1000 Visitors and counting....

Congratulations Year 6. 

You have had 1000 visitors since you began this blog.

Well done.

Write your estimate of how many visitors we will have by the end of 2010 as a comment to this post. 

Miss C and Mrs S

The Editing Challenge

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once apon a time their was a yung man named johnny johnny wanted to b a carpenter when he growed up but his mum wanted him 2 b a doctor. johnny always tried his Best and his mum was always very proud off him when johnny left year twelfe his mom realised that johnny should be allowed to do whatever he felt right for him. Johnny became such a great carpenter and eventually opened up his own bilding biziness. johnnys mum was so proud of him

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Personification

Today we learnt about Personification! Here are some examples we made up:

1. The night guides the sky to dark.
2. The stars tell a story.
3. The sun tells a story as the moon rises.
4. The pen remembers to change his ink because he has been dancing so much.
5. The branch dances in the cold wind.
6. The leaves fly in the wind.
7. The morning sun dances on the water.
8. The sky listens to the sea.
9. The clouds dream of where the wind will take it.
10. The stone grows as big as the earth.
11. The sad pen cannot dance. 
12. The moon tells the sun how bright it is.
13. The stone thinks about how much it has been hurt that day.
14. The ground dreams of being untouched and cleared.
15. The mountain looks at the morning sky and thinks how beautiful it is.
16. The calculator dances with the pencil because it realises it is school holidays.
17. The dawn guides the birds in the morning sky.

 Please add a comment below and tell us what you think each personification means. For example - "The book dreams of becoming a best seller" might mean that the book wants to be read by thousands of people.

Energy

This term, Year 6 are learning about the different types of energy. We will add information for you very soon.

What did we learn this term?

Things we learnt during the term:

• What it means to be a leader.
• Year 6 can be fun.
• I learnt my timetables - 6 x 8 = 48
• How to write a reading response.
• Everybody is a leader.
• Inverted operations and cows!!
• How to sort out my emails in CEnet.
• How to read pictures.
• Mrs. S loves to dance.
• Picture books are not just for little kids.
• How to correct my work.
• Antarctica has a flag.
• How to write a bibliography.
• The Euro is the currency of Vatican City.
• You do not have to use Google when searching. There are other search engines.
• Italy is shaped like a boot.
• How to do a Readers Circle.
• How to use PBworks.
• Year 6 has a blog.
• The name of Japanese currency.
• How to create a voki.
• People’s perspective of a teacher can be wrong.
• Reader’s Circles is as easy as eating dinner. It is not as hard as I thought.
• I found a link on CEnet to create a website where I can create a creature.
• I learnt how to write a story.
• I can write a lot neater than I do.
• I learnt how to put a voki on PBworks.
• I learnt how to create a video using Animoto.
• Miss C taught us how to do patterns in Algebra.
• I learnt what STaRS meant.
• You can get a story from a picture just by looking at it.
• How to use the IWB.
• I know about the treble clef.
• Reading isn’t too bad.
• How to write a 50 word story.
• Year 6 have a lot of responsibilities.
• Miss C taught me how to write therefore in Maths.
• Anything is possible with the year 6 teachers.
• Mrs. S tells us she is good at everything but we know that is not true because she can’t draw!

Leaders go to Conference

On Wednesday the 10th of March, 8 student leaders from St Josephs went to the Impact Leadership Conference at Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre.

When we got there we had to mark our names off then go and get a seat. It was really exciting to see what other schools were there and all the different uniforms.

When it was time to start, everybody was quiet. We all got a work booklet and an Impact Leadership pen.

In the first session we learnt what a leader is, how you can be a leader and that anyone can be a leader. We then had something to eat.

The second session was probably the best out of all of them because we got to get up out of our seats and meet different people from other schools. We also got to choose one person from our school to get up and play a game about hair. The rest of the group had to work together and help the nominated person to get the answer right. It was really fun! After that we had our lunch.

In the last session we watched a video about Hamish and Andy going back to school that showed us some good things to do to be a leader. We also saw in the video what not to do, like walk past a piece of rubbish instead of picking it up!

When the video had finished we filled out a sheet saying what we liked and disliked about the conference. All the student leaders got a badge at the end of the day.

It was a really enjoyable day and we all think next time the whole class should go.

St Joseph's Day 2010

Students in year 6 have planned a great activity day for those who are able to visit on St Joseph's Day. Activities will include:

• Painting and drawing the Mona Lisa,
• Using the DS for Mathematics,
• Creating a Voki,
• Writing stories on PBworks or in their books,
• Using the Maths Mentals books,
• Adding to their wiki,
• Reading about St Joseph and 
• Quiet reading.