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

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

Dragons are Lurking!

Today we have been investigating dragons - it seems that many places and people right around the world share stories, myths and legends about dragons.

Do you know any stories about dragons? What are dragons like in the stories that you know?

Do you believe that they are/were real?

Do you think that dragons are related to these two “real” Australian dragons -

Lake Eyre Dragon

Sea Dragon

Please join our conversation about dragons

Scrapblog Test

Writers Writing!

It’s Yearbook time so everyone in the AllStars is reflecting back on the past school year:

all the things that we have done,
the people we have met,
the friends we have made,
the things that we have learnt.

Now its time to write about these things for our class page in the Yearbook. The Year 3,4 & 5s are writing about blogging, visitors, game making, projects, excursions and Sandy. The Year 6s are writing about themselves and their memories of Primary School before they move on to High School.

Here are some photos we took of everyone working together.

We would have liked to have used RockYou to show our photos but it has been blocked :cry:

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)

Voices of the World

We are part of a project called “Voices of the World”.

A world wide project to unite children together using their voices.

Voices of the World Wiki

click on the words above to see all of the Vokis from around the world!

Our first task was to make a Voki and record ourselves saying a message. This is what we came up with:

Get a Voki now!

Our Play - Macbeth - Performance

The Visitors from BECTA

Last Friday some visitors from BECTA in the UK came to visit our school to see what schools would look like in the future. There were six visitors. They only stayed for about twenty minutes in our classroom but stayed in the school for the whole morning.

We had a couple of groups and each group had a different subject, which we did in class. Everyone got to choose what we wanted to do.

They were:

Mission Maker
Scratch
Voki
Bubble Share (Macbeth)
Wii

We each showed how we used the technology, why we used it and what it had to do with school. We all enjoyed sharing what we did, we could have talked all day about what we did at school, but the visitors only stayed for a short time!

Wii The Visitors (Men in Suits)