FINALLY...SOME GOOD NEWS!

2M

There's finally some news to brighten your smiles...

our network and computer problems have been fixed!

When you return for the start of a new term tomorrow, we can once again be 'connected' and continue our conversationa about our learning. Boy, do we have some catching-up to do!

I know that you will have many stories and experiences to share about your holidays. Here's one I have for you.

Look who Mrs Rablin met at a conference in San Antonio, Texas... MRS KNEE!!!

How amazing that out of the many people there, Mrs Rablin met someone connected to us.

Mrs Rablin has a special gift for us from Mrs Knee. She is bringing it to our 100th day celebration on Thursday.

Can you guess what it might be?

SKYPING WITH MEMPHIS

We had a REALLY early start to our day today because this morning we skyped Mrs Jarratt and her Grade One boys in Memphis, Tennessee.


We had to be at school for an 8 o'clock chat. In Memphis it was 5 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. We were VERY excited and just a little nervous too because this was our first skype chat with another class!

Mrs Jarratt's class had some more questions for us about Australia. We tried our best to tell them about crocodiles, dingoes, sugar gliders and Australian Rules Football. We even told them about our adopted elder, Aunty Delmae.
Of course, we had plenty of questions for them.
We learnt about how they stay safe during a tornado and that they call a stick insect a 'walking stick'!

We realised though, that we have a lot in common with the boys in Memphis.

• We learn about the same sorts of things at school, like Maths, Reading, Writing, Science ( except that the boys learn Spanish too)
• We travel to and from school in cars
• We watch the same TV - eg Cartoon Network
• Our homes are similar
• We eat the same sorts of food
• We love to play sports - they play soccer too!
• We wear a uniform - the boys have to wear a collared shirt and certain types of pants.

We really enjoyed meeting Mrs Jarratt and the boys. Even though we talked to them for nearly 45 minutes, we still have more questions and we've already posted them onto their wiki. We hope we can continue having a 'conversation' with them.

We just LOVE skyping!!
And to our parents who brought us to school early so we could chat - THANKYOU!!

A NEW CONNECTION

A week ago, Mrs M received an email from a teacher who teaches at Presbyterian Day School in Memphis, Tennessee.

The teacher, Mrs Jarratt wanted to know if we could help her class of Grade One boys learn about Australia.

Of course we said "YES" and for the last week we have been answering the questions they posted on their wiki.

The exciting news is that next Wednesday morning we are having a 'skype' chat with Mrs Jarratt's class. We imagine they might have more questions to ask us. They have already had a chat with Mrs Cassidy's class and now they want to 'meet' us! We can't wait!

You can see the responses we have made so far to their questions by going here or by going to the PDS wiki on the sidebar. Is there anything else we could add?

Is there some information or facts we have left out?

If there is just leave us a comment and we'll add it to the wiki.