All For One & One For All!
Posted by: AllStars in 08 AllStars, Projects, Voices of the World, tags: Voices of the WorldThis is the title of our November task on Voices of the World. We had to put together a PowerPoint presentation to illustrate this saying.
The AllStars love participating in VOTW because
- it’s fun!
- we get to use lots of new technologies
- we can think up creative ways to show what we are learning
- we get to think about different ways of showing what we are doing – like photos, drawings, animations, collage, art, computers
- we share our ideas and thoughts and suggestions
- everyone has a part to play
- we get to see how others do the task
- we get great new ideas from other schools
Have a look at this month’s task!
We only have 5 weeks of our school year to go here at the AllStars, and its that time of the year where we have final tests and exams. That’s part of the reason that we haven’t posted much lately – but soon we shall be back to normal and powering down to the end of the year 
Good Luck everybody!
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Visitors from the Cook Islands
Posted by: AllStars in 08 AllStars, School Events, tags: Cook IslandsWe recently had some wonderful visitors from the Cook Islands come to our school. The students were from a Primary School and ranged in ages from 5 to 12 years old. Their school Principal and lots of family members came with them to Australia.
The visitors were fantastic musicians and dancers. They performed for us in our COLA (covered outdoor learning area) which reverberated with the awesome sounds of the drums. All the adults played the drums and the students danced for us.
Sometimes the boys danced by themselves, sometimes the girls, and sometimes everyone danced together.
All the kids from our school clapped along and couldn’t wait to get up and join in dancing with our visitors. Even the teachers got up and wriggled and jiggled to the drum beats
Finally, when everyone was exhausted we all sat back down and farewelled our newest friends. Wouldn’t it be exciting to visit them in the Cook Islands someday?
Reading Circles
Posted by: AllStars in 08 AllStars, Art, Literacy, Sharing, Writing, tags: ReadingLast term we studied some stories in Reading Circles. Each group chose a text to read and met every week or so to talk about their book. We found interesting vocab and made up open-ended questions to ask the other members of the group. Nearly everyone enjoyed doing this.
At the end of the book we all had to make a Story Quilt in our group.
Each person had a square of paper and had to draw a border around it. Inside the border we had to draw three objects that related to our text. Everyone in the group had to use the same 3 objects in the same 3 colours, but we could each design our border however we wanted.
In the middle of the quilt square we had to draw a character from the story. We had to find a quote in the story that we thought summed up our character, and add it to our drawing.
We then stuck our quilt square onto black paper and they are now on the wall in our classroom.
Here are our Story Quilts:
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