techno5

Melbourne Camp

techno5 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:27:26 +0000

Last week we went to Melbourne with the grade sixes. WE saw lots of different things while we were in Melbourne. We left Hawkesdale at 7.00am on Wednesday morning with Campes Coaches.

Second Kinder visit - our stories

techno5 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:58:46 +0000

Thursday 14th August grade 4/5 made our second visit to Hawkesdale Preschool. This time our challenge was to write something that we could read and entertain a kinder person with. We has stories, an icy pole recipe, alphabet poems, and some non-fiction things especially about animals. Grace’s story called Block Your Nose proved very popular. Can you imagine lots of different reasons why you should block your nose ? After sharing our writing and the books we made we played, made, and painted with our young chums.

How do you spend your week ?

techno5 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:48:00 +0000

In maths we investigated how many hours a week, which is168 hours, doing the following - sleeping, eating/drinking, travelling, washing/shower/teeth, in class, playing, chores/work, sport, hobbies/clubs, TV/DVD/Video, Computer Games/X Box/Nintendoetc, Internet, Reading,Other.

Reading ,computers, work, sport etc were all not as part of class time.

Sleep is what we did the most- generally between 70 - 80 hours which is nearly half a week and about 3 days asleep !

We found we spend 25 hours a week in class which was the second most thing we do.

Comparing everyones individual graphs and data, the most common activity that came next in terms of spending the most time was for 7 of us watching TV/DVD and another 7 playing computer games. For 4 it was playing and for 3 it was travel. Sport and hobbies had 1 each.

For what we did the least of was Reading for 10 of us, Chores/Work was for 8 of us, washing, hobbies, internet, and other were the rest.

We all had to present our data on a colored in 168 hour graph and then onto an exel spreadsheet with a computer made pie graph. Next we had to wr

New Footy Jumpers

techno5 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:46:25 +0000

Today Mr Clark showed us our school’s new footy jumpers. Unfortunately we will have to wait until next year to wear them. Trev and Jingzy got to model them.

grip

techno5 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:32:18 +0000

we did grip in class and we had to make a car that was self going so it had to go up slops of 60cm 59cm 35cm and14cm it was fun lukes won you can try it we got the i dear from a movie about grip it was fun to see if your car can go up slops

Water bugs

techno5 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:27:12 +0000

Today we had a surprise visit from Richard Hodgens from the Glenelg Hopkins Water Catchment Management Authority. He put us in teams of 3 or 4 and we looked to see whether the Moyne River near Hawkesdale or Hamilton Lake had the most water bugs or the most diversity. They came out to be about the same but the the water plants were different and the Lake bugs were more active. Good fun!

second golf lesson

techno5 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:09:40 +0000

Year 5’s second golf lesson concentratated on using wedge irons. The students had to try and hit or reach targets to win points. The boys averaged 73 points and the girls 69 points. The winning boy was Daniel Rentsch and the winning girl was Grace Simpson. Both of these were decided on play offs.

Golf

techno5 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:23:39 +0000

Yesterday students from Grade 5 and Grade 6 went onto the oval and had a golf lesson. We got to learn how to hold a golf stick and we had a go of hitting the golf ball as far as we could. The two girls who hit it the furtherest were Shannon and Che

Solar System Projects

techno5 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:11:10 +0000

We have just finished doing our proejcts on the solar system. We have been working on them for a few weeks now. We learnt lots of new things.

Kindy

techno5 — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:47:25 +0000

At Kindy in hawkesdale us grade 4s and 5s went there to read books to the kids. I read to thomas and Nina. and I played Lego with Leo. And I done crayons with Iszak, The kids names were thomas, Leo, Luis, Nina, iszak, Kate, Mary, and Marcus.

Adam