Bonjour! and Gidday!
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!
Holiday Project is Go, Go, Go
Congratulations everyone - we’ve made it to the end of the term, so now its time for your first holiday project ……..
All that researching and reading and finding out that you have been doing at home and at school over the last week has meant that your head is full of fantastic information about NATURAL DISASTERS. To help you cleanse your head and to give you some relief our project will involve you choosing one creative activity and bringing it into class next term.
You have come up with some great ideas - head over to the PAGES section and read through your ideas. Any questions? Leave a comment and I’ll get back to you MrsP
Research “Natural Disasters”
Blown away by cyclones……
Washed away by tsunamis ……..
Made into statues by lava from volcanoes ……
We’re researching the wonderful! terrible! awesome! topic of natural disasters.
You’ve seen our class mind map that we made earlier this term, now everyone has made their own mind map to help them get organised to research about an area that interests them.
We’ve got lots of great sites on our deli.ici.ous site as well as books from the library to help us locate the information that we need.
We will be adding our info to our new wikispace and it looks as if our Holiday Project will involve creating something to do with our particular natural disaster.
BubbleShare: Share photos - Play some Online Games.
Please stay tuned to find out more.
Sokeina, Momtahina & Sarah
Mind Map - Natural Disasters
How cool is this?
Last week we tried out a mind mapping tool called mind42.com to organise our thinking about Natural Disasters.
We had just been introduced to Natural Disasters through some wonderful hands on science activities from the CSIRO and we thought that we would like to investigate further.
This is what we came up with - have a look at the map above - you can move themap, make the text bigger/smaller, open and close the nodes. WOW
AllStars - leave a comment about the area you would like to investigate. 
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Last week we had a visit from the “Keep Australia Beautiful” council and we learnt all about our rubbish and the wide world of waste!
We found out about
- landfill
- bacteria
- chemicals
- bottles, glass, jars
- plastics
- recyclables
- contamination
- toxic
- dangers
- marine life
- pollution
- garbage
and our responsibilities towards our waste and rubbish.
There were lots of interesting things to think about - leave a comment on something YOU will do as a result of taking responsibility for your waste and rubbish :D 
Go on ….. leave a comment ……..
December Voices of the World
Voices of the World - November Task
We were very late for November’s Task (so it’s not on the VOTW site) but you can check everyone else’s out here at the VOTW wiki.
But here it is anyway, we had heaps of fun making our stars on “2Paint A Picture” and choosing a background theme for our song.
We hope you enjoy!
Voices of the World
Come and have a look at the fantastic Voices of the World site.
This is where we join with over 40 other classes to share our voices and artwork in fun ways.
We are in the middle of our November task, but have a look at what we got up to in September and October!
Please click on the picture!
Dragon Alert!
Here is a Rockyou show of the dragons we made a couple of weeks ago:
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Leadership 2007
Over the last week or two we have been participating in a variety of Leadership sessions:
Year 3 have been learning about how to be a tolerant and considerate person.
Years 4 & 5 have been learning how to be a good leader.
Year 6 have been working through a transition to High School programme.
We have all been working with groups of people from different classes - this helps us to get to know other people here at school that we wouldn’y usually have the chance to work with.
In Leadership Training we cover topics like
- Public Speaking - “Speak Up”
- Responsibility - “Stepping Up!”
- Confidence - “You Grow When You Have a Go!”
- Organization - “Think Team”
- Team Skills - “Showing the Way”
After this training, the Year 5 students have the opportunity to apply for a student leadership position for next year. They have to fill in the application and attend an interview. If they are chosen as school leaders they will present a speech at Assembly and the school will vote for the 2008 School Captains.
Good Luck to everyone in Year 5 who applies
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