It’s That Testing Time of Year :(

Posted onNovember 19, 2008 
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We only have 5 weeks of our school year to go here at the AllStars, and its that time of the year where we have final tests and exams. That’s part of the reason that we haven’t posted much lately - but soon we shall be back to normal and powering down to the end of the year :)

 

Good Luck everybody!

Image: ‘exam “pep” talk ads‘
www.flickr.com/photos/44085737@N00/145155118

Visitors from the Cook Islands

Posted onNovember 19, 2008 
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We recently had some wonderful visitors from the Cook Islands come to our school. The students were from a Primary School and ranged in ages from 5 to 12 years old. Their school Principal and lots of family members came with them to Australia.

  

The visitors were fantastic musicians and dancers. They performed for us in our COLA (covered outdoor learning area) which reverberated with the awesome sounds of the drums. All the adults played the drums and the students danced for us.

     

Sometimes the boys danced by themselves, sometimes the girls, and sometimes everyone danced together.

     

All the kids from our school clapped along and couldn’t wait to get up and join in  dancing with our visitors. Even the teachers got up and wriggled and jiggled to the drum beats :)

Finally, when everyone was exhausted we all sat back down and farewelled our newest friends. Wouldn’t it be exciting to visit them in the Cook Islands someday?

Reading Circles

Posted onNovember 19, 2008 
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Last term we studied some stories in Reading Circles. Each group chose a text to read and met every week or so to talk about their book. We found interesting vocab and made up open-ended questions to ask the other members of the group. Nearly everyone enjoyed doing this.

At the end of the book we all had to make a Story Quilt in our group.

Each person had a square of paper and had to draw a border around it. Inside the border we had to draw three objects that related to our text. Everyone in the group had to use the same 3 objects in the same 3 colours, but we could each design our border however we wanted.

In the middle of the quilt square we had to draw a character from the story. We had to find a quote in the story that we thought summed up our character, and add it to our drawing.

We then stuck our quilt square onto black paper and they are now on the wall in our classroom.

Here are our Story Quilts:

Voices of the World

Posted onOctober 29, 2008 
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We had so much fun being part of Voices of the World at the beginning of the year, that we have signed up again.

This is our “Welcome” Voki.

Head over to the Voices of the World wiki to hear everyone else who is participating this time.


Get a Voki now!

Listen to the Children ….

Posted onOctober 16, 2008 
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We made Vokis so everyone could hear the voices of children living in poverty.

This one is by Sharon & Nadine:

 

Get a Voki now!

Blog Action Day

Posted onOctober 14, 2008 
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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 :)

 

We’re on holidays :)

Posted onOctober 2, 2008 
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Time flies when you’re on holidays!

One week (almost) down and one to go…….

See you all back at school on Monday 13th October.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I took these photos! MrsP

Nounours Goes Home

Posted onSeptember 24, 2008 
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Nounours, the little French teddy from Walker Road School in Scotland is going home :(

He has been visiting the AllStars - seeing the sights of Sydney Australia, and even meeting some of the wildlife too!

But now its time for him to head back “up and over” to Scotland - so goodbye Nounours, we have had lots of fun with you.

We will all miss you - boo hoo!

 
Nounours Visits the AllStars from KimPericles on Vimeo.

Small Words Count

Posted onSeptember 23, 2008 
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This term our school has been involved in a project called “Small Words Count” as part of National Literacy and Numeracy Week celebrations.

We have been looking at word problems, how they are written, what they are asking us to do, and how we should read and interpret what we have to do.

Each class had to demonstrate what they had been learning about in this project.

We constructed some designs and made up word problems using percentages or fractions.

This is what we came up with:

Skeleton Art

Posted onSeptember 19, 2008 
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We’ve been studying

 

so we thought it would be fun to make some skeleton artworks.

 

What you need:

Water colour paints

A4 white paper

Black art paper (or paint your own like we did!)

Paintbrushes

 

What to do:

  1. Using the watercolours, paint stripes over the whole A4  paper
  2. Paint the bigger paper black
  3. Wait for the papers to dry
  4. Photocopy some body parts
  5. Carefully trace the body part you want onto the stripy paper
  6. Cut out and glue onto the black paper
  7. Hang or display in your room!

 

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