Fete!!

Hey,
Yesterday was our school fete. We usually have a production and a fete but this year we had some performances at the fete from each grade. It was called rock throughout the ages! Our class was the 1980's. We sung thriller, we will rock you and we are together! We had good make-up and costumes to suit all of the songs. It worked out really well and the audience seemed to enjoy it! At the fete we had rides and different games and lots of stalls. We had the combat challenge, mini golf, a junior jumping castle and a dunking machine. We got heaps of the teacher saturated, it was really funny!! We also had candy floss and popcorn and snow cones stalls. My friend Steph had 5 things of candy floss and her teeth went pink. There were also all different stalls and lucky cups filled with toys or lollies and chocolate. There was a trash and treasure and a silent auction plus a normal auction! It was really fun and my friend got a tattoo!! It was a great day and a good way to end the week!!

Camp

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About a week ago I arrived back home from a very tiring camp. We went down to the beach and stayed at the nearby scout camp! Although it was very fun everyone was tired out by the end of the 5 days. On Monday we got our stuff put on the bus and drove down to our camp. It took about 2 hours to get there.
 When we did arrive we put up or tents, got out our bags and lay down our sleeping bags. That day we also went down to the beach just to see what it was like! It was great. Over the days we went to the beach and played some games down there. We went on a great long hike for a few hours and afterwards relaxed a bit down at the beach. We also visited a light house and explored the rock pools and right off the edge we found a seal!! The seaweed was everywhere and it was called Neptune necklace. 
We also went to a rope course and had a time challenge and went to another place called challenge valley with all sorts of different activities to do outside! We were very lucky with the weather but one night there was a bit of a storm but everyone lasted through it! The toilets were awful because they were drop dunnies but the showers were great with nice hot water! 
All the things we did were really fun and on the hike there was a shoe cleaning place because the people who own the area didn't want a certain fungus to be spread! We also crossed a tiger snake breeding ground and walked along the cliffs. It was fantastic considering we had missed out on our other camp but that made up for it. 
We were going to go to another beach but that got flooded out earlier in the year and wasn't going to be a very pleasant trip! That was the first time out school has ever gone to that beach and we all enjoyed it. 

Orienteering!

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Today I went down to the district orienteering. Our school has now won 18 out of 21 times. We are going really well and have just taken the trophy once again! I was one out of two people chosen to go up and take the trophy to represent our school. The are three groups in each year level starting from grade 3 to enter for boys and girls. Girls A, Girls B and Pairs, Boys A, Boys B and Pairs. I was in the Girls B along with most of my friends and I was lucky enough to win. It took me 37 minutes to complete the large course and the 9 other people behind me took from 40 minutes to an hour or so! There were lots of steep hills but I managed to make my way up them. We had a great day out and have the trophy for our 18th time!

Athletics

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As you may remember me saying about my districts athletics and moving up to the next level, I did, if you haven't read it you may want to see it first and then come back to this. Click Here To Go To Link. Anyway I went down and it was great, hot weather but really fun. I caught the bus down there and arrived just on time. My event was second of the day at 9:45, it didn't go for too long but I was in triple jump and there were alot if girls also competing against me. I cam 4th out of about 20 girls. You would only move on to the next level if you came 1st or 2nd, and I didn't but some of my friends from the other school did. There was a canteen there and I got some things, it was a very hot day. Even though I thought I had put on sun screen it appeared that I was wrong, It was great fun and a long day!!
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Catching Up

Over Flowing

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Parsley

There hasn't been too much going on around my house but I thought I could just write a post about how everything is going. 

Veggie  Gardens: What is there to tell except that they're huge and we are getting alot of use out of them! They're very tall now and some are over flowing our space  for them!! The pics be   easier to see. 

School: At School I have to make a musical instrument for music class, I looked at 4 different ones and two were actually new instruments. I looked at a tambourine because it would be reasonably easy and able to be decorated, a pan flute because it has a good sound and would be fun to make and then the two made up ones. First was based on a set of newton balls which is a frame with balls hanging, you pull the end and the energy travels through the rest and causes the end one to glide through the air and back down knocking the last one over and over again. So I thought if I extended the frames and hung keys of pipe to make chimes on either end, that when you pull the newton balls it would hit the chimes and make a noise. The second made up one, was to attach bells on a pan flute so you could still blow through it and also jiggle it around like a tambourine! In the end I chose a tambourine!

Uniform Fitting

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Yesterday my family drove to the new high school I will be going to next year. As I am familiar with the school because I was there in grade prep and 1 I new a little bit about the uniform. So we were having the fitting to make sure everything was right and see what I got to wear. The uniform was very big with all different clothes. I Summer and Sport because we would do the Winter next term. For the Summer there was just a dress plus the other uniform you wear all year round which is ankle socks, the jumper and blazer. The sport uniform was very simple, shorts, tee-shirt and a rugby jumper. I thought the uniform was pretty good and I really liked it! It was a great day and fun to see what I would be wearing next year. 

Show Day

Hello Everyone,
Last Friday, last Friday of the school term it was the annual show day. It started off with the pet parade. Everyone brings in a dog, a bird, a cat, a sheep, a horse etc.!! Then they would walk around the schools oval showing off and playing t=with their animals. If you don't have a pet or don't want to bring one (like me) you can bring a toy. I brought a koala puppet! It was the only thing       I could find in a rush!! 

After that which goes for half and hour or so we move onto the exhibits. The hole school had been working on something to do with our theme. Country/Farms. Grades Prep-4 were working on 2D art such as drawings. The grade 5's and 6's get to create 3D pieces.  

Then it was optional whether you put in a cake or a flower arrangement. The cakes were judged on the decorating. We even had the CWA (Country Women's Association) come in and judge all of our work as well as all of the students! 

Next it was time to go inside, our class just relaxed and packed up quickly for the rest of the term. We didn't do much but sit down and have a chat with our friends. After that it was play time. That's just like any other day and was pretty fun! Next the years 5 and 6 went over the road to a block of land our school owns. We played games all earning points leading up to the final prize! 1st up was the wheel barrow races, my team did quite well, as other teams had a few tumbles!! It was then time for the egg and spoon races or spoon and tennis ball races! We dropped a few but hid it from the people watching. That was it and then it was lunch.

This is they best part of the day. We could buy everything, there were stalls set up all over the netball court with hot pies and sausage rolls. Hot dogs and sausages. Cordial, dim sims and ice-cream. The lolly stall, full of delicious treats. 
Whilst it was still last play most of the school joined in on a big game of soccer. It was 5 and 6 v the rest of the school. Because we've had more experience and we kick harder a few kids ended up with some injuries but the game still went on. The final score was 3-1 but we only had about 25 minutes to play! Then we all went inside and relaxed again until it was time to go home at 2:30.