Are We There Yet? Alison Lester Visits Us

Last week a very special person came to our school. Her name is Alison Lester!!! She is an author and she has written many books like: Are We There Yet? Magic Beach, Clive Eats Alligators, Clive Dances to the Didgeridoo, Snow Pony , Quick Sand Pony and many more.

A number of kids worked with her and she showed us how she did her books. She said that she had steps and this is how she does them:

She sketches her pictures,
Starts her writing,
Does the colours for her pictures,
Does the cover,
Checks if her editor approves.

She is a really good drawer and she says that it isn’t hard to make your own book you can just make anything you want. You can keep your work as a book that you made or you can see if anyone likes it and sell it to them. We had to write about either food, school, games and sport.

We had to draw a picture of us doing what we chose to write about: for example say Iwas writing about food I would say “Sokeina likes to eat hotchips and chicken for lunch.” Then iI would have to draw a picture of me eating chicken and chips. The teachers said that Alison Lester signed a few things for us and there going to give us those things hopefully in a few weeks.

By Sokeina

MrsP says: Check out the book Alison Lester is showing us!!!!!!!!

It’s All Happening ……

Sparks are flying in the computer room here at school - we are all working so hard on our “Australian Stories” for the Australia Topic wiki we are working on with Carronshore School.

Some people are preparing PowerPoints, others are writing newspaper articles, Celia is working on a video production/interview, and Sharon has started a trend in Toondoo comics!!!!

The deadline for completion is this Friday - so “get cracking” AllStars (you will have to look that slang up on the wiki :) ) don’t let your class or your country down!!!

Testing Newspaper Generator

Another test!

This time its the Newspaper Generator!

What do you think?

Testing Toondoo

Here is our first attempt at using Toondoo!

Hope you like it!

It is really B I G scroll down to see it!

Australian Stories

This term we are studying Australian history - events that shaped Australia.

We have been reading all sorts of amazing stories about famous Australians, infamous Australians, times that were hard, funny times, sad times, interesting points of view and some things that just make us shake our heads and think “WHY?”

We will be writing stories about these events, at the moment we are still researching and sorting through all of the information. Next we will work on the presentation of our stories and then we will post our stories for everyone to read.

Our friends at Carronshore, in Scotland, are studying Australia, and have started a great wiki on the topic. They have asked us to share our work with them on their wiki. So ……. the stakes are high - we will be working “flat out” to have our stories and presentations up and ready for all to see really soon! :eek: