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.