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Tutpup is a very interesting site. It has many educational games focusing on maths, algebra and spelling.

It’s really cool how you could be playing someone form the opposite side of the world. i recently played someone from China and Greece.

My class plays tutpup in Literacy. It’s awesome! 

A good blog contains:

• Polls
• Questions
• Interactive stuff
• Regular posts
• Clustr Map
• Good quality posts
• Pictures
• Good design (theme)

What makes a good post?

• Interesting facts
• Correct information
• Good themes

I know that the Olympics are on because:

I can feel …..

•  the excitement in the air.
• the pride of each country as its athletes compete.

I see ……

• the flags waving around everywhere.
• all the pictures in the newspaper of the athletes.

I hear …..

• the crowd going wild.
• who’s won the medals on T.V 

1. Their school is a bording school and ours isn’t.
2. Boys and Girls are in seperate classes.
3. They don’t have weekends. They only have Friday off.
4. They have to wear sandals. They have sandal check ups twice a month and if they get caught not wearing sandals they have to do 10 push ups in the middle of the circle.
5. The girls have to wear a jilbab from 6 ’til they die!
6. They start school at 7:00 but get up at 5:00 to start their prays.

Ummul Guro’s school website!

We are getting a teacher from Indonesia-saiful Falah. He comes from MAS Ummul Quro, Bogor.

I would like to ask him……

1. What is the biggest difference between Australia and Indonesia?
2. How big are the classes in Indonesia?
3. What was the hardest thing to leave behind?
4. Is there any simularities between the 2 countries?
5. What do you like about Australia?

This is a picture i drew of the Olympic rings. I used paint.

Today my school is in casual to celebrate 150 years of AFL football. We had to pay $2.00 with half going to our SRC ( Student representative council) and the other half going to the heart foundation. There was a kick off at lunch time and girls were allowedto compete even though AFL is a boy sport they are getting girls involved in minor leagues.

You had to dress up in your favourite football team. I dressed up in Essendon colours which is my favourite team and love watching them play. Their colours are Red and Black. My favourite player is Andrew Welsh or Angus Monfries. They are both excellent players.  Tim (my brother) also goes for Essendon, my Dad goes for sydney, my sister goes for Geelong and Mum goes for anyone.

This is a website to celebrate 150 years of football!

This is the AFL website!

This is the essendon website! 

This is a mindmap on blogging.

This is a thing i did on bubbl.us. It tells you some of the stuff that i’m learning in school.

Today, Mrs Leo came from Boston, north eastern USA, into our grade 6 and 7 class. She used “virtual classroom software” which has been developed by an Australian, to share some powerpoint slides, audio, video and chat. Let’s reflect on this amazing lesson and write a post about it.

Here i am anwsering some questions left from Mrs Murch.

• She showed many slides with pictures of Hawkesdale which she got of the internet and blogs. She showed a picture of Vegemite. She also showed slides with Australian sports like cricket and the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground).
• She asked questions about the sports we play and some of the rules. she tried to compare the sports to the ones where she lives but i didn’t really work. She asked what vegemite tasted like and what we eat it with.
• I was suprised she compared Vegemite to peanut butter. I don’t like them both.
• Do you enjoy being in a virtual classroom? I love being in a virtual classroom. It’s good to use technology to learn new stuff. It makes learning fun!
• What skills do you think we need to develop and improve upon to successfully participate in such a class? We need to have less people around when are in participating. I think there was too many people there.
• I can see many people using this virtual classroom, especially home school students and when student are sick, so when they come back to school they won’t be left behind.