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By Eddie Huynh 6LM

Term Reflection

In this term which is term 3, my class and I have been having a

wonderful time. Miss McMurtrie and Mr Kempermen have been

talking to us about the year 6 exhibition. This is kinder scary

because we are the first BGS boys who are going to do this

exhibition.

The things we have been doing are going on excursions making

examples of these exhibitions. We went to the city for our

excursion and we went by train to the city and it took ages. We

went to and exhibition where people were trying to sell there

products there and we saw all kinds of stands. We saw giant

ones, small ones, colourful ones and ones that gave us free stuff.

When we came back from the excursion we talked about the

things that made a good stand. The things that made a good

stand were things like colour, big, eye catching and free stuff.

The winning stand was the BOSE one. It ticked all the boxes, it

was bright and stood out all of them because of it’s colour, it

gave away free things like showing us a 15 minute movie and gave

us free chocolates and t-shirt that one fits all. They displayed

giant TV’s and had a competition where if you were wearing the

free BOSE t-shirt that would give a few people free head phones

that cost a lot, but I wasn’t one of those people.

After the excursion a few weeks later, it was house cross country

and the 5’s and 6’s had to run 2.6 or 2.4 km, the year 7’s and 8’s

had to run 3 point something and I think the year 9’s had to run

4km. Some of the year 9’s didn’t finish but that was okay because

it was huge and long. I came 25 out of 32 and that was better

then last year. In the middle I tripped over and then I walked it.

After the race I got an ice pack on my ankle and bought an icy

twist which is an icy pole.

2 or 3 weeks later we started to do a science speech which was

on a Great Barrier Reef animal and it was kinder like a practice

for the house public speaking competition, my house won last year

which is Forsyth if you didn’t know. Then we got told that we only

had 1 week to prepare for our house speech when last year we

Term 3 Goals

UOI

In UOI this term we have been doing, where we are in place in time and how we

express ourselves. We have been doing power points on our expressions. The faces I

used were surprised, sad, bored, thinker and happy. We also did a proposal to present

a new and renewable recourse to the prime minister.

I did my renewable recourse on hydro electric dam. I was planning to build the hydro

electric dam in Phillipe Island and it was going to go and power the whole of Phillipe

Island. We had t find out what recourses we need and how many of the recourses we

need. We had to write a letter to the prime minister about what we wanted to do. My

hydro electric dam was going to cost around 2 billion dollars.

We then started to find out about exhibitions because we were going to be the first

boys from BGS to do one. We went to an exhibition in the city and we got there by

train. We saw all sorts of stands and we went past and went to see Trent’s dads stand

which was Bourne Bathrooms. We also saw Josh and Jenna from the show the Block.

We got to stay and see them talk about how it was on the show.

English

This term in English we have been learning about suffixes, prefixes,

antonyms, homonyms, synonyms and acronyms. A prefix is a word which

has a base word and then you add a smaller word on the back to make it

another word the word that you add on is called a suffix. A prefix is

kinder the same thing but instead of added it onto the back of the word

you add it onto the front of the word. An antonym are words that are

opposite like happy and sad or skinny and fat. A synonym is words that are

similar to other words like fantastic, amazing, wonderful and marvellous. A

homonym is two words that sound the same but are spelt differently like

bear and bare, two, to and too.

This term in English we have been doing a lot more proof reading then the

last 2 terms as well. We have been learning how to write a text response

because no one knew how to do it at the start; we have done about 3 or 4

text responses.

Math

In term 3 in maths we have been looking at triangles, angles, time,

coordinates, grid references, squared and cubes, positive and negative

and there are some people who go into extension to do harder work.

The triangle has 180 degreese in it and some examples of different

triangles are equilateral, isosceles, and equiangular, when we did

triangles we also related it to angles. A grid references is a point on

the like but a coordinate is in the square. A squared number is a number

time sing itself and you can also call a squared number, something to

the power of two.

Cubed are the same but you doing it with 3 numbers and you can call it

something to the power of three. In positive and negative we have been

doing adding and subtracting with positive and negative numbers. In

extensions we have been doing problem solving and the questions were

really hard, for the first few weeks we did it with Miss Mason.

Art

Charcoal

When we did pastel drawings I

absolutely loved it because we got to

get a 3D picture of a game and then

draw it on an A3 piece of paper and

then cover it in pastel. After we drew

the picture, you only had to do dabs of

pastel and then you rubbed it in by

stroking it. After finishing, we had to

put it in a paper frame and then we

hung it up in the school, my picture

was Sonic from Mario and Sonic and

the Olympic Games.

Pastels

In art this term we have been learning about

pastels, charcoal and glass window pictures.

When we used the charcoal it was the start of

the term and we had to cover an A3 piece of

paper with charcoal and then used bread and a

rubber to engrave the picture of an object that

was on the table in front of us. The objects

that were in front of me were two masks, a

fruit which Mr Bell told me and I forgot a lamp,

a post and a dangling thing. Out of all these

objects I chose to draw the mask but first I

drew the lamp but then covered it in charcoal

again because I changed to the mask.

Stain Glass Windows

We then started to find pictures

of stain glass window pictures and

then put them on an A3 piece of

paper and printed it out. We get to

choose 2 drawings, I chose silver

from sonic and shadow from sonic

and they are all Sonic’s brothers.

That is what I have done in art

and that is what I am doing in art.

Sport

In sport this term we have been doing football, rugby and lacrosse. In foot ball

we did the same things that we do every year. We did things like kicking the

ball around, handballing the ball to each other and at the last week of football

we had a few matches. At the end of football we did this thing for coke zero

and we had to try to kick a football and hit the coke zero can of the post, only

one person got it, it was Joel.

Lacrosse is a game with a long stick with a net on the end of it and then there

is a ball and two goals at each end. We trained for 2 weeks and then had a

huge game with the other class, we lost but it was still fun.

In rugby we had to train for 2 to 3 weeks and in the game, when you got five

tackles you had to kick it. When my team played rugby our tactic was just to

get the ball and then run forward and even when you are being tackled. We

were going to have a big game against the other class but we had to wait to

next week until we got to play because it was raining outside. Now we are doing

fitness testing.

French

In French this term we have been learning to say landmarks in French,

Tour de France, the Mono Lisa and making a sustainable home in Google

sketched up. We started off doing the Mono Lisa and we had to find

out who stole the Mono Lisa and how they stole it, the person who stole

it was the cleaner.

We then started to learn about the Tour De France. Naddel Evans won

the Tour de France and we learnt how long it was and where it started

and where it ended. We watched videos of it and saw who won the

shirts. Naddel Evans won it for Australia for the first time.

It was then the last 4 or 5 weeks of the term and we had to design a

sustainable house in Google sketch up. We have nearly finished and

after finishing the house we have to label our sustainable things in our

house, like my one has a water tank, a hybrid car, a bike, solar panels,

veggie garden and a green house. Miss Turner then said that we could

do some sentences in French to get extra marks. I have only done a

few. This is to be given in next weeks and it was a lot of fun.

Music

This term in music we have been learning about the planets and how to play the

keyboard. When we started off with the keyboard we first drew our own

keyboard on a piece of paper with some notes on it. We started to learn how to

find the note middle C. We then learnt how to play Marry had a little lamb,

Row along and then she gave us a new song to play at the end of the term.

We then started to listen to the planets by Gustave Holst. He made a music

piece for every planet that we know of. The planets that we have listened to

are Mars the bringer of war, Venus the bringer of peace, Jupiter the bringer

of jollity, Saturn the bringer of old age and Mercury the winged messenger. We

then watched Bernard for Mercury the winged messenger. We had to type a

story about Bernard in his accidents about what we think Mercury the winged

messenger. My Bernard was about him running in a marathon and then he kept

cheating to get to the front of the line because he wanted to win the prize

which was 20 years of unlimited food and then he got knocked out by a poll and

woke up in hospital full of cast around him.

Library

In library this term we have been doing a giant card box which we turned into a folk tale

story book. The folk tale that I went to choose was Pus in Boots.

I chose puss in boots because I liked the movie and I wanted to see what it originally

was. The original one was about how he and his brothers got things from his dad but he

only wanted boots. He then went to the king to ask that I will kill the shape shifting troll

for you. He then went to the troll and the troll turned into a lion but then Puss in boots

said that you can turn into a giant animal but what about a mouse. Puss in boots then ate

the troll that turned into a mouse and then he got a big amount of treasure for it.

Now in library we have been learning how to use sight ace. It is a program for our school

library and even St Margrets one. It tells us when it is in, how many copy’s of it is in

the library, a picture of the book, the author of the book and where it is located. I also

just bought the new Skulduggery book Death Bringer.

Science

In this term in science we have been learning and

studying about the Great Barrier Reef, coral reefs

and the wildlife in the Great Barrier Reef. We have

started by doing sheets and researching about

coral. We then watched a twenty-five minute movie

or show on the Great Barrier Reef. We had to then

answer some questions on the video. She then asked

us to go and do a project on a Great Barrier Reef

animal. My Great Barrier Reef animal that I did

was the sea turtle. The new facts that I learnt

were that there were different types of sea

turtles; I used to think that there was only one but

now I know that there are five. My speech went

around two minutes, my speech was long but I

thought I talked to fast and I moved around a bit

when I was speaking and for my power point I

forgot to switch slides so there was only one

picture for the whole speech. So the marks that I

got for my Great Barrier Reef speech were 8/10

for the presentation, like my power point and how I

spoke, I then got 20/20 for my information and

then finally got an 10/10 for my references, she

said you get automatically get full marks for your

presentation when you get four references.

PYP ATITUDES

The PYP attitude that I showed in this term was confidents and risk taking. I

showed confidents and risk taking in sport when we played rugby. When I got the

ball from my team mate I didn’t know what to do so then I just ran forward and

slamming into people and then I was nearly at the other side but then Jackson and

somebody else was in front of me and then I just slammed into them. When the

match was over Mr Kempermen said, that was the right thing to do in those

situations.

I showed confidents and risk taking when I wanted to go into a group with Nic, I

showed these PYP attitudes because I have never tried legomation before and I

didn’t know what would happen, but I went with anyway because I wanted to try it

out. These are the PYP attitudes that I showed this term and I hope I show more

next term.