A ship made out of a shoebox?

A last First Fleet project made out of a shoebox. Wow!!

The First Fleet

Yesterday we found out the names of all the ships in the first fleet. They were:

Sirius 

Alexander

Charlotte

Scarborough

Friendship

Supply

Fishburn

Borrowdale

Lady Penrhyn

Prince of Wales

Golden Grove

There were 2 navy ships, six convict transports and three supply ships. There were a total of 1420 people that got on the ships in Portsmouth in England and after 8 months, 1373 people landed safely at Sydney Cove.

A few days ago we had a message from a class in England who visited the Captain Cook museum in Great Ayton in North Yorkshire in England. Today we're going to think about our favourite Captain Cook fact so that we can share them with Class 2 and Mrs Monaghan in the UK.

Hi Miss Taylor's Class!
I was interested to read that you are doing some work on Captain Cook - last term, our class visited the Captain Cook museum in Great Ayton, and found his family gravestone in the churchyard there. We enjoyed finding out about his voyages, and even posted on our blog about our learning. I hope you enjoy finding out about his voyages as much as we did! You can see some of our work athttp://aroomwithaview.edublogs.org (Autumn 2013). What is your favourite Captain Cook fact?
I love the way you put your photos on your blog - what do you use to make your photo collages?
Mrs Monaghan
A Room with a View, Class 2 - UK 

Using an Atlas to find the places Captain Cook visited...

What we thought of our excursion...

Sienna (3)

Yesterday we went to the Endeavour. My favourite part was when we went down the rope and saw the hammock, tables and chairs. Punishments was the cat of nine tails. We saw that too. The Maritime Museum had some scary stuff.

Prue

Yesterday I went to the Endeavour. I went with my class. We went on two ships. The boats were called the Vampire and the second boat was called the Endeavour. Secondly I saw a lot of things. I saw a boat made out of cans.

Oliver (3)

I liked the Endeavour because they used to sleep in hammocks.

Medina

THe best part of the day was when I went on the boat. It was so fun when we went there. The boat's name was the Endeavour and the Vampire and the Vampire is real and it was cool.

Sheridan

I think the best part of the day was going on the Endeavour ship because it was really big and I think it was very interseting. I also liked the cat's job because it had to chase all the mice out and it freaked me out. Then when I saw the seats and I was told that they were also used as chests. I was...amazed!

Jemma

Yesterday 3/4T and 4S went to the Australian National Maritime Museum. We went on the Endeavour (the ship Captain Cook found Australia on), the Vampire (an old war ship) and we went inside the museum to see a bit about the first fleet and Australia. My favourite acitivity of the day was when we went on the Endeavour. I liked it because it made us travel through time.

Edward

The very best part of the Endeavour excursion was the Endeavour because it was amazing. I got to hear all about what people did in the times that no one knew about vitamins A, B, C and D so people got scuvy because they didn't have enough vitamins.

Navigator and Endeavour Excursion

The excursion on Tuesday was a great success! We had 100% attendance and were so glad that no broken bones or colds kept anyone away. I must say a huge thank you to the lovely parent volunteers that gave up their day to come along with us. It means so much to have great parent and school partnerships where we are all looking out for our children. This was especially evident with the excursion where we walked your feet off and still had you smiling at the end of the day!

The bendy bus was so long and warm with all our bodies in there that we almost mistook it for a travelling sauna. Thank goodness for open windows while driving which helped to cool us down. The trip there was so exciting, especially when the bendy bus went around a corner. 

We arrived a few minutes early and managed another toilet break before being met by Joe and the other teacher guides. Everyone, including the parent volunteers and teachers had to wear two stickers which would let us come and go from the museum. One was bright pink and the other bright green. Joe then talked to us about staying safe while we were at the Maritime Museum. We were a great audience and keen to know what we could do. There was quite a long list of museum rules we learnt about, like, 'no eating or drinking in the museum or on the ships', 'no running' and 'no touching unless you're told you can'. We did like the rule, 'you can take photos of everything!'

Bags, hats, drawing pads and pencils were squeezed into the bag containers outside the entrance of the museum. We got to use the large white bag containers that were numbered, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in large black numbers. The rest of the containers were being used by another school group who arrived just before we did.

After splitting into class groups and then again into groups of 10, we headed off to the Endeavour. What a beautiful ship. There was a slight breeze which made the ship lightly rock against the wharf. This was enough for some of our more sensitive tummies to feel a bit queasy. Mrs Taylor got to spend a bit of time walking those students back up on deck and then finally onto the wharf while we waited for everyone to finish. Lucikly a drink and something to eat seemed to settle everyone down.

We then had some time looking at the 'Navigators' section of the museum on dry land before heading off for a lunch break. This was time to catch up with friends for a chat, eat lunch and draw fabulous pictures of the ship, city and more.

The afternoon was spent looking at the Aurora Aboriginal artefact section where Joe guided us through some of the bark paintings and then onto the HMAS Vampire (an old navy ship) for a quick tour.

It was suddenly 2:30 in the afternoon and time to head back to school. We met back at the entrance to the museum to grab our bags and have our names marked off the roll before walking to the bus stop where we were being picked up. We were rather subdued on the trip back and I'm sure would have all slept well that night. We made great timing arriving back at school 2 minutes after the bell. What a wondeful day! 

Endeavour Excursion Part 1 on PhotoPeach
Endeavour Excursion Part 2 on PhotoPeach
Endeavour Excursion Part 3 on PhotoPeach

More Terrific Projects and Presentations

The Aboriginal Artefact presentations have taught us so much about Aboriginal culture. We have listened to Dreamtime stories, seen Aboriginal art and dot paintings, had intricately painted spears, clap sticks and more shared with us, and even ended up with a canoe and bark humpy in our classroom.

The presentations have been intereseting and 3/4T have made a great audience. Eyes have been opened wide while some of the presentations have been on and even a few 'oohs' and 'aahs' have escaped our lips. We have really enjoyed finding out facts we didn't know and also how to make some of these amazing objects. I hear that mums and dads have been helping out. So thank you. These projects have been well received and mean so much to all of us!

More Great Aboriginal Artefact Presentations

Thursday's Projects Organisation

Today we've continued with our Aboriginal Artefact presentations. We are all learning so much. Well done 3/4T!

Homework Projects

Homework projects have begun to come in this week. All of them have been absolutely fabulous! We've had the opportunity to learn about Aborigine humpies and a gunyah. We found out about Aboriginal art and their use of symbols when painting. We even had a dreamtime story and a museum curator visit with an interesting accent who told us all about hunting spears. I can't wait to see the rest as they come in over the next week.

Jake's Post

Today we started the day with reading groups. We first talked about how to make connections with a book when we're reading it. Then we got split into our reading groups and read a book and we had to make connections with the book and ourselves. We then had to write it in our reading group books. After reading groups we came back to our class and did some grammar and finished ofg our 100WC. Then we had recess. After recess we went to computers and typed our 100WC and then we went back to class and talked about the European explorers like Torres, Dampier and Dartog. We listened to a rap of these explorers that was on our class blog. Then we worked in groups to read some more information about the explorers and make some notes. Then it was lunch. After lunch we finished of our European explorers and had to share something that we found out about them with the class. After that we played a game where we either had to multiply two numbers together or add two numbers together. Then we got our own dice and had to roll them to make 2, 3 or 4 digit numbers to add. Then we went home.

European Explorers Rap

Here is a great youtube clip about some of the early Australian explorers in a rap.

Kate and Jemma's Blog Post

Today we did History about the First Fleet. Then we went to the computer lab and we created a slideshow about us for Mrs Taylor. After recess we went back to class and we finished off some previous work.