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

Camp Photos

Here they are - our first taste of this year’s camp.

Looks like fun …………

[rockyou 90944467]

Crazy Camp Causes Chaos!

3 days ago our crazy campers went camping. Here are a few things we did back here at school:

Water Fight War Begins“Cannonball!!” “Quickly I need ammunition.” These are just a few of the quotes used in the water war of water. Water balloons were thrown, hit and broken in the war. Water bombs cooled off the AllStars and other kids in this shirt drenching war of water. Medals were given to the wettest and driest soldiers. The battle was hard but in the end all were wet and happy.

Dragons Take Over Belmore!?! RROOOAAAARRRRR! AllStars were baked in the making of devilish dragons. Some were water dragons and others were land, but all were unique in their own way. Me, myself and I were astonished at all the creativity in the AllStars and look forward to seeing a real life one someday.

Mulan Movie Is Most Meaningful Mulan is a movie with the most humorous dragon, a lucky cricket, a stallion and a young girl set out on the most unforgettable journey. The AllStars watched this movie and were sucked in to all the adventures throughout the movie. They also hope to see Mulan 2 someday.

I would like to add some questions here, so please feel free to speak your mind: What are your feelings on the movie Mulan?

Would you feel guilty if you were Mulan’s father?

Do you believe in dragons?

Have you ever taken part in a water fight? If so how was it?

This is the dragon I made!

By Naomi

Connected Students @ Connected Learning

On Wednesday a group of students from our school (Belmore South PS) - including 3 AllStars - represented us at the “Connected Learning Conference” at the Novotel Hotel at Brighton.

The students formed a panel to discuss their experiences using GameMaker to make digital games.

Students demonstrated their completed games, walked through how to make a game, and held a panel discussion about the value of making games in class, the educational benefits, what they learned, and their thoughts on game making. The students even answered questions from the audience.

The response from the teachers and educators in the audience was positive- and the students were professional, passionate, articulate and impressive.

Congratulations to everyone involved - you are a credit to youselves, your families and your school - thank you.

I was so proud of you all!

(MrsP)

MissionMaker

We have been using a game making program called MissionMaker to make learning about history fun and interesting. We have been researching a person, place or civilization from either of these periods: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern as part of our “History Never Repeats?” Project.

We have to apply the information that we gathered from our “History Never Repeats?” Project and apply it to our MissionMaker game. We are nearly ready to make our own MissionMaker game.

So far each person in the class has created a Mind Map and created a game story related to their game.We are going to use the game story and Mind Map as the base for our game.

We have been trying to transfer our game ideas, characters and worlds to the ones available in MissionMaker. This has not always been easy because of the limited worlds, characters and props in the game.

By Martin, Matthew, Momtahina & Dushan :cool:

Random Meme Fever!

A random meme has been “floating” around the blogosphere of late and many AllStars have been tagged by friends from other schools and countries. We have discussed the positives and negatives of these memes and have tried to remember to keep safe (no personal details). School based tagging should try to keep on school topics too.

Today we thought we would answer as a class, so we thought of 8 topics we would answer. Then we turned the reults into percentages (maths lesson!!!!!! :lol: ) and here is what we came up with:

43% of AllStars liked MeatLovers pizza.
57% of AllStars don’t like Maths.
29% of AllStars chose science as their favourite subject.
43% of AllStars have finished the Premier’s Reading Challenge.
43% of AllStars liked Athletics for sport.
100% of AllStars love blogging! :mrgreen:
100% of AllStars like playing games (PS2, DSLites, Computer etc)
90% of AllStars like making digital games.

We won’t tag classes - but if you want to join in please do so and leave a comment so we can read your class’ favourites

“Speed Blitz Blues” bombard Belmore with bags of balls :)

Today Emma, a rep from the NSW Cricket Association (Speed Blitz Blues teams), visited our school to advertise cricket and how much fun it is to play.

We got to practise 3 important cricket skills:

fielding
bowling
batting

In our groups of three, we went to each activity and had a couple of turns at each skill.

At the end Emma gave everyone a showbag with goodies inside! There were stickers, Milo munchies, a DVD, a poster, a soft cricket ball and some advertisements.

Ramiz, our future Aussie Cricket star, answered a question correctly) and won a water bottle for himself. GOOOOOOOOOO Ramiz :cool:

Watch out Warney!!!!!!! AllStars are after you!

[rockyou 78392105]

Samorost ToonDoo

Super Samorost

Would you like to save a planet?

Well now you can!

A dear little seashell planet needs your help - a larger, bird shaped planet is hurtling towards it …….

Help Sammi - a cute little gnome in white pyjamas - and the main character in the game “Samorost”, to save his planet from impending doom by thinking and working your way through a series of mysterious environments.

Read our thoughts and experiences on our individual blogs.

We have been writing sentences, paragraphs and thoughts about the game. We would love to hear what you think ! Have fun and leave a comment.

PWii

We have finally started our “PWii” lessons. We call them PWii (rather than PE - physical education) because we are using the Wii to play tennis.

Each group of students has written up a lesson on a tennis skill, and they teach the rest of the class how to do the skill. We play outside using a wide range of bats and racquets to learn the skills we need to play inside on the Wii.

Each pair plays the Wii in the classroom, and we choose the “best of 3 games” option. When everyone has had a turn we will each play other students and have a “Round Robin” tournament.