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From The Team
And just like that, another fortnight has passed! It is crazy to think that we are at the end of Week 4. Last week, we had our annual House Cross Country, and the 5/6 team is so proud of all of our students for displaying excellent sportsmanship and determination. It was wonderful to see our students pushing themselves to achieve their personal best, and cheering each other on with such enthusiasm.
Our students have been very busy writing their own information reports! They have explored various topics and developed their research skills to identify key information to use in their own writing. The dedication and creativity shown by our excellent writers have been truly impressive.
We would also like to wish all of our wonderful mums a fantastic Mother’s Day!
We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to seeing all of our students on Monday!
- Jordyn, Sarah and Tracy
What We Are Learning
Reminders
Homework
The 5/6 cohort continues our fortnightly homework tasks for Weeks 5 and 6! Remember to read for 20 minutes, 5 nights every week, and fill in your diaries to be checked every Friday. If you can’t read one night, make sure you do yourself a favour and catch up your reading the next night!
Try This...
1. Charlie needs to travel to his Grandmother’s house 275 kilometres away. He leaves at 1.15pm and travels 55 kilometres per hour. Will Charlie make it to his Grandmother’s house by 6pm?
2. When Toby travelled from Sydney to Bangkok, the plane he was in flew at an average speed of 516 km per hour. If it took 9 hours to get to Bangkok, what distance did he travel?
Friendology
This week in Friendology, the cohort have been learning, step-by-step, how to resolve conflict with a friend. They learnt how to handle a friend’s negative reaction and why people may respond with negative reactions. We looked at what to do if there is an online conflict, which was to always address it online. We also got to do some role play to practise how to follow the Friend-o-Cycle for talking out their friendship fires!
House Cross Country
On Tuesday 30th of April, all Foundation to Year 6 students competed in the annual House Cross Country. The top five-to-ten finishers will attend Division Cross Country and will make us proud, regardless of where they come. Mrs Coster has kindly offered to lead Scoresby Primary School on the day.
The students who made Division will go to the Kings Park Course on Friday 17th of May to represent Scoresby Primary School on the great three kilometre run. We deeply appreciate whoever has volunteered to go to the Division Cross Country.
- by Mason W and Ryan V
Mother’s Day Breakfast Club
On Thursday the 9th of May, mothers and mother figures were invited to our annual Mother’s Day Breakfast to celebrate all mothers throughout our community and what they do for us. There were all the original breakfast delights, such as muffins, croissants and juice - plus tea and coffee for the adults - for everyone to enjoy! All mothers were given a raffle ticket for an early Mothers Day gift as they entered the hall. At the end of Breakfast Club, the raffle was drawn and there were two lucky winners with a prize each. All of the students enjoyed dancing for their mothers to the Nutbush and the Macarena. The hall was decorated with flowers and pink and white tablecloths to create a fun and happy breakfast for our wonderful mothers. Everyone had a fun and relaxing brekkie out!!
- by Emily W, Summer C and Piper W
Informative Writing Pieces - 1 from each class
Apollo 11
By Tyler H, 5/6W
Glimmering in the night sky holding prodigious conundrums. Everyone is intrigued by the remarkable moon. Apollo 11, the moon exploration “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’’ Apollo 11.
On Earth
Apollo 11 is one of the most famous moon missions ever. You may think that a guy just rocked up to NASA and said “I'll go to the moon”. It didn't happen in the snap of his fingers. It took 6 weeks to train with multiple training lessons and even required being quarantined. The most important training drill was g-force training to get prepared for the take-off of the rocket which was 1.8 gs. Did you know that they practised planting the flag! They were quarantined for 2 weeks when they came back to Earth.
The Moon
The moon is a fascinating site of wonders, but the moon landing is so controversial as some people think it’s real and some don’t. The average distance of a crater is a whopping 20175km in diameter. Apollo 11 was on the moon for 21 hours and 36 minutes. Lots of the moon rocks that were captured were lost on the trip. It was unknown how much of the moon was explored and not even an easement could be made. There were at least 1.3million craters. How cool is that?
Fun Facts
Apollo 11 was one of the hardest moon explorations ever. It took an incredible 3 days, 3 hours and 49 minutes! Did you know that the space suit weighs a shocking 13.6kg? We all know Neil Armstrong as the famous guy that landed on the moon, but he actually got the quote wrong!
The moon’s captive secrets keep us waiting for someone to unveil secrets and mysteries. Space is fascinating and are bright night lights.
The Colosseum
By Charlotte P, 5/6H
Imagine this, you're standing in the middle or the Rome Colosseum, staring into the absolutely outstanding architecture, not even being able to imagine that this structure right here is almost 2000 years old. This amphitheatre has an incredible amount of history behind it, and so many mind blowing facts about the construction and how its used today.
The Building And Construction Process
The Colosseum was built somewhere between 70-72 AD then 8 years later finished. The construction began under the roman emperor Vespasian the first of the flavian dynasties orders, and was originally called the flavian amphitheatre. The colosseum was made from a few different stones such as, limestone, travertine, tuff (volcanic rock) and brick-faced concrete. After the first 2 years of the colosseums use the new emperor, Domitian the grandson of Vespasian, decided to add a third story for seating and viewing.
The History Behind The Colosseum
When the colosseum was first opened to the public, the emperor Titus, son of Vespasian, ordered the first games to start and they lasted over 100 days.
The Colosseum was used for a variety of different games, public executions, and other battles and fights. The most well known kinds of fights known today were gladiator battles. A gladiator battle, was the fight between men for the crowd as a form of entertainment, usually resulting in the death of one or both of the men. The other activities that were held in the Colosseum were, executions generally those who were criminals, Roman Army deserters, runaway slaves, and multiple other kinds of antisocial or criminal behaviours.
The original building of the colosseum was to revitalise Rome and repopulate the area, and it worked, the colosseum worked and was used for centuries after.
The Fall Of The Colosseum And Where It Is Now
The colosseum came to its end, with its last game being in January of 404 AD ending the life of the gladiator, Telemachus. The colosseum had become to expensive and less and less popular, to the point of its demise. The colosseum officially ended in 1349, due to an earthquake, causing mass destruction and caused half of the colosseum to fall, which is why today the outer south side is missing. Today the colosseum is almost 2000 years old, but still standing tall, and in a good enough condition that you can go visit it in Rome, Italy. To see it from the outside is free but if you want to go in you will have to buy a ticket, a standard ticket costs around 18 euros but a guided tour will cost you around 40.
Conclusion
The colosseum is considered one of the seven world wonders and an absolutely amazing piece of history at that, it has held hundreds of thousands of gladiator battles and has withstood centuries of natural disasters, and is still standing today.
Thomas Alva Edison: The great American inventor
By Joanna, 5/6S
You’ve heard of Thomas Edison surely once or twice, but do you know who he was? What did he do with his life? What did he achieve? Does he have rivalries? I can tell you the wonders of the man people once called crazy.
Thomas Alva Edison: His strange life
Thomas Alva Edison had a very strange life indeed. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11th, 1847. He had five siblings; (not in specific order) Eliza Smith Edison, Carlile Snow Edison, Marion Wallace Edison, William Pitt Edison and Harriet Ann (Tannie) Edison. He married his employee Mary Stilwell in 1871 and had two children. Unfortunately Mary died of “ congestion in the brain” in 1884. In 1886 Edison married Mina Miller and had four children. Edison’s children include(not in a specific order); Thomas Alva Edison Jr, Charles Edison, Theodore Miller Edison, Madeleine Edison. Unfortunately, on October 18th 1931, Edison died from diabetes at the age of eighty-four.
Thomas Alva Edison: What did this grand old man achieve?
Edison invented many things the most successful being the electric power system. That improved the light bulb. Before, the lightbulb created by Adolphe Chaillet could only last a short amount of time and had to be manually activated. Edison also invented the motion picture camera for making movies. He also improved the telegraph (a machine for transmitting messages through a number of dots and dashes) and the telephone!
Thomas Alva Edison: Partners or not?
In 1887, Edison sued Nikola Tesla, his rival, even though they’ve worked together before, and George Westinghouse, his archrival, creators of AC(Alternating Current) claiming that Tesla and Westinghouse did not give him enough credit (because Edison invented DC, Direct Current). This was later named the war of currents. It lasted nearly a decade! Edison went as far as shocking a elephant to prove that AC was dangerous. Edison lost, after Tesla shocked himself to prove that AC was not dangerous.
Thomas Alva Edison: Conclusion
This man certainly had a very strange life indeed. Now after reading this text , when you watch a movie, make a phone call, or turn on a light, you can brag to all your friends that you know all about the great inventor.