Oaks Day

On Thursday it was Oaks Day. All of the year 6 students were required to wear top notch closes for the day. A lot of the girls wore dresses and boys wore nice shirts. We all did the cat walk and the final contestants made a final cat walk were they revealed the winners.

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Katherine Applegate

This term we are reading a story by the author Katherine Applegate” The one and only Ivan”.

Katherine has wrote many other books including:

* The invasion

*The adalite  chronicles

* Buffalo storm

And many more.

She has won many award including the Golden Kite award for fiction with the book Home and he brave, and the John Newberry Award with the book the one and only Ivan.

 

She wrote the one and only Ivan because she wanted to share the true story of the bear.

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The 3 levels of government

*Local government

* State government

* Federation government

Local government: Donna Petrovic

State government: Daniel Andrews

Federal government: Tony Abbott

The Federal Government are in charge of parks, sport ground, rubbish collection, local roads street lighting, health centres ect.

State government are in charge of hospital, police stations shops parks. houses ect.

local government are in charge of local plants gardens local sports centres and make fundraisers.

Bridges…

Today in class we were researching bridges and we had to choose 5 bridges that we thought were cleverly designed. Here is the photos

Its creative, efficient and simple.

Its creative, efficient and simple.

It looks supportive.

It looks supportive.

I like how  the bridge has rope weaving through the bridge to support

I like how the bridge has rope weaving through the bridge to support

M&M counting

Today in class we counted M&M’s and put them into a chart. Here is what we found out…

 

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We found out that 4 blue, 3 red, 3 green, 0 orange, 2 brown and 2 yellow. We had 4 blue with the most and 0 orange with the least. We also had to make them into percentage.

 

Term 3 Goals…

Here are my term 3 goals

Reading goal: to re read unsure words or sentences

* read aloud to someone and re read the mistakes

Writing goal: To write with more description

* Look in the dictionary for descriptive words.

* Use descriptive words often

Maths goal: To learn fractions and decimals more

* Ask Mr Bell for help

*Practise at home

Personal goal: To charge my netbook

* charge in the morning

Leadership goal: To make the basketball team and play to very best

* play to my best

* never give up