U luv Skippy!

A man called Saiful visited our classroom the other day. He’s from Indonesia. He told us some interesting facts about Indonesia and his life.

• There are 90 teachers at his school.
• He is a history teacher.
• There are around 30-40 students in each class.
• They eat rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
• They have to wear sandals and if they aren’t wearing sandals they have to do 10 push ups in the middle of the circle.
• They wear white uniforms.
• There are 2000 students at their school.
• They have corn and rice farms.

My friend and I are doing a project on The Great Wall of China. We have to prsent our project to our class very soon. We are going to show this toondoo as well as a recorded speech and a photo story.

We also did a tag galaxy.

My family have a big backyard which contains many things such as trees, bushes, flowers, balls, swings, slide, trampoline, pools, bird cage and many more. We also have a round-a-bout at the end of our driveway which I wouldn’t call short. 

We have 2 pools. One is for relaxing and dipping your feet in. We recently put in a bigger one which has a fence around it and pebbles that makes it look pretty. You can actually swim in it not like the other one. We used to have 2 swings but Dad got rid of it when he put the new bird cage in. We used to have a small bird cage but we got a bigger one so we can get some more birds.

We have a trampoline which I have fallen off plenty of time and even broke my wrist one time. I’m telling you, trampolines are very dangerous objects. The slide we have is getting a little small but doesn’t really matter because we don’t use it, only if our younger cousins come down from Melbourne. The driveway we’ve got is long enough that we sometimes ride our bike up to get picked up by our school bus.

We have many tennis balls, cricket balls, Netballs, footballs, basketballs and others around our house. We love doing sport. I play Netball, Cricket in the summer with my brother, shoot baskets and practise tennis but don’t play. The second you spot our house, you’ll be able to see many balls of different sorts all around the place. They’re in trees, bushes, on the tennis court, and occasionally you’ll see popped ones because they have been in the way for Mum or Dad.

Lockie is my sister’s pet cockatiel. We got Lockie from our cousins which own plenty of birds. Lockie has his/her own cage. I’m not exactly sure if it is a he or she since I haven’t really cared ‘til now. There is plenty of entertainment for Lockie inside the cage. There are tree branches, a swing and a wooden seat which goes one side to another inside the cage.

There is one problem but, Lockie is a lonely bird. Mum says we can get another bird but when. Patience isn’t always one of my strong points. Mum always talks to him/her. Sometimes I just wish he could talk back. He recently was moved to his/her new cage. She/he was in a little green, rusty, old cage. 

My Sister has had many of birds before but all times have failed except Lockie. There have been 2 budgies and a cockatiel. The only thing I can remember about all of the birds was one of the budgies was called Aussie. Wee called him/her Aussie because he/she was green and yellow. We used to say to it ‘Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!’

People wonder why Skippy? hmmmn.

The day before we got asked what do you want your blogs name to be i was watching this show where kangaroos were eating crops. Then one ofthe character go “Shot skippy no way!” and i thought it was pretty cool so i kept saying it the next day. So my friends decided Skippy can be my new nick-name. That day we were asked what do you want your blog name to be. That’s the first thing that came in my mind.

I know, I named my blog after a line in a show. People think i’m stupid. I know!!!!!! 

I’m am so busy these days i have no time spare.

I don’t seem to be getting any more time soon. My calendar is full.

• I have netball every Saturday and if it is at our home ground there is an event afterwards.                            
• I have church on Sunday sometimes. A lot of the time we are too busy to go.
• It’s nearly the end of term so we have projects to finish and work that needs completing.
• Our Melbourne camp is coming up in August. We get back the day before my birthday. Hows that for an early birthday present.
• There is a ‘88 reunion which Mum and Dad are going to.

Dear World Leaders, 

I’m 11 years old.

These nuclear weapons have affected land, water, air and human life. Thousands of people have died terrible deaths because of these nuclear bombs. Millions have suffered.   It’s got to stop now!

There are only nine countries still involved or who own nuclear weapons including Russia, France, China, USA, Israel, Pakistan, U.K, Nth. Korea and India.

You owe it to the world to get the weapons off high alert. It would be the start of peace process that will lead to the abolishment of nuclear weapons.

I want my future looking positive. I don’t want to grow up living with the threat of nuclear war: no food and crops, water sources, air pollution and death and disease threatening my future. I don’t want this for my generation or for future generations.

There are only 27000 nuclear weapons left in the world. There should be zero!

Make peace. Stop Nuclear weapons. Everyone can make a difference.

 Sincerely,

Georgia

 Every year every grade a my school go on a camp from Grade 1 al the way to year  12

The Melbourne camp will take place on Wednesday August 27th to Friday August 29th. That means 2 nights and 3 days in Melbourne.

DAY 1

7.00am - bus leaves Hawkesdale College - we will have a stop in Inverleigh for toilet and snacks

11.00am - arrive Melbourne - Scienceworks

11.30am - Planetarium at Scienceworks

12.45 - Melbourne River Cruise into city

1.00pm - own lunch on board cruise

2.00pm - Immigration Musuem

4.00pm - check in Melbourne Discovery

5.00pm - IMAX

6.30pm - Dinner - Universal Pizza on Lygon st

8.00pm - Movie at Melbourne Discovery Theaterette (we take our own DVD)

DAY 2

8.00am - Breakfast Melbourne Discovery (cereal, 1 toast, drink)

9.00am -Travel on - presentation by met travel

10.00am - Scavenger Hunt

11.30am - MCG - general tour and national sports museum (3.5 hours)

1.00pm - Packed lunch (from Melbourne Discovery)

3.30pm - Shrine of Remembrance

5.30pm - Dinner - Trios Southgate Food court

7.00pm - Eureka Skydeck

DAY 3

8.15am - breakfast (pack up rooms and bring bags down to the foyer)

9.00am - Queen Victoria Market

11.30am - Old Melbourne Gaol

12.30pm - depart for home

In buddies last week our buddies brought their favourite teddy and we asked questions and found out information about the teddy.

• My buddies teddy was called Rosie.     
• It’s favourite thing to do is to dance with it’s owner.
• It’s only 5 years old.
• It’s favourite food is cakes.  
• The naughtiest thing rosie has done is played with her owner without asking.
• While her owner is at school she sits down and watches T.V.                                                                         

• A good student is a student who listens to there teacher when they should.
• Have a good behaviour.
• When they don’t understand instructions they ask again.
• Does what there told.
• Does there work peacefully.
• Works well with student when put in a group.