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On the Megs Morrison Fan Club website you will be able to enter a competition running until the 7th October. On the website you will be able to join the Fan Club see photos of Mark Schwarzer, go into a games room for kids play soccer smash or take a soccer quiz. You can also enter a competition where you will need to email ‘your story’ – telling about your background, about playing soccer, when you started, and why football. There is also an interview with Mark Schwarzer that you can read.

Look at what some primary students have worked on during Term 3. Read the questions in each Rap , decide on how you would answer the questions  then read the posts. You may like to leave a comment with your opinion on their blog or make a comment on ours.

Follow this link to the Beijing Olympic Rap Blog

Science and Technology Assignment

 

 Task: You have to research and present a practical science experiment to the class.  You can choose any experiment you wish as long as it has a scientific purpose.  You will also need to have an excellent understanding of your experiment so you can present it and clearly explain it to the students in the class. You will be also required to fill in an experiment sheet that explains your experiment in detail.  Everybody will be given a mark out of 30 for this assignment.  You will be awarded a mark out of 10 for each of the following:- 

1.   The experiment itself.

2.   The presentation.

3.   The experiment sheet. 

The Experiment Sheet needs to include the following points

Experiment Name:

Aim of Experiment:

Equipment Required:

Experiment Steps:

Illustrations:

Experiment Findings:

The experiments are due Monday 27th October 2008, all experiments are due on the date (No extensions). Presentations will take place during Weeks 3. Failure to hand your assignment in on the due date (Week 3 2008) will result in 0 marks.

There are lots of sites on the internet to give you ideas. But remember it is your work I want to see. If you find a great site with lots of ideas put the link in the comments section and I will share the link with everyone.

 Click here  to go to an interesting science site to help you select a topic.  

Click here to go to the ScienceBob site for lots of demonstrations of experiments

 

 

Today we made lots of Vietnamese rice paper rolls. The preparation was wonderful, everyone did a fantastic job and they tasted scrumptious.

Anyone who would like to write a procedural recount of our experience today and leave it in the comments I will select one or two to publish as a post which will go with the movie of how to make a Vietnamese Spring Roll.

This image was the stimlus for writing. It is the cover of the book “Nobody Likes Me Everybody Hates Me”

Scary Girl by Karl

Today I saw a girl. This monster had red hair that looked like a pile of rusty junk, so was she a killer robot? No.

She has skin  that has turned white with fury, is she a zombie? No.

Her mouth is unnaturally wide so is she a mutant bullfrog? No.

She is wearing funny clothes , red tights, pointy black shoes, a polka-dot skirt and a blue stripy jumper, is she a mad scientist? No

Well her pointy frustrated eyebrows don’t meet in the middle so she’s not a werewolf.

Her eyes are blue not red so she’s not a supernatural freak. So she must be worst of all ‘a girl.’

The Big Bully by Jessica

Today I saw a person bullying a girl she had wide black scary eyes, a small stubby nose, a wide open mouth, she looks scary from her head to her toes. She is wearing black pointy shoes on her feet, she is the one everyone fears.

She has a spotty yellow skirt, a stripy blue jumper and long red tights let’s hope she doesn’t pick more fights. She has two boiling red cheeks and rusty red hair, I hope she’ll soon play fair.

The Furious Monster by Isobel

Today I saw a furious monster. She had wild red hair sprouting out in every direction. Her eyes were big blue and bulging. Her cheeks were as red as fire. She had little round yellow earrings. Her head was as round as a potato. Her mouth was wide open.

She had a blue striped jumper and a yellow spotted skirt. Her tights were as red as a fire engine. Her arms were bent and her hands were stubby. Her legs were crocked and her knees were knobbly. Her shoes were as black as midnight.

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. 

First place winning entries

Chenaya’s letter

Dear Sir

I strongly believe we should plant more trees around our community and I will now explain to you the reasons why I feel like this.

Firstly, trees are very important because they take in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. This is very important because if we didn’t have carbon dioxide and oxygen we wouldn’t be able to breathe at all.

Trees also stop erosion and provide food, shelter and great hiding places for animals and insects. They also provide us with paper, wood, school products, furniture and firewood.

Trees are also very attractive and you can go exploring and play many games in them. You can go exploring and make interesting toys out of wood from trees.

Please make people plant more trees around our environment so we can breathe, not have much pollution and save the world.

Yours sincerely

Chenaya

Jay’s letter

Dear sir,

Firstly trees provide us with oxygen. Trees reduce pollution along highways and roads. They take in carbon doioxcide and put out oxygen. If we don’t have oxygenwe could die from the lack of it.

Secondly by cutting down trees we are making more pollution and less clean air. If this pollution keeps increasing then the whole world will become hotter causing the ice to melt and making a global flood.

Thirdly they provide shade and and homes for animals. Its like someone cutting down your house. Where will all the animals find more trees if there are no trees.

Lastly they provide us with fun. Children love to climb and build tree houses in them or make them into tree forts.

The council is cutting down more trees than necessary. We should only cut down the minimum of trees.

So I strongly beleive that we should stop cutting down trees and start planting them.

Your sincerely

Jay

During education week all the childrens grandparents came to visit the school. All the grandparents had a look at all the kids work.

Wakakiri and dance Ensoumble peformed to entertain everyone. The band played songs too. The library had a bookstall and was selling books for kids. The SRC was also selling the Gymea Lily ( the school newspaper ).

Everybody had a great time at Grandparents day, but everything was a little crowded!

How to write a Speech

Have a look at this powerpoint made by a teacher in Christchurch so her primary school students could get a clear understanding of what makes a good speech. See if it helps you. Click on the link below and then select run. Once the powerpoint isup and running you can use the mouse to move from slide to slide, information will enter on each click. You can read all the examples if you like but there is no need to do the little writing task as this will be done in class.

speech-writing-

Timetable for presentation of prepared speeches will be up soon.

The prepared speech for Stage 2 will need to be 3 minutes.

The prepared speech for Stage 3 will need to be 4 minutes.