Unfortunately I have used all of my blog space up, I can still post writing but no pictures. And seeing as we have homework and things during class where we have to post pictures I need a new blog. So therefor I have added a new blog, www.luigi2.globalstudent.org.au. Please have a look at my new blog, and        thank-you all for the comments and everything on this blog!

Yesterday was Blog action day for 2008. The theme last year was Environment, this year it was Poverty. So in our class we wrote what we think about poverty to put on our blog. 5 people frommy class including me have our posts also on the class blog, techno6. They were also put into our school news letter.

This is my Poverty post…

As I see it, world poverty is the most terrible thing in the world. Compared to other problems in the world, poverty is definitely the saddest and hardest. Imagine if you were living in a developing country, no family, no food, no money, no friends, not enough food and no clean water. One person dies every 3 seconds, from poverty. What if that was your best friend, your mother, your brother or sister? It could even be you! No one deserves to die from AIDS / HIV, malaria or other diseases. No one should have to starve to death! It’s just not how the world should work.
In the year 2000, the United Nations came together and set 8 Millennium goals.
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger – imagine how much that would change people’s lives and give them a stable life?
2. Achieve universal primary education – that would give every child the education that they deserve.
3. Promote gender equality and empower women – this will make the world a fair place and give girls and women an important job or leadership role.
4. Improve maternal health – achieving this goal will keep young and old mothers healthy through pregnancy and birth.
5. Combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases – this will help curing and stopping these awful life threatening diseases from spreading.
6. Ensure environmental sustainability – this keeps water and the environment sustainable. People in developing countries would be able to develop food crops, water ways and ensure their environments were self generating and sustainable.
7. Reduce child mortality by two thirds for children under 5 – this means getting children immunised against preventable diseases and possible death.
8. Develop a global partnership for development – this will bring the world together as one to eradicate world poverty for good.
A good start to life, an education, clean water, housing, medical help, sustainability and the ability to provide enough for their families, is what can be achieved through pursuing these 8 goals. Let’s keep our governments on target.

Today during ICT we had to upload new avatars. I made one on a site and loaded it but had a few problems. My old one came up, I would put up a photo of it here but I am having problems with Upload space on my blog, I have used it all and I’m not sure why or how.

My name: Chloe

Year: 6

Country: Australia, Victoria.

Favourite sport: Soccer, I play for a team with my friends.

Hobbies: Soccer, school, friends, animals, sleeping.

Favourite school subjects: Sport, English, ICT, S.O.S.E.

Friends: Katie, Jacqui, Nadine, Rachel, Jessica, Bridie, Sophie, Grace, Jenelle.

Animals: 1 dog (Spud), 1 cat (Basil), 1 rabbit (Prince), 2 cockatiels (Larry and Michelle), about 30 goldfish.

Favourite munchie: CHOCOLATE!

Today in Maths we were put into groups of 3, then we had to pick an irregular object that can hold a liquid or substance. Hailey and Shiloh were in my group, and we chose a small glass.  With our glass we had to fill it with a substance and then measure and weigh how much our object can hold of that one substance. When we had done that we recorded the information onto a chart in our Maths books.

Show Don’t Tell is explaining something without actually saying it. This is another part of our homework, sowing but not telling about 2 things we experienced during our holidays.

A birthday party at Lake Pertobe is- a slight chilly wind sweeping across the sand, happy children playing like there is no tomorrow, freezing cold beach water as clear as glass, two sets of thongs for goals as we kick along the soccer ball.

Soccer Training- kicking the ball along the dry, hard ground, playing a short game on our knees (looking quite silly while doing it), running around, defending the goal as the forward tries to get a goal, our coach giving us advice, younger girls vs. older girls short match.

On our class blog, techno6, Ms Murnane has put this up as a part of our homework. We have to write sentences with these similar words in them.

1. there / they’re / their
2. too / to/ two
3. off / of
4. hear/here
5. where/wear
6. where/were
7. brought/bought
8. know /no
9. knew / new
10. lose / loose

These are my sentences:

• Look over there, they’re eating their lunches.

• Mum and I went to the shop, she got two dim sims and I said I wanted some too.

• “I’m off to work now honey, you can have some of the Cheese Cake.” Said mum.

• Sam is trying to say something to me, but I’m over here and I can’t hear him.

• Where is that top I wanted to wear?

• “Where are we going?” I asked Julie, “were going to the park.” She said.

• On the holidays I bought a new doll, then I brought it to school to show my classmates.

• “No wipe your feet outside”, mum yelled. “I know, I know.” Replied Sam.

• I just knew my brother had done something bad when he bought me a new camera.

• My hair tie is really loose, I had better tighten it before I lose it.

Today is the 2nd last day of term. We have had English, Chinese, Science, S.O.S.E and Chinese. We don’t have ICT tomorrow so I thought I would post a post today. Mrs Murch is still in China, she is coming back next week. Yesterday year 6’s, 7’s, 9’s, and I think some 10’s were in our classroom and we were having a link up with Mrs Murch over in China. Then again this morning just our class talked to her. There are only 3 students from our school over there, but more from other local schools. I will probably go on my blog during the holidays, but if not, see you after the holidays!

This is the latest Science challenge posted on Technomaths.

Mrs Mc Cartney says…

“You have a basket full of delicious fruits and vegetables purchased from the market. Your challenge is to group each item into one of two categories; fruit or vegetable.

Post your answers on your blog, along with an explanation of what makes a fruit a fruit, and a vegetable a vegetable. You may wish to take photos, or use magazine pictures to represent your groups, or you can just type your answer. Oh, and one more thing….Can a fruit be a vegetable, or a vegetable be a fruit?”

She then had a list of fruits & vegetables:

• tomatoes
• carrots
• cucumbers
• figs
• squashes
• potatoes
• zucchini
• avocados
• durians
• green, red, and yellow capsicum
• bananas
• peapods
• pumpkins
• mangoes
• apples
• broccoli

So we had to put them into which group we think they belong to, fruits or vegetables. Here is my chart:

Fruit

Tomatoes

Figs

Avocados

Durians

Green, Red, and Yellow Capsicum

Banana

Mangoes

Apples

Vegetable

Carrots

Cucumbers

Squashes

Potatoes

Zucchini

Peapods

Pumpkins

Broccoli

As you would of read from what Mrs Mc Cartney said, her question… Can a fruit be a vegetable, or a vegetable be a fruit? My reply to the question was:

I think the answer to that is that a vegetable can be a fruit. I got the idea of that after reading about how a tomato is actually a true fruit, and how there are some vegetables that can also be used in fruit salads, but I have never heard of a fruit being cooked with vegetables. Also because there are many fruits, but some are just named in the vegetable category for cooking purposes, because they may be used in savory rather than sweet cooking. The term vegetable is more often used as softer eatable parts of the plant such as leaves, stalks, roots, etc.

3 things I have learnt this year:

1. How to blog.
2. How to use new technology eg. webcams, microphones etc.
3. How to add and subtract fractions.

2 things I was good at:

1. Blogging
2. Writing during English

1 thing I improved on:

1. Fractions and decimals

This post is for my blogging buddy, Florencia. Our class and her class, (In Florida), are all partnered up for blogging buddies. So Florencia and I were put together, this is a like to Florencia’s Blog.

So on here I am just going to tell Florencia some things about me…

• My name is Chloe, I’m 12 in year 6.
• My best friends name is Katie, this is her blog.
• I have a brother that’s 14, another that’s nearly 21 and a sister that’s 22.
• My favourite animal is a dog. We have a dog named Spud.
• When I’m older I want to either be a doctor or a kindergarten teacher.
• My favourite drink is Raspberry Creamy Soda, my favourite food is Pizza.

Well they are some main things, if you want to know more you can ask me here or look at my “About Me” page.

On Saturday morning I got up at about 8:30 with a really bad headache, so I took some panadol and went back to sleep. Then I got up again about half an hour later and got ready to go to Ballarat (for soccer). When we got into Warrnambool we chose our seats on the bus and took off for Ballarat. Everyone was there on the day and we were really excited, can you guess why? That’s right, this was our first game of the finals, if we won it we went on to the semi-finals. We got to Ballarat, it was nice and sunny, we started our training. We ran a bit and practiced some shooting. Then it was time to play, we all got into our positions and the game began. In the 1st half we scored a goal and so did the other team. Near the end of second half we were tied, 3 goals both ways. The umpire blew the whistle, that was the end… a tie. Well that’s what you would think anyway, but no! Because this was to get into the semis’ we had to play another short game of 10 minute halves. By the end of that we still had no result, another tie. So after that we had to have 5 penalty shots. By the end of that, you wouldn’t of guessed, but yet another tie. Quite a tough but even game. So then there were more penalty kicks, even. Then we let one goal slip, if we missed the next they win. Very sadly for our team, the next goal unfortunately missed. Still being a very close game, we were out of the finals. We have one more day match against Colac and then that’s all for soccer for me until next year.

On Sunday I didn’t do much, just slept in and watched a movie. Then later that afternoon mum and I went to Shaun’s to get Zac, he stayed there for the weekend. And right now I am going to have dinner, bye!

Today during ICT we have to write a review of Tutpup, an educational games site.

There are many educational games on Tutpup, they cover the areas of Algebra, Maths and spelling. Here is a small chart I have used to rate the games:

Last week, Monday the 25th of August, a CSIRO representative came to our school to do small experiments to celebrate Science Week for 2008. We were in the science room, first the man talked about CSIRO and what they do, then he explained the things we were going to do. We were in a group of 3, we all had our own bokklets to fill in about the different activities. Here are some that I can remember:

• Taking your heart rate then exercising for a minute and taking it again.
• Cutting into the muscles of a raw chicken wing.
• Standing on a special balancing thing to see how good your balance is.
• Testing different drinks to see which one contains the most sugar.
• Throwing a ball attached to a string as hard as you can into a wall to see how fast you can throw.

It was really fun doing these activities, my group was Jess, Grace and I. My favourite was probably the balancing, I think putting your feet closer together helps more.

During maths we have had a task to find a maths game that would be challenging for our classmates and then teach it to them. Once I have tought it to the class they will leave a comment here and tell me what they thought about it. Then when everyone has learnet everyones games the class will have a vote for the best game.

This is my game:

PIPELAYER

Pipelayer is a game played with two grids of dots that are slightly offset from one another, as shown in the animation at the right. This example has 6×7 and 7×6 grids of dots, but you can use more or less as long as they leave each player with one longer dimension. The long dimension should be one longer than the short dimension. The rules are as follows:

·         The players take turns moving by connecting two dots.

·         No move may draw across another move.

·         To win a player must have a 2 by 2 box all connected without any of the other players lines intersecting.