Month: June 2011
LIFE IN MARGARET RIVER
On Tuesday 14th June the year 3’s were visited by Tracey Muir from the Cape to Cape Catchment Group. Tracey presented a review of what they had learned so far, and showed a power point presentation called “What would it have been like to live in Margaret River in …..?
The students made a PMI called Life In Margaret River and had to choose the time period they would have liked to live in the most. The choices were –
Before 1826 – Aboriginal
• Hunt, gather and trade for all food
• Make and trade for all clothes and food
• Make own simple shelters
• Move with the seasons
• Live in balance with nature
Early Settlers
• Hard lives, had to survive off the land
• Little knowledge of the land and lacked tools
• Had to cut down lots of trees
1940’s and 1950’s
• Most people were farmers and lived very simply
• Lots of dairy farms
• Small schools
• Played outside and swam in the river
• Not many luxuries, most people were poor
Present Day
• People have more things – cars, computers and X-boxes
• Buy things from the shops easily
• Travel to Perth or overseas more frequently
The power point helped most kids decide which time period they would like to live in. It was a fun activity that got your brains working, thinking about how different things used to be.
by Mitchell 😎
LECKY’S PROBLEM SOLVING JOURNAL
Click on LECKY’S PROBLEM SOLVING JOURNAL to design your alien when it is your turn for the computer activity.
Total Lunar Eclipse – 16 June 2011
We missed it as it happened early hours of this morning, but here is a video showing what you would have seen. Have a look to see in what ways the moon changes.
Changes to Margaret River
On Tuesday 7th June, Year 3s were visited by Mr Gale (Smiler Gale) from the Margaret River Rotary Club. He talked about what life was like many years ago in Margaret River, including his story about how his parents came from London and what his life was like growing up.
Mr Gale played a slideshow that had a few pictures of Margaret River’s history. Some interesting facts were that the Margaret River is about 60 kilometres long, and that in 1839 a man named the river Margaret because he couldn’t marry his girlfriend who was also named Margaret. The slideshow also included a photo of the farm that Zac Webb’s family lived on.
Then it had a picture of children going to school on horses and Mr Gale explained the other two ways to get to school which were walking and pushbikes. There was only one teacher and fifteen children in the whole school.
When Mr Gale was a child his favourite things to do were playing marbles, climbing trees, swimming, playing hide and seek, red rover, cricket, footy and catch-me-if-you-can. He did his last two years of school by correspondence.
All of the year 3s enjoyed Mr Gale’s visit and thought it was very educational.
By Mitchell