Our journalist Sasha has done it again! She has written a lovely piece about Zac’s visit to us last week. Well done, Sasha! 😆
Today Tracy came to our class with an Aboriginal man called Zac Webb. Zac is a Wardandi aboriginal, the tribe of the Margaret River area. They are the indigenous custodians of the land in the area. He told us many interesting things about the trees in Margaret River.
These are some of the facts we learnt from him:
• If you chew Peppermint leaves it will take horrible flavours out of your mouth.
• You can make brooms out of Peppermint leaves.
• You can twist bark or use twisted vines to make rope.
• You can use the leaves of the Karri Hazel tree to make soap.
• You can make rugs to sit on and hats to wear with Zamia branches.
• Kangaroos used to eat meat and were about 6-8 feet tall.
• The red fruit of the Zamia palm is very poisonous.
• When you have a sore tummy you can use the sap of the Marri tree as a medicine.
• You can use paperbark for toilet paper and for covering food that you cook.
• You can make bird sounds with the leaves of Peppermint and Marri trees.
• You can use Karri tree branches to make boomerangs.
• The green fruit of the Snotty Gobble turns white when it is ready to eat.
• The bark of the Snotty Gobble is medicine for healing your skin.
• You can eat the Tassel flower fruits.
• The root of the Christmas tree is yummy like honey.
We also learnt that in Aboriginal language you say Peppermint tree as Wannang and Wanna means woman’s digging stick. Aboriginal people also know the Karri Hazel tree as the soap bush.
I hope every one liked Zac Webb’s visit? 🙂
Thank you Tracy and Zac Webb for coming to talk to us!
Sasha has done a great job being the journalist for our excursion. You have written a lovely piece, explaining what happened, Sasha.
Last Monday we saw Tracy from the Cape to Cape Catchment Group again. 🙂 The class met her at Rotary Park to talk and look at the trees, plants and animals along the Margaret River. We talked about living and non-living things and had a look for some of them around us.
Tracy took us on a walk and told us about some of the trees and plants we saw around us. Then we split into groups of three and picked a tree that was in the forest along the Margaret River. We collected samples from the tree that we picked to investigate. We all learnt a lot about the tree we had picked. My group picked the Snotty Gobble.
While we were at Rotary Park with Tracy we also learnt the following facts:
• Plastic can take up to 400 years to properly disintegrate.
• The water in a river is non-living even though rivers are alive!
• The Blackwood River is bigger than the Margaret River.
• 80% of the plants along Margaret River only live along Margaret River.
• The Leeuwin Wattle only lives near rivers.
• Ringtail Possums only eat peppermint leaves.
• Trees and rocks keep the river banks together.
• Karri trees are the third tallest trees in the world.
• You can eat the leaves of the Snotty Gobble Tree.
• If you rub the leaves of the Karri Hazel, it makes soap.
Tracy will be back next week to teach us more about the River.
Sasha and Gus have both written expositions on their own at home. They did a good job and you can listen to them here. Just click on the mp3 file. It would be great if you wrote a comment telling them something positive you liked about their work. Well done, Sasha and Gus! (I know Lily is working on hers, so you might hear them here soon….)
This is the flipbook where you can find interesting facts about your significant global structures. Click on ‘click to launch in a new window’ to see it full size.
Watch this video of the Sydney Opera House and read about it in the flipbook below, then write dot points into your passport T-Chart. Enjoy learning about this famous Aussie icon!
You will each have a passport to explore the world on your tour of famous modern structures across the world.
For each country you visit you will need to:
Stick in a map of the country
Use an ATLAS to mark in the capital of that country and the city where you will find your famous structure.
Colour in the National Flag for that country, after researching the correct colours. Then stick it in.
Research important information about that country that you will need to know if you are travelling there. You will find helpful headings on your passport.
Research the famous structure you have travelled to see in that country. You will find that information in the flipbook below or in a saved folder called Structures and Buildings Powerpoint on the desktop which you can open.
Look carefully at pictures of each famous structure in books and the flipbook or powerpoint. Then draw a picture into your touring passport.
There is also a helpful map at the top of this blog called “Useful Maps” with more information underneath when you click on a city. It will show you which country it is in and give some interesting facts about famous structures there.
You will be visiting 9 countries to see 11 different famous structures. Enjoy your world tour.
As you go along, visit this post to make comments about the things you find out and the things you would like to find out. I look forward to reading lots of comments….
I have added Naplan practice test questions for you to try out on-line. You will find them when you log in to your Study Ladder account. There are 3 Maths tests and 3 Literacy tests. Have a go! 😎
Here are some fun ways to practise your punctuation. In NAPLAN you will have to correct errors like this, so have a go. See what level you can reach! 😎 PUNCTUATE AND FIX UP
There are also spelling and word games here to try. Try SPELLING BEE. Have fun!
Sasha has taken on the job of writing as a journalist for Dolphinkids all about Tracy’s visits to us. She’s done a great job with this piece of writing. Well done, Sasha! 😎
On Monday we had a lady who works for the Cape to Cape Catchments Group come and visit us. Her name was Tracy.She told us that the Margaret River is 60km in length.Tracy also showed us a model that she put water on to show us how the water ran down the hills to the river.
She told us to keep rubbish from falling on the ground because it might rain and run into the river. So don’t leave your rubbish on the ground. Pick it up and put it in the bin.That includes finding rubbish too.She said to try not to put fertilizer or other bad things on the lawn before it rains because the same as rubbish, it will get washed into the river and the river will become dirty. 🙁 If that happened you would not be able to swim in the river like you can at the moment. 🙁 It was very interesting and fun at the same time while Tracy was here.I can’t wait till next Monday with Tracy.
