Timothy presents as a world famous marine biologist to share what he has found out about Giant Squids, whilst Michael is a pirate with a story to tell about a famous pirate from long ago……..


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Real or not?

Sokeina & Celia investigated Mermaids, watch their News Report to uncover little known information about these storybook creatures of the deep.

Robert investigated pirates. Hear what he found out about a famous pirate ……..

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We have been studying the Ocean for a lot of this term and everyone has chosen something interesting to find out about. We all had to “Create Something Extraordinary” about the ocean.

Some people are videoing, some are doing puppet plays, some are making Toondoos and lots are making Vokis to share their information.

Here is the first of our finished presentations. Enjoy!

This is Moustapha’s Shark

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We have been making origami whales!

We read about the idea of making these whales at the “Origami Whale Project” site – and how they were used to raise awareness of the slaughter of whales internationally. Did you know that since 1986 over 30 000 whales have been killed by whalers from Iceland, Norway and Japan? 

Everyone folded the paper carefully and we strung the whales up on string to make a curtain of beautiful coloured whales in our room.

You can all make a virtual origami whale and send it off to the Japanese Prime Minister – just click here and off it goes!

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!

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

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.  

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. 

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