Toondoo with The School

I love Toondoo. You can get some great literacy outcomes happening. It engages the children. We have been creating accounts and "playing" so far. More explicit tasks will follow once we have a familiarity with the tool, so stay tuned.

In the meantime, enjoy Oskars "Toon"

Here is another one by Jackson. We published it and discovered some grammatical errors, so jackson's homework is to go to toondoo and repair it. The repaired version will update here as soon as it is saved.

Where are we from?

We had a multicultural day and we put our placemark on google earth. Our placemark shows where our parents and grandparents came from.

We also did dancing and storytelling and music.

Mr Collinson put the placemarks on google maps and then put it here. We hope you have fun
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How can a blog like this be useful in school?

Welcome senior classes.

We have had this blog running for about two years now. We have examples of all kinds of student work. Pictures and artwork, writing, programming, presentations and audio.

What ways do you think that a blog like this can be helpful to you in school and class?

What can be done to make it better?

Mr C

Cody does Scratch

I've been working on Scratch for about a month now. Scratch is where you create sprites and tell them what to do with scripts. Its like flash or movie maker. It took me a week to do this movie. When it finishes click it and press the space bar to restart.

Cody

How The Crab Got His Claws

Once upon a time lived a crab.

The crab had a friend who was a seagull. The seagull was always being mean to him.

One day Crab was walking along a beach and saw some clams with pretty pearls in them.
The crab went over and tried to get the pearl.
His hands got stuck in them and he couldn’t get them out so Crab thought that he could have pay back to the seagull.
Crab said to seagull "Don’t be mean to me again or I will hurt you!"
" Ok! Ok! I wont be mean to you any more", said the seagull.
"Oh by the way you have pretty Claws on you"
"Thanks" said Crab.

So that’s how crabs got there claws.

by Jay

Rainforest

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The rainforest is a damp, misty, musical place to be. When you wander into a rainforest, you might hear a waterfall gushing rapidly and loudly, like an elephant charging. Further on, as you trek through the undergrowth, you could spy a snake, searching for its prey. Look above at the canopy. You may see strangler vines wrapping itself menacingly around a tree. Perhaps you’ll see some noisy rosellas. Rainforests are colourful places: green lush ferns, white sap dribbling down a tree trunk, red orchids swaying in the breeze. A rainforest can be a tropical extraordinary wonderland.

By Annie


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Kangaroo

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One day, in the middle of summer, I was sitting on the deck, wondering what to eat for lunch. I peered out towards the hills and saw a kangaroo jumping around my yard.
The kangaroo was a reddish colour and its massive tail was magnificent. It had huge, bulgy eyes that looked like shining marbles. I could tell that she was female, because she had a furry pouch and inside it was a fluffy ball. A joey!
The kangaroo was staring at me as if she knew me, so I wandered down to pat it. As I got closer, I saw her jumping up, trying to grab a peach from the tree.
After eating the juicy peach, the kangaroo jumped away and I never saw her again.

by Darcy


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Dolphin

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I was swimming at Brunswick Heads one Sunday when a dolphin started swimming amongst the white waves.
The dolphin was as blue as the sky on a hot summer's day and its body glistened like a star at night. It had a smile that made it look friendly. As I swam towards it, I realised that the dolphin was just a baby; so cute, so tiny and so beautiful.
The dolphin looked magnificent. It was happy as it splashed, jumped and played in the water. I felt very special as it inched closer to me.
Eventually the baby dolphin turned around. I felt sad to see the dolphin swim away beyond the horizon.

by Ruby


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Orangutans

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Description
Orangutans have reddish-brown to orange fur colour. Orangutans have long strong arms, they have hook like hands and feet to grasp onto vines. Male Orangutans weigh up to 90kg. Females weigh up to 45 kg. Orangutans can grow to a height of 165cm.

Warning!
An Orangutan's greatest threat is the devolution of farming, and also logging of the forest. Logging leaves fewer places for orangutans to roam and find food.

Facts
Orangutans live in the canopy and also further up near the emergent layer of the forest. Every night they will make a nest to sleep in using leaves and branches..

Food
The Orangutan eats rainforest treats such as rambutan, figs, mango, and durian. They will eat also flowers, bark and insects.

The importance of an Orangutan is that they keep the insect population under control. When orangutans eat the fruits of the forest they go to the toilet and the seeds from the fruit go back into the ground and reproduce.

by Arianne


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My Machine

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This is my machine.

It is a plough.
It is made for cultivating the earth for planting.
Ploughing helps the seeds grow.
The seeds will grow into plants we can eat.
There are many plants we can eat, such as sunflowers, wheat, and other grains.
Using a plough to dig up the ground is much quicker than using a shovel.

Click the picture to see the big version

by Casey

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My Brother

My brother the pain, nothing he gains. Except his sister crying help.

My brother is so apathetic of most things,
But he loves to make me sorrow.
He loves to make me despair; he makes me pull out my hair.
He has no kindness or sometimes no goodness in his heart.
He makes me feel cowardice when he does his stinking fart.
My brother is so abstinent.

So I came up with an idea.
I’ll trick my little brother into drinking my Dad’s beer.
Then when all hope was gone, I came up with a suggestion.
I said “Dad he was bored, he still praises the good lord, and he still has good health so the beer doesn’t affect him”

Then I changed my attitude and said “Dad, he shall be punished shall he not?”
My Dad said: “Be quiet Ruby, or you will be sleeping in the cot.”

My brother the pain, nothing he gains.
Except I still love him with all my heart, even when he does his stinking fart!

by Ruby

THE HOPKEYWAT

“OKAY get out your spelling sheets” announced Mrs Bettison. Thanks to Madeline we get to do a 300 word test on Wednesday…TODAY!
I was in great despair that she would change her mind (Mrs B hadn’t got a very good relationship with the class yet,) then Leah had an idea.
“I have a suggestion” she mumbled. Leah was very cowardly!
"Well?”
Bang!!
She was lying on the floor gasping. A weird feeling came over all of us. Our health suddenly went down hill. It was such a tragedy. A strange illness called the “Hopkeywat” was attacking our class.
“Help” screamed someone.
“There is no hope” cried another.
Every one was in great pain. Then Koby with his devotion to the class gained up his courage and stupidly started whacking the air thinking he was beating up the Hopkeywat illness(more people had gone mad by then).
Then “Bella” from 5/6P ran in and jumped up on the table and yelled “WE WILL SURVIVE.... gasp” and fell on the floor.
“1 down 235 to go” said Zac.
SMASH! “2 down 234 to go”
Wack ! 233.
Bang! 232.
Mummy! 231 etc. Every body died
THE END!!
Just kidding. We hadn’t noticed that Mrs B. was gone, but just then she came back in…………WITH 50 HAIR DRYERS. Everyone looked at her in wonder then Sam broke the silence. "Wow she has such beauty I love her "(yep EVERYONE was mad).
Mrs B called the hospital and every one else grabbed a hair dryer and blew the Hopkeywat away and it didn’t bother us again.
THE END!!………
WEEEOORR WEEEOORRR 15 ambulances were going down the road towards Durumble School.
Oops! I think we blew the Hopkeywat too far heh heh heh .

Now this time it really is the end.

by Heddy

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