The Great Wave

Today we looked at the work of a Japanese artist, Hokusai, who spent his whole life sketching, painting and drawing.Hokusai is famous for his collection called “36 views of Mt Fuji”.

This wood block print is called:

The Great Wave Off Kanagawa

From “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji”; 1823-29 (140 Kb); Color woodcut, 10 x 15 in; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York© Mark Harden www.artchive.com

We used the thinking routine called “See, Think, Wonder”.

Here are some examples MrsP wrote down at the start of the lesson:

“I see the volcano.

I think it has erupted.

I wonder if that’s what caused the tsunami.” Moustapha

“I see the wave towering over the boat.

I think it looks like a monster.

I wonder if it’s angry at the people.” Sokeina

Please leave your thoughts in the comments using this thinking routine:

I see……

I think ……

I wonder ……..

Bonjour! and Gidday!

A great big AllStar and Australian welcome

to our special Scottish visitor -

Nounours!

We can’t wait to show Nounours all about our Australian heritage and the special things about our city of Sydney.

We are looking forward to Nounours learning about Australia and the AllStars too

Nounours has already met Sandy our Scottish otter, as well as Koko Koala and Kanga & Roo. Lots of fun is on our way!

Voices of the World April’s Task

Have a look at the contributions from other classes from around the world at the Voices of the World wiki.

Holiday Project is Go, Go, Go

Congratulations everyone - we’ve made it to the end of the term, so now its time for your first holiday project ……..

All that researching and reading and finding out that you have been doing at home and at school over the last week has meant that your head is full of fantastic information about NATURAL DISASTERS. To help you cleanse your head and to give you some relief our project will involve you choosing one creative activity and bringing it into class next term.

You have come up with some great ideas - head over to the PAGES section and read through your ideas. Any questions? Leave a comment and I’ll get back to you MrsP

Soccer Stars Surprise Selectors!

I have copied this post from Naomis blog - thanks N!

Michael, Hafiz, Penelope, Souad and I surprised selectors, at the district soccer trials yesterday. With great excitement we went and showed them what we’ve got :!:

We’ll set off on Friday next week, along with Souad and Penelope, from two other classes. We have been wished lots of luck and hope for lots of luck too : P

Here are some of the stats of all the players, from our school, going to the next level:

Name Foot Used Position

Naomi Both Midfield, sweeper

Hafiz Right Sweeper

Michael Both Midfield, forward

Souad Right Midfield

Penelope Right Forward

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

Congratulations to all reps, you played strong and hard today, and you all showed great spirit and commitment. Well done

Great news for Naomi, Michael and Hafiz - who have all been selected for the regional team.

They will have to play a couple of games and have the chance to be selected for the NSW state team. We wish them all the best for these HUGE games next term.

We are extremely proud of all our reps - go you good guys!!!

Here are some questions for you:

Have you ever played soccer?

Do you play for a soccer team?

Do you like soccer?

Naomi

Joffa’s Toon School Visits Us

Some lucky AllStars enrolled at Joffa’s Toon School today, and spent the morning learning how to draw cartoons. Looks like they had lots of fun, and were pretty good at it too

BubbleShare: Share photos - Play some Online Games.

Research “Natural Disasters”

Blown away by cyclones……

Washed away by tsunamis ……..

Made into statues by lava from volcanoes ……

We’re researching the wonderful! terrible! awesome! topic of natural disasters.

You’ve seen our class mind map that we made earlier this term, now everyone has made their own mind map to help them get organised to research about an area that interests them.

We’ve got lots of great sites on our deli.ici.ous site as well as books from the library to help us locate the information that we need.

We will be adding our info to our new wikispace and it looks as if our Holiday Project will involve creating something to do with our particular natural disaster.

BubbleShare: Share photos - Play some Online Games.

Please stay tuned to find out more.

Sokeina, Momtahina & Sarah

Car Rally?

No - not really

We had fun this morning playing a grid game to finish off our work on mapping/grids/scale drawings.

First we had to rule up a grid on the page where 1cm: 1 km(or you could use grid paper!)

Add seven checkpoints and start and finish squares. Label these A-G

Players must travel to each checkpoint in order, driving only on the grid lines.

Now get a die and some highlighters ( a different colour for each player )to begin playing.

1. Roll the die and move that many kilometres towards the first checkpoint. A number 5 = 5cm (5km)

2. Player 2 then rolls the die. Continue until both players reach the finish

3. Players count how many kilometres they travelled from start to finish

Scores: First to finish: 10 points

Player who travelled the shortest distance: 10 points

Have a play and let us know what you think

Training Sessions Underway

“On your marks”

“Get set”

“GO!”

We’ve started training for our cross country carnival that will be held in May.

We huff and puff through two laps of the oval, and we time ourselves so that we can get faster and faster!

Sandy is showing the most improvement so far - she has wiped two minutes off her times already!

Who knew that an otter could run that far, and that fast????? :0

Well done everone else - keep trying and improving your times ;)

NEW BLOGGERS @ ALLSTARS

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New bloggers here -

And there’s no doubt about it….

……… they need your comments and encouragement!

Our newer AllStars have started their individual blogs, so please come and visit their new blogs by clicking on the links below, or looking for their names in the blogroll to the right