http://allstars.edublogs.org Living, learning and linking in the 21st century Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:23:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As we come to the end of our unit we are starting to think about and reflect on some of the things we have found out during our investigations. We have put together this slide show of our thoughts so far ..... What do you think? http://allstars.edublogs.org/2009/06/17/i-used-to-think-but-now-i-think/ We've been reading a book called "Three Cups of Tea" which is a true story about a mountain climber, Greg Mortenson, who works hard to build schools for remote villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan. We are enjoying hearing about Greg's trials and adventures as he learns tolerance, acceptance and respect for the values, ... http://allstars.edublogs.org/2009/06/17/three-cups-of-tea/ We have been working on two blogs this term - our usual and friendly AllStars site and a secret blog being developed by our Department of Education and Training here in NSW, Australia. This second blog has been a trial blog and we have been posting the work we have been ... http://allstars.edublogs.org/2009/06/17/secret-bloggers/ Over the past few weeks we have been working on our own "Big Beliefs Project". We have been finding out about the different beliefs and religions people in our class and our community have. We have found out many interesting things about religions, and the different ways that diffent people worship ... http://allstars.edublogs.org/2009/06/17/our-big-beliefs-project/ http://allstars.edublogs.org/2009/05/28/another-test/ http://allstars.edublogs.org/2009/05/28/flip-video-test/     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, ... http://allstars.edublogs.org/2009/05/26/528/ No - the Star Wars cast did not visit us last week - but we DID have a visit from someone who could use the force just as well as Luke Skywalker! Sam from the CSIRO showed us many fantastic tricks and experiments all about forces and motion. Learning about forces ... http://allstars.edublogs.org/2009/05/26/may-the-force-be-with-you/            We have been offline for a while as we have been really busy preparing for our national tests. These were held last week - on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We had tests in English - Reading, Writing, Language Conventions; and Maths.  Even though everyone tried their hardest, It was a great ... http://allstars.edublogs.org/2009/05/18/test-testing-tested/          How exciting! We won Class of the Week last week and so we got to use the Nintendo DsLites in Golden Time. Most of us knew how to use them, but for some people it was their first time. Lots of people joined up together to play games against ... http://allstars.edublogs.org/2009/05/18/class-of-the-week/