I'm on at the Drive In!

Word cloud

Here is the hyperlink if you want to make a word cloud Wordle

Computer Club Week 5

Here are some cool new links for you!

Wordle

Warning Sign Generator

Football Sign

Chalkboard Generator

Class Bloggers

Here are your tasks!

1. Imbed a youtube (one of mine) into your blog.

2. Make your own Google map and insert it into your blog.

3. Provide links on your blog to two good Maths sites - try Rainbow Maths.

4. Provide hyperlinks on your blog to two good poems.

5. Do a digital scrapbook plopper page that is a self portrait and email it to the class at our class email address.

6. In your own words, do a profile with a picture of your favourite:
a) author b) poet c) artist

7. Review a book, and publish the review on your blog.

8. Set up a poll on your blog.

Make your own Snowflake

Try this Snowflake Maker.

Tiara Tuesday

Write out your 8 times and 9 times tables in your workbook and bring them to me.

It's Tiara Tuesday on topcatrules.

Little THRASS books this morning. A raffle ticket for K for such a good description of THRASS for the person who asked us yesterday.

Concert practice at 2.30 this afternoon in our room.

Please check to see if there are Maths groups and come and tell me.

Marking spelling this morning.

Raffle ticket to Took Rocks for getting homework done early.

Look at the Christmas tree Momo's house is thinking about having! Open up the link on her site and check out the cat paintings. Then write about them and include a picture, use your workbook. Or for those with a website, use that.

Friday Snow Day (in Hawaii)

Read aloud, then ask the principal if we can have this - we could do a gold coin donation and a mufti day with it. Just get her to open up Pyewacket's Party and read it. Tell her it's one of my preschool teacher friends from Hawaii.




Oh, dear, if they lived closer than Florida, one of you could help Maggy and Zoey of Zoolatry to untangle their Christmas lights!

I have a new writing task for you, same format as before. Do it after your times tables which are nine and 11 times. Work at your own level and bring them to me for signing.

Right, now for the fun! Look at the Zoolatry site, then do:

A day without Zoolatry would be like...

Science experiment:

The Breathing Egg

Write it up in your Science book, with full explanation and illustrations. To do it, divide the class in two. Madstar will lead one group and Movies the second group, then swap over.

Second experiment: Invisible Ink

Use vinegar, salt water, milk, sugar water and anything else you want to. How about my cup of tea? Use the two baseball groups to divide the class into two. Have fun!

Welcome to our zoo!

Here you go!

Have a fun time.

You can be on the front cover!

With this magazine generator.

Happy Thursday!

I found this fun avatar generator on my scrapbooking forum.

You can try these

Gizmos and gadgets

Challenge - koala

Your computer room task this morning is on the koala.

First do your word bank. Your list may include the following:

koala, Australia, marsupial, gum tree, Eucalyptus, leaves, leaf, continent, unique, herbivore, fur.

Next do a map of all the places where you can find koalas.

Write some koala facts and illustrate your work.

Circle the cat game

This fun link to Circle the cat was given to us by lovely Momo.

Wednesday is a fun day

Write out your 4 times table and your 12 times.

Look at this adorable picture of Yao-lin.

Here is what cute is all about - Baby Mao.

Get your Science book and draw some insect life that you have found in the courtyard as you have SILENTLY crept around it. Name your bug, describe it, and draw it. Tell where it lives, which is its habitat and what you think it eats. Work very neatly.

Happy Tuesday!

How many words can you make with the letters:

ambl

For extension workers:

hairspray

When you are done, write out your 8 times or your 3 times tables.

Thank you LC

For the wonderful Krispy Kreme donuts! I just had my second one! Here is a picture of Alessandro buying some for me.

Canberra Treasure Hunt

Work in teams to find the locations of all these places in Canberra.



1. Do you recognise this mural?



2. You can find lots of interesting things here.



3. Now this would be hard to miss!



4. Mary, Mary, quite contrary...



5. This can be seen from all over Canberra. Correct name and location please.



6. Can you recognise this building?



7. Listen - what can you hear?



8. Very rare things are stored here.



9. Name this and name its location.



10. The clue is: Who is it who keeps taking all of my little things?



11. The clue for this picture is "Lest we forget."

How many legs?

This is a 5th grade math problem.

This is not a trick question. This is a real math problem & don't say that the bus doesn't have legs.

There are 7 girls in a bus. Each girl has 7 backpacks. In each backpack, there are 7 big cats. For every big cat, there are 7 little cats.

The bus driver is not in the bus at this time.

Question:
How many legs are there in the bus?

Egg kids make the news!

Make your own newspaper clipping

Have a look at this picture:



You can make this by looking at this site.

Pyewacket made the news

It's great to be a cheetah

This week we continue our studies on Africa. A project we are working on is to learn about an animal of our choice. Look at this example called: It's great to be a cheetah.

Happy Monday

Have a look at this brilliant haiku by Gemma.

Happy Monday

Today we are going to learn about writing a haiku. Gemma has some great examples on her blog. Have a look at this one.

Happy Thursday

Raffle ticket to H.E. who was on one of my blogs last night at 6pm. :)

The special challenge for last night was on Robert Frost. Who was he? What did he write? Why do you like his poems and is there one you like in particular?

Can you tell me which one is my favourite? I have lots, but there is one in particular.

There is a Shakespeare challenge too. It's to learn the first four lines of the sonnet that starts with:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Happy Wednesday

The class challenge for last night was the artist Degas - a personal favourite of mine. I really like his ballerina paintings which are probably what he is most famous for. He was a French artist from 1834 to 1917.



Raffle ticket to K - for staying after school to write down his name.

Can you do it?

111,111,111 x 111,111,111

Check it out!

Download this book by D C Green and let me know all about it.

The photo competition

Has everyone got their entries in? Can a clever cookie sort them out and redo the post dates so that all the cheeseburger ones are together and all the gaussian blur ones etc?

I got Layout of the Day!

From : The Digital Scrapbook Place. I am thrilled! Here is the picture:



You may leave a collective comment on the blog thanking them for teaching me digital scrapbooking, so that I could teach you. Let me proofread it first!

How accurately do you read?

Try this!

We are hatching dragon's eggs!

Yes, it's that time of year again. Spring brings baby hatchling dragons. Here is your website: Dragon Cave.

See Movies for the log in and password.

Restart to reset

Raffle ticket for the person who tells Movies to please do a restart on Miss W's Smartboard.

A summer project

You can make a Haunted Mansion with some help with the cutting out from an adult. Download the file, print it off and enjoy!

The new Scope game is here

Movies may look at it and see how it works. Take Fluffy and Dogs and Soccer with you.

I'm warning you!

That anyone who touches this in class will need to go straight out to the courtyard and pick up 30 papers. They will need to keep absoloutly silent the whole time, not disturb Jane, and will then need to wash their hands and return SILENTLY back to their work.

Now, here's another one. Drive someone crazy by insisting that you CAN shake it loose!

Spelunking with the Pioneer Woman

Read her post on spelunking and write a short story about going into a cave. Illustrate it when you have finished.

Terrific Tuesday with cupcakes on top

Feast your eyes on this! It the Le Cupcake site.
Read, and enjoy. I know I did!

The Andy Warhol effect

Do have a look at gorgeous Gandalf and Grayson.

Talk Like A Pirate Day

Even Ms S played along.

Here is your word bank, as written by Slinky, after Pirate Ms S threatened to make her dig for buried treasure with a teaspoon. Poor First Mate Slinky had to work ALL weekend!

cutlass, buccaneer, treasure, gangplank, ahoy, doubloons, eye patch, wooden leg, parrot, ship, compass, first mate, island, cannon, isolated, telescope, crew, Jolly Roger, crow's nest, maroon

Next, me hearties, you have to write a haiku just as good as Slinky's and then a descriptive sentence as well! Go to her blog, you scurvy dogs and blistering barnacles, and then we won't have to sit anyone in the corner of the Poop Deck!

Now, we are going to use a blackline master of a map of New Holland. I want to see many interesting things on this map, including compass points, a key, all the place names spelled correctly and more! Do it properly, or we will feed you to the Fairy Penguins!

Ask Midshipman Movies to print this up for you!



The first person to come and stand in front of me and sing the Pirate song, gets a raffle ticket.

Black and white photography contest

Get shooting right now as I am running a quick black and white contest with a prize. This idea comes from one of my favourite photography blogs, Friday Night Fish Fry with Deana.

Put a comment on topcatrules so I can go into your blog and see what you have come up with. Yes, post the photo on your blog or on My Black Lancer if you don't have one.

If you are only little, go and get a bigger person to help you. They get a raffle ticket for helping. All entrants get a raffle ticket as well. You have all day today - maybe tomorrow as well. Good luck!

I is for Island

Gemma, the poet we are currently reading, has a new poem for you to read this morning.

I'd like you to study this post, called I is for Island, then see what you can come up with. Post the result on your blog.

Publish it before 10am for a raffle ticket without asking me any questions!

P.S. The person who goes and gets AB to work with them, also gets a raffle ticket for them (and the coffee tin) and a ticket for AB.

Wildflower haiku

Have a look at Gemma's beautiful wildflower haiku.

Have a look at this lilac coloured haiku

You will find it on Gemma's post here.

The first rule in computing is...

Turn it on!
This was a classic case of Air Displacement Theory.

Decorating the classroom

When you are lucky enough to have Sue for an art teacher - then you need to decorate the classroom with your art work.

Get out the blutack and get going! After all, it's almost parent visiting time - only three weeks until it's Learning Journey time.

Raffle ticket to everyone who helps to decorate the classroom.

Literature morning in the cold city this morning

Discover Dr. Dolittle here.

Typing Teacher

Try this typing teacher!

Happy Thursday and your homework

Hello - your homework is on the homework blog.

Scathingly good idea!

Look at the very end of Bush Babe's post as she signs off.
You are to post a picture on your blog using the same thing! Good luck!

A to Z of cat breeds

A is for American Shorthair
B is for Balinese
C is for Cornish Rex
D is for Devon Rex
E is for Exotic Shorthair
F is for (Scottish) Fold and Fishing Cat
G is for Genuine Ragdoll
H is for Havanna Brown
I is for Isle of Man cat (which is now called Manx)
J is for Japanese Bobtail
K is for Korat
L is for LaPerm
M is for Manx
N is for Norwegian Forest Cat
O is for Ocicat
P is for Persian (and for Pyewacket, of course)
Q will have to be for a cat named Quasi!
S is for Siamese of course!
T is for Tonkinese
U is for Urals Rex
V is for (Turkish) Van
W is for (American) Wirehair
X is for... wait for it... Xtinct Sabretooth Cat!
Y is for Yao-lin!
Z is for Zoolatry!

Pets

Daisy the Curly Cat has a new pet!

New Game! A to Z of flowers

A is for amaryllis
B is for buttercup
C is for carnation
D is for daisy
E is for eidelweiss
F is for fuschia
G is for gorgeous Pyewacket - HEY! Get off Pye!
G is for gerbera
H is for hyacinth
I is for iris
J is for jasmine
K is for King's Spear
L is for lilac
M is for marigolds
N is for nasturtium
O is for orchid
P is for poppy
Q is for Queen Anne's Lace
R is for rose
S is for snapdragon
T is for tulip

U is for umbrella tree

V is for verbena
W is for wisteria
X is for Xanthium
Y is for yarrow
Z is for Zinnias!

Happy Thursday

Read the latest post on camping by The Pioneer Woman then write/blog about your own experiences.

New Game! A to Z of animals

Pyewacket says that:

A is for aardvark
B is for bison
C is for camel
D is for donkey
E is for elephant
F is for fruit bat
G is for giraffe
H is for horse
I is for iguana
J is for jaguar
K is for koala
L is for lion
M is for manatee
N is for numbat
O is for octopus
P is for porcupine
Q is for quail
R is for raccoon
S is for snake
T is for trout
U is for urial
V is for vulture
W is for wallaby
X is for xerus
Y is for yabby
Z is for zebra

A to Z of countries around the world

Woo hoo and away we go!

A is for Australia
B is for Brazil
C is for China
D is for Denmark
E is for Egypt
F is for Finland
G is for Greenland
H is for Holland
I is for Indonesia
J is for Japan
K is for Kuwait
L is for Lichtenstein
M is for Monaco
N is for Norway
O is for Oman
P is for Poland
Q is for Qatar
R is for Romania
S is for Saudi Arabia
T is for Taiwan
U is for Uzbekistan (but we don't know where that is)
V is for Venezuela
W is for Wales
and Z is for Zimbabwe!

Term 3

The first one to sing Hey ho, hey ho, it's off to school we go - out loud, as if they were singing in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - gets a raffle ticket.

Big kids - Internet etiquette meeting with your teacher, first thing. Others have spelling.

A - Z of place names game!

We are making a list of names for towns/cities in Australia starting with A and ending in Z. And you have to put the state or territory as well. Use the comments and I will add them to this list as we go.

I'll start with A:

Airlie Beach (Q'land)
Broome (WA)
Cairns (Q'land)
Dubbo (NSW)
Elliston (SA)
Flinders Island (Tas)
Gladstone (Q'land)
Hobart (Tas)
Illawong (NSW)
Jamberoo (NSW)
Kalgoorlie (WA)
Leonora (WA)
Melbourne (Vic)
Newcastle (NSW)
Orange (NSW)
Perth (WA)
Quelagetting (WA)
Roma (Q'land)
Sydney (NSW)
Timbaroo (Q'land)
Ultimo (NSW)
Victoria River Downs (NT)
Wollongong (NSW)
Xantippe (WA)
Yulara (NT)
Zamia (QLD)

The Monarch Butterfly

To start with, here is a website I follow which gave me the idea.

Torch Lake Views

1. Show the life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly in a diagram.
2. On a map, show where it lives and how it travels.
3. Full illustration, either by drawing or scrapping.
4. Interesting and unusual facts.
5. Haiku - and a descriptive sentence (In the principal's office I found...).

Monarch Butterfly site.

Mary Poppins

SOSE/Literature Theme
P.L.Travers

• Introduce the author P.L.Travers and give autobiographical details, e.g. born in Queensland, wrote several books, the most famous being the Mary Poppins series. N.B. there are several books in the series, the main four are: “Mary Poppins”, “Mary Poppins Comes Back’, “Mary Poppins in the Park” and “Mary Poppins Opens the Door”.
• Begin reading the first book chapter by chapter. There are 12 chapters in all.
• Write a retell of “Mary Poppins” Chapter 1.
• Describe and discuss the Long Walk.
• Using ‘portrait art sheet’ make a coloured drawing of Mary Poppins, head and shoulders, showing not only how she looks, but also what her character is like
• Discuss illustrations by Mary Shepard, the niece of E.H. Shepard who illustrated the A.A. Milne books.
• Handwriting and art activity: “Mary Poppins in the Park”, page 169, “This was the only place in the Park that was never mown or weeded. Clover, daisies, buttercups, bluebells, grew as high as the children’s waists. Nettles and dandelions flaunted their blossoms, for they knew very well that the Park keeper would never have time to root them out. None of them observed the rules. They scattered their seeds across the lawns, jostled each other for the best places, and crowded together so closely that their stems were always in shadowy darkness.” Rewrite for handwriting and illustrate beautifully.
• Discuss recurrent theme of magic, e.g. the carpetbag, jumping into the picture, tea parties on the ceiling.
• Discuss the arrivals and departures of Mary Poppins.
• Discuss family relationships and make family trees
1) The Banks household 2) Mary Poppins’ relations 3) the others.
• Write 6 sentences on kites and illustrate them for homework.
• Design and make kites.
• Tell children about Broome Street in Yarralumla with its avenue of flowering trees, which blooms in spring. This is Canberra’s very own ‘Cherry Tree Lane’. Using the tree outline and pink crepe paper. Make cherry trees for display.
• Design and display nursery wallpaper.
• Draw silhouettes of chimney sweeps in black on the rooftops using charcoal.
• Make banners of quotes from the book on the computer: “Mary Poppins – practically perfect in every way.” “Practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their thinking.” “Shake hands with a sweep and you will have good luck.” “A chimney is a doorway to enchantment.”
• Give history lessons including votes for women, gas lamps, cobblestone streets, classes in society, servants, and no electricity.
• Draw chalk pavement pictures to jump into.
• Drama activity – penguin waiters.
• Photocopy an A3 picture of St. Paul’s Cathedral and each child pastes on swirling birds.
• Write an application for a nanny.
• Familiarise the children with all the music from the viewing of “Mary Poppins” and sing all the songs. A different one can be sent home each week for homework.
• IT – look up on the internet:
http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~fp/Disney/Lyrics/MaryPoppins.html
• Cut out a series of chimney pots and rooflines from black paper; paste these onto a painted blue and orange twilight sky.
• Give each child an A3 size copy of the Long Walk from “Mary Poppins Opens the Door” and design magnificent Maths activities based on it, e.g. what is to the right of the fair? How many ducks can you count? Name 3 things that above the roundabouts. In which direction is the Wild Corner from the Book Stall? What is the length of the unicorn’s horn?
• Write a class word bank
• Use black card and paint on fireworks with Mary Poppins coming down on a rocket, from “Mary Poppins Opens the Door”. Give each child a small photocopy of Mary Poppins to paste onto the picture.

Big class afternoon

As we have next door in with us at the end of the day - can we have an origami activity? Does JB have his book here at school? Or can someone give me one print out to copy?

Spelling quiz

Do the flash quiz and record your grade in the mark book.

Then do this one! Have fun!

Now, put the words from list one in sentences.

Weekend Computing with Ms S

Technology - includes study of design and construction. Have a look at this Lego site.

For Thursday

Today's cute origami project is the cat.

More fun and games

Would you like to try some origami?

Now, let's do a spelling test for the Goodwill Games. Who will get the gold medal? Who will get silver and bronze?

Now, let's ALL do the 6 word memoir.

Good morning!

Hi there!

Fives - Mermaid thanks.

Fours - come and mark some Maths with me - and maybe with the Black Rabbit.

Do you like to read about horses?

More about mustangs from... the Pioneer Woman.

Pioneer Woman post

have a look at this post about Girl Power.

Welcome back!

The party's in here! Come on in!
You might like to see this:

cool Pioneer Woman pic

Happy Holidays

Extension students have their work on architecture to do over the holidays. The topics are:

Roman
Greek
Egyptian
Paris
London
China - the Great Wall and the terracotta warriors

Holidays start TOMORROW!

That's right folks - two whole weeks off - now who will be doing digital scrapbooking in the holidays?

Today I will introduce you to a very creative person from the Digital Scrapbook Place, now known as DSP, called Cheecheongfun.

I will show you more of her pictures next week. They are all excellent!

Now, I'm waiting to see you convene a meeting - discuss your tasks for the day, it needs to be a Young Star day, or at least, from 12.50 until 3pm.

Check that members of the group are up to date with the "5" Mentals. Gather them all together for collection.

Ask KFC to maybe collect them up, see who needs to do what, and put them in a folder.

Print out, learn and recite the first stanza to what many consider the premier Australian ballad by Banjo Patterson. I want to hear it out loud.

Have a super day!

Happy Thursday

OK - let's get cracking. Get together for 5 minutes for a meeting, someone take charge - then sort out your day using your time management skills. Your mission is this:

Pull up the poem by Emily Bronte called Faith and Despondency, put the first stanza on your blog then sit in pairs near me and say it aloud, so I can hear you.

You are to work on your "5" Mentals pages then to focus on the magazine you are creating.

See if everyone has completed the first 2 sheets then mark it.

The first one to tell me the answer to this can have a raffle ticket.

As I was walking to St Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits,
Kits, cats, man and wives,
How many going to St Ives?

Happy Thursday

Matrix Puzzle:

There are 5 houses of 5 different colors. Each house is occupied by a man of different nationality. The 5 owners each drink a different type of beverage, smoke a different brand of cigar, and keep a different pet.

The clues are as follows:

* The Brit lives in the red house.
* The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
* The Dane drinks tea.
* The green house is on the left of the white house.
* The green house’s owner drinks coffee.
* The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
* The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
* The man living in the center house drinks milk.
* The Norwegian lives in the first house.
* The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
* The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
* The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
* The German smokes Prince.
* The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
* The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

Question: Who owns the fish?

The Wind in the Willows - Happy Wednesday

Put this quote on your blog - attribute it to the author:

"There is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats... simply messing." (Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows)

I'd like a digital scrapbook page please using this illustration by E.H. Shepard who also illustrated the Winnie-the-Pooh series of books.



Now, individually and silently, read chapter one of The Wind in the Willows.

Happy Monday

Took - look here - isn't this great?

Have a look at this.

Then I would like a short article written on the subject matter. I find it fascinating.

After lunch I would like to have circle time with you leading small groups and sharing your information. Half an hour exactly to look, read up on it, and formulate a short paragraph - include illustrations. This is a test of your time management skills.

Can the big ones take on a little one please and let them sit with you and share.

Woo hoo it's Friday!

Can Movies make an announcment at the assembly about - lotsofchairs will be teaching a beginners class in digital scrapbooking at computer club at lunchtime today.

Read and enjoy - Kitty Limericks.

Go and explore this castle website. Report back to me in a short paragraph in your work book.

It's Thursday all day

I taut I saw a puddy tat!

I did! I did see a puddy tat!

Show this to the class.

Read the first stanza of William Blake's Tyger Tyger aloud to the group - divvie them up. Read it twice, tell them what you think it means. Make it sound brilliant. And then read this.


Now look at this link on cat paintings and get our art teacher to look at them. A raffle ticket to whoever accomplishes this. You might have to do a rock off for the honour.

Give a raffle ticket to Green Football. He has been doing far too much in his mapping, he and all the others with a large scrapbook may use a piece of photocopy paper and then glue it in - this is MUCH less work and a lot easier to do. He did it without complaining. He is a star!

Go to the rice site and you all have fifteen minutes exactly to do it. Let me know who wins - Maverick can be the coordinator.

Happy Wednesday to the computer kids

A message from your teacher - YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

This website has been temporarily assigned over to you. Each morning, while She is busy introducing concepts to the other twenty-three, you may start your day the... Pyewacket way!

Woo hoo!

Every day's a part-tay with Pyewacket!

Everybody sing out loud - for a Sherbert Lemon:

(first plug in the ipod or it will not sound too great) (the 23 may sing with you)

GONNA USE MY ARMS
GONNA USE MY LEGS
GONNA USE MY STYLE
GONNA USE MY SIDESTEP
GONNA USE MY FINGERS
GONNA USE MY, MY, MY IMAGINATION


'CAUSE I GONNA MAKE YOU SEE
THERE'S NOBODY ELSE HERE
NO ONE LIKE ME
I'M SPECIAL SO SPECIAL
I GOTTA HAVE SOME OF YOUR ATTENTION GIVE IT TO ME


GOT RHYTHM I CAN'T MISS A BEAT
GOT NEW SKANK IT'S SO REET
GOT SOMETHING I'M WINKING AT YOU
GONNA MAKE YOU, MAKE YOU, MAKE YOU NOTICE

(CHORUS)

'CAUSE I GONNA MAKE YOU SEE
THERE'S NOBODY ELSE HERE
NO ONE LIKE ME
I'M SPECIAL, SO SPECIAL
I GOTTA HAVE SOME OF YOUR ATTENTION
GIVE IT TO ME
'CAUSE I GONNA MAKE YOU SEE
THERE'S NOBODY ELSE HERE
NO ONE LIKE ME
I'M SPECIAL, SO SPECIAL
I GOTTA HAVE SOME OF YOUR ATTENTION

GIVE IT TO ME!

The first one to call out the HTML for how to get to another page while not leaving my page can have a raffle ticket. Someone needs to explain this to the dragon child.

I have an announcement. All students who wish to work from their own laptops may do so. Did I say to go and get one? Please call out the answer loudly so that I hear you. I wish to hear six responses, well, maybe 7.

I don't know how Took is going to get onto a computer. Maybe the dragon child can have her in to read this bulletin each morning over her shoulder. Thank you S.D. I think dragons and chickens can be really special friends. Fluffy and KFC might need to work for the first half hour in the office. No gasbagging or you won't like my alternative.

I wish to see all major comprehension pieces of work by the end of this week. Preferably by Thursday afternoon. Get cracking.
Quick sticks!

P.S. Show this pic and the website to the kids, and also you should know that I have revamped the poetry blog and linked it to the homework. Say thank you - and I want to hear seven thank yous.

Happy Tuesday!

Here is your new kit - get it from the hard drive - just transfer it over by itself.

Product Includes:~ 1 grungy red background~ 1 impressionist red background~ 1 dotty red background~ 1 cream & red background~ 1 dangling heart charm~ 1 double staple~ 1 red flower~ 1 lacy overlay~ 1 "Love You" glittered title~ 1 glitter edged journaling card~ 1 rose charm~ 1 tattered notepaper

Whacky Wednesday - shall we do some... experiments?

First things first. Those who can - quick sticks, open up Fluffy Bunny and Puppy Power and Movies and go on a hunt. Your challenge is to hunt for... watch out, they might bite... for Tetchy Typos. For each one found you will receive a raffle ticket. First in best dressed.

Yr 4s - write out your five times and then the answers again as well.
Do five words with the THRASS box.
4s, come to me with your spelling and a red pen.

5s - mark your spelling, come to me for an intitial. Then you have that comprehension test to complete neatly. I am grading both it and the handwriting. Then you have two pages of your Yr 5 Mentals.

Do we have time for a mapping? It's WA next.

In the afternoon we will have a Science experiment.

Soak Some Spuds
Slice a small potato lengthwise into several pieces that each have two flat sides. Place some of the pieces in one dish and the rest in another. Fill both dishes with water. Add two tablespoons of salt to one of the dishes, and label it "salt water." Let the potatoes soak for 15 minutes.
Compare the potatoes. Is there a difference in firmness? Why?

The three group leaders may look for further info here.

Group leaders are Movies, Took and Slinky Dragon.

Happy Monday - We declare that it is Zoolatry Day!

A raffle ticket for everyone - say "Thank you Zoey!" or "Thank you Maggy!" as you write out your ticket. Get into groups, Slinky will write them out for the Yr4 girls, Movies can do the Year 5s, and Maverick can do the Year 4 boys.

4s - go and do your 5 times times. Sit and learn them.
5s - do your 9s with divides and for extension, do three types of angles properly with diagrams and correct spelling. Then do factors of 15, 21, 64, 48 and 54.

4s - come and finish your Maths tests.
5s, tests need to be marked and grades entered into the mark book which is orange and on my desk.

4s who are finished may spend some time with individual THRASS cards and study them.
5s may do their extension comprehension.

Middle session has Library and Performing Arts.

Afternoon - has mapping and whole group THRASS. Let's use a red and white book for THRASS. Have a great day!

For Thursday, Week 1, 2008

Over the holidays I read a great craft idea on Miss Peach's website. It shows you how to make some terrific stars and as I think all my class are stars...

Use the Brenex squares in the drawers of the blue cupboard.

First - using the grouping I set up yesterday, do your four times tables. Other group - nine times using divides and then do change from $10 - if you have spent these amounts:
$4.47, $3.98, $2.07, $5.87, $6.82.

Slinky and Maverick and anyone else who wishes to, can do change from $238.93 if you spend the following amounts:
$138.92, $63.84, $197.47, $37.89, $101.01.

Both years are doing work today that Movies has in plastic sleeves.

We will also spend time on THRASS.

Have we got time to start our mapping??

In the afternoon we go to House meetings for the Swimming Carnival. What house are you in?

Happy New Year! It's Wednesday today!

RAEY WEN YPPAH YRTALOOZ A



BACKWARDS... FORWARDS... INSIDEOUT... UPSIDEDOWN... RIGHTSIDEUP
ANY WHICH WAY YOU LOOK AT IT...

ZOOLATRY WISHES Y'ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

And here is your teacher in a kit she has bought for you:



Workbooks out - Year 4 and the two - write out your 3 times tables.
Year 5s, the six, do your 12 times with divides. Then do your square numbers.

Next we have spelling. This will be followed by an introduction to your new writing book commencing with: In the principal's office I found...

Then we have our first challenge. I did write it here, but it disappeared into cyberspace. That is the way the cookie crumbles. Oh well, ask me and I will tell you. It involved your science books and the periodic table and ends at 2.15 in a round table whole group conference.

Have a great day!

Friday - Last Day of School!

Have a super summer everyone.

Here is a Zoolatry picture of Captain Jack and Dante.

Thursday!

Aboriginal art today after we work on our whatever they are called.

Then we have the Year 6 Graduation!

Go look at this brilliant template. It is for The Big Piney Woods Cats. Read the post about the choosing of a name for the cat interior design business and vote for the best name. Then we can post the result of the vote as a comment. Ask SN to do that for you.

Ace proofreader Maverick is SO in my good book! He picked up a typo in topcatrules. Round of applause for him please.

Wacky Wednesday

The Zoolatry pictures for today are of our lovely Miss Peach.






In the afternoon, I have an Aboriginal art/craft activity for you and we have the concert DVD for you to see. The chairs will need to be place as if we are in a movie theatre. What fun!

Is it Monday already?

Write out your four and six times tables please.

Hi! Look what Luxor has been up to. Talk about a great shot!

OOOhh! Daisy has a new comic. You can read it aloud.

New Science/Maths experiments - do them into your Science book.

Mobius strips

Cut a 5-cm strip lengthwise from an old newspaper. Holding the strip out straight, give it a half twist (180 degrees) and glue the two ends together. Take a pen and carefully draw a line along the centre of the strip. Where do you end up? Is the line drawn on the inside or outside of the paper? Now cut the strip along the line you drew. How many chains do you get? Now try cutting a half-twist strip, one-third of the way from one edge.



Your piece of paper is called a Mobius strip, which is a shape described by a branch of mathematics called topology. When you twisted your strip, the inside and outside became one continuous surface. And when you cut the strip, it became one longer chain but still had only one continuous surface.

Try the experiment again and give the paper a full twist. Then try one and a half twists, and see what happens.

Right,next one:

Getting the bird in the cage

Draw a picture of your favorite bird on a small index card. On another card the same size, draw a cage. Now tape the two cards, drawing sides out, on opposite sides of a pen. Spin the pen between your hands or fingers. Is your bird still free or did you catch it and put it in the cage?



Why does the bird appear to be in the cage?

It appears to be caged because of how your eyes and brain work. When you see the image of the bird, your brain holds onto the image for a short time--even though the image appears and disappears quickly. The same thing happens with the image of the cage. The two images actually overlap in your brain so the bird appears to be in the cage.

The technical name for this effect is persistence. It is what lies behind every movie and every TV program that you see.

And one more:

Amazing detergent

Follow these instructions to experiment with colourful milk and learn about surface tension.

What you need

To do this experiment you will need

*
a saucer
*
milk
*
food colouring (four different colours)
*
detergent.

What to do

1.
Fill the saucer with milk.
2.
Add one drop of each food colour to the milk around the edge of the saucer.
3.
Add one drop of detergent into the centre of the saucer.

What's happening

The colours swirl and zoom around the saucer.

Milk stays together as one liquid because of surface tension. This acts like a skin and keeps the milk in a puddle. When you add the detergent, it breaks the surface tension of the milk in one spot.

The pull of the surface tension from the milk at the edge of the saucer causes the milk in the centre to move to the outside, taking the colours along with it.

The colours keep moving until the detergent stops affecting the milk.


Surface tension cause the colours to swirl.

Are there any Smores on Thursday?

No, we ate them all yesterday. More Smore talk in a minute, stay tuned.

Please do your five, six and 11 times tables - same as yesterday, depending on your individual level, just do the fives and sixes, or, do all three, or, do them all as divides. Good luck. bring them to me for signing and do this activity first.

Look at this new template by the House Panthers.

I'd like a piece of descriptive writing starting with: When I eat Smores, it makes me think of... You know the formula. Use four full descripttive phrases. Stun me with your incredible writing! And for your enjoyment, here is your own personal Zoolatry picture(made specially for you) about Smores. How lucky are you? Bloggers, I would like to see it placed on your websites with your Smores recipe from yesterday and the descriptive Smores writing from today.
Did you see the fantastic picture of Maggy by Zoolatry? Here is their descriptive writing for you:

WHEN WE EAT S'MORES, IT MAKES US THINK OF...
Campfires
Lakes in Michigan
Gooey Paws
Burnt Black Marshmallows on a Stick

But now that we live in Florida, and not in Michigan...

WHEN WE EAT S'MORES, IT MAKES US THINK OF...

How to keep that alligator at the door away from our s'mores.
Shoo gator!

Maggy and Zoey

Wednesday is Heather Day!

And I have marshmallows!

SOSE books out, Smores recipes are to be written.

Then stories of Smores.

With pictures. Yum!


But first - write out your 4, 6 and 7 times tables, and my Maths class and M's and S's - you can write them all out as divides. For example: 84 ÷ 7 = 12. Good luck!

Next, show me your Bluearth writing.

Oh, and here is my answer to SN's summer meme. He also tagged KFC Rocks and Ms DC.

1. Do you go to the beach?
I love going to Batemans Bay. I go fishing and shopping and really relax. But I never go in summer. I like to go when it is cooler.

2. Do you have a swimming pool in your back yard?
Heck no, I don't want to clean it.

3. Do you make lemonade?
Um, excuse me, I drink Dr Pepper.

4. Do you go to a barbeque?
Erk! I'm really not keen. I haven't been to one in years.

5. Do you run under a hose or sprinkler?
All the time when I was little. What fun!

6. Do you ever sunbake in the sun?
Sometimes I do my legs when I am watching my class play baseball.

7. Do you ever ride your bike in summer?
I used to, all the time, when I was a little girl in California.

I tag KG and Madstar.

On Tuesday - we're practically perfect in every way

Please write out your 10, 11 and 12 times tables and bring them to me for signing.

Today for descriptive writing we are going to write about a super game or activity you learned in Bluearth. Full details and an illustration please. Top level work is required.

Did you see the kaleidoscope picture that caught my eye in Zoolatry yesterday? I really think it is so fine.

Do have a look at Daisy's latest comic - the moral is very good!


Have you seen the new Meme on My Soccer Star? You are all tagged for this meme OR for the one SN is doing on I love summer because...

Whichever one you choose, you may blog it or write it, bloggers please pop a copy in your book. You have to write seven responses and add a picture.

"Spit spot!" as someone famous would say.

An activity for SOSE today will be mapping using our SOSE book and an atlas. We are going to study the Australian coastline and see how dense the population is, in comparison to the population for inland Australia.

Monday is concert day!

For Science this morning, I would like to see you study the turtles in Hawaii, with Girasoli. You can put the information you have learned in your Science book with illustrations.

If you have forgotten to bring your costume, I have a dress up box in the blue cupboard.

Please write out your 4, 6 and 7 times tables and bring them to me to sign.

Chant your THRASS twice thanks. um, all together would be nice!

Can you find Pyewacket, Trixie and Tigger in this great Zoolatry picture? Don't you wish WE had Adobe Photoshop Elements?



Here is Mickey - you know, the website that does the Thursday #13 expressions? Have a look at this great Zoolatry picture. It's all about what he might find in his water bowl. Next year at Computer Club you can learn to make stunning artistic pictures.



Daisy has been cooking something very interesting in her comic strip! You will be surprised.

Computer Club is going on line. Next year you can come to lunch time advanced computing and tasks and information will be waiting for you. You can also read the website at home, or in your classroom. The website is under construction and is called Trixie's Treasure.

Woo hoo! It's Friday again!

Have a look at Dragonheart in Germany - how to bath a cat.

Write out your 6 and 11 times tables please.

Happy Thursday to my great class

Let's do another THRASS page together this morning.

But first, look at the two new posts on topcatrules and Tigger the FBI Cat.

Madstar, please finish the project for TB. Thank you and get 3 raffle tickets.

Please write out your 12 times and 8 times tables and bring them to me for signing.

You may open up the last The Cat Ate My Homework post and work on it for a little while.

Today we will mark some Maths Mentals for younger people and some spelling for older people, so get cracking! Spit spot! :)


Oh! It's 10.25pm, but I just read the Santa letters on Zoolatry. Do go in and have a look!

10.34pm - look at Luxor's photo composition please. You'll be glad you did. Do you see how I am using a "permanent link" to direct you to the exact post?

Hey, is it Wednesday already?

Well, where's Ms S? Oh, she will be in at 11 today to do the concert rehearsal. This afternoon we shall have an interesting time.

Here is a Zoolatry autumn picture for you.

On Monday - Dont Forget!

Ms S go to hall Monday 2:30 for practice.

Zoolatry wrote a whole post about us - well about F, and S.N. and A. She said you all deserve an A+. Congratulations on your excellent work. See me for a little something special.

Miss Peach has some beautiful new photographs for us to look at. They are so lovely I have looked at them a few times now.

Oh, two raffle tickets for whoever can tell me the correct time in Australia for Miss Peach's tea party on the 5th. The first one to put the correct time on a comment on topcatrules will be the winner.

I would like to do Poetry Anthologies straight after lunch.

First thing, can you come to me with your little THRASS books please for some grapheme and phoneme work.

* Added on - quick competition: using your website, do an explanation of THRASS. I will pick a good one to send as a comment to Benjamin Fuzz, who just asked what THRASS was.

Woo hoo! It's Friday!

All day! have a look at Sassy's pictures of my cats. Can you find all three? They are staring in a play or movie.

OK, let's start with THRASS. Meet you at my desk. :)

After assembly, I want to do a little more of that great descriptive writing, with phrases. The topics will be:

When I unwrapped Maggy's birthday present I found...

In my teacher's LeSportsac handbag I found...

Good luck!

Happy Thursday!

Did you see topcatrules this morning?

Daisy has a new video. Let's see if we can actually watch this one.

Please get out your little THRASS books and we will work on them.

It's Wednesday all day!

I'll come with you to concert practice with H. Just let me get a cup of tea!

Ten minutes of THRASS thanks. Get out your little books and we will do a sound. Come and sit with me.

Have a great time at Performing Arts, Library and Visual Arts.

M and A, come see me at 3.05 to get your word bank lists.

* For techs, what do you notice about this site?

* Very important! We are looking at new software in Computer Club today!

Zoolatry on Tuesday

Hey W - as you are the Project Manager, have them read aloud one sentence at a time. Then do some writing using the colour blue. Use this piece as an example.

I will look forward to reading them. Any that go onto websites will be marked by me, just get them to leave a comment on topcatrules.



When they go out Maggy wears her pink hat, Zoey wears her pink hair ribbon.

Clockwise from top left: They count pink sheep and wear furry pink slippers, take their personal calls on the pink phone and wake up when the pink clock rings.

Sometimes they go out and about on their pink bikes, or the pink motorcycle, and for really big fun, they zoom the beaches in their pink convertible.

When they visit the beach, to collect pink seashells and pink flowers, they wear their pink sunglasses and pink flip-flops, and if the sand is really hot, they wear their pink tennies.

When off for a day of shopping in the village, they wear their pink lipstick, and take a little money from the pink piggy bank to put in their pink purses, and they always remember to carry their pink house key.

For really big fun, they'll chase the pink poodles in the neighborhood and scream at the pink flamingos.

Maggy and Zoey are proud to be "Pink Ladies".

Hey, did you finish your poetry from yesterday?

Magical Monday

The Fish Philosophy

Read the four main elements aloud:

Play (make the school work enjoyable)
Make Their Day (engage others)
Be There (for others, pay attention to them)
Choose Your Attitude (before you come to school, put on a good attitude, like picking out a good outfit)

Write these out into your work book or place it up onto your website then do a print out and place it in your work book please.)

There is a new Daisy the Curly Cat comic for you to all read aloud together. She tells you an important educational message.

It's Poetry Anthology Day. A clever cookie has them all prepared in the office for you. Do GREAT illustrations!