Year 6 at Penbank

Hi everyone,

My name is Georgia and I would like to tell you about my favorite sport, Nippers! I am a member of a SLSC (surf life saving club) and I love doing nippers. Nippers runs through the summer and is a competitive sport as well as a fun sport. The activities you do at nippers are Sprints, Boards, Swim and Flags. Sprints and Swim are pretty self explanatory, but Boards and Flags aren’t as easy to comprehend. Boards is going out in the water on a board that looks like this:

You paddle on your stomach out around a bouy and then catch a wave back to shore.

Flags is when there are several small pieces of hose sticking out of the sand and you lie on your stomach with your feet facing the hose 4-5 meters away. The competition is whoever can jump up, run then leap to grab a piece of hose. It’s a game of elimination so if you get a flag you progress to the next round. If not, you are out of the competition. This is a picture of flags:

I love doing nippers and think you should consider joining a club. What summer sport do you love the most?

My website (laurasblog) has now had an update! A competition has started. Send in a photo of your favourite sport and your photo could be on my front page! Hurry!

This is a cool cartoon by a famous Australian cartoonist.

This picture is about self confidence and belief in yourself.

This post is going to teach you how to use Glogster. Glogster is a great site to use if you are going to present ideas or if you want to have some fun!

How to get onto Glogster:

1. Google ‘Glogster’. Click on the first site that comes up.

2. Then click ‘Create Account’. Enter your details.

3. Glogster will then send you an email. Click on the link. It will take you to your dashboard! To start of with, click poster glog. You can do other glogs after you know how to use glogster.

The Poster Glog should look like this (but there is an arrow and text):

Now, let’s start off with the basics.

To delete: Click on the image you want to delete. Then, a rubbish bin will appear. Click on the rubbish bin which will delete the image.

Text: There is a bar and the first thing on it says ‘Tools’. After you click on it, choice of text will come up. Choose one then click ‘Use it’.

To put text in the bubble, double click on it. This should come up:

Then you can start typing!

To insert an image: Start by getting up a new tab. Google an image you want to put on your glog. Make sure you have it as a full-screen view. Copy the address. Click on the other tab you had up and click on the tools in the toolbar. After clicking image, go to links. Paste the address. It will load the image and after it does, click on the picture and then use it. You will have the image in your glog!

Wall: Click on tools then wall. Choose a wall then obviously use it.

After doing this you will have your first glog! You can then choose other sorts of blogs to play around with.

If you have any trouble or questions, please comment about it below.

Thanks!

Laura

Check out my Pony.

Splinter’s 21! He’s also the best boy in the world:)

He gets worried when I’m not there!

Splinter is an Aussie Riding Pony & also a true games pony. He’s also a picky treat eater (don’t offer him jellybeans!).

Every week students from years 4, 5 and 6 compete in an inter-school sporting challenge know as the Winter Lightning Premierships (WLP). The sports we take part in are footy, netball, boys soccer and girls soccer. Last week (27/4) we versed St. Macs. Both the soccer teams were triumphant, with the boys winning 3-2 and the girls ending in a 1-1 draw. The footy and netball however were not so lucky losing their games This week we will be practicing our moves at school so we are ready when we verse Mornington Park Primary. I hope everyone does really well in whatever sport they do. Good luck!

I will keep you posted on our progress throughout the term, with photos!

Thanks for reading my post,

                    Georgia

These are my dogs Miles and Dana. They are King Charles Cavalier Spaniels and are both tri-coloured (black, tan and white). They’re both still young, only 2 years old (about to turn 3).

Miles looking at himself in the computer

They are very well behaved but have totally different personalities. Dana is fat, lazy, like a big teddy bear and will do anything you like. Miles is very, very active, won’t sit down with you until the end of the day when he’s tired but soooooo cuuuuuute!!!

Every year Penbank school selects some students to go to the Southern Peninsular Music Camp. This year it will be held at the Briars, June 20th to the 22nd.   What happens is all of the musical performers gets some pieces of music chosen by the producers of the camp and they have only two days to learn and practice the music. On the last day everyone performs their music as one big orchestra.

Congratulations to the lucky students who were selected to attend this camp. I was one of those lucky students!

I will keep you updated and post some photos after the camp.

By Charli

Hi,

I made this website about bunnies during the summer holidays. It’s all about bunnies and looking after them. If you want to enter your bunny in ‘Bunny of the Month’ you can do that. Your bunny will have the chance to  have his photo on the ‘Bunny of the Month’ page for, well, a month!!! After that your bunny’s photo will go into the Bunny Album. We have other web sites so look at the other sites for looking after other animals. Here is  the link;

Carrots for Rabbits