WHERE'S MRS KNEE'S DAUGHTER COMING FROM?

To answer that question, just look at the Google Map Bertie made.

View Dr Fusaro's Trip in a larger map

She's had to fly across America and then the long flight across the Pacific Ocean. Mrs M told us the flight from Los Angeles takes nearly 14 hours.

That's a long time on a plane!

Have you had a long flight in a plane? Where were you flying to?

Was it hard to sleep?

What did you do to make the time pass quickly?

QUESTIONS FOR MRS KNEE'S DAUGHTER

Mrs Knee's daughter has arrived in Australia and she is coming to visit us on Friday.

She is a marine biologist and she's going up to Heron Island to study the marine life there.

Before her visit, we need to work out all the questions we want to ask her. The Google form below is the place to put your questions for Abi.

ANOTHER PUBLISHED AUTHOR!

We have another published author!

Congratulations to Caitie, our second 'real' author, who has published her narrative on Storybird.

Caitie has worked hard to make her story exciting by using interesting verbs and noun groups in her narrative. We especially like the clever way one of her characters gets everyone out of a tricky situation.

Great writing Caitie. We are proud to launch your book ICY, FRIENDS AND THE HIDDEN JEWEL.

ICY, FRIENDS AND THE HIDDEN JEWEL...a story by Caity2gem on Storybird
We love Storybird, so keep checking our blog. There are more Storybirds hatching as you read!

OUR FIRST PUBLISHED AUTHOR

to Connor, the first of the '09 2M Gems to be a published author.

Connor has worked tirelessly since last term to plan, draft, re-draft, edit, proofread, illustrate, then finally publish a narrative.

We our proud of him and today we officially launch his book, THE DRAGON QUEST, published on TIKATOK.

**Unfortunately TIKATOK no longer allow you to embed your book or even link to it, unless you are signed into your account. This means we can no longer share Connor's fabulous story with the world.

Connor and the Gems are very disappointed.

MRS CASSIDY'S CLASS CALLS FOR HELP

This morning we noticed that Mrs Cassidy's class had put out a tweet asking for help.

They have been taking part in the Monster Project, a project where classes around the world each describe a part of a monster, then all of those classes 'make' the monster based on all of the descriptions.

We find it fascinating that the monsters that are finished all look SO different even though they have been created from the same descriptions.

Here's the really cool monster that Mrs Cassidy's class made.

They now need help in naming their monster...in coming up with the perfect name to describe it.

The hard part is coming up with a name based on ALL of the parts of the monster.

What do you think it should be called?

It's time to put on our creative thinking caps.

When you think you have the perfect name, leave your suggestion on Mrs. Cassidy's blog. Share your bright idea with us too, in a comment.

CAMP QUALITY PUPPETS

Today we had the Camp Quality Puppets visit our school. The purpose of their visit was to help us become more aware of the need to be understanding, supportive and

caring of those who have cancer.

In the show, we met the puppets Dean and Kylie.

'Kylie' has luekaemia and is worried about returning to school after 3 months in hospital.

When 'Dean' sees Kylie, he teases her about looking awful and wearing a silly hat.

'Kylie' explained how she had luekaemia and her chemotherapy treatment had caused her to lose all her hair...but even though she looked different, she was still the same Kylie.

The show made us more aware of how those living with cancer feel. We learnt that you can't catch cancer...it just happens....and that those living with cancer or other illnesses need us to be tolerant, understanding and supportive.

MUSIC COUNT US IN

Today we joined with hundreds of thousands of other school children around Australia to sing 'The Music is Everything'.

We were taking part in Music Count Us In, a special event held to celebrate the value of music in our schools.

It was amazing to think that right around Australia, others were singing at the same time as us.

We really love this song and we hope you love it too.

Music is a great way to share your story.

You can listen to us singing 'The Music is Everything' in the player below.

Get your own Moonk!

WORKING WITH NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES

We are getting ready to write a narrative.

To write a narrative we have to use lots of
descriptive words, so noun groups (nouns and adjectives) are very important.

Nouns are 'naming words' - they name people, places and things.

Adjectives are 'picture words' - they describe or add meaning to the noun

We learnt that there are different types of nouns.

We already knew about 'common' nouns -eg 'firefighter', 'beach' and 'car' and 'proper' nouns - eg 'Ben', 'Kings Beach' and 'Fiat'. Common nouns DON'T need a capital letter but Proper nouns DO.

Through exploring the Children's University of Manchester site, we learnt that there are 'collective' nouns - the words you use to name a group. You can have a 'crowd' of people and a 'flock' of sheep but we never knew that a group of crows is called a 'murder'!

We also discovered that words like 'happiness' and 'respect' are 'abstract' nouns. They are words for feelings or qualities- you CAN'T see, touch or hear them. Words like 'firefighter', 'beach' and 'car' that name things you CAN hear, see or touch are 'concrete' nouns.

We were having so much fun learning about the types of nouns, we didn't have time for adjectives....so can you guess what's on the agenda tomorrow?

Using Glogster

A few of us having been using Glogster to reflect on our learning from our Moreton Bay inquiry. Glogster is like an interactive poster because you can put text, images, audio and video.

Here's Courtney's finished glog.

What do you think?

Do you think you could use glogster to share your learning?

WELCOME TO TERM 4!

We can't believe that we are in the last term of the year. It's only a 9 week term and before we know it, it will be the end of the year but there's a lot happening before then.

This term we are exploring narrative texts - reading them, constructing/deconstructing them and writing them - and because of our inquiry approach, who knows where are exploration of narratives will take us!

We are really excited about our learning this term, about the conversations we will have and the connections we will continue to make.

Come back to see what we're doing and PLEASE leave a comment because your comments help us LEARN!