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Next week, our teacher is going away overseas for a few months. We will get a casual teacher for the last 3 weeks of term. We know her well because she was our teacher in Year 1 ( some of us). Some people in our class have been moving house and others have been having renovations to their house.
We are all looking forward to Christmas.
Some of our class are finalists in the Sydney Youth Writing Competition. This means that their work will be published in a real book that will be for sale in bookshops. We will buy a copy for the school library!!
Knitting is becoming popular in our class. Usually knitting is popular in winter but we like to be different!!
Lots of our class is reading Harry Potter at the moment.
Yesterday was Remembrance Day. Our school held a minute’s silence at 11 o’clock on the 11th day of the 11th month. We made small red poppies to wear.

A lot of our class is away today at an AFL (Aussie Rules Football) training day. Boys and girls have gone to learn new skills. In place of the children away, we have gained some lovely seniors from the teachers’ classes who have taken the AFL students away. It is great to have them, but our chairs are a little bit small for them!!

We have had some comments on our blog. It is pretty exciting, knowing that people on the other side of the world are reading what we write. We will try to be extra interesting!! Last week our homework was to set ourselves a goal each and then work through the steps needed to achieve our goal. We had to provide some proof that we had achieved it.
Some people chose life-skills goals, like making dinner or breakfast or a cake by themselves. They brought in photos, Powerpoint slideshows and letters from their parents as proof.
Other people set sport goals, like increasing their running speed, shooting a number of goals in a row and doing trampoline flips.
Others chose academic goals, like improving in their maths or learning more about 3D shapes.
This week, our homework is to research a famous natural disaster.

We just heard that we have to spend our recess indoors because it is raining. Some of us like that but some of us love playing handball outside at recess, so we’re not happy! 21 people like being indoors for recess. We might watch an episode of Mr Bean while we eat!
If another school reads this blog, could you tell us how you spend wet weather recesses?

Today, Mr T and Mr N (two of our class dads) set up a garden near the school gate. We planted rock daisies, Jacobean lillies, evergreen plants, mondo grass, Tanika grass, and many other plants. Mr G was a great helper. He dug holes in the hard soil for us. Mr T and Mr N had some rubber gloves for us and some of us had our own gardening gloves and digging tools as well.
We will look after the garden and make sure it grows! We will post some pictures, as soon as our teacher works out how to transfer them from her phone!!
THANKS, Mr N, Mr T and Mr G!!!! It was great!!!

Last night our school performed at the JAF concert. Lots of us performed in dance items. We performed in a big theatre. Some of us were in the
senior choir. We also performed in band. All the items were outstanding.
Some of the costumes were itchy. Our parents thought we were all fabulous. The teachers were also very proud of us. It was also very very dark on stage when the lights were off. Djembe drummers were very interesting also late at night.

Our bloggers are M.W and L.H

Tonight is our concert. We are going to perform at a big theatre, not in the school hall. Some of us are in the Band, others are dancing. Some are in both! We will be FANTASTIC!

Today has been mixed up because we have had rehearsals of the different items. Also Mrs T was using our room earlier and we had to be in the library.
Today there was a huge dust cloud over our state. It comes from the farm land that is in drought. The winds brought the dust to the city. We had to stay indoors at recess and lunch
The sky was an orange colour this morning. Our student teacher did a poetry lesson with us. We watched a video of earthquakes and volcanoes in Japan. They have heaps of both because they are where several tectonic plates are pushing together.

Today, Kane from Cricket NSW came to visit our school.

We played a cool game called Rapid Fire. He called one of us “Captain Lasagna”. In Rapid Fire, you hit three balls off tees and then you make runs until the fielding team puts all the balls back on the tees. It was cool.

The Kane hit balls up in the air really high and we had to catch them. Mia and Nick made two awesome catches each. We think Ricky Ponting could use them in the Aussie team. 

Cricket NSW gave us a sample bag and our teacher is going to play Rapid Fire with us in sport time.

We really liked it and wished we could have stayed with Kane for longer, but it was another classes turn. We loved our blue cricket balls and we put our initials on them straight away so that they didn’t get lost. We want Kane to come every week!

Yesterday, our classwent to Annangrove Park. The local council had organised an environmental expo. When we got off the bus, Gerard put us in groups. We were the Wallabies.Our first activity was tree planting with Gerard and Elaine from Landcare. We potted lillipillis. First we put soil in the little buckets. Then we made a hole with our finger. We put in the tiny plant. Then we poked the soil down firmily. Lastly, we put the pots in a tray and watered them. We brought them back to scholl for Mr M to plant.

Our next activity was the worm farm with Sean. We held one of his worms. He had two thousand. We learnt how to set up a worm farm and why we should do it.

After recess, we played a giant boardgame about storm water pollution. We learnt that the Hawkesbury is the biggest river in our shire.

Then we went to a wildlife rescue demonstration. Pam and her friend had real animals that they were caring for. We saw lorikeets without tail feathers and a ring-tailed possum. We learnt that you can take an injured native animal to a vet and they will treat it for free. You shouldn’t touch snakes. You should call the wildlife rescue people, 24/7. They will come. You shouldn’t touch bats, either. Even the tiny ones can carry a disease like rabies.

Then we saw a play about scarecrows and no-dig gardening. A go in a Rural Fire Service truck and a yummy BBQ lunch and drink finished the day. We came home with free pencils made from recycled paper, stickers, frisbees etc…. and our lillipillis, of course!

We had a great day!

Today there was a parent meeting in our room to look at the IWB.