Yes!
It actually snowed while we were staying in Edinburgh!
Apparently it doesn’t snow here very often so we were very lucky!
I was so excited that I opened the window at the hotel and filmed this little video:
Well …. what do you think? Have YOU seen snow anywhere? What is your best/worst memory of snow?
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
We 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?
Last 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.
We have been looking at how poverty affects education, and how education can help the fight against poverty.
We’ve looked at how school is important to us, why education should be available to all students, and the various places around our school that are important to us.
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