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. 
Learning Together
It was great to see the “old” AllStars tutoring the “new” AllStars in the computer room today! 
Lots of important information, terrific tips and helpful hints about blogging were passed on to the newer students so that they can get their own blogs up and running as soon as possible. 
Now that everyone knows how to leave comments on blogs we can look forward to some interesting and (hopefully) thought provoking discussions taking place. 
Sorry
A little word that means so much!”Sorry” was said in a very special place in Australia today …….
Sorry is a word not often heard in Parliament. Nevertheless, today Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologized on behalf the present Government to the Indigenous people of Australia.
Many people believe the apology is long overdue, but are glad that it finally came.
Ramiz & Timothy
The “Stolen Generation” were remembered today by all of Australia.
Natalie & Lilly
The Government (in the 1900’s) had done the wrong thing to Indigenous people. They took the children away from their parents just because they didn’t have full Aboriginal background, never to see their parents again! That’s why they are called the “Stolen Generation”.
Momtahina & Nadine
The Government at the time thought they were doing the right thing ….. but Australia wants to say sorry……
Sharon & Kesaia
Today, on the 13th February, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said “Sorry” to the Stolen Generations. We thought it was fair, kind and brilliant; as well as this it was a relief to Indigenous Australians.
Justin & Winson
Reconciliation: a long word as its a long story ….. A long time ago , from the 1930’s the Government took the aboriginal children because they thought that it was the right thing to do. But nowdays we think that in most ways it was bad. Because of this our new Prime Minister said “Sorry”.
Dushan & Marshall
Happy New Year Again!
Kung Hei Fat Choy
Many lucky AllStars had the opportunity to celebrate another New Year last week. It was the Lunar (or Chinese) New Year and lots of special celebrations took place to welcome in the Year of the Rat. Parades with Dragons and fireworks, yummy food and even red envelopes with money inside!
In our class, some people dressed up, some received money from relatives, some visited temples, and others had parties. Even Sandy dressed up in a Chinese outfit and joined in the fun 
Here are some photos of us enjoying the celebrations!
Thank You to “You”
To all of our blogging friends ..
A heartfelt and HUGE thank you to “you” - everyone who reads, enjoys and comments on our blog.
We have learnt so much this year, and it is because of “you”. We have blogged because of “you”, we have reflected because of “you” we have shared the events, the fun, the learning, the laughs, the thinking, the working and the people who work in and visit our class.
“You” have made a wonderful difference to how we learn in our room.
“You” have helped us think about our learning, how we do things, why we do things, and how we can learn and work even better and harder.
“You” have shared so much with us - thank you for your comments, your thoughts, your questions, your ideas, your blogs and most importantly your friendship.
We are on holidays now so our blog may be a little idle - but we will be back again in February.
Until then - keep on blogging
Summer Holidays
We made it!
After the frantic rush of end of the year we are finally on school holidays
Congratulations to everyone for your hard work, commitment to your learning, your sense of humour and for tolerating my (out of tune, but very enthusiastic) singing (and dancing) over the year!
For those AllStars who are moving on to High School at the end of January, thank you for the past two years. I know that you will all continue to grow and learn about yourself and your world, all of the rest of the AllStars will miss you sooooo much so please keep in contact and share your High School experiences with us back here on the AllStars blog.
Years 4 and 5, you will be moving up into Years 5 & 6 - some of you are school leaders already, we are all proud of the way you were ready to take up the challenging role of a school leader. Congratulations to everyone of you, we know that you will do a great job next year.
Here are some of my memories of the past year:
rubber gloves, crazy hair, funny hats, the Harbour Bridge birthday, ANZAC letters, dodgeball, chickens in the War, flags, garbage bags, PS2, buddies, Sandy, choose your own maths, Australia wiki, blogging, orange oranges, storyteller, jumping ropes, PWii, tennis, Samorost, Xcountry, eyes, science, vinegar on the ceiling, commenting, sculptures, junk, drawing, Ned Kelly, “Are We There Yet?” , debates, forensics, microscopes, experiments, cricket, visitors, games, BST, camp, water fights, Macbeth, history, MissionMaker, leadership, parties, pizza!, spiders, music, laughs, boogie, Gay Gordons, laptops, Voki, presentations, tunnel …..
Have I left anything out?
AllStars, enjoy the break, think about what/ how/ why you want to learn next year. Keep in contact through our blog - I’ll be posting over the holidays ( our videos of the Gay Gordons, Heel Toe Polka, Yr 6 Farewell etc) so keep looking in when you get the chance.
Have a great holiday,
Love MrsP
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December Voices of the World
Dragon Alert!
Here is a Rockyou show of the dragons we made a couple of weeks ago:
[rockyou 90943413]
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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