Stop animal cruelty- bears

With bear numbers declining, there needs to be a law to stop it. There are many reasons for this: India's dancing bears, bears baiting and the making of Chinese medicine. If all of these continue there will probably be only a few left in the wild.
India's dancing bears
When tiny sloth bears are taken from the wild the Bear's mother is killed an the bear will never see the wild again. Squished in their tiny cages he bears begin their journey to Kalander village. Most of them never make it, dying from disease in the cages. And when the ones that survived get there the bears go through a lot of pain. The bears have pegs shoved in their paws and feet. Then ropes are attached to the pegs to create a 'living puppet '. Then the bears teeth are taken out to be sold as lucky charms. Out of all of the 1,200 bears that go through this, not one of them has lived past 8.
Bear baiting
Bear baiting is when a defenseless bear is attacked and killed by two dogs. A bear needs to defend itself, it also eat and drink too. In fact it's just like most creatures that have become extinct because they where hunted by humans. This needs to be stopped with law.
The making of Chinese medicine
Do you know what goes in Chinese medicine? Bile comes from bears in small cages in China. After entering the cage the bear can't move for years. So it needs to b stopped. I think that all of these things need to be banned and enforcement. India's dancing bears, bear baiting and the making of Chinese medicine are all cruelty to bears. If all of these are cruelty bears, so stop animal cruelty!

The Brain

This term we are learning about the brain. This week we have had Mr.Blamey from Blackburn High School to teach us about the brain. We have had to weigh different to see what would match the same weight of brains. We also made brain jelly it tasted good. Some people didnt like the jelly. We have had lots of fun making a plastic brain and playing with the weights.Here are some pictures.

Welcome to a new year in grade 5m. Our class has made a wonderful start and we are working hard to gel together as a group.

Dragon to guard the class

This term, we did varities of things including art. We did a paper mache dragon with paint, paper, glitter, glue, card board and paper mache. First we made a creative group so all the creative people got together and spoke at each other about ideas. At last we came to an excellent idea ( well Mr. McLean got the idea) we got a card board box for a computer, cut the sharp corners, get half a box about a size of a laptop then stick the little box on the big box, get a shoe box stick it in the laptop box. We made horns out of thin cardboard and stuck them on. When we finally finished, we had the dragon mached and painted it in red paint. It looked terrific but the eyes, nostrils, scales were missing so it looked really strange. After a few days of hard work we finished the dragon. It looked very fierce so we named it,'The dragon to guard the class.'
By Gloria

Environment Haiku

Our class in action

Grade 5MC attend camp at Forest Lodge

On Tuesday 10th of March 2009, Grade 5MC attended camp at Forest Lodge Farm. The journey to the camp included a visit to Coal Creek Historical Village in Kurrumburra. This visit cooinsided with this terms topic of Australian History.

The students from our class were involved in a classroom activity from the 1800's including writing in copper plate style with ink and quill as well as travelling on the tramway. Everyone enjoyed the tour with Ian.

From Coal Creek we travelled via bus to Forest Lodge Farm. The journey took about one and half hours and all the students were very excited by the time we arrived.