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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

Get a Voki now!

The Year 4 students in the AllStars are using the school DSLites and the game “Dolphin Island” to investigate marine conservation.

They have to look after sea creatures who have been hurt by human and environmental factors. When they are not playing the game, the students are researching marine animals and adding their info to the class wiki, measuring how big the animals are and drawing the creatures.

What fun

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Is this connected learning or what?

Students from across the world set the pace!

Nadine from the AllStars and Stephie from Argentina have been commenting on each other’s blog for a while now, and have become friends with a shared concern.

With the help of Stephie’s teacher, they have set up a wiki called “Stop Whaling Now”. The girls have decided to mount a campaign to stop whaling. Have a look at their wiki and leave a comment, or join their fight.

Attribution:  Image: ‘Humpback Whales in Prince William Sound‘

Hi everybody!

This week we had our first debate of the year for Belmore South. It was against Campsie, (not very far from us), and the topic was that “Earth Hour is a waste of time”. We were saying it WASN’T a waste of time, and guess what….. WE WON!!!!

Even though we were all above the time limit we still had very good arguments and we had very good rebuttals.

In this first debate it was: 1st speaker, me; 2nd speaker, Naomi; 3rd speaker, Ramiz; and team advisor, Celia. At Belmore South we usually have 2 extra people in the debating team but we haven’t found out who those two people are yet.

Hope we do as well as we did in this debate in our upcoming debates.

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!

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

It may not look like it, but the AllStars were all very busy and on task last Wednesday!

What sort of task would involve this sort of behaviour?   

Our Voices of the World February Task – that’s what     

We were discussing, planning, making and then setting up and taking photos for this month’s task on numbers. Great fun, great learning, great teamwork!   

Here is our finished product – what do you think?