AN ACTIVE DAY 70

Last Tuesday was a 'ZERO the HERO' day.
It was DAY 70!
As it was a slightly chilly day, ZERO had a plan to help us get warm and practise our counting at the same time!











We started the day by running up and down the netball court.
How many laps?... 10 of course!
Next was a circuit on the fort - up the stairs and down the slide 10 times.
We were up to 20 - 50 to go!

After lunch was our third activity, 10 star jumps... that made 30!...

followed by hopping - 10 hops on one foot... 40... then 10 on the other... we had reached 50 - 20 to go!

After Snack we did 10 big jumps like crickets... we were up to 60!...

and the last 10 - skipping.

WE HAD REACHED 70!

What a day! We enjoyed ACTIVELY counting to 70... and we were much warmer by the end of it too!

We wonder what ZERO has in store for us next?

(2M - there aren't too many more opportunities for ZERO to help you with your counting.

Do you know how many ZERO the HERO days we have left before we celebrate DAY 100?
What are your ideas for what ZERO might have you do next?

Share them with us in a comment... and while you're waiting for ZERO's next visit, there's a game you can play to help you practise adding on 10 - just scroll back up and click on the picture of ZERO. Mrs M)

WHY NO POSTS?

We've been quiet over the last week and it's not due to us not having anything to share.

We have been experiencing problems on our network for most of this term - problems that have been slowing down our 'conversation' to the point where, over the last week, our ability to view websites, to comment, post or access any of our files was severely restricted.

It's been a very frustrating time for myself and the children and the situation has not been helped by my computer at home also being out of action!

Our wonderful techie is working tirelessly to find the cause of our problems.

In the meantime, now that my home computer has a new hard drive, I can start uploading the posts the children have drafted.

They have missed sharing about their learning and can't wait for the 'conversation' to begin again.

Mrs M

AND HERE'S THE LINK...

Peter Gooch's interview with us is now online.


2011 Update:
Unfortunately, due to an upgrade, this interview is no longer hosted on the ABC Brisbane 612 website but you can now listen to the interview right here!





Thank you to Peter Gooch and ABC 612 for providing us with the interview audio.


Here are some links to sites and posts the children mentioned during the interview.

• GeoGreeting
• Mrs M Getting Interviewed
• Mother's Day

ANOTHER INTERVIEW FOR MRS M

Today Mrs M was interviewed by Peter Gooch from ABC Radio.

He had read the article about us in
'Education Technology Solutions' and wanted to hear more about how we 'blog to learn and learn to blog'.

Johanna, Callum, Patrick and Ben M were also interviewed. They showed Mr Gooch their blogs and although nervous, told him about how we use our blogs to show our learning and connect with others. Callum showed a post that he had already put up about the interview.

The interview will be on the ABC Radio website by the end of next week.
Keep watching our blog for a direct link.

A CLOSER LOOK

2M, want to know more about our new class member?

Just click on the praying mantid.

A NEW CLASS MEMBER

Sophia was so inspired by her trip to the museum yesterday, that she went on a 'backyard safari' when she got home and look what she found...



some grasshoppers...

and look what was on the bottom of the bug viewer - FRASS!!

Sophia even found a skin! - evidence that one of the grasshoppers has just moulted.

But the last of her 'finds' we have really fallen in love with ... and it doesn't want to leave!

So meet the newest member of 2M.

MUSEUM ADVENTURES

Yesterday we went on an excursion to the museum.
Our day was filled with 'hands-on' insect workshops and exploring all the exhibits.

There was a lot of exploring, observing, examining, touching, classifying, drawing and discussing - and almost some sleeping on the train trip back to school!

There's so much to tell - from acting out the stages of metamorphosis, handling stick insects and sorting their frass (insect poo) from their eggs to examining specimens through powerful microcopes - that we can't do it all in one post.

So for now, here's a movie to 'show' you some of the sights and experiences of our day.
Watch out for future posts that will explain in more detail what we saw, did and learnt.

Make video montages at www.OneTrueMedia.com

PHEASANT UPDATE

2M - the pheasants in Mrs Cassidy's classroom have hatched!
You can read all about this exciting event and view a movie of some of the hatchlings here!

How do the baby pheasants compare to the baby kookaburras we saw on the movie we sent Mrs Cassidy's class? Are there similarities? differences?

Tell me about your observations in a comment.

LEARNING ABOUT PHEASANTS

Mrs Cassidy's class have pheasant eggs in their classroom.
They are waiting for them to hatch.
We didn't know what pheasants looked like, so Mrs Cassidy sent us the link to this video.


We hope we get to see their pheasant chicks on their blog!

(2M - you can learn more about pheasants by going here.)

THE DAY HAS ARRIVED - HELLO MOOSE JAW!!

We had a WONDERFUL start to the day today.
An event that we have been eagerly waiting for, finally took place.

This morning we skyped Mrs Cassidy and her Grade Ones in Moose Jaw!

Even though some of us were a little shy, it was SOOO exciting to meet our blogging buddies and talk to them in 'real' time. It was just after 9:30 am here but over in Moose Jaw it was just after 5:30pm, Wednesday afternoon.


We took our turn in front of the mic and webcam and talked to each other about what we like to do, what our schools look like, our favourite toys, TV shows and sports we play.
For some of us, our buddy wasn't there so we chatted to Mrs Cassidy.





Some of the things we learnt were:
* they don't wear a uniform (we do)
* our schools are similar in size although they
go up to Year 8
* we enjoy the same TV shows and movies
* we play with similar toys - like Barbies, PSP
and XBox
* we love reading stories
*except for 'before school', they have 3 recesses ( we have 2)
* some choose to go home for lunch and even walk by themselves ( we eat lunch at
school and are not allowed to leave by ourselves)
* they (girls and boys) play hockey and soccer -in fact, some of our buddies left
the chat early because they were going to soccer
* they call a 'footpath' a 'sidewalk'; we say we're going to 'training', they say
'practice'
* they have a gym ( we have our sport outside on the oval)
* they have squirrels and gophers but not as many types of insects as us because
it's too cold

We were so busy chatting, that we were surprised when our lunch bell rang and we realised that we had been chatting for nearly 1½ hours!

Skyping with Mrs Cassidy and our buddies was lots of fun. We loved seeing them and know how lucky we are to have such SPECIAL friends on the other side of the world.

(2M, what did you enjoy most about skyping today? What did you learn about your buddy? Share with us in a comment. Mrs M)