Joshua's Wisdom Of The Past

Hi everybody, it's me again! This blog post will be about info I have learned in our topic time about the Galapagos.

Learning about the Galapagos has been enjoyable in this past term. I liked watching the movies about the Galapapagos Islands, evolution and adaptation. Just recently this term we needed to write an essay about the Galapagos and the animals that lived there. Right now we have to write another essay but this time about adaptation. I have learned that the Galapagos was actually created on a hotspot of molten lava🌋 and that the Galapagos can move meters within 30 years. Some of the animals in the Galapagos have ancestors that came from as far as Antarctica.

The Galapagos is an amazing archipelago ( or as I like to say it, ar-chip-el-ago)  that has awed people for many years (even me) . That's it for this week, bye!😎

Roles and Responsibilities

Earlier this year I sent a letter to ms Higgins to be a sports leader. Lickily for me I got in. Ever since I became a P.E leader I have pushed out the P.E cart for the other students. So far this year I had enjoyed coaching our year 4-5 cricket team and playing with the sports gear. Right now the only thing I find difficult is to come down to the shed in time, other than that I find my role quite enjoyable but it would be great if we could see one of our coached teams play sometime.

Financial Literacy Guy

This week on Wednesday day the financial literacy guy(Vane) came to room 8 to talk to us about how to be smart with money. As most kids know that there are limited options for us to make money. Vane helped us think about ways to earn money. One of them was to do extra chores on top of our normal ones, the second one was to get yourself neighbour-hood jobs and another one was to sell stuff or put money in your bank account so that you can earn interest. Overall I thought that the session was fun and entertaining And although I am not sure what my financial goal is, I found the session very informative.

Mission Fair

Last week on Friday, the year 6's to 8's made stalls for the mission fair. We raised money for a charity that was helping Vanuatu because of the damage that Cyclone Pam did. Mahon and I made a stall called Sugar Rush. Our stall was meant have a 'knocking down the cups game'.  Unfortunately, we were placed under the shade cloth instead of inside room 10 but we were forced to move to the end of the corridor due to the wind knocking down our cups. Fortunately for us, we had the great idea of changing our game to cup bowling. A few minutes later, we were making money. Little kids were our main customers, due to the fact that we were only doing a game and selling lollies. By the end of the mission fair our stall probably earned around $60. In the end, the only thing I would change is for us to be more prepared and to be in a different place.