I’m having a bit of fun creating some silly short stories, with online publishing software. The students will be using some of these later this term to publish the Animal Habitat short stories.

To read this story, click and drag the pages to open the book.

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Travel Expo Coming!

Posted on September 6th, 2009 by mannardi

The grade 5/6’s at our school are planning a travel expo for next week. The twist is that all of the destinations are out in the solar system!

We’ll be sure to post some photos and student comments about our favourite destinations.

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The Solar System and Space

Posted on July 14th, 2009 by mannardi

Why Earth?????

This Term we are investigating the Solar System.

NASA Starchild

The Solar System – A-Z

Exploring Planets

3D Solar System Simulation

BBC Space Page

DEECD Space Pages

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Blog reading & commenting mission . . .

Posted on June 20th, 2009 by mannardi

I haven’t noticed too many of you looking at our blog lately, and I’ve probably been a little slack with my updating. I’ve been really excited about some of the investigations you’ve been doing about dinosaurs. One of my students has found a lot of websites which say that humans and dinosaurs were alive at the same time! True or not???? As you finish these projects this week, you can try this activity.

I’m going to give some links you can follow to other blogs. I want you to have a look at them and see if you find some interesting posts. If something interests you leave a comment for the writer and be sure to let them know about our blog too. Hopefully we can start up some correspondence with bloggers from all over the world.

09 All Stars

Our Blog 2009

Belmore South Public School

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Penpals

Posted on May 30th, 2009 by mannardi

Hello to all of you out there!

I’m hoping there are still some of you visiting my blog. There are a couple of students in my class (Grade 4/5 (Australia) – 10-12 year olds) who would like to have penfriends. If you were interested in communicating with them via email, traditional post or skype, please comment here and let us know how we can contact you.

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Dinosaurs

Posted on May 25th, 2009 by mannardi

The year is flying by and there has been a big break in my blogging!!! This is partly due to the fact we have been moving into our new school building! It’s great to be in and it feels very nice to be working in a brand new space.

We’re going to be doing a self-directed project on dinosaurs over the next couple of weeks. We’ve already started to think about some questions we might like to answer.

I’m going to start working on a dinosaurs links page, where you’ll be able to find links to lots of great dinosaurs websites. If you find more, please leave a comment and let me know what you found, so I can include the link on my list.

I’ve also set my students up with a journal on their wiki page. They’re going to fill in this journal each day they work on their project.

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Easter

Posted on April 1st, 2009 by mannardi

Time to get MAD!!!

I don’t mean angry – we’re having a Multi Age Day!! Enjoy working with different students and have some fun playing Easter Games online. Click the link to go to the game.

Easter Bilby Game

Decorate an Easter Egg

Put a face on your egg

Easter Egg Count: Memory Match

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