Rosanne Hawke Visit – By Nilly

On the wednesday 19 of August a woman called Rosanne Hawke came in you to our school.  You may know her. 

One of her books is Wolfchild but she was not talking about that one.

She showed us her scrap book with all of her ideas. One she was talking about

was Kerenza and all the other characters like

Wennea, Kitto, Nanny, Ma, Da, Harry and Jacob and so on. 

 I think it was lovely for Rosanne to come in.

The Adaptations Of The Sugar Glider – By Nikita

The Adaptations of a Sugar Glider
By Nikita
The Sugar Glider, also known as Petaurus Breviceps, are small marsupials (a marsupial is an animal that carries its young in a pouch after it is born) that live in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, but are native and live in Australia. Sugar Gliders are not only found out in the nature, but also can be kept as pets. The matured (fully grown and developed) Sugar Gliders can reach about 6 inches long, and adult Sugar Gliders weigh about 6 ounces. Sugar Gliders are mostly black and white, but sometimes they have grey on them.
Massive Eyes
The Sugar Glider has adapted to having huge eyes so that they can see well in the night, and so that they can spot when predators (animals that hunt other animals) are near. This helps them survive in the bush much better. Thanks to the big eyes, Sugar Gliders can protect their babies easier.
Big Claws

The Sugar gliders have adapted in a way in which they have long, pointy claws. This makes climbing around and clinging to trees easier. Their claws are substantial (which mean that its claws are strong, large and solid.) and being able to climb trees in this way, helps them hide from land predators.
Prehensile Tail
Having a prehensile tail, (a tail which can do a lot) means that they can carry things with it. This tail also helps to steer the Glider when its gliding, (to fly smoothly without flapping its wings; although Sugar Gliders don’t have wings) and helps it to balance.
Gliding Skills

The Sugar Gliders have developed a skill to glide from tree to tree. They adapted in this way to get across large areas of land faster, and to avoid the land predators below.
Sugar gliders have adapted well to the Australian conditions, and have taken on some pretty amazing and useful skills. These creature have adapted to many things and more, and can stick out of land predators way.

Maritime Museum! by Charlotte

On Monday my class room 11 and Lindsey’s class room 12 went to the Maritime Museum.

Firstly our group went down to the cellar and did an activity on the tablets. We learnt about how it felt on the boats for first class, second class and third class passengers. We also got to sleep in the beds in the third class’s cabins. Then we went up to the 1st floor  and played on some educational games. On the second floor we went on an old ship and looked at Captain Cook’s treasure chest. After we went to the light house we spotted a dolphin and called it John. After we had lunch then went back to school.

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Rosanne Hawke visit – By Stephanie

Today the 19 of August 2015 the wonderful author,  Rosanne Hawke visited our school. We went in the libary to see her books. Over the years she has produced 24 books. Rosanne talked about her different books and explained how she got her ideas to write her wonderful books. In class we are reading her newest book called Kerenza. She talked about a story that was real that had her great great great great grandpa and grandma in it and from this she got some ideas for her story. Rosanne showed the personality of her character Kerenza in the book and the book was about a girl called Kerenza and she has to move away from her family to Australia. Kerenza has to leave all her things there and she takes a steam boat to Australia. Her personality  is nice. She likes embroidering pictures on to blankets and her grandma gave her some pictures when she left her home. With those pictures she liked making scrap books to keep memories. Rosanne skowed us some things that they used in the days in 1800s like a penny that was money in those days. She also showed a panny that was like an apron that the little kids used to wear at school in the olden days. Rosanne picked someone up to wear and try on the panny and it looked cool. It was really fun and interesting.

 

Rosanne Hawke vist by Dash

Today on Wednesday the 19th of August we had the author of the book Kerenza, Rosanne Hawke came to our school. She shared some very cool information. She had a trip to Cornwall to help set the setting of her book about Kerenza. To inspire her on her creation of Kerenza the girl who moves to Australia. She had a whole scrap book about her and what she is like. Her books are Kerenza, Marrying Amera,Taj and the Great Camel Trek, The messenger Bird, The Keeper, Wolfchild, Borderland a trilogry, Zenna Dare, Soyrara the story teller and A kiss in Every Wave. Wow that’s a lot of books! Apparently she has made over 24 books!!

Rosanne Hawke’s visit – By Lionel

On the 19th of August, Rosanne Hawke the author of 24 books visited rm11 and rm12. She visited us as week 5 is book week and that rm11 and rm12 are doing a comprehension about Kerenza. Rosanne came into the library at 9.30 pm and she talked about the newest book she has written and published. The book was called Kerenza. The blurb of the story is that a girl called Kerenza and her family would be leaving Cornwall, Britain and would be leaving her culture and her friends. When Kerenza reaches Australia, she will see endless bushes. Then, she gave us an insight into the books she has written. In the beginning of the visit, she asked us how much of the newest book, Kerenza we have read. We have read the first chapter and only a few people have read the second chapter of the book. Secondly, Hawke told us a story about what had inspired her to write the book. Then, she showed what it was like to be writing a book. She also told us a special secret about writing a book. It was really fun to take a look behind the scenes. She shared with us that some of the characters are in real life. Before she even published the book, the publisher told her that she only had seven months to write a book with 14000 words. However, she misheard the publisher and ended up writing the book with 40000 words and also had to ask the publisher for an extra two months. In the story, Kerenza had a scrapbook as a diary to keep track of her stuff. I guess this is the end of this blog, I would be signing off with a few more words, hope you enjoyed the blog and will read Rosanne’s newest book, Kerenza.Goodbye!

Watch Out Japan, Here I Come!!!:) – By Matilda

Hi,

These school holidays I’m going to Japan.

I’m really looking forward to seeing a real Ryokan (traditional Japanese Inn) and seeing Tokyo because I’ve never been to see such a MASSIVE bustling place as Tokyo. Wish me luck

PS: If you have Ideas please comment below

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Technology and circuits/ catalogue maths – By Patrick

When people think of technology they think BIG!, they think of things like factories, power stations really complicated things, but really even little things like torches are technology.

In term two our teacher gave us five two hour lessons to produce a working circuit. Many people chose to create things like torches and lights but I chose to create a tripwire alarm to warn me when my pesky brother or sister tries to get into my room.

After five weeks of work we finally finished our circuits. We all shared our creations.

 

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Catalogue Maths!

In catalogue maths we got to learn about budgets. We drew up a lemonade stand in our books and decided how much money we needed to spend to make the lemonade, then we had to decide how much to price the lemonade.

The next two weeks we had to make up a budget and buy items for a certain event. I chose to buy food for a party.

Then we told everyone what we chose to buy from the magazine we brought together.

Alvin’s Journey to Maritime Musem

Hi everyone,

On Monday 27th July 2015 21st century I went to the Maritime Museum at Port Adelaide with classes 11 & 12.

When we got there we got into groups A & B, B was with Anastasia and A was with Lindsey. I was in A with Greg. We first went to the light house. It was scary when we went up and terrifying down. On top of the light house you could see land marks e.g the cranes. After we went to the light house we went to the museum At the museum we did lots of activities to help us get a better understanding of the first British colonisation. We got to see an old kipper, a type of boat that transports goods. We also got to see a very big passenger liner even though we were running out of time.  On the bus ride back to school people were noisy.

From Alvin /Alvipro