NED:

N= Never give up

E= Encourage others

D= Do your best

NED taught us about being a good person, getting along with others and respecting yourself and everyone else too.
To help make the visit even better, NED told his story using a yo-yo and performing really good tricks.
Now lots of people have yo-yos and are learning to do tricks too!

We have put together this slide show of our thoughts so far …..

What do you think?

We have found out many interesting things about religions, and the different ways that diffent people worship in their religion.

To try and keep track of the information we are finding, we have constructed  tables to put our info in. Each group had to come up with their own table/grid and the topics/ headings that they would be finding out about.

In this slide show you can see us working together to come up with our tables/grids. We are having lots of fun sharing our ideas, listening to each other and encouraging everyone’s ideas and thoughts.

You can see what else we’ve been up to on our DET trial blog right here!

Have you heard of the Dalai Lama? He became the leader of his people when he was just 15 years old.

Read this article “Meet the Dalai Lama” to find out more about this famous person.

The Dalai Lama recommends four important values to practice for a more peaceful planet -

compassion,

forgiveness,

tolerance and

contentment.

Which of these values do believe is more important?

Please nominate one and tell us why you think it is important, and how you could practise this each day. 

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Revising what we knew about the water cycle:

Talking about how to save water at home:

And sharing suggestions for conserving water:

There was time to talk, to listen, to think, to answer questions, to ask questions, and to come up with great ways or reducing, re-using, and recycling water.

Hoola hoops

Crepe paper

Staplers

Sticky tape

Cardboard

Imagination

A sense of fun

Great ideas

Clever kids

Teamwork

Co-operation

That’s all it takes!!!!!

Sitting in the dark…

Squashed up by the windows…

Reading by the light from outside…

 What’s going on?

 NOT THE LIGHT!

 NOT the Computer!

 NOT the IWB!

It’s Earth Hour!

Earth hour is a time where all electricital appliances are turned off to conserve electricity for 1 hour.

Globally, Earth Hour will be held 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm on Saturday night, but we wanted our school to participate so we are having earth hour this morning.

 Earth Hour has made us think about:

• How we can save electricity
• How we can be in the future
• How it was in the past
• How it can help the future
• Global warming
• Sleeping!!!

Don’t forget if we use too much electricity we could be back in the DARK AGES!!!!!!!-(boom tish).

We are writing posts on our own blogs to support Blog Action Day 2008.

We have been looking at how poverty affects education, and how education can help the fight against poverty.

We’ve looked at how school is important to us, why education should be available to all students, and the various places around our school that are important to us.

Click on our blog posts on October 15th to read what we’ve got to say!

Join in the conversation by leaving comments or writing your own blog post.

Let’s hear your voice too

The students seem to enjoy using the blocks and have had to think hard to find the correct answers. Working with a friend is very popular because we know that “two heads are better than one!”

If you have a look at the photos you will see that the kids look like they are enjoying their Maths!

 Here are the books we could choose from:

Each group meets every one or two weeks and decides how many pages or chapters they will read before the next Reading Circle Meeting.

 While the group is reading their book, they keep an eye out for interesting or tricky or difficult or unknown words. These words are written down and their meanings are found.

 When we have finished reading the chapters we write a brief summary, and make up 2 or 3 open-ended questions to discuss at the Reading Circle Meeting.

Here are some interesting questions we discussed today:

 The “Dealing With Dragons” group discussed the question -

“What personality do you think dragons have?”

This is what they thought

•  They are selfish because they only think of themselves
•  Bossy – telling people what to do.

What do you think?

The “Boy Overboard” group discussed -

“Why is a new type of landmine not a good invention?”

 This is what they thought:

•  ALL landmines are dangerous – new ones are not better
•  A new land mine will kill more people

What do you think?