Today was a fun day to end first term. We all dressed in orange - for Harmony Day; blue - for True Blue Day; and had crazy  hair or a hat.

First off there were raffle tickets to sell and buy - there were lots of Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies to win.

Then the whole school assembled in the playground to watch everyone parade around and show off their fabulous clothes or crazy hats and hair.

Next the raffles were drawn and the winners came out to the front to receive their chocolates.

Last of all we had a a whole school “shake and shimmy” dance-along. We danced to the Nutbush, YMCA, the Heel and Toe Polka. What a lot of fun! We all had a great time dancing together in the sunshine.

Finally the lunch bell sounded and we headed off  back to our classrooms - exhausted but happy!

What a fun way to end the term - HAPPY HOLIDAYS

We held our annual ANZAC Day service this week .

This is a very important day in Australian culture and takes place on April 25th (we will be on school holidays so held our service early). On this day we remember the all of the military personnel who have given their lives to uphold the freedom and democracy that we know is important to Australians.

On April 25th 1915, many Australian and New Zealand soldiers took part in a ferocious battle at Gallipoli in Turkey. The fighting was intense on both sides, and there were many casualties. The bravery and courage of the Australian and New Zealand troops was immense and we are very proud of these soldiers who fought for us many years ago.

Today, we remember and give thanks to all the many of thousands of people who have fought for Australia in battles and wars all over the world. We thank them for their bravery and rmember them on this day.

At our school ceremony each class made beautiful wreaths to lay alongside the Australian flag. The SRC representatives placed the wreaths on the stage, then we listened to the bugle call, the one minutes silence and the trumpet.

It was a serious and solemn occasion for us all.

The other week we did some beginning of the year testing.

It is called diagnostic testing and we do it so that we can identify some areas to focus on in the coming weeks.

We did spelling, maths, reading and writing tests.

We helped mark the tests, and then we used coloured highlighters to highlight areas that we need to focus on. We also wrote these areas of focus onto post-it notes so that we can make them into targets or goals for us to work on.

Each week we will have time and opportunities to work on these areas in class, and as we reach our targets we will place it on an achievement wall in our classroom.

What should our targets be written on?

Here are some ideas, but you could offer suggestions in the comments section:

• arrows
• spaceships
• stars

What do YOU think - do you have targets  in your class? What do they look like?    

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Everyone here at the AllStars is excited and proud that Nadine has been nominated in the Edublogs Awards - in the category of Best Individual Blog.

We all know how much effort and enthusiasm Nadine puts into her blogging, her posts are interesting, exciting and informative; and who hasn’t received one of Nadine’s positive, welcoming and happy comments?

Nadine helps make blogging fun.

If you want to visit her blog just click on this link and spend some time reading her posts.

And if you want to vote for her, here is the link to the voting site.

Win or not Nadine - just know how wonderful we think you are - truly an awesome AllStar!

Time flies when you’re on holidays!

One week (almost) down and one to go…….

See you all back at school on Monday 13th October.

I took these photos! MrsP

This week we have used Mario & Sonic at the Olympics to write some poetry. We used the characters to write colour poems.

First we discussed how the characters were different colours, and how their colours reflected their personality .

Then we thought about the colours themselves, and how each colour looked, felt, smelled, the emotions it evoked, the tastes it reminded us of.

Lastly we put both aspects together and wrote poems that showed how the colour and the character  linked together to really show what the characters were like.

We think some of the imagery we used was pretty good!

Click on the links to visit our poetry page!

Here’s a presentation to show some of the steps we went through!

We have been studying the Ocean for a lot of this term and everyone has chosen something interesting to find out about. We all had to “Create Something Extraordinary” about the ocean.

Some people are videoing, some are doing puppet plays, some are making Toondoos and lots are making Vokis to share their information.

Here is the first of our finished presentations. Enjoy!

This is Moustapha’s Shark

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