The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music is amazing.  It is about a lady called Maria and she was going to be a nun but she wasn't cut out for it.  Mother Abby said that she has to look after 7 children.  The children's names are Liesel, Friedrich, Brigitta, Louisa, Kurt, Marta and Gretel. Ever since Miss von Trapp died Captain von Trapp doesn't listen to music or sing and calls his children with a whistle like in the war.  Maria realises why she is there to help them to get ready for when they have a mother.  Maria brings music and singing back to the von Trapp family. Then she realised she was the mother.  She got married to Mr von Trapp.  She was now Mrs von Trapp.

I thought the musical was fabulous. The story was very loving.  Mother Abby was very good at the opera and hit all right notes. The costumes were amazing and at first I thought "how do they get their clothes changed so fast?".  I invited Daisy and Ella from our school to come and talk to the class about what it felt like to be in the Sound of Music.  They were able to answer my question.  There are lots of tricks that go on behind the scenes to make the show seamless.  I have always been obsessed with the story so it was like a dream come true to see the show.

by Claudia

Children's garden

On Friday 4 children from our class got to go to the Botanical Gardens to help build the Children's garden.  That was us!

We got cotton fabric and used rubber bands to makes shapes and then put them in natural dye.  This is called tie-dying.  We used beetroot, tumeric and spinach as our natural dyes.  The spinach did not turn out very green.  We also learnt about other fruits that you could also use to stain fabric like plums.

We all helped make a banner for the garden using flags.

With spades and forks we turned the ground over to expose the soil and then put fertilizer on it.  Using mallets we banged sticks into the ground to section it in half.  In total we made 4 gardens. One group made an arch way out of bamboo and string.  To make the fence we weaved flax through the sticks.

We planted lavender, sweet peas, beans, butter beans and calendula.  We had grown some of these plants from seed before in Room 10 and in Gardening Club.

There is still a lot of work to be done and this includes fundraising.  They have to raise 1.4 million dollars to open the garden.  We hope that we can continue to plant more plants and spend time in our garden.  We are going to invite the rest of our classmates to come join us.


By Fin, Oliver, Claudia and Guy

Harold

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Last week our class went to see Harold in his van. Our instructor was called Charlotte. We learned about the Circulatory system and went through it. We also learned about carbon dioxide. We went to Heart Central station. Every time we stopped at a body part we meet different characters from Heart central station. Some of them were going in the body and some were going out of the body. On the first day we went, we got a book from Harold. It was called Heart Central. When Charlotte turned on the screen Charlie the Conductor would tell us where we were and what the internal parts of the body do.

We learnt some interesting facts like:

• We take 20,000 breaths a day
• Children's hearts beat 120 times a minute
• You need to drink water to keep your kidneys healthy
• Water takes the rubbish out of your blood
• 1800 litres of blood pump through the kidneys each day

In Room 10 we make sure that our bodies get enough food, water and oxygen to keep us healthy.

By Grace, Sofia, Maddalena, Katie, Claudia, Meredith