The Natalie Blog

Hi everybody!

Today (29th May 2008), we had our first debate of the year for Belmore South. It was against Campsie, (not very far from us), and the topic was that Earth Hour is a waste of time. We were saying it WASN’T a waste of time, and guess what….. WE WON!!!!

Even though we were all above the time limit we still had very good arguments and we had very good rebuttals.

In this first debate it was: 1st speaker, me; 2nd speaker, Naomi; 3rd speaker, Ramiz; and team advisor, Celia. At Belmore South we usually have 2 extra people in the debating team but we haven’t found out who those two people are yet.

Hope we do as well as we did in this debate in our upcoming debates.

Hi everybody!!

Woo hoo Naomi! She got it right, AGAIN. The answer was that the lady died of child birth and the stranger was the baby. Here is the next riddle. As alwasy, I hope it’s not too easy or not too hard.

What seven letters did Old Mother Hubbard say when she opened her cupboard?

Good luck!   

Hi!

Go Naomi! She got it right! It was that they were both someones best friend. Here comes the next riddle:

A man and a woman were driving in their car when it broke down. The man decided to go for help at a gas station a few miles back. He made sure nobody was in the car, rolled all the windows up, and locked all of the sedan’s doors. He went off, but when he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a stranger in the car. No physical damage was done to the car, so how did the stranger get in?

Hope it is not too hard.

Good luck!

Hi everybody!

Whew! The NAPLAN tests are finally over. The NAPLAN tests were actually called the Basic Skills Tests in the past years. But this year the names been changed to the NAPLAN tests. NAPLAN stands for National Assessments Programs Language And Numearcy. For the past week, we have been doing our tests. The year 3 and 5 tests are the ones that really count but the year 6 tests still count towards their highschool selection. 

We had numeracy, language, reading and writing tasks. The writing task was to be about something that was found. My story was about a 15 year old girl called Sarah. She found a instuction sheet leading to the House Of DOOM. When she got inside she was captured and was killed. Her sister Jane found the instruction sheet and even though she followed the instructions she could never find the House Of DOOM.

Still, some of the tests were a bit hard but some were really easy.

But still, everyone is happy about the NAPLAN tests being over. Even the teachers! YAY!

I’ll write later. Bye!

Hi everybody!

In a couple of days, our cross country will take place. The 11 year old’s (that includes me) have to run 3 kilometres. So far, we have been practicing by having an endurance run every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. If we can’t do a day of running, we do it on Monday instead. Our endurance run is two laps of Area seven which is around half a kilometre. Some people get so tired just after two laps. If we just “translate” 3 kilometres it would be about twelve laps of Area seven, imagine that!

My best time for two laps ( half a kilometre) is 2 minutes and 42 seconds. It takes that long because it is in an oval and some of it is uphill. Some people are so fast that they can get around 1 minute and 30 seconds. So fast!

I will write a post on the cross country after we have had it. Hope to wrie more posts later on.

Bye!

Hi everybody!

Thank you to everybody who commented. And I am pleased to announce that Nadine and Naomi got it right! The word was startling and then starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in and then I. Time for the next riddle. This time it might be a bit easier.

What do dogs and diamonds have in common?

Hope it is not too easy for you.