Horse Show Jumping

Today I learnt how to add audio to an embedded set of slides. It was VERY challenging! But, now I know for next time!

Best Bubble Moments

Using google drawings, I made a poster showing my best lock down bubble moments. I used colours, borders and a different font to make my poster, POP! 

Skipping

As a focus for this term for P.E  with Mrs Allan, we are doing skipping. We are all at completely different levels, with some just learning how to skip, and others trying to attempt double dutch. I feel I'm doing okay with it, and today have learnt how to time it so I can jump in and out while the rope is going instead of having to stop the rope. This also ties into our decade study, as when quite a few of our parents were young, they would spend their lunch times skipping. Where as these days we do a variety of things during our lunchtimes, I for example play sport. Do you ever skip? I look forwards to progressing this term and by the end will hopefully be starting to double dutch and if not will be a confident skipper.

Interveiw

Today we had to create questions related to sports, like for example - "How do you feel before a race". Then once we had written our questions we had to send them via gmail to a class mate to answer.  I wrote my questions for my friend Rylee and Rylee wrote her questions for me. Here are our questions and answers.

Here are Rylee's questions for me...

1. How do you feel before any race ?

I stretch so that I don't hurt or strain any muscles. I will take off any extra clothing. 

2. What's the furthest that you have run ?

35km

3. What types of food and drinks do you have before a race ?

What I normally eat and drink every day

4. How long before the race do you start eating healthy ?

I eat healthy every day

5. Have you ever come last in a race ?

No

Here are my questions to Rylee...

1. How do you feel before any race ?

I stretch so that I don’t strain any muscles

2. What's the furthest that you have run ?

3km 

2. What types of food and drinks do you have before a race ?

What I normally eat and drink every day

3. How long before the race do you start eating healthy ?

I eat healthy basically every day

4. Have you ever come last in a race ?

Yes

Lightning!

Here are some little video clips about thunder, lightning and bad weather -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=Cz_uYBx1G5s&feature=emb_logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=180&v=2Jm7FRRIspo&feature=emb_logo

Homemade Pasta

The other night I helped Mum make some Pasta for dinner. We made the Pasta dough then rolled it out on the bench and cut the pasta into squares. Then we pinched the pasta and put them into a pot to cook. While the pasta was boiling we made some pasta sauce. We used tomatoes, herbs, seasoning, spices and vegetables. After it had all cooked we were left with -

Oh, and I can't forget we also sprinkled some homemade goats cheese on top!

Fast Food Invention Test

Yesterday Mrs Bennett gave us another invention test which is often seen on the TV show 'Master Chef'. You get given ingredients to cook with and have to make a dish out of it. But, this time it was a little different and instead of getting given ingredients we had to make our own Fast Food with any ingredients. Of course none of us are professionals and we don't make 5 star meals in restaurants so we aren't the best chefs. Anyway here is my Fast Food... 

PIZZA!!

Spaghetti

We were set yet another invention test this week, but I'm not complaining because I love a good invention test. This week we had to make a pasta sauce, however I took it up another step and and made everything from hand and from the garden. I made my own pasta dough then rolled it out and cut it into strips. Here are some pictures of the pasta -

After I had the pasta rolled out I started on the sauce, I collected red tomatoes from our garden and put them in a big pot to boil down. Afterwards I went out into our garden and I collected lots of herbs, some of the herbs I picked where Sage, Parsley and Oregano. While the tomatoes boiled down I cut up the herbs to add in. 

I added a tea spoon of garlic too, 

I added the onion and mince and celery leaves,

Then after the sauce was ready it was time to cook the pasta, which only took 

5 minutes, earlier I had cooked some focaccia bread. To go with the meal -

Here is my meal -

(above is the bread)

  

1950's Interveiw

Mrs Bennett set the writing task of interviewing a Grandparent. So, that's exactly what I did and here it is...

Interviewing My Nan -

Name-

Karen

Year I was born -

1959

Where - Wellington, NZ

School -

Memories -

“I remember learning to sing with the words written up on the blackboard and the teacher would
play the guitar.”

“Listening to the Government radio program which taught us songs.”

“Standing next to my desk, saying my times tables”

“The School fair”

“Heavy School bags with LOTS of textbooks”

“Not being able to go to school because the River flooded the footbridge which you had to
cross to get to school.”

Morning show and tell, singing the national anthem on a Monday Morning at school assembly. 

“If the weather was nice we would play outside and if it was raining we would play in the library”

“The disgusting smell of the Highschool toilets, they smelt phenol and like cigarettes”

“ Using grey leads and drawing margins on our pages with a pink pencil”

“Using nibbed pens for ink” 

“We had little ink pots on our desks” 

“Being the SRC (Student Rep Council)”

 “Going to school on the bus walking 30mins. First 4 years high walk 5km to bus stop.
" I Enjoyed school."   

“Jumping in the freezing cold pool”

“In Primary School at Kingsville we watched Neil Armstrong on the School TV”

“Making a little wood puppet in Art class” 

Schools - 

Primary -

Ohio Bay School near Wellington up to Grade 4

Kingsville Primary School near Melbourne Grade 5 and 6

Highschool -

Foots Grey Ladies College Form 1

Bacchus marsh High School Form 2 to 6

Uniform -

Winter Uniform - Wool chunic, long socks, black shoes, shirt and tie and a wool jumper.

Summer Uniform - Summer cotton frock, short socks.
(GIRLS WHERE NOT ALLOWED TO WEAR TROUSERS UNTIL 1975)

“The first time I wore trousers was the last 2 years of Highschool. 

Sports - 

“I remember playing games and doing Gymnastics, I remember playing on the school oval
with my friends and a game I remember was ‘What’s the time Mrs Wolf’.” “I was sports captain
of the Athletics and the Swimming Team” 

“Played Softball against other High Schools”

Teachers -

Mr McKenny, Grade 4 teacher “He was absolutely wonderful he was a teacher at Ohio Bay
School near Wellington”

“In Australia Mr Little (chubby and short)”

Mr Nunnon, I didn’t get along with him

Some teachers don’t get respected and others do. 

School Camps - 

“My first School camp was in 1971 at a Victorian Ski Field. 

“In 1975, we went to Swan Hill.”

Subjects I enjoyed - 

“In Highschool I enjoyed English/Literacy, Art, Sewing, Cooking/Home Economics.
Even though I wasn’t very good at Maths I still enjoyed learning it” 

Favourite Singer/Band -

John Farnham

How did you listen the Music -

On the TV and radio

Technology at Home - 

TV

Telephone

World Events -

Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon

Collapse of the West Gate Bridge Melbourne

Favourite TV Shows -

Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men

Andy Pandy

Get Smart

The Ponderosa

My Favourite Martian 

Young Talent Time

Walt Disney 

Fashion -

Sunday hat for Sunday School

White Gym Shorts and T - Shirt and White canvas sneakers

Pant suits for Girls

Platform shoes

Flairs/pants

Many skirts

Tank tops

Skimpy Bikinis

Witch’s Britches 

Polo Tops 

Skivvies  

Blazers

Hippy skirts

Father - Coach Builder for Rolls Royce, Carpenter making caravans, boats and house
renovations. 

Mother - Personal Assistant and Private Secretary

She was the first women to wear trousers and a mini skirt in public in NZ.  

Pollution

Today I created an animation to show what happens when a plastic bag goes down a drain in the city. 




If you would like the animation to go faster use the arrow keys on your computer or down the bottom of the embedded slides. 

Symmetrical Leaf Art

Mrs Bennett my teacher challenged us a few weeks back to create some leaf art. Here were her instructions -

I followed those instructions and this is how the final product turned out -