TIME TO SAY GOODBYE

The last post for this year....we have had a tremendous time in Year 5 in 2008. We have been on some fantastic excursions, learnt lots in the classroom and learnt lots abot ourselves and the sort of people we want to be as we get older.

We also have to say a big goodbye and good luck to Miss B who unfortunately is leaving us today. She is off to a new school and we wish her all the very best!

ARL BANNER COMPETITION

Late last term Oschi and some other boys from our class decided to enter us into the ARL Banner Comp. It involved us all working together to create a 2m x 2m banner that supported one of the countries in the World Cup with a harmony message and the colours of the country we chose. Guess what???? Of all the schools who entered the comp ours won! Along with some other schools we have won 50 tickets to the semi final in brisbane...awesome!!! Here is our banner! We can't wait to get to the game. We may even be on Channel 9 so keep an eye out for the CTK crew!

CAMP WARRAWEE

Last week on the 6 and 7 of November our class along with the Year 6's went on an overnight camp. We had so much fun participating in heaps of great team building challenges and sharing lots of laughs. Here we are in action.

Welcome back to Term 4!

Welcome back all to the last term for 2008. There sure is alot planned with our pre leadership camp to get ready for, "The Interview" and of course all the end of year parties!!!!! Unfortunately it's also time to say goodbye and good luck to Miss B as she will be starting at a new school next year....so let's not hold back and enjoy the end to another awesome year!!!!!!

END OF TERM 3!

Another sad day as we had to endure playing games, watching a movie while eating popcorn and going out for a game of Kick Tennis....yeeehaaa....another 2 weeks of holidays!!!

COUNTRY TRAVEL EXPO

Today Year 4-7 had a great time visiting each others classrooms to see all the great work they did on their country expo! Each class presented various displays on one of 24 different countries from all over the world. In groups we studied Mexico, Turkey, Sudan, Samoa, Peru and Spain. Each group created a poster, brochure and various giveaways! We all had lots of fun putting on the expo and showing the other grades. Here we are in action....

ANDY GRIFFITHS

Last Friday Year 4-7 got to hear from a fantastic Aussie author Andy Griffiths. Andy was great to listen to as he gave us lots of ways that we can annoy our parents, teachers and brothers and sisters. Some of us brought some money to buy one of his books. We were very lucky to have it personally signed. We all had a fun time!

2008 Beijing Olympics

We have had lots of fun watching the Olympics through our new data projector. Good on you Australia...you have made us all very proud!

WYD08

Today Miss B has left to travel to World Youth Day in Sydney. She will be travelling by bus with some other members of the Italian community to hopefully see the Pope and spend some time in prayer with 500,000 people from all over the world. Stay safe Miss B and we can't wait to hear and see what you did in Sydney.

Next Friday we will welcome 20 Italian pilgrims to our school to share in a fun day!

TERM 3

Back to school...this term we are really excited as we will be learning all about the Olympics in Beijing. We have already started talking about the Ancient Olympics and can't wait to watch all the events on TV.

OUR NEW CLASSROOM

The last week of this term saw us all move into our new classroom. They look fantastic. We are really excited and can't wait for you all to come and visit us!

EXCURSION TO THE SAFEHOME

Term2 our class visited the Safehome in Petrie. We learnt lots of interesting and important things about how to be safe in and out of our homes. We really enjoyed escaping from the pretend fire. Here are some of us in action!

CTK SPORTS DAY!

A fantastic day had and shared by all. The Bribie team won on the day.....yeah!

YEAR 5 TEST!!!

Week 5 of Term 2 has been very busy for us.....3 days of tests, tests and tests! Here we are trying our best during the writing task.

SCIENCE PRESENTATION

Today Mr Joe came to speak to the school about science. He spoke to us about how air works and showed us lots of very interesting things!

GOLD TREK....LAST DAY OF TERM

Our last day of term 1 was great. Miss B organised a Gold Trek where in teams, we all had to read various clues that took us around the school to find the Gold. We also had a scavenger hunt that involved each team collecting certain things...this was for another bonus prize. The winning team was were the reds! They found the gold (a 1kg chocolate egg) in our classroom. We all had a piece or 2 or 3! Here are our winners holding up the egg...along with other moments throughout the trek. Thanks Miss B for a well organised activity....when's the next one!

Today is also the last day of term.....here's to a safe and happy holiday and see you all next week!

5 Blue

LITTER AUDIT

We sure have had a very, very busy day today. Today we conducted a litter audit of the school with Mia a worker from the Caboolture Shire Council. Our class travelled around the school to collect any rubbish left around our grounds and record it on our sheets. After just 30 mins we found over 500 pieces of rubbish from around our classrooms. We weighed all the rubbish and found out it was over 4kg....WOW! We have since listed a few ideas as to how we can reduce the litter at school and will continue this project more next term.

GOLD INTERVIEWS

As part of our assessment this term, we have had to take on the role of a person who lived on the goldfields. Each one of us chose to be either a digger, mother/wife, policeman or blacksmith. We had to dress up in the role of our chosen character and answer a number of questions about our life with our host Miss B.

FESTA TIME!

Today our class put on a festa (party) for our ospiti (guests)....our parents, teachers and some students came to our party. Our task for Italian this term was to organise a festa with guests, GIOCHI (games) and lots and lots of CIBO (food). We had lots of fun and was a great opportunity for us to all practise the Italian we have been learning about each week in class.

GOLD EXCURSION - PROPHET GOLD MINE

On the 26 March, 5 Blue went to the Prophet Gold Mine. We experienced how life is/was on a gold mine in Kilkivan.

We arrived at school at 6:50am and the bus left at 7:30am. It took 2 and a half hours to get to the town. We went the wrong way so we turned around and went into the town. It was very small town. We got out of the town and found the place we were supposed to go. We got out of the bus and we met John and had morning tea. John told us what happened on the gold mine. After that he showed us around his mine. After showing us around we got to pan for gold. After panning, John showed what gold looks like when it is melted down and cooled. We had lunch and then had to say goodbye to the gold mine and head back to school.

I really enjoyed the excursion to the gold mine because i got to pan for gold and learn more about gold. By Liam

TERM ONE

We have been very busy this term. We have learnt lots on GOLD and the Eureka Stockade, read a fantastic novel called Holes and have been researching various third world countries to prepare a Prayer Ritual for. Here are some photos of us working hard in class.

WELCOME TO 2008

Welcome to all! This year lots of exciting events have been planned to make 2008 great! We will aim to share these special moments with you through this blog. ENJOY!