http://allstars.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Wed, 14 May 2008 05:19:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  Today we looked at the work of a Japanese artist, Hokusai, who spent his whole life sketching, painting and drawing.Hokusai is famous for his collection called "36 views of Mt Fuji". This wood block print is called: The Great Wave Off Kanagawa From "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji"; 1823-29 (140 Kb); Color woodcut, ... http://allstars.edublogs.org/2008/05/14/the-great-wave/ 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 ... http://allstars.edublogs.org/2008/05/07/bonjour-and-gidday/ Have a look at the contributions from other classes from around the world at the Voices of the World wiki. http://allstars.edublogs.org/2008/04/30/voices-of-the-world-aprils-task/ Congratulations everyone - we’ve made it to the end of the term, so now its time for your first holiday project …….. All that researching and reading and finding out that you have been doing at home and at school over the last week has meant that your head is full ... http://allstars.edublogs.org/2008/04/11/holiday-project-is-go-go-go/ I have copied this post from Naomis blog - thanks N! Michael, Hafiz, Penelope, Souad and I surprised selectors, at the district soccer trials yesterday. With great excitement we went and showed them what we’ve got   :!:     We’ll set off on Friday next week, along with Souad and Penelope, from two ... http://allstars.edublogs.org/2008/04/11/soccer-stars-surprise-selectors/ Some lucky AllStars enrolled at Joffa's Toon School today, and spent the morning learning how to draw cartoons. Looks like they had lots of fun, and were pretty good at it too :) BubbleShare: Share photos - Play some Online Games. http://allstars.edublogs.org/2008/04/10/joffas-toon-school-visits-us/ 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 ... http://allstars.edublogs.org/2008/04/03/research-natural-disasters/ No - not really :)      We had fun this morning playing a grid game to finish off our work on mapping/grids/scale drawings. First we had to rule up a grid on the page where 1cm: 1 km(or you could use grid paper!) Add seven checkpoints and start and finish squares. Label these A-G Players must ... http://allstars.edublogs.org/2008/04/03/car-rally/ "On your marks" "Get set" "GO!" We've started training for our cross country carnival that will be held in May. We huff and puff through two laps of the oval, and we time ourselves so that we can get faster and faster! Sandy is showing the most improvement so far - she has wiped two ... http://allstars.edublogs.org/2008/03/27/training-sessions-underway/ Extra! Extra! Read all about it! New bloggers here - And there's no doubt about it....  .........  they need your comments and encouragement! Our newer AllStars have started their individual blogs, so please come and visit their new blogs by clicking on the links below, or looking for their names in the blogroll to the ... http://allstars.edublogs.org/2008/03/27/new-bloggers-allstars/