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Snow in Edinburgh!

AllStars — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:40:48 +0000

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?

All For One & One For All!

AllStars — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:18:35 +0000

This 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!

Voices of the World November

It’s That Testing Time of Year :(

AllStars — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:19:01 +0000

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!

Image: ‘exam “pep” talk ads‘
www.flickr.com/photos/44085737@N00/145155118

Visitors from the Cook Islands

AllStars — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:04:53 +0000

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?

Reading Circles

AllStars — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:00:46 +0000

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.

Here are our Story Quilts:

Voices of the World

AllStars — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:38:23 +0000

We had so much fun being part of Voices of the World at the beginning of the year, that we have signed up again.

This is our “Welcome” Voki.

Head over to the Voices of the World wiki to hear everyone else who is participating this time.

Get a Voki now!

Listen to the Children ….

AllStars — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:34:32 +0000

We made Vokis so everyone could hear the voices of children living in poverty.

This one is by Sharon & Nadine:

Get a Voki now!

Blog Action Day

AllStars — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:26:19 +0000

We are writing posts on our own blogs to support Blog Action Day 2008.

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.

Click on our blog posts on October 15th to read what we’ve got to say!

Join in the conversation by leaving comments or writing your own blog post.

Let’s hear your voice too

Nounours Goes Home

AllStars — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:16:36 +0000

Nounours, the little French teddy from Walker Road School in Scotland is going home

He has been visiting the AllStars – seeing the sights of Sydney Australia, and even meeting some of the wildlife too!

But now its time for him to head back “up and over” to Scotland – so goodbye Nounours, we have had lots of fun with you.

We will all miss you – boo hoo!

Nounours Visits the AllStars from KimPericles on Vimeo.

Small Words Count

AllStars — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:57:46 +0000

This term our school has been involved in a project called “Small Words Count” as part of National Literacy and Numeracy Week celebrations.

We have been looking at word problems, how they are written, what they are asking us to do, and how we should read and interpret what we have to do.

Each class had to demonstrate what they had been learning about in this project.

We constructed some designs and made up word problems using percentages or fractions.

This is what we came up with: