These past couple of weeks we have been busy learning about the Gold Rush. We have learnt about who discovered gold as well what life was like on the goldfields. We played an interactive game called Gold Rush 2. We had to go to a number of different stores and purchase items so we could dig for gold. Some of us earnt a lot of money. Some of us had to go back and try again to get more money. We discovered that purchasing certain foods were not a good choice because we didn’t have a fridge to put it in. We also learnt to make gifs using a website called Brush.Ninja. It was a little difficult because we aren’t very neat with our drawing skills online just yet. But we did create some gifs about the goldfields. I think our multimedia presentations are going to look really great once they are done because we will have so many interesting things to write about.  

Pictures of our Gold Rush game 

In English lessons we looked at language features in a poem called Storm at Sea. We had to find the similes, metaphors, personification and onomatopoeia. Using our colours, we coloured or underlined the words or phrases. We checked our page and most of us got everything correct. We then went onto Google Classroom and did our good copies using our highlighter or coloured font to show each of the language features.  

Jack’s example of similes, metaphors, personification and onomatopoeia from the poem Storm at Sea  

Our Math lessons have been a bit tricky these two weeks. We have been looking at factors, multiples and divisibility. If we know our times tables, we are able to do our work a lot quicker. If we don’t we need to make sure we have our multiplication chart to have a quick look at. It has been challenging but rewarding when we get the questions right. Miss Edmonds showed us some rules on how to work out divisibility and it shows that some really clever people could work out big numbers if they know those rules. We are getting better at harder problems all the time.  

Casey and Sydney’s Math worksheets on Divisibility 

We searched around the school for items/symbols that show what we value in our school for our Religion lessons. We all were able to draw a variety of things. We learnt a bit more about our mission and vision for our school by looking at our school website. Knowing about this before walking around our school made us search for certain symbols. Humility, Justice and Compassion can be seen and heard every day. We have a lot of important people in our school that make our school the great place it is. Some are no longer at our school and some come to our school every day. We learnt our school is different from other schools because it is named after St Joseph the Worker, it is a Catholic school and that we value many different things that help us be the best students we can be.  

Ryan, Sarah & Noah’s items/symbols from around the school  

Student Awards- Noah Lynch, Cees Hagenmaier, Sarah Bond and Brendan Ward 

Things to Remember 

Thursday’s are library & homework day 

Week 7 is Book Fair & Book Week. Don’t forget to organise your costumes! The theme is ‘Curious Creatures, Wild Minds’ or choose your favourite book character.