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
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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:
USA visits AUS - Americans DownUnder
AllStars have done it again!
Last week we entertained a group of over 20 educators from the US.
Although we have told other groups what we do on our blog - this time we were able to show people. We moved into the Computer Lab and everyone sat at a computer so we could show the visitors our individual work.
First Timothy and Momtahina showed a presentation about the work we do on our blog and why we blog. Then the visitors walked around and spoke with us. Everyone was working on something different - such as “Samarost”, MissionMaker, Toondoo, Webbliworld, Voki, our individual blogs and Scratch. The visitors were very interested in our work, our explanations and the interactivity of what we were doing.
They asked about how long we spent in the computer room, they spoke about how they hadn’t seen a class using these applications to learn before - they were very friendly and kind - we loved their accents
Some of the AllStars helped to set up the morning tea for the visitors too. We got cups, bowls, folded serviettes, moved the chairs, got out the food and sorted the lollies, chips and drinks. Thank you people - the visitors had a wonderful morning tea. The visitors loved the ANZAC biscuits and cornflake cookies - yum, yum!
Ramiz and Yilmaz had the opportunity to guide the visitors around the school. They got to see what the other classes were doing - Mrs Jenkins’ class were using videos in their room - this was fun:)
We took lots of photos - thanks for visiting us - we all had a great time
Our visitors said that they would look up our blog when they returned home - let’s keep a look out for “red dots” from the US.
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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:
Our Play - Macbeth - Performance
Writers Stories - Alison Lester
A little while ago we were part of the Sydney Writer’s Festival and took part in a writer’s workshop and masterclass with Alison Lester. Alison wrote the book “Are We There Yet?” which we read when we were looking at Australian history.
Please click on this link (the photo of the book) which will take you to the site so you can watch the Masterclass (and see some AllStars in the audience :) )
Thanks for your photo Carronshore ;)
Our Macbeth Play - Thanks (and apologies) to Shakespeare!
As part of our “History Never Repeats?” question we have been reading some of Shakespeare’s plays, because Shakespeare was an important part of history as well as writing a number of historical plays.
We have chosen to perform “Macbeth” for our class item in Assembly this week. After being inspired by Kindergarten’s performance of the story “A Dark, Dark Tale” we decided to re-write Macbeth in the same way.
To help us sort out the parts of the story we would perform, we all used Mind Maps to organise and identify the important parts of the story. You can see a composite of what we came up with on this Bubbleshare presentation ……..
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We had to add the “Dark, dark” tale bits to join the story together.
Now we have to work out who will be each character and practise on the stage.
We hope to video our performance and put it, and some still photos, on our blog after Friday, so stay tuned ……
What do you think Shakespeare would say about us changing his play?
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