Grade 5

A Day in the Life of an Ice Cube	Colours of our World	Penguins	Tastes of Morning
Global Temperature Project	International progressive story	Micklefield collaborates with Australian school	This is our Town

A Day in the Life of an Ice Cube
Grade 5 was the only school in Africa to participate in this project.

Coloursof our World
The Grade 5 class of 1999 collaborated with schools in Adelaide, Australia and New Jersey, USA to make a website as part of the AT&T Virtualclassroom Contest '99. They were not amongst the winners but can be very proud of their entry.

Penguins - Grade 5 has completed a study on the African penguin for an international project on Endangered Species and Animals.

Tastes of Morning - a project to raise the profile of breakfast among children. The outcome of this project will be a booklet for parents with a selection of ideas for breakfast.

Micklefield Grade 5 helps Australian kids
A Grade 3 class at Elanora Heights in Sydney is studying Africa. Part of the project is to find out about the animals in Africa. Our girls have found out very interesting information about Chameleons and wrote a report which was e-mailed to the Grade 3s there.

International Progressive Story
Grade 5 participated in an International Progressive Story project. The organising teacher is Lone Nielson from Hornbaek, Denmark. We have written Chapter 7 and have illustrated it too. The story was completed in 1999.

We have gone to Rio de Janeiro with the team from Western Australia as our submarine has been damaged.

1997
Global Temperature Project
About 80 schools took part in this project from December 1 - 5, 1997. We took the temperature between 11am and 1pm outside, in the shade. We recorded the sunrise and sunset times for those days. These times came from the daily newspapers.
We calculated the temperature average for the week and the daylight average and sent our results to the participating schools.
We drew two graphs using all the information from the other schools. One was Latitude vs Temperature and the other Latitiude vs Daylight minutes.

Results:
Our latitude is 33.9 deg S, our longitude is 18.5 deg W.
The sun was in the southern hemisphere when we took the measurements.
The mean temperature for the week was 22 deg C.
The averge daylight was 849 minutes.

Latitude vs Daylight (Minutes):
The two schools with the most daylight are both in Australia, one at 33 deg S and the other at 35 deg S.
This graph was in the shape of a curve, the nearer the schools were to the North Pole the less daylight minutes they had and further south there were more daylight minutes.
Three schools did not fit the pattern. We don't know why.

Latitude vs Temperature (Centigrade):
The hottest temperature was at a school in Australia, (33deg C). It was coldest at a school in Sweden (- 6.4 deg C) and Anchorage, Alaska (-6 deg C) There wasn't a strong pattern to this graph. It was colder for those living nearer the North Pole and hotter nearer the equator.

This report was written jointly by the girls in Grade 5

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This is Our Town [Table Mountain]

'This is Our Town ' is an international project that attempts to uncover the culture and joys of towns all around the world. Our girls made web pages to tell what they enjoy doing in Cape Town.

My Western Cape Allison
Van Hunks and the Devil Amy Docking
Local Myths and Legends Natasha
Cape Town through My Eyes Genevieve
Myths and Legends Wietske
Cape Floral Kingdom Claire
The Waterfront and Cape Town Baylee
Sports Aneesa
Table Mountain and Penguins Kate
Roller Blading Lorissa

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