Jun 22 2008
Archive for the 'litracy' Category
Jun 19 2008
Chocolate drive
Jun 17 2008
Melbourne Camp Itinerary
This is the Itinerary for the Melbourne camp. The Melbourne camp will take place on Wednesday August 27th to Friday August 29th. That means 2 nights and 3 days in Melbourne.
The itinerary looks like this:
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
May 25 2008
Grammer Gremlins
This is something we can look at before our next Grammer Test.
Common NOUN - the name given to a person, place or thing eg pimple, towel, pumpkin
ADJECTIVE - a word which describes a noun eg. blind, prickly, enormous
PROPER NOUN - the name of a particular person, place or thing. Proper nouns have capital letters. eg Kevin Rudd, Canberra, Prime Minister
VERB - an action or a doing word. If you can do it, then it’s a verb eg crawl, tickle, swim
ADVERB - Adds to the verb. Usually ends in ly and usually answers the question “how” something was done. eg. erratically, mercilessly, quickly
PERSONAL PRONOUN - a word which indicates personal onwership eg she, he, they, we, them, their, we,
CONJUNCTION - A word that joins 2 ideas together in a sentence. eg. and, then, so, but. One conjunction, one fullstop. A sentence must only contain one conjunction.
PREPOSITION - A word which indicates the “position” of something, compared to something else eg. the frog in the pond, the turtle under the rocks
