Congratulations Blog Dogs, check out this article in the Northern Districts Times today. We are on page 26.
Thank You
Thank you to everyone who followed this blog throughout 2010. We enjoyed all of the comments, feedback and interactions from all around the world. It really felt like our classroom expanded and let the world in.
Thank you also to everyone who voted for us in the Edublog Awards. We won second runner up! Also, Emily’s blog won first place in the Best Student Blog category! We are all very proud of these achievements.
This year Mr Squires will be blogging from from http://ehpsblogs.com/year3 and some of the blog dogs have moved on to http://ehpsblogs.com/class45s. Please check out our new blogs and leave a comment.
Bye Bye Blog Dogs
Over and out!
Colorado Kids Calling
We had another Skype call to Mrs Cunningham in Berthoud, Colorado today, only this time she had some of her students with her. We had an interesting discussion, learning about snowball fights, favourite sports (most of them had never heard of cricket!) and talkin about the Sydney Opera House.
You can hear what we talked about here:
Thanks Mrs Cunningham and all of the lovely students at Berthoud for a lovely chat.
Lewis Burns
This morning we were lucky enough to have a visit from Aboriginal artist Lewis Burns. He spoke to us about his artwork and the symbols we often see in it. He also explained to us how the different sounds made when playing the didgeridoo could represent native Australian animals. such as a kangaroo, joey, galah and emu. He used the didgeridoo to tell us a story.
Projects Projects Projects!
We have spent most of this term working on Space projects. Our project could be a model, book, board game or PowerPoint.
Check out our terrific work!
Space Projects on PhotoPeach
Presentation Day
Today was our end of year Presentation Day, recognising all of the terrific achievements made by students at our school. The choir sang “Let’s Get Loud”, the band played “Jingle Bells,” “Funky Town,” “Advance Australia Fair” and the theme from “New York, New York” and the dance troupe showed off how nimble they are to “People Are Strange”. There were lots of awards, especially for year six.
In our class we had some very special award winners. The 3S awards for 2010 went to:
Diya – for Academic Excellence
Maheeta - for Citizenship
Emily - for Achievement
Kaelan - for Improvement
Nikki - for ESL.
Congratulations to each of these award winners and all members of 3S in 2010.
The Alpha Show
The Alpha Show visited us today.
We made posters and slideshows of what we saw afterwards. Here are some:
Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
Alpha show!! on PhotoPeach
Christmas Craft
Mrs Farrell has been teaching us back-stitch to embroider Christmas symbols on to tea-towels.
Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
Bazaar Day
Last week we had the fan-jolly-tastic Bazaar Day. All the year 6s were having fun running their stalls. The whole school had a great time playing table tennis and drinking MooMoo Milkshakes.
Some highlights were:
Winning the playstation competition (Arden)
Soaking year 6s (Victoria)
MooMoo Milkshakes (Hannah)
The basketball shootout (Brookey)
Ping-pong Championships (James)
Shaving a balloon (Lachlan)
Awesome yummy cupcakes (Kaelan)
Coming second in the playstation competition (Joshua)
Soaking Mr Squires (Diya)
Soaking Miss Gerard (Frank)
Winning the jellybean competition (Rachel)
