'GOOGLE EARTH' WORKSHOPS

'GOOGLE EARTH' has been the talk of our classroom this week.
All of us have been waiting excitedly for Jarvis and Ben to teach
us how to use 'GOOGLE EARTH'.

Today the wait was over for some of us - the 'GOOGLE EARTH' WORKSHOPS began!

Jarvis and Ben showed us how to open

GOOGLE EARTH.
We learnt to type what we wanted to look for in the SEARCH bar.

Searching for volcanoes was very popular.

We found lots

in ICELAND.

We also found some in AFRICA and if

we clicked on the little white balls, we could see a picture and read about these volcanoes.

We wanted to explore SYDNEY in

GOOGLE EARTH because that's where

Courtney went on the holidays.
We found the spelling of 'Sydney' in her

writing journal and typed it into the

SEARCH bar.




She found Sydney Harbour and showed us where the OPERA HOUSE, DARLING HARBOUR and TARONGA ZOO are.

We read about LUNA PARK and wished we had somewhere like that here.

We had fun clicking on all the little white balls and looking at pictures of all the things you can see in SYDNEY.

Courtney even found the building where her unit was.

Now that's amazing!


We had SOOOO much fun exploring our world with GOOGLE EARTH.

We wanted to play on Google Earth ALL DAY!!!

Jarvis and Ben were EXCELLENT teachers and now four more of us can help in the 'GOOGLE EARTH' WORKSHOPS.

REMEMBER, IF YOU FIND SOMETHING AMAZING ON 'GOOGLE EARTH', EMAIL IT TO US AT 1mgems@gmail.com . THEN WE CAN POST IT ON THE BLOG AND WE CAN ALL SHARE IN THE WONDERS OF OUR WORLD.

CALLUM'S HOLIDAY NEWS!

Hi Mrs M and 1M.

I have had a wonderful holiday. I went to Townsville to visit some friends. We went on an aeroplane. It was fun. The Easter Bunny found us even though we weren't at home. He sent us on a Easter Egg Hunt. I found my eggs in the Linen Cupboard. Because it was so hot, my Dad took us to the water park where there is a big water bucket that fills up and spills down over everybody. We also went to the Anzac Memorial Park in Townsville. It was really interesting. On the way home, the plane had some problems with the bags, so an Air Hostess took my brother and I to meet the pilots. Cool!!!!
See you all next week,
Love Callum

FLYNN'S HOLIDAY NEWS!

Hi Mrs M and 1M!

I hope you are all having a great holiday! I’ve just come back from my grandparents farm at Esk! We had so much fun there!
I helped feed the cows and goats and went for rides on the tractor.

We made an Easter egg tree and ate toasted hot cross buns. I woke up very early on Easter Sunday morning and went hunting for eggs at 6am!

We ate chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We went to church then we played barefoot lawn bowls in the afternoon.

I am very tired now but can’t wait to catch up with what’s happening on the blog!

See you all soon
Flynn

Click HERE to see where Esk is.....Mrs M

ROCK YOU! SOFTWARE

LOOK AT THIS COOL PROGRAM I FOUND, 1M!

WE CAN CREATE ALL SORTS OF SLIDESHOWS.

IT WILL BE FUN USING THIS NEXT TERM.

LATEST FIND FROM JARVIS!

Jarvis has been exploring again.
Here's his latest find.

Happy Easter Mrs M and 1M Gems,
I have been using Google Earth, and look at what I have found. One picture is of St Joseph's School in Middletown New York, where Elizabeth from Inkless Tales lives and the other one is ?.

Jarvis

Do you know which school it is?

Leave your answer in a comment.

Explore Google Earth yourself. Find some satellite images of places you have been this holidays and email them to 1mgems@gmail.com

DAN THE FLYING MAN'S MANLY ADVENTURES

This week we read 'DAN THE FLYING MAN'. We read the story OVER and OVER because we enjoyed it so much. (this is one of Mrs M's son Daniel's favourite stories and he's nearly 20!)
We also investigated words that tell POSITION and LOCATION, like OVER.
These are the words we thought of:
on, in, off, out, beside, in front, behind, under, back, front, inside, up, down, backwards, forwards, sideways, left, right, through, around, across, along, above, below, on top, top, bottom

Then we imagined: What if 'DAN' came to MANLY?
What would he fly over? under? through?...

Here's our story of DAN THE FLYING MAN'S MANLY ADVENTURES.
I am Dan the Flying Man,
catch me, catch me,
if you can!
over islands,

over the pool,

under the flying-fox,

over our school.

Over mountains,

over beaches,

over the library,

(Do you know what goes here?

Clue: it rhymes with 'beaches')

All the children ran and ran,
They didn't catch Dan, the Flying Man.

What else could 'DAN' fly over, under, around, through......?

There's plenty more for him to SEE and DO!

COLLABORATE with us on this story. Send in a comment with your ideas.

OUR FIRST VISIT TO THE LIBRARY!

Today we had our first visit to the new library.


From our classroom, we have to walk along the pathway, past 1G and the Prep rooms, to get to the library.


When we got there, we couldn't see Mrs O, so we called out- "Mrs O, can we come in?"... but she wasn't there!

We saw our library box. We saw an 'igloo' ( we were allowed to sit in it two at a time when Mrs O arrived), but we still couldn't find Mrs O. So we found our own spot and curled up with a book.

At last, Mrs O arrived. She sat on the 'storyteller's seat' and showed us her 'storyteller's cloak'.
Then Mrs O showed us books by her favourite author - Anthony Browne.
We listened to 'WILLY THE WIMP' and enjoyed spotting the differences in 'CHANGES'.

We love the new library, even though it's not quite finished.
We can't wait until we can borrow!

1M, IF YOU WERE GOING TO BORROW AN ANTHONY BROWNE BOOK, WHICH BOX WOULD YOU FIND IT IN?