At our school we did a day called lead yourself into the future day. We did some fun activities with a group that the students were randomly put into. My favourite activity we did was when we had newspaper and sticky tape to try and make the tallest tower and we made it to the top two! As a team member I thought that my communication was better than I usually think of and I even made a friend there to look forward to in year 7. 

The Relative Of the fastest animal in the world. It can stand scourging sun and freezing hail, hunts for survival, found on the side of trees claiming territory and fighting for a mate. It’s the Eastern Yellow Robin only found around the South coast of Australia. From parks and rain forests to dry woodland. It eats spiders and insects of all kinds that mainly live on the ground. 

This unique bird has a short beak (like a finch). Fine feathers on the head coloured light grey to a grey blue. The fine feathers turning into long feathers along the back and tail with a white tip on the top of the tail. White fluffy down feathers exposed underneath and around the beak. Yellow thick on its stomach and the start of the tail. A mix of black and grey shades. 

Structural Adaptations 

The beak has a curved end for catching flying insects and to pick up food making it not able to escape when it’s caught. It has several layers for different reasons, with some birds they have a waterproof layer like ducks to keep warm and dry. With the Eastern Yellow Robin the first layer is built for flying in between trees and flying far distances. The second layer is to keep warm called  down it’s fluffy like a pillow but as warm as a sweater. The last layer is a very thin layer it’s the baby feathers most of them fall off during adulthood but sometimes it stays. Under the last feather layer are little cells that make the feathers for when it falls out like some pet birds pull out their feathers from stress or a bad home and the cells can stop working if they do it to much. They have tails for when they are flying they can steer where they go. They have wings to be able to fly. Eastern Yellow Robin’s have sharp talons to grip onto sides of trees where you would usually find them.

Behavioural Adaptations 

Eastern Yellow Robins build nests to keep their eggs warm and safe so that no predators can get them. They mate to reproduce otherwise they’ll just go extinct. Eastern Yellow Robins fly so that they can easily move around and keep away from predators. 

Physiological Adaptations 

The bone structure of the Eastern Yellow Robin is like honeycomb strong but light so that they can fly. They have strong muscles in their legs and feet to hold their entire body. The muscles in their wings are probably the strongest because how fast you have to beat to get up airborne.

 Image from: https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/birds/eastern-yellow-robin-eopsaltria-australis/

Assigning Parts 

Before we started we had to do a small part of the commentators’ lines. We had to prove that we could remember our lines and really get into our character. We had to do this in pairs and I went with Ruby, my best friend but she was sick for all of the time except for the time we actually did the scene in front of the teachers and when they decided. We rehearsed until it was time to present the scene we did. We only rehearsed for one day when others rehearsed for a week. Ruby used the script when we presented but I didn’t use the script. On Monday we were told the parts we got. I got a Federationist role in a cricket game I found out why later. 

Rehearse 

Once I got assigned my role I started practising at school and at home. My line was easy to remember I only got one sentence. I had a strategy for remembering when the line before mine was on I would start walking forward to say my line. I found out how to do my actions easily too. I also remembered a lot of other people’s lines. In the dress rehearsal we got to have a similar experience to what it will be like on the day. But without the big audience. Before the play I was assigned a second part with no lines but I was a convict.

The Play

The lights were dimmed the audience was quiet and, I WAS BEHIND STAGE THE WHOLE TIME EXCEPT FOR MY PART! I was annoyed about that and we couldn’t see the play until it was our scene. When we weren’t on stage we were dressing or behind the stage. It was still fun and I was on stage for three or four scenes, there were nineteen or twenty scenes. After the production Ruby and I sold badges with lines and drawings from the play for 50c and we gave the money to a charity. 

Meaning 

The meaning of the scene I talked in was about forming Australia from the six colonies into one to make Australia. That’s what the play is all about. They added the cricket for entertainment and so it’s easier to do for us. I think we had to do the play to learn about Australian history and to tell others about Australian history and how we made it one federation. The first or second scene was about the marriage of the six colonies and it was acted out as a wedding. 

My favourite book chat book is the Wolf Wilder it’s so fascinating with the way it described some very important details. It’s about a person called a wolf wilder. Wolf wilders are people who lived in the kings and queens age so the rich people showed how rich they are to buy a wolf pup. The people selling the wolf pup steal the pup only when it’s still has its eyes closed and it’s still wet. When the wolves get to ferocious and rebellious they send them to the wolf wilders job to make them able to survive in the wild. 

I liked this book because I love animals, I love fantasy books, the way they described was amazing and, it’s so cool think about it being able to ride on a wolf’s back and have a relationship with a wolf! That would be amazing!

Halloween, many people don’t know what or why we do halloween but I do many people do it for candy but they’ve forgotten about the real reason we do it. In America people used to do it to scare away evil spirits. I’m a big halloween contributor it’s fun and we have a cool bowl that has a motion sensor so when a hand goes in a skeleton hand comes out and grabs the candy. You can dress up as many things and if you don’t want to you don’t have to do Halloween and I know a really smart hack for Halloween dress up as a mail person. You may think that’s a lame idea but it’s really smart because you have a bike witch means you can go fast house to house and you have a big bag to carry candy fast. If you don’t have that stuff then sorry for you. Also do you know those bowls that say please only take one, he, he he he, hehehehehehehehheheheh! You know what to do. Sure I’ll follow those rules I’ll take one………. I’ll take one bowl!!

The Drive

The drive was long and it felt like two hours in the first 20 minutes and we had a plan to watch a movie on the second part of the drive but everyone was complaining so our teacher put a vote in place for what to watch. The Mr Bean series won. After that we were still bored so our teacher put them on then. The sound wasn’t as good as we expected but I was at the front so I had the perfect view and the best sound because the only speaker that worked was the speaker above me. Once we got to the stop halfway through we had the snacks we packed and we got to run around. After the stop we got back on the road and watched the rest of the Mr Bean series. 

The First Day

When we got to the camp we put our bags down and had morning tea I’m gluten free so I couldn’t have the scones that had whipped cream and chocolate sauce but I got a banana cinnamon treat and everyone had fruit and cordial. Then we had a tour of the nice place and got right into the activities, the class was split into two groups and my group went kayaking and the other went bike riding. Kayaking was one of my favorite things Duncan was my partner because the only kayak with one person was the teacher’s. Then we had lunch. Next we moved on and went to the second group witch was biking first we practiced for those who were unfamiliar with biking then we went on a tricky but long ride. When we got back to the camp we had free time I went to the beach with my friends. I found fun activities to do there very fast. When the gong when that meant dinner. Dinner was amazing I had a taco while everyone else had burritos because I’m gluten free. Desert was better! Apple crumble and ice cream. Literally the best! We played the funniest game ever that night we played the shoe game where there’s two teams facing each other in rows and each person in the teams is given a number. When the teacher calls your number you and the person on the other team who has the same number run in between the two teams grabs one of the two shoes and sits down on a cushion at the end of the middle walkway and tries throwing the shoe at a water bottle that’s also in the middle. Then you reset and play again. After some fun we went to bed.

The Second Day

The time I woke up was an early rise and there were these super annoying birds right outside the room. Ruby woke up to so we went out on the rooms deck for fresh air. We went back in and the teacher came to wake everyone up. When I was dressed me and my friends went out. We heard the gong soon after and we went for morning gobs my group had to set up the tables for breakfast. Then free time! After that morning tea, free time and then we had lunch, lunch was great, best we had. We were on our way tho the expo in a flash. First when we got there we set up our tents. Then dinner! Burgers! When we finished we played a game empires it went on and on until it was time for bed.

The Third Day

When we all woke up we had toasties for breakfast and went to bike and fish at a island with koalas! We got back early and packed up the tents. Before we knew it we were back at the old camp we had dinner and the day was over. The day went by so fast. 

The Final Day

We had a brilliant breakfast and then rain. Nothing but rain horrible rain. When we had lunch we were back on the way home the camp had gone so so fast.

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The Letter

During the past two months we’ve been focusing on the Eureka Stockade and we first had to research to make up a story to go to Sovereign Hill. Sovereign Hill is a replica of what happened on that day. Once we finished the letter we had to write it out in our own writing I made my dad a blacksmith and my mother a cook and I had two brothers Noah and Broden both my real brothers (Noah’s a step brother) and Ruby my real sister. I loved writing the story and writing the letters old fashioned was fun. 

The Camp

The camp was by far my favourite thing to do on this subject. The bus drive was 2-3 hours long and boring. First before we went to the cabins, we went to a museum were we had activities to do and we had to find out who a specific person from the Eureka Stockade was. Then we saw the remains of the actual Eureka Flag after that we got to draw our own flag. Then we went outside and had our lunch when we found out that this was where the actual Eureka Stockade was and it gave me the creeps that I was walking on top of where people died.Once we got there we went to the cabins and the girls cabins were a lot better than what the boys cabins were explained to me. They said that they didn’t have a cupboard when we had two, we had a bathroom per cabin, a desk, chairs, a TV (without the remote) and, a extra bed. We had all of those and the boys said they didn’t. After we did that we had some free time to do more activities and then before we had dinner we met and went to the cabins to change into nice clothes because it was two people’s birthday. When we woke up in the morning we had breakfast and then we got changed into our old fashioned clothes and went to school we learnt to multiply the 17s and to write. After that we got unchanged out of our old fashioned clothes and we had our last dinner there and it was another birthday going on! In the morning we had breakfast then last day of school and then we had lunch and had the 2-3  hour drive home.

The Diorama 

The reason for going to camp was to learn and to make a building from there I made the blacksmith with Will and once we finished we went onto our diggings and tents square. After that I helped made several tents. Then we put them all together and coded our own Sphero to go around it. 

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this week we’ve been programming a Sphero to go around the diorama me and my class have made. Here’s my video of my programming. I had to move it a few times.

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Here’s a map video I made to fit a map of our diorama.

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Over the past three days we had to make a map of our diorama copying Sovereign Hill and I think I went into a little too much details. I didn’t expect it to be perfect but I can live with it. I think I used the scale correctly and I was accurate with where I placed things. What I learnt during this project is it’s hard to direct someone without a compass and a scale so I drew them on next to the map.

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