The end of term has come and holidays are here. Five White you are an exceptionally talented group of young children. You make it a pleasure for me to come to school each day (except for when you interupt my sleep at camp by knocking on my window). I wish you all a happy and safe holiday. x
Here is one of my favourite poems for you to read along with my creative photography. :-)
One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord.
Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.
In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand.
Sometimes there were two sets of footprints,
other times there was one only.
This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life,
when I was suffering from anguish,
sorrow or defeat,
I could see only one set of footprints,
so I said to the Lord,
“ You promised me Lord,
that if I followed you,
you would walk with me always.
But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life
there has only been one set of footprints in the sand.
Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?”
The Lord replied,
“ The years when you have seen only one set of footprints,
my child, is when I carried you.”
--Author Mary Stevenson--

Mrs Sutton

The Year 5 children  recently visited the Great Aussie Bush Camp for 3 days. They had a fantastic time, they all stepped out of their comfort zone by participating in a selection of fun activities. It was a camp to remember!

Throat-singing                                                              

Throat singing is a type of singing mostly native to Tibet, Mongolia, Tuva, North America and surrounding regions.

Throat singing is mostly done by 2 women (nowadays men perform as well) standing face to face. They try to out do there partner by tone, voice and volume, This determines who wins the battle.

Throat singing is not singing as such, as in they do not sing like Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus. Ethnomusicologists (the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global contexts) say that it is more of a breathing game or a voice game. Only because of the way they use their throat, voice, deep breathy sounds and also rhythm. Women played this as a game on winter nights to entertain the children.
Even through throat singing is not what I would call my cup of tea, I think throat singing would be a great thing to try and for people to do.            

Ashleigh

Marley

Obedience training is when an instructor teaches a dog to obey orders, be a good dog and teaches them to not rip or break things.

John and Jenny decided to take Marley to obedience training because he would usually get hyped up or tear things or even break things and most of all he jumped a lot! The results of Marley going to obedience training were excellent he came back not tearing things and not breaking things. 

Marley can be awfully a lot like my dog Diesel, he does tend to misbehave. Like the time he tore a hole lounge into bits! Also, once he broke his chain, may l mention it was a metal chain and he broke it while we were on a walk and we had to chase him ten blocks. Now that’s misbehaving.

by Corey