I made this today during ICT using Bubbl.us, it’s a great site to make mind maps, it’s good for brainstorming too!    (You may have to click on it to view bigger!)

Today Mrs Murch is away and she left us instructions on her blog. The other day the year 7’s came into our classroom and we had a video conference with a lady from America called Mrs Leo. So this is what she wrote on her blog…

Today, Mrs Leo came from Boston, north eastern USA, into our grade 6 and 7 class. She used “virtual classroom software” which has been developed by an Australian, to share some PowerPoint slides, audio, video and chat. Let’s reflect on this amazing lesson and write a post about it.

• Discuss some of the questions she asked us.She asked us about how you play cricket, and Grace from year 7 explained, recently she went to Darwin to play for a Victorian girls cricket team. She asked about how bid blue tongued lizards are, what they eat, where they are found, and if they bite and things like that, Ebonie from year 7 answered all of that because she has a pet blue tongue. She also asked about our school and what parts were some places, Tzigane from year 6 answered that.

• Which questions surprised you most? The ones about PIES! I just can’t believe they don’t have pies in America!! They are just so common in Australia that it’s strange to think that people in America don’t know what they are!

• Did you learn anything new during the session? I learnt that they don’t have pies in America!

• Do you think we accurately portrayed a glimpse of life at our school and local area? Yes Why? We showed her our school, our pool, our ovals, we could of told her a bit more about what things we learn at school though.

• What about a glimpse of Australian culture? Yes Why? Because we explained how to play cricket, which is definitely Australian, we told her about meat pies, we showed her Vegemite! We also told her about the blue tongued lizard, and they live in lots of places around Australia.

• Do you enjoy being in a virtual classroom. Justify your reasons? I did because it’s fun telling people from other countries about our country and our area, especially our school.

• What skills do you think we need to develop and improve upon to successfully participate in such a class? We could of Had a power point of our own to ask things about in America.

• Can you see this as being the classroom of the future? Why or why not? Would you like it to be? I think it could be. But I wouldn’t like it, it’s fun to learn about other countries and their life but I still like normal learning when your talking to the teacher and doing work in your books and with classmates.

As a part of our homework this week we have to make a mind map based on something we have done during one of our subjects. So I chose Art, and in art we made posters with feet prints. Inside the feet had to be primary colours and on the parts of the feet overlapping they had to be secondary colours. Then in the parts that were spare we had to do any random patters. I will out up a photo of mine when I am finished, this is the mind map I made about it…

Note: You will have to click on it to view it so that you can read the writing! Thanks!

Click here to see the movie about A typical day for my classmates and I…

movie-for-ict

Thanks to Ms Murnane, who thanked Mrs Gow for it this is a Tag Galaxy. Go to Tag Galaxy and make your own globe picture, they can be under any different categories and once you have typed them in the photos make themselves into the globe! Mine is Categorized as ‘Friends’, once you have made it Print your screen into paint>> cut it out>> then save it>> then put it onto your blog. Easy!

Today our ICT teacher Mrs Murch is away, so she has left us instructions on her blog for us. With this, ‘My Precious Clustrmap’ we have to put a picture of our Clustrmaps up and write about what they mean to us. Then 4 months later we are going to do the same thing and see how many more dots we may have.

Describe In 6 words, how you feel about your clustr map.

1. Joyful
2. Excited
3. Curious
4. Amazed
5. Happy
6. Great!

Olive Riley, the worlds oldest blogger died. She was an Australian woman of the age of 108!! That is amazing to be able to blog at that age!

These are 6 words that describe what I think:

1. Amazing
2. Experience
3. Effort
4. Smart
5. Patient
6. INCREDIBLE!

Well yesterday was Monday, first day back of term. We started the day with our group meeting and talking to Mrs Atkinson who will be replacing Ms Murnane for 2 weeks. During English we started our Biography’s on each other, I was doing mine on Jessica and she was doing hers on me, (I will post it up here when I’m done). After we had English we had maths, we met our new maths teacher, Mrs Phillipy, who will be replacing Mrs Mc Cartney for 5 weeks while she is overseas.

It was great to come back to school and see all of our friends, I missed mine!

Yesterday in Chinese we started with writing the date, then Mrs Mc Culloch told us what we were going to do that day. Yesterday we had a break from work and played some games. First we played traffic lights, Jess won that, then we played a game where you sit in a circle and someone goes in the middle, then they have to say “I have…” and if someone else has what they have they have to get up and find a new seat. The person left without a seat has to then go into the middle.

I was going through my un-published posts and I saw this one, but it should of been published! So here it is!

Today is Thursay, the last week of the holidays.

Tomorrow we are getting up bright and early to go and see my sister Kylie in Geelong. After we spend the day with her we are going over to Anglesea and we are staying for 1 or 2 nights with my aunty, uncle and 2 cousins.

Today is Saturday the 5th of July, the middle weekend of the holidays. These are some of the things I have done the past first week of the holidays…

• Shopping [3 days in a row]
• Sleeping [As much as I can]
• Watching movies [Long DVD marathons!]
• Seeing my friends [Katie, Nadine and Jacqui]
• Blogging [Working on my blog (Like now), leaving comments on some of my class mates blogs, Mrs Mc McCartney's and also our grade 6 blog.]
• Working on my journal [I started a new small journal that I have been writing in every day.]
• Working on my main journal [Including Photo of the week]

So my holidays have been not very busy but still fun and relaxing. I can’t wait until we go back to school though, I think just one week of holidays would be enough for me

Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know that I got a LOAD of new sparkelies on my page ‘Sparkelies’, so check it out! Thanks!