Wormbins

A program that allows us to see how we use langusge to communicate messages.

I have created wordles using the news topics we have being reporting on over term 3.

Click on the links to see some examples of these.
Local News

Sports News

Issues worth discussing

4/5M and 4F watched Behind The News together and then prepared a response to one of the segments.  4F prepared and delivered an impromptu speech.  Listen to them by clicking on the link below:

http://blip.tv/file/1201750

Our Wiki’s is different to our blog.  Our blog records news and stories of interest to our classroom so that others can read about it.  The wiki is a place to record lots of information that you might want to add to over time.  You will all be able to edit the wiki but only people we invite will be allowed to look at our wiki.

An example of a wiki is Wikipedia.  Wikipedia is like an encyclopedia but anyone can edit it.  If you disagree with something someone has written in wikipedia you can discuss your opinions on the discussion page.  If changes are made to they are recorded in the history page.  Here is a link to a video that explains how Wiki’s work.

Here is a link to the our ahowto wikipage.

The types of information we will collect on our wiki will include:

• Technology tips
• Useful links
• Instructions on how to do things at our school

The brain teasers have stumped a few people but they are good fun. Emma has found a lovely site you might like to visit with lots more  examples to keep those brains working. If you find some other brain teaser sites  you would like to share feel free to add a comment and a link.

 Click here to visit Brain  teasers

The Olympics in Beijing are on the way. The opening ceremony was a wonderful event but the athletes reported that it was so very hot that all the clothes they were wearing were soaked through with sweat by the time they finally witnessed the lighting of the Olympic Flame in the stadium.

Each day we will follow the progress of our team and record the highlights as comments on this post.

Keep checking the comments to see how well Australia is going. 

Check out this interactive world map that changes as  each country wins a medal. It is amazing. You can find out how many medals Australia won at each of the games it participated in since 1896. 

The chinese have made the Beijing Mascots into robots. Apparently the Beijing Mascots Beibei, Jingjing, Haunhaun, Yingying and Nini robots are going to be roaming around Beijing greeting all the olympians that have came from overseas to china. I know, pretty interesting. I wonder what the olympian’s reactions will be. By Tim!

The mascots Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, Yingying, Nini comes from the words Beijing welcomes you. In chinese it is Bei Jing huan yin ni.  by Albert

This term as part of your homework you will be watching, reading and reporting on the news.  Each week you will have a different task.  Each week I’ll post a task for you to investigate and report on.  You will write your reports as a comment after my homework post.

Guidelines

• Only use your first name.
• Keep your comments to under 2 paragraphs – quality not quantity.
• You can comment on other peoples news as much as you like.  If you’re writing a response to someone else’s post then mention their first name in your comment.
• You can provide links to other information you find on the web.

Kathleen responded to ‘Is growing up harder for girls or boys?’ click to listen

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Julian responded to ‘All kids should experience a camp before they are 10.’click to listen

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Phoebe responded to ‘Does Space exploration benefit our world?’click to listen

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Elyse responded to ‘Should teenagers be allowed out past midnight?’ click to listen

[elyse-impromtu-speech]

This one Lexi learnt last year

1. Brackets
2. Over
3. Division
4. Multiplication
5. Addition
6. Subtraction

 Here’s our version

1. Brackets first to quench your thirst
2. Above the line don’t make a bad rhyme
3. Next comes division so you don’t loose your vision
4. Multiplication so you you can go on vacation
5. Do the addition nearly finish the mission
6. Take-away last it’s over very fast

Can you make up your own?

The Jungle Tribe that Time forgot….
This article was interesting because we found a tribe that could have lived hundreds of years ago and they still have not changed. They were unusual because they painted themselves with red paint and dressed only in animal skins. It is interesting to find a tribe in the Amazon Rainforest of South America in 2008 when other tribes in South America stopped hundreds of years ago. These people have never touched people from out of their tribe and have lived without other people. They have not seen technology before. The weaponry they used was related to the weaponry that the aborigines used. The way they acted and sheltered was interesting because it was the way their ancestors sheltered.

By Courtney 4/5Mtribe-huts