Year 5 Students' Blog

Song Lyrics

2009-05-12T04:15:00.000-07:00

Edelweiss

Edelweiss, Edelweiss,
Ev’ry morning you greet me.
Small and white,
Clean and bright
You look happy to meet me.
Blossom of snow,
May you bloom and grow,
Bloom and grow for ever.
Edelweiss, Edelweiss,
Bless my homeland for ever.

My favourite Things

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,
Brown paper packages tied up with strings,
These are a few of my favourite things.

Cream coloured ponies and crisp apple strudels,
Doorbells and sleighbells and schnitzel with noodles,
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings,
These are a few of my favourite things.

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes,
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes,
Silver white winters that melt into springs,
These are a few of my favourite things.

When the dog bites,
When the bee stings,
When I’m feeling sad,
I simply remember my favourite things
And then I don’t feel so bad.

Reach for the stars

When the world leaves you feeling blue,
You can count on me. I will be there for you.
When it seems all your hopes and dreams,
Are a million miles away, I will reassure you.
We've got to all stick together,
Good friends there for each other,
Never ever forget that
I've got you and you got me, so...

(Chorus)
Reach for the stars,
Climb every mountain higher.
Reach for the stars,
Follow your heart's desire,
Reach for the stars,
And when that rainbow's shining over you,
That's when your dreams will all come true.

On the Stage

How we love to be on the stage,
Look at us, ‘cause we are the rage!
We will work for minimum wage,
‘Cause we love to be on the stage

How we love to be in the light.
Turn that spot and switch it to bright.
We will practice all day and night
‘Cause we love to be on the stage.

On the stage we can be anything at all:
A clown, a lion, or a star.
On the stage, we all become one family,
And Everyone can see how talented we are.

How we love to hear the applause,
We enjoy the ‘oo’s ‘and the ‘aah’s’
We’ll keep singing simply because –
We love to be on the stage.

On the stage we can be anything at all:
A clown, a lion, or a star.
On the stage, we all become one family,
And Everyone can see how talented we are.

How we love to hear the applause,
We enjoy the ‘oo’s ‘and the ‘aah’s’
We’ll keep singing simply because –
We love the stage
At any age,
We are quite the rage.
Pay us any wage,
Here we are,
On the stage!

Art Gallery

2009-03-09T08:10:00.000-07:00

Here are the final pieces of artwork created by the class for their assessment task project.

New Year's Resolutions

2009-01-13T02:37:00.000-08:00

New years resolutions are like promises that you to your self for the new year. Here are some new year resolutions from our class:

1. I will try to stop biting my nails because I know it`s bad for me.
2. I will try to excercise every day beacause I want to be fit.
3. I will be kinder to my siblings.
4. I will try to not watch the TV every time I am at home. I will try to be a more balanced person.
5. I will try to listen better.

Hope we explaind what New Year's Resolutions are.

by Yasmin,Elsa and Kipling

Muscles and Bones

2008-12-09T04:32:00.001-08:00

Muscles & Bones

Chorus

When you nod your head,
Manoeuvre the cranium,
Or stamp your feet,
Twenty-six bones each,
When you clap your hands,
A clash of the phalanges,
There’s a lot going on underneath.
O, the skin is a fabulous thing to be in,
But it can’t get round on its own.
Every action needs a muscle contraction
And a lot of support from your bones.

Verse 1
Now the average newborn baby has over 300 bones,
And then some will fuse together on the way to being totally grown.
So the average adult human has only 206,
But there are still enough of them to hold you up
And do some pretty impressive tricks.

The longest is the femur, in the thigh is where you’ll find it;
The strongest is the tibia, and the fibula is behind it.
Oh, it’s great to know you’re a vertebrate, it’s divine to have a spine,
So let’s celebrate the fact that our backbone’s stacked
And give it ten out of nine for design.

Chorus

The Journey of an Apple Through the Human Body

2008-11-25T02:50:00.000-08:00

First it's the TEETH`S job to break up food through chewing, the TONGUE moves food so you can chew easier. The TASTE BUDS have nerves and these NERVES send taste signals to your brain. The SALIVARY GLANDS make SALIVA and this SALIVA makes it easier to swallow.

Next it`s the EPIGLOTTIS` job to help you put food in the right tube. The ESOPHAGUS carries food to your stomach. The STOMACH WALLS it keeps you from digesting bits of yourself. The STOMACH MUSCLES close the top and the bottom of your stomach so the apple won`t come out too quickly. STOMACH FOLDS make your stomach bigger when you eat a big meal.

Then the SMALL INTESTINE takes the partly digested food. The PANCREAS helps you to digest food. The VILLI brings capillaries The LIVER sends chemicals to the small intestine to help food be digested.

Finally it`s the LARGE Intestine's job to excrete waste and it takes food that's not completely digested.

THE END BY:MARTINE

Human Body Videos

2008-11-24T06:51:00.000-08:00

Class 5o have been making short information videos about organs, systems or parts of the human body they have found interesting.

The Treasure Hunt

2008-10-22T02:39:00.000-07:00

The treasure hunt was fantastic!!!!Our class worked very hard to make their wonderful maps.

1.On 20-10-08 we had our treasure hunt. First Mr McPherson shuffled pieces of paper and made us have different people to find treasure.

2.Quickly he told us about the amount of treasure we were allowed to take.

3. The Treasure Hunt
We got each others maps and set off. If we found someone`s map we would go up to the classroom and bring some treasure with us.

4. Then we had to write how good they were. Then after we did another map so on so on so on.

5. THEN WE HAD A PARTY!!!!!! Table by table we grabbed and gobbled some candy and had lots of surprises.

by Kip and Ethan

Our Treasure Hunt

2008-10-16T05:38:00.000-07:00

Today we continued our maps for the treasure hunt. Yesterday we had chosen a starting place and an ending place and we did a quick sketch of our route. Today we took some more notes and pictures and stuff like that. Then we started our main map. All of us have almost finished. It was hard to measure without a ruler so you had to use meter steps. It was easy to write the directions. It was hard for us to draw and measure a scale. IT WAS A VERY FUN DAY!

by Yasmin and Elsa

Here is a picture of a spider's web covered in dew. We found it when making our treasure hunt maps.

The Walk

2008-10-16T05:28:00.000-07:00

We went on a walk today and we had to find out where to go. It was hard to use the map and compass but it was fun!!!
The walk was over 1.5km. We all learned about maps and compasses. It was also fun to be at the front and find out where to go. I think everyone learned a lot and it was a fun expeirience for everyone. When you were at the front you had to turn the map the way you were facing and use the compass.

by Tristan.

Mental Maths

2008-10-10T13:38:00.001-07:00

For more games like this click on the link to BBC Maths Games.

Planet Pumpkin Ambassadors from Orange World

2008-10-05T23:27:00.000-07:00

Last week we did an activity called planet pumpkin. In Planet Pumpkin you had to devise a system to find where the ambassadors from Orange World had landed so you could tell your people where the space ship had landed. When the spaceship landed you had to use your system to tell your people where the spaceship landed as quickly as possible. You had to make your system as easy to use as you could so it was not too hard to find the spaceship.

Our group used coordinates,an equator and compass points to find where the space ship had landed. We think that it landed in the Northern Hemisphere, East South East and the coordinates were 21,3. I think that it was easier than I expected but it was hard to determine exactly where the space ship with the ambassadors from Orange World had landed.

By Sam

Our scale map of the classroom

2008-09-29T00:51:00.000-07:00

We all worked together to make as close to a perfect map about the classroom as possible. We had to measure table to table to make it perfect. The teacher split us into groups of four. We each got equipment to measure the tables to a perfect size to suite the map onto the paper and we also had to shrink the classroom six times to fit it on the map. We used the math that we know to make the map the right size for the paper.

For example the room was one thousand centimetres long and the width was eight-hundred seventy-five centimetres wide. We divided all the measurements by 6 to make them fit on the plan.

We also made a key so the people who look at the map can understand it.

by Elijah, Kazuya and Marc

Our class maps

2008-09-18T05:50:00.000-07:00

We had to draw a birds eye view of our classroom. we got into groups of four and drew our maps, it was tricky!

It had to be accurate and neat.it was hard because you all had to agree with each other and you had to listen and involve others in your group.
What our class thought...

sharing ideas/joining ideas.
Hard to fit things into the space.
windows where hard to draw.
3-D might be easier to draw.
thinking skills where used.
Hard but fun.
measuring-rulers-sizes.
too much space.
thing were too small or too big.
cooperating was hard.
thinking like a bird was hard.
hard making things smaller.

by Yasmin and Elsa.

Orange World

2008-09-16T05:56:00.001-07:00

We took an orange and a marker pen. We had to draw on the orange the continents of the World.

Next the fun part.

We peeled our orange and had to make the pieces of skin 2-D (flat) on piece of paper. We were meant to join up the continents but the pen came off the orange so it didn't work very well.

Here there are spaces in between the orange peel so it needs to be joined up.

Here is the orange peel sorted up into 2-D. It is good but not perfect. There are still some spaces. If the marker didn't come off we could have made a better map of the world. It was hard to make the World flat, almost impossible. It is not easy to turn a 3-D World into a 2-D map.

Why don't you try this yourself? Make sure you use permanent markers!