The Lakes Billycart Derby

Wow what a day!! Kids loved it and was a truly amazing day. Well done to all 5/6's involved












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Photo's of Billycarts

The Billycart Derby is fasting approaching and teams are gearing up for the big day on Thursday 11th December.

Parents dont forget the Auction that is happening at the end of the day and you can bid for your childs awesome cart!

Funny Epitaphs

Here Lies James
He got killed by his games
He play a lot
And lost the plot
See ya James and ya games.

By Duncan

Flying in the sky was superman
He flew into spiderman
They fell
Now they are in hell

by Shaun

Here lies Kyle
He ran the quickest mile
There was lightning
Scary and frightening
Then the thunder
Now he's 8 feet under.

By Jordan

Elvis was found in the sink
With tics tac's in his drink
He thought he could sing
But he could only be the KING

By Tori

I thought I saw a dove
It looked extremely in love
It flew overseas
While breaking his knees
I found his name
It sound like James

By Chloe

Shakespear
He had a fake ear
He drank lots of beer
Because he could hear
That poor Shakespear

By Martina

Here lies a lawyer
Who was a real boiler
He lost a debate
Then he had a headache.

By Shannel

Here is Mr Shig.
Who went to a gig
He left his drink unattended
And he was befriended,
By his dead friend with a purse
They live happily ever after in a hearse.

By Nat H

Here lies Nat
She got beat by a cat
Bruised and battered
But she was not flattered.

By Liam

5 Mile Creek Presentations

This week students presented their 5 Mile Creek houses models and did a wonderful job. The students discussed all the exciting things they have learnt this term, about being an adult and living with "stress!"

Photo's of House Building

5 Mile Creek.....

Five Mile Creek!!!
File Mile Creek is our integrated subject for term 3.We have been looking at houses, what makes a home and also learning about sub-division. We had to sub-divide five mile creek! To do this, we had to have at least 100 squares of shops and plaza’s, at least have 20 houses and to fill up the whole area of five mile creek. For some it took 3 days and for others it took a week. But the teachers had a surprise for us…..we also had to give our land value! That definitely took a week! After we had done the land valuation we had to pick a job out of the hat and we would be stuck with that job and profile. Our profiles gradually became bigger and we did an activity to see what our superannuation and stuff like that are. Then we worked our regular income. Nowadays we are developing our floor plan for one of the houses in our five mile creek plan
By Natalie H!

Term 2 Canberra Camp & 5/6 Election!

Last term the 5/6’s learnt about the Australian government and how it works. So we did so much work that the teachers were so tired and after camp to, can you imagine!!!! We went to Canberra for our camp. For a whole week it was a lot of fun. On the first day everyone was so excited but it was so boring. We stopped at the edemougha pub for lunch, and then we visited different stops on the why like the dog on the tucker box and so on. On to the mint that was cool!!!. On the second day we went to the high court of Australia. Court 2 was sitting (court of appeal) and seen all the other courts, then lunch we had pizza, then electoral education centre, then the national film and sound archives and then a drive past some embassies and at night we swam in the A.I.S swimming pool.

On the third day national museum, then Australian institute of sport, then Questacon that was fun!!! I went on the free fall 7.2m tall on a bar an then let go.

On Thursday we went to Parliament House and we did a role play and I was p.m., then off to the war memorial that was so interesting.

Then our trip back home that was so boring. That was our trip to Canberra
When we got back we had an election I was the leader for the Blue Monkey Lakers we won that was so fun!!!!

By Liam.G

Interschool Sports - Girls Bat Tennis

On Friday 9th of May the Lakes vs. Plenty Park Lands (the Redbacks). The Lakes team captain was Bonnie Fergurson. On the Redbacks team the team captain was Jessica. We enjoyed playing with the Red backs. Unfortunately the Redbacks won but we had a great time on Friday. Our next match is on the 23rd of May and we are playing against St. Lukes.

Bye for now,
Martina Veleska and Ivana Angelovska.

RESPECT

Respect is to treat someone or anyone the way you want to be treated. It also means not to tease people that look different, wear different clothes and do different things. These are ways of showing respect:

* Giving your seat up for an elderly person or a pregnant woman on public transport

* Attending someone's funeral

* Accepting other cultures and customs

* Always use your manners

* Don't wreck other people's things

* Respect peoples feelings and opinions

* Respect our laws

That is what respect means to me and it should mean to you.

By Liam G

The Lakes Footy Team

On the ninth of May the 5/6 students played a match a footy for the lakes and they played against the red backs (plenty park lands) both teams played fair and fun football. At the start the lakes took the lead early both sides were close all the way to the end. The end score was lakes 50 and red backs 22 for our first game we are proud that we won and every one showed good sportsmanship.

By shaun.c and Jordan.b

Movie Making

We have been making movies and it is so fun. My group is almost done we are making a movie about a news report on a local mans digestive tract has been blocked. We are making it on I-movie. The people in my group are Gurjot, Lachlan and I. Cameron is filming for us. Then when everyone is finished we have to show the class our movie. Everyone is doing their own topic.

By Dylan.o

Music

Every Monday morning each learning group has a different specialist. There is Food Tec, Music, Technology and Drama. Each term we have a different specialist. Last term my learning group had Music. Our music teacher is Piero. Each week we did a different thing. For e.g., One week we sang another week we played instruments. We also learned about a lot of old bands and singers, like Elvis Presley and the Beatles. The sort of instruments we play are the castanets, drums, bongos, xylophone, triangle and plenty more.

By Steph A

All about Democracy

DEMOCRACY

These last few days we have been learning about Democracy in Intergraded Studies.
Democracy is
• People Power
• Respecting diversity
• A leader ship
• Fair and just laws
• Being given a choice
• Freedom to choose, to vote, to live in a free country
• Understanding others for different reasons

By Tamara

Camp

Everybody’s EXCITED!!!
BECAUSE where going too camp we're going to Canberra!
For a week! Its going to be so cool! where going to go to the A.I.S to swim and somewhere to play mini golf and the parliament house.

By Brianna M

J - Rock

This term we have been practising for J rock. On Mondays the animals have practise on Tuesday the builders have practise and on Wednesday the architects have practise. Every Thursday we all got together in the gym to see how we would finish our dance altogether. We will be performing in Vodafone arena & The Council on either 30th of July or 1st of August. We are all looking forward to performing in front of everyone and we are also nervous to perform in front of everyone.

By Kristina D

Cross Country

This term there is going to be a cross country team for the 4, 5, 6’s. On Friday the 18th of April there are try outs in the gym at lunch time. On the 8th of May at Bundoora Park cross country will be on. Last year it rained and rained and rained so hopefully this year the weather will be good.

Wednesday mornings there is an event at 8:00am for kids in cross country or kids who just want to come along you can run or walk to get fit. See Keir or Jackie for more info. We will be practising and working hard to make it into the cross country team.

By Claire A

Sports Report

We had tryouts for sport .At tryouts this week we had 4 choices to tryout for. I did a tryout for soccer .I thought I did pretty good .But we don’t know if we are in the team. We will find out next Friday. They are only aloud 13 people in the team. We first had to dribble the ball around a cone and then halfway back we had to kick the ball to the next person. Then we played keepers off. After that we played a real game of soccer. The red team won. I was on the plain team.

Natalie H

Technology Report

In Technology this week we have been using the laptops. We looked at year 7, 8 and 9’s work from a different school. They where AWESOME!!!! We also went on photo
shop tutorials. We are being taught to make our own picture.

Keely!!

CSIRO Incursion

CSIRO incursion COOL CHEMICAL SCIENCE

It was fun! First the presenter made the water change colour with no colour food die it was cool and then she showed us how to do the experiments they where cool. I liked the colour changing experiment when you put paper in the hot water it changed it was amazing. It was a lot of fun!!!

Check out the pictures on the right in the slideshow.

Duncan F

Sports Report

Last week The Lakes played Plenty Parklands in volleyball. Plenty park girls won the first game but the second game The Lakes won. Because it was a tie The Lakes and Plenty Parklands we had to play another game. Keir said there is only 8 minutes so who ever had the highest score they would wIn and The Lakes won! The lakes boys lost by 2 games.

Kyra G

Cricket: last week we played against Plenty Parklands. It was a close game. But they just beat us in the end; it was only by 6 runs. Kyle took the only wicket he balled it and caught it. Shaun was the best batsmen of the day. He hit a whopping 40 runs. Our only girl Keely almost got a wicket how good is that! Our team was pretty sad because we lost but we still had fun. I think we will win this week against Whittlesea well I hope our team wins. Oh yeah one more thing it was raining so that made it even harder.

From Jake and Nathan.

Groups Report

Groups have been a blast for the last few weeks.
• Band are writing there own song and setting up there band with Piero.
• BMX are building jumps and there course with the amazing Keir.
• Black and white has been making interesting patterns with Merle.
• Student news paper made there first edition of there newspaper last week with James.
• Netball has been practicing netball with Kylie.
• Photography are learning all styles of photography with Amy.
• Lots of Groups have been doing much more.
Lachlan C

Hi there, 5/6 last Wednesday in groups the student newspaper All the journalist handed in there articles for the newspaper.
Some people handed articles about politics, sport, and entertainment and so on. I write about Kevin Rudd’s apology to the stolen generation. Then we finally put the first edition of the Lacus. It was an exciting moment for all the people in the student newspaper.
Liam.G

Music has been fun so far. We’ve been learning about famous music artists from the past, like the Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Star), and the one and only king of rock’n’roll Elvis Presley.
By Dane P

This week in netball we’ve been practising our catching and throwing and we’ve even been learning about the positions. Kylie was away on Wednesday so instead of Kylie, Melissa took us. We have played cut the cake and our own mini game of netball.
I think EVERYONE in netball has enjoyed it so far. Thanks for reading this.
Nat T

So You Think You've Got Talent

On Wednesday the 12-3-08 Piero hosted so you think you have talent. So many people performed and work so hard to get there act right. Almost the whole school was there and every one had a great time.

The people that sang and performed in the band were amazing! We all had a great time.
By Gemma E

My Buddy and Me

Last Friday on the 15-2-08 we finally met our buddies! They looked so cute in their room I couldn’t stop talking about my buddie. TESS L

First we had a talk with them to introduce ourselves and talk about our family’s our friends our hobbies and our favourite things to at school. KRISTINA D

Learning in the Pods

This week in English where learning how to use the Lakes blog you should have a look around there’s some really cool things. In English we are rotating groups and we get learn different things some of the groups are called computer portfolio, ICT groups, reading groups and much more. BRIANNA M

TECHNOLOGY REPORT

This week in technology we are starting to make wind chime shapes. Next week we are making it and we are making different types of shapes with a compass and protractor. I know how to draw a heart. SIENNA P

For three weeks the 5/6 had food technology and we made Berry surprise, salad rolls and pizza snacks. We had a lot of fun cooking in the kitchen. SHANNEL C

Every day on Monday for 9 weeks B group has food Technology. My favourite recipe was salad roll ups because it was healthy and delicious. To make the salad roll up we had to use ham, bread, cheese, tomato. TAMARA G

GROUPS REPORT

In groups the whole school have a choice of what they want to do, there are multiple choices of what you want to do. Some of the choices are instrumental music if you want to be in the band, the prep to 4 cooking, 5 to 8 BMX, BMX Mechanics, choreography and jewelry making. Groups started this week and it was really fun. JORDAN B

Sports Report

There was certainly a buzz in the 5/6 pods after the students got back from interschool sports this week. Here's what they had to say.

Every Friday we have been practising and working hard to make it into a team for the interschool sports. For the next 10 weeks the lakes 5/6’s will be competing against others schools in inter school sports.The four sports are boys bat tennis, girls and boys volley ball, girls tee- ball and mixed cricket. We have practised hard for the last 2 weeks and chosen teams. Our first game was on the 22nd of February against St Lukes. The 5/6s played really well they umpires added up scores and the final scores were Girls Tee-ball, Lakes 20 def St Lukes 19. STEPHANIE A & CLAIRE A

The cricket team played a very exciting match. We lost by 1 run. ALEX B & ALEX M

The score for volleyball was 4 sets to 0. Our opponent’s were St Lukes. DYLAN O
The girls and boys had 2 games each of volley ball. The Lakes won.
On the second match of boys volley ball match they won by 4 points with st Lukes same with the girls but the girls had different points on the second game with the girls Kristina had a set point and Natalie B had set match which is really good. The score was st Lukes was on 8 points and The Lakes were on 25 points. NIMO S

We the bat tennis team won against St.Lukes. Stojan

The lakes 5\6 girl t-ball team went to the football oval to vs. St.luke primary school, The Lakes won by 1 point. TORI S

Next week we will get some pics of our amazing athletes. Well done guys.

What a week

It certainly has been an extremely busy week and a bit at The Lakes in 5/6. It is fair to say that all students have settled and are getting used to a Middle Years timetable and taking part in some amazing subjects.


This week we had a visit from the Snakebuster who taught us about snake safety and equipped us with skills when we come across a snake, and more importantly so we dont panic in the event of seeing one! He brought with him a range of animals from frogs, blue tongued lizards to 5 of the worlds most deadliest snakes.....(all with their fangs removed) such as a Red Belly Blacksnake, Taipan and a Brownsnake.


Some other exciting things that have been happening in 5/6 have been getting our teeth stuck into weekly Science rotations exploring Chemical Science. We are at the half way point of these activities with our CSIRO incursion rapidly approaching. We have been exposed to popping popcorn, bouncing eggs, growing rust, exploring sugar and much much more.

Groups is yet to begin so this week our Assistant Principal did an amazing session with us on Bullying and now we are able to target certain behaviours and be on the look out for the Queen Bee & Tough Guy!! Remember Who wants to be THE COMPASSIONATE SUPPORTER?

Great news that interschool sport is back this year, the bad news is we had a bye this week. So some more practice was had by our Lakes teams. Good luck to those competing this week.

From next week students will take full ownership of this blog and you as parents will be able to be updated by your children about the weekly happenings of 5/6.

See you next week.

Hi Grade 5/6,

We are well underway into this first term with lots of fun and exciting things happening.
Just to let you all know on 28th of February we will be having some guest scientist from CSIRO coming in to do some cool experiments with us. So if you think the experiments we have been doing lately are awesome just wait for the Albert Einsteins to arrive!

You can check out the CSIRO website if you have some spare time http://www.csiro.au/

2008 All Systems Go

Wow! Welcome Back and what a first week at the Lakes. We were extremely excited this week as we welcomed 90 students into 5/6 this year. There were some familiar faces and there were a number of nervous faces amongst the high number of new students that joined our growing school. The anxious faces soon turned to smiling faces as students settled very quickly and meet their 5/6 teachers who are Renee Short, Cameron Black, Fiona Tarry, Michelle Smith and Robyn Packett.

The focus of week 1 was to get settled and make new friends. This was very successful. We also had lots of sports practice but lost some time due to the very welcome rain! Our first task was to get to know our home group and we made All About Me posters. The 5/6 team also look extensively at the schools values which are Honesty, Belonging, Personal Best and Respect. From the schools values students were asked to bring in personal items that represent these items. We then made four values museums of these values and they look fantastic!

Here's looking to week 2 where we get stuck into our program and we will be exposed to subjects like Home Economics, Technology, Performing Arts Dance, Drama and Instrumental Music.