence licence Mediterranean


Have a great week!

:) Mrs C

Monday, May 10, 2010

THIS WEEK'S SPELLING WORDS

Here are this week's words:

shook crooked understood wooden
woollen mistook fully pulley
bullock bullet butcher pudding

Challenge words:

transparent translucent opaque
elasticity malleable

Have a great week!
:) Mrs C

Thursday, May 6, 2010

PUZZLE PAGES


Do you like to solve puzzles and stretch your brain power?

I hope the answer is YES! If it is, go to:


and have a go at any of the puzzles there.
:) Mrs C

Saturday, April 24, 2010

NATURAL DISASTERS


Learn a little more about natural disasters by playing the game STOP DISASTERS, a site set up by World Vision.


Go to:



Work out how you can make changes to an area to prevent the loss of lives!


:) Mrs C

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

WEEK TWO....ALREADY!


Well done today, 5C with your wonderful efforts with public speaking for Mrs Purple. You were great...interesting, confident and entertaining!

Your job for next week is to tell a story in a minute. You can tell a personal true story or even a fairy tale. I will give you a sheet tomorrow with all the details.


Here are your spelling words for this week:

price alive invite admire divide

describe exercise bicycle climate pirate

writing tire pineapple high height

tyre byte reply dying lightning


Our challenge words:

typhoons hurricanes floods disruption chaos

and disastrous



I hope you are all doing a wonderful job tonight doing tasks around the house.


I have added some sites that you may find useful for your projects especially as tomorrow is Project Night for homework.


See you tomorrow.

:) Mrs C

Saturday, April 17, 2010

DO YOU LIKE BRAIN TEASERS?


If you do go to:


and see how well you go.


Go on, give your brain some exercise!!

:) Mrs C

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

FIRST WEEK BACK!


Back for two days and we're already hard at work!


Today we talked about the site called TRAVELPOD. You can find the link in the post below. Complete the world capitals part and see what your highest score is. Remember it and let me know at school.
Remember tonight your homework is JOBS AROUND THE HOUSE. What have you been doing? Make sure you write your jobs that you have completed in your diaries and have your parents sign your diary. I do hope you are a great help to your family.

You all did a great job with Mrs Purple today. I will let you know what your talk is about as soon as I receive her email.

Here are you spelling words for this week:

speech cheer greetings needle needn't

scene eager steam leader neatly peace

cease reason creature niece achieve

believe grief receive meeting

Sport training - will be at school this week on Friday morning at 9:30am
From next week it will be on Thursdays straight after school. Netball and volleystars will be at school and football will be at Central Park. Soccer will be at school on Wednesdays at 8am.


Have a great week!

:) Mrs C

Friday, April 2, 2010

TRY THESE SITES!


Get the computer to make your own snowflake by going to this site:
http://www.snowflakeworkshop.com/

On our old blog we had this site
http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq/worldcapitals
Please have a go and see how many countries and their cities you know. It can be quite addictive!

Have a look at the Lego creations made by Nathan Sawaya on the site
http://www.brickartist.com/

Hope you are having fun on your holidays!
:) Mrs C

Monday, March 15, 2010

THIS WEEK'S SPELLING WORDS


Here's a couple of puzzles to keep you thinking - what do you see?

Here are this week's words:


adult gully struck judge


gutter cunning supply hunter


unless hungry subject punish


husband double trouble cousin




And our challenge words:


promontory


sculpture


kayaking


favourite


brochure


signs

Have a great week,
:) Mrs C




Sunday, March 14, 2010

WE'RE BACK!!


We're back from camp and it was great fun! Well done 5C, your behaviour was excellent and it was great to see everyone 'getting into' all the activities and walks. Many thanks to our two 5c parents, Jacqui and Richard, for coming along and helping out.

What did you think of all the activities? Which ones did you like the most? Complete the survey in the left panel and let me know. You are allowed to mark FOUR of your favourites.

Have a great week!

:) Mrs C