The Blog of Grade 5/6

Post what you’ve learnt about area here!

Next term we are learning about the human body. Post your favourite healthy recipe.

Post your fare well messages here!

Who’s your tip for the Soccer World Cup. Post here who you’re going to follow, where you think they’ll finish and what their national colours are. (Go Australia!)

Wow, what a great time we had on camp! My favourite activity was the giant sling shots. What was your favourite part of camp?

We’ve made new avatars to appear when we post messages. Have a look at the amazing creatures we made (I think some of them actually look like us!)

Read all about our students’ great sporting day at the Lightning Premiership!

Today we’re very lucky to have author Jerome Parisse online to answer our questions. Jerome has written a new book The Wings of Leo Spencer. We look forward to hearing from Jerome at 1pm.

G’day Mr Gray’s class all the way over in Dubai! In this section you can post comments about your lifestyle, school, hobbies, foods, celebrations… anything you like. Our class over here in Australia (Mr Porter and 5/6P), will do the same. It’ll be great! We can ask each other questions about each other’s lifestyle. We look forward to hearing from you!

Check out this website to read about Mr Healy’s bat adventure:
http://www.teachlive.org.au/2010-Malaysian-Bat-Conservation/Bannockburn-Primary-School/My-Highlights

Watch this awesome slide show about the Toa Mata!!!

Who’s your fav Toa?BIONICLE MATA NUI

Want to have a laugh check this out.FUNNY PHOTOS

what was your favourite caption?

Using your ‘googling’ skills, find the answers to the following statements:
The king’s name during the times of the Knights of the round Table and Sir Lancelot. A______
Birthyear of Lord Byron, famous English poet _____
The scientific study of plant life is called B_____
The husband of Queen Elizabeth II P_____
2001 Melbourne Cup winner was this colour B_____
The brightest star in the night sky S______
All of your answers relate to one famous event. What was the event and what do each of the words have to do with the famous event? Post your answers when you’ve figured it out!

Today is the last day of our blogging elective. It’d be great if some, or all, of you continue to help run the blog. If you are interested in blogging about school events such as the upcoming cross country, please post your interest here. I’ll keep you signed in as an adminstrator and you can be a regular blogger!

Here are some funny pictures. Click this link to see the pictures.Presentation23 Please tell us what you think of the pictures.

Each week I will put on a photo and the title of the game an d you tell me what you think of it.

Halo Wars..

Every little while I will put up a different photo and you can write funny stuff about it!

click here to take my survey

<a href=”http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N6KQDBN”>Click here to take survey</a>

look at this picture and write a caption for it.

What do think of this picture? Please give us a comment.

Every week Iwill post 5_10 different video games and for 2 weeks I will let you vote on your favourite game out of them.  At the end of the week I will write a review on that game. For this week the sugestions are Smackdown vs Raw 2009, Tony Hawk’s project 8, Smackdown here comes the pain, Ratchet and Clank 3 and Fishing. These games are all playstation 2 games.

Suggest some Wednesday rotation ideas! Be as creative as you can!

This website is great for if you want to go to the theme parks in Queensland for a holiday well I’ve got the place for you .You can view maps and you can buy tickets and the best of all you can veiw the rides all at http://www.myfun.com.au/

Post your favourite educational internet sites to share with your friends.

eg http://www.copacabana-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/Get_Smart.htm

Do you think our school should have a pool? Or maybe a coffee machine? Post  your suggestions of what we should get at school.

Today you have a competition! By yourself, or in pairs (no more than 2 in a group), you must write a post for our blog (the posts are what I usually write – heading in green with a comment everyone can respond to). It is your choice what you post: it could be a link to a survey you make on http://www.surveymonkey.com/”>, a PowerPoint presentation (an example is the trillion dollar one already on the blog), a topic statement such as ‘Shrek 4 will be the best movie ever’, a link to a cool website, a trivia quesiton or something completely different!
You need to write out (on paper) exactly what you are going to post on the blog. This is because it is your first go posting and we don’t want any mistakes on the blog. When you have had more practise, you will be able to post directly onto the blog without writing it out first. After Mr Porter approves your draft he will make you a ‘administrator’ on the blog and you’ll be able to post your comment.
Now to the competition part. Next week we will see who’s post has had the most replies. Whoever has had the most be declared Master Blogger!

When my boat is anchored, five of the rungs on the ladder over its side are underwater. If the rungs are 30cm apart and each one is 3cm thick,how many rungs would be underwater four hours later, if the tide rises at 35cm per hour?

Have you ever thought about how big a trillion dollars is? Have a look at this amazing PowerPoint presentation. What did you think of the presentation?

trilliondollars

Can you use your lateral thinking skills to answer this troubling trivia question?

I can stick a pin into a balloon without it making a noise or releasing any air. How?

Where in Australia was this jolly photo taken? What famous event may have happened here and what did it inspire?

*Need a clue? It’s in Queensland and the initials are C W.

Try some of these websites and play the games. What did you think of the games? Were there any really good ones?
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/
http://www.edu.dudley.gov.uk/numeracy/Primary/ICT%20Resources/wealthoflinks.htm
http://www.copacabana-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/Get_Smart.htm

We’re keen to get as many people using the blog as we can. What would you like to see on the blog? Let us know your great ideas!

This term Cleo is taking off for a fun-filled trip to America. In this section you can leave messages for Cleo to read. If Cleo gets time she’ll write back and let us know how she’s going. Enjoy your trip Cleo!

5/6P and K recently learnt about google searches. We learnt how important it is to type the correct words into the search engine and that words like ‘and’ aren’t important. We also found out that questions don’t make good searches! We discovered ways to make ‘googling’ easier, such as clicking on ‘Pages from Australia’ when appopriate.
Your challenge is to find me some ‘googlewhacks’. A googlewhack is a google search containing two words, but here’s the tricky part…it can only return one hit! In other words, you have to find the one unique website on the whole world wide web that has those two words on it.
The rules are:
1. Your search must have only 2 words (4-30 letters in each word).
2. Your two words must be identified as real words by google (underline din blue after you complete the search).
3. Your googlewhack website must not be a website that is only a dictionary, wordlist, encyclopaedia etc.
Good luck!

What is impossible to hold for half an hour but weighs virtually nothing?

There have been a few good guesses! I’ll give you a clue. Everyone can hold this but you can’t hold anyone else’s.

Welcome  back to school for 2010. I’m sure it’s going to be a fantastic  year. What are you most looking forward for 2010?

Also, if you have  any questions about grade 5 or 6 or events happening this year,post them here for your teacher to answer.

Click here to take the celebration survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=LAdzqqNtROzdw_2fv4GGzp9A_3d_3d

Add a caption to go with this picture:

The most creative or funny caption will get $50 Banno Bucks. Good luck!

I was very impressed with the great effort with the last photo. Congratulations! Read all the posts to find out about a very exciting horse race. Can you guess what celebration/remembrance this photo was taken at? Clue: the name includes an acronym.

Congratulations Ellie for correctly identifying the Hamelin Bay stromatolites in the previous photo. Some scientists believe the rock like stromatolites turned carbon dioxide into breathable oxygen millions of years ago paving the way for creatures like us to evolve! Now for your next challenge. Can you identify what celebration this photo was taken at. I’ll give you a clue: it is a celebration that occurs in Italy.

Well done to those who correctly identified Geraldton from the last photo. It was a memorial to HMAS Sydney and the 645 sailors who lost their lives aboard it during a battle with the German ship HSK Kormoran during World War II. Each seagull on the memorial represents a lost sailor. For many years the location of the wreckage remained a mystery. You might have seen in the news the wreckage was discovered last year. Can you identify where this photo was taken? The first one to post a correct, detailed answer will receive $50 Banno bucks!

Palindromes are words or phrases that read the same forwards or backwards. Some examples are EYE, RACECAR or MADAM I’M ADAM. Here are a few other good ones:

Don’t nod
Never odd or even
Was it Eliot’s toilet I saw?
A Toyota! Race fast… safe car: a Toyota
Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus

Can you think of any other palindromes? They can be single words or phrases!

You asked for it, so here it is. A joke section! When posting to the jokes section, remember the Grandma rule: if your grandma would be offended, DON’T PUT IT ON THE BLOG! In this section we won’t discriminate against people. Otherwise, enjoy the jokes section and make everyone laugh.

Add a caption to the pictures below! Some of the funnier ones from class for the dog photo included:

Pimped up puppies! What have you been feeding these dogs? The reason dogs bite people.

Wow, what a fantastic visit we had from DC Green! He was very entertaining with his surfing tales and rapping skills. I especially liked the Australian Idol story. What did you think of the visit?

I’ve got a challenge for you! The first person to correctly identify the area of Australia where this photo was taken gets $50 for their money books. Your post must include: where the photo was taken, a description of what is in the photo, the reason and the object was built and a fact about the structure.

I’m sure everyone is disappointed the holidays are only a few days away. I bet everyone is upset you have to miss out on coming to school for two whole weeks! what are you looking forward to over the holidays?

On May 26th we cut out feet from yellow, blue, green, red and black paper for Sorry Day. We made 54 feet to match the 54 recommendations of the Bringing Them Home report about the stolen generation. We discussed what happened to the stolen generation and movies that detail some of the events, like Rabbit Proof Fence.

Make up a statement saying sorry for something you have done (not something you’ve really done, something made up). Make it as unbelievable and funny as you like. For example:

I’m sorry for letting 1000 ants loose in the classroom, honestly. I only brought them in for my mini-beast project and they looked so cramped in the jar. I thought with all the training I’ve given them they would return to the jar on my command. Or at least stayed still when I called ’sit’ so i could pick them up. Anyway, I’m sorry.

Michael is heading off on a trip around Australia. What an adventure he’ll have! Michael is going to keep us updated on his adventure on our blog. Tune in to this link to keep track of Michael and send him some messages.