Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Book Character Parade 2015
Wow! How great were the costumes, again. Thanks to all the parents and students who put in the effort to be a part of this fun day. Great to see the excited faces and enthusiasm during Book Week.
Check out the characters.
Check out the characters.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
4/5SL Chinese Beliefs and Customs
Chinese Customs
Chinese New Year
A traditional Chinese
dragon winds its way through the streets of Turfan in the Xinjiang. New Year is celebrated with great enthusiasm in London’s Soho –one of the centres of the Chinese –speaking community in Britain.
These colourful floats
form part of the Singapore annual Chin gay parade. Lanterns of all imaginable
shapes and sizes are displayed.
People worship at Temple
and bring offerings to the gods whilst lighting incense for Chinese New Year.
They hope that their offerings and prayers will ensure harmony with the gods
and bring good fortune in the coming year
Stilt walking is a favourite entertainment at New Year.
There are many different types of stilt displays, some highly energetic, some,
like these stilt walkers, calm and beautiful. The name, Yangge or seedling
song, come from the songs song by peasants planting rice seedlings. These
performers from the Heilongjiang province, china, dress up as characters from traditional
stories.
Ghost Festival
Some Chinese people believe that in the seventh lunar month, the giant gates of the underworld open. Ghosts who have been trapped are released to visit the living. The night before the rituals, lanterns are lit in the temples and released on the water, so the ghosts can be guided to the ceremonies. People prepare offering of food for the hungry ghosts, and burn paper money for them to take back to the underworld.
The dragon boat festival
The dragon boat festival is a 2000 year old tradition. The now occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional lunar calendar.
Family Life
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
5MC Nationally Remembered Days
ANZAC Day
The date of Anzac day is April 25
The day is about
the war between Turks and Australia and New Zealand.
On the 25th
of April the way that
Australia celebrates is that 10s of
1000s of people stand motionless in the darkness to remember their fallen
countrymen and women as they mark the anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli
in 1915.
We celebrate
with a quick 1 minute of silence to remember the soldiers who fought in the
war. Past soldiers march around the town square while observers acknowledge there
that they protected our country. Some of us celebrate by staying at home or
doing something with the family.
Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day
On the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th
month everyone stops and remembers the people who died at war, particularly the
First Wold war.
At 11am on11november 1918, the guns on the Western Front fell silent
after more than four years of continuous warfare. The allied armies had driven
the German invaders back, having inflicted heavy defeats upon them over the
preceding four months.
Australians traditionally have a ceremony to remember all the people who
went and defended their country at war. Also we respect them by having one
minute of silence to remember who dedicated their lives at war for our country
P.S Remembrance Day it is also Shayla’s birthday
The best way to relay the concepts of remembrance and commemorate is by
telling simple stories and using visual material such as photographs and
artefacts including slouch hacks and the like.
Australia Day
Australia
day is the official national day of Australia. The national day is a designated
date on which celebrations mark the nationhood of a nation or non-sovereign
country. Australia’s national day of celebrations is a day for all Australians
to celebrate what’s great about Australia and being Australian.
NAIDOC Day
National
Aboriginal and Islander day is a day for Aboriginal and Islander people to
celebrate their survival as Australia’s first people, their contribution to
Australia’s ongoing history and their achievements
as modern Australia’s. The original one-day celebrations which stated in 1957, has
now been extended into national celebration.
NAIDOC
Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history,
culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
NAIDOC is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Australians
from all walks of life. The week is a great opportunity to participate in a
range of activities and to support your local Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander community.
NAIDOC
originally stood for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance
Committee’. This committee was once responsible for organising national
activities during NAIDOC Week and its acronym has since become the name of the
week itself. Find out more about the origins and history of NAIDOC Week.
Local community celebrations during
NAIDOC Week are encouraged and often organised by communities, government
agencies, local councils, schools
and workplaces NAIDOC promotes the first Sunday in July as a day to draw the
attention of Australians to aboriginal and islanders people.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
5KB Kosciusko National Park
Corroboree
frog
Description
The corroboree frog lives in the Kosciusko National
Park, it lives among the sphagnum moss in alpine bogs. The corroboree frog
hibernates in burrows under the snow in winter. The favoured habitat of the
corroboree frog is in moss or in shallow streams.
Food
The corroboree frogs are the first vertebrates
discovered that are able to produce their own poisonous fluids as opposed to
obtaining its via diet as many other frogs do. It has been described as a
potentially lethal weapon if swallowed. Also humans because humans use the
venom in darts. To protect its self the corroboree frog head buts its
attackers.
Bogong moths
Bogong moths live in rainforests in Mount Kosciuszko national park. They
eat a variety of plants including introduced crops and flowers juice. The large
Bogong moth is found throughout most of southeast Australia.
In spring and early summer, millions of moths across New South Wales
begin to migrate to the mountains and high plains that lie between Victoria and
New South Wales. The moths, called Bogongs by the local Aboriginal people,
cluster on the rocky heights and caves in their millions
The moths were a food source for Aboriginal people. The people in the
surrounding areas were called together to share in the feast. Large numbers of
people could feed on the moths for many days.
The moths cluster in heaps, and a large number at a time were easily
swept into a bag or dark dish. After being lightly roasted, the burnt wings
were brushed away, the head pinched off, and the body eaten.
Caves
The caves in Mount Kosciuszko are very big especially the South Glory.
There is a belt of limestone put in one of the caves 440 million years ago. The
caves there are very cold there is also a thermal pool in the cave. South Glory
cave is a self-guided cave, with ramps.
Glacier Lakes
The blue lake is located on the main range in Kosciuszko National Park.
In 1996 the areas biological significance was recognised when a 320 ha area,
comprising the lake and its surrounding and including nearby Hedley Tarn, was
designated Ramsar site 800 under the Ramsar convention on wetlands. Here we recognised
its geological significance as one of only four cirque lakes on mainland
Australia. Features such as cirque lakes and moraines are formed by glaciers.
Mount Pygmy possum
The Mount Pygmy Possum is the only hibernating marsupial. Their head size is 88.5mm and there tail length is 83.5mm and their weight is 14g.
The mount pygmy possum’s identification is that this smaller than the Eastern Pygmy Possum.It is pale fawn or reddish brown above, and whitish below.
The Mount Pygmy Possum is a solitary animal, curling up in a tiny ball when asleep and allowing its body temperature to drop so that it functions more slowly. At night, when it’s fully awake, it darts quickly among the small branches, looking for nectar and insects. It uses its prehensile tail as a fifth limb to help it clamber around.
Monday, July 27, 2015
5/6HA Research Task- Kokoda
Group 1-
The Kokoda track is a 96km trail which cuts across the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea. Research the track’s war history.Group 2-
Find out about the people living in the villages along the
track today. Why was the village of Kokoda strategically important?
The Kokoda Track People along the village |
Group 4-
What was the difference between the AIF and militia soldiers? Wht were thw militia called 'Chocos'?How did their image change after the battles of Kokoda and Isurava?
The
militia units were so unprepared for battle, so ill-equipped and so
inexperienced, that soldiers in the regular army gave them the nickname
CHOCOLATE SOLDIERS because they were likely to melt in the heat of the war.
Most of the militia units were everyday people working in schools etc. Their
job Was to hold off the Japanese army until the Australian troops arrived.
The
chocos images change because of their bravery to go to war, when they were not
even trained to be soldiers. They went from ordinary men to men of valour. The
people of Australia thought they were cowards until the war in Papua New Guinea
where they held back the Japanese soldiers long enough for the armed forces to
arrive. With the Australian troops they force back the Japanese. The small
number of militiamen that came back were respected by their fellow people.
Group 5-
Kokoda Reasearch - Brice Kingsbury and the 39th battalion.
39th battalion
The 39th Battalian was formed on the 21st Feburary 1916. Most of the recruits were from the state’s Western District. It became part of the 10th brigade of the 3rd Australian Division sailing from Melbourne on 27 of May. The battalion arrived in Britain on the 18th of July and started 4 months of training. It moved to France in late November and went into the trenches at the western front just in time for the onset of the terrible winter of 1916-1917.
Bruce Kingsbury
Private Bruce Steel Kingsbury VC was born in Preston just outside of Melbourne on the 8th of January 1918. The son of Phillip Blencowe Kingsbury and Florance Annie Steel. Who immigrated from the U.K prior to the end of world war 1. Bruce attended Melboune Technical Collage on a scholarship and after gradguation qualified to work in the printing industries. Instead Bruce decided to go to work in father’s real estate business, unhappy with this job and the companionship of his best mate (Alen Avery), Bruce found work on a property at Ntya situated in the Mally District of Victoria. His new job was working on a sheep station.
The PNG war
In August 1942 the 2/14th battalion moved to Port Moresby, hoping to halt the Japanese on the Kokoda trail. Kingsbury’s platoon had been holding a position for two days against countinual enemy attacks and servere loses when he made the heroic attack– he ran down the Isurava hill firing a bren gun from his hip whilst hand throwing grenades continuosly. Unfourtunately he was shot and killed by a Japanese sniper. He killed up to 30 Japanese soldiers and injuring many more. His actions gave the Australian soldiers time to recoup and return to their positions. There is a rock named Kingsbury’s rock—it is the rock he died next to.
Group 6-
Find out about other battlesites where Australians have
fought during this war.
The fighting against a Japanese invasion force, was perhaps
the most significant battle fought by Australians in World War II.
The Japanese landed near Gona on the north coast of Papua on
21 July 1942. In the next two months they drove the Australians and their
Papuan allies back over the mountains towards Port Moresby, the Japanese
objective. Port Moresby was vital to the defence of Australia. If they took
Port Moresby the Japanese planned to begin a bombing offensive against north
Queensland and, had they decided to invade Australia, the invasion would have
been launched from Port Moresby. None of this came to pass. The Japanese
approached to within 40 kilometres of their objective but the tide turned in
September. Then the Australians, in a series of costly engagements, pushed the
Japanese back the way they had come. By mid-November the Japanese were forced
to abandon their plan to take Port Moresby. They retired to their north coast
strongholds at Buna, Gona and Santana.
• The
Borneo Campaign of 1945 was the last major allied campaign in the south west
pacific area during World War 2. In a series of amphibious assaults between 1st
of May and 21st of July, the Australian I corps, under lieutenant
general Leslie Morehead, attacked Japanese Forces occupying the island. Allied Naval
and air forces centred on the US. 7th fleet under admire led Thomas
Kinkaid, the Australian first tactical air force and the US
· The Japanese had planned to take Port Moresby by
a sea borne assault. Their invasion armada was halted and turn back after a
tumultuous naval and aircraft battle in the Coral Sea in early May 1942.
Thwarted in their attempts to take Port Moresby by sea, the Japanese opted to
go over land from the northern coastline. In their way soothe daunting bulk of
the jungle-covered Owen Stanley ranges.
But first the Japanese decided to destroy the
allied forces assembling at Milne bay on the eastern tip of Papua, where
American engineers, protected by Australian AIF and Militia units, were
constructing an airfield. On the 25th august 1942 Japanese troops
and light tanks were landed on the northern shore of the bay.
Kokoda track
More than 600 Australians were killed and
some 1680 wounded during perhaps the most significant battle fought by
Australians in WW2
Borneo Campaign |
Milne Bay |
PNG |
Monday, July 13, 2015
2015
Welcome to 2015
2015 finds the library with a new operating system, Oliver. Students can use Oliver to search and reserve resources as well as check their current and previous loans. Students need to login through the Student portal to check their loans.The program Orbit, allows for student to pick and click picture to assist with searching for resources. Check it out and have a play.
Don't forget to finish logging the books you read into the Premier's Reading Challenge website. Again you need to use your portal login to access your account. The challenge concludes 21st July, 2015.
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