A big hello to Johnson’s Jaguars! Here is our first photo. Please click on the “Room with a View” page at the top, to see a more detailed description of our photo. We can’t wait to show you how to create your own voicethreads and blogs.
Thanks to Mrs Johnson’s son Conor, we now have a new heading for my Photo of the week. Read on and you will see how clever he has been in coming up with this title.
Hi Techno6’s, I thought that this week I would post my Photo a week on our blog so that you can have a bit of fun. Whilst I was searching through my photos to see which I might use as my “Photo A Week” for this week, I stumbled across this one of a joey in the pouch of one my wallabies. It got me thinking that if you had to have a view from a room, then this one wouldn’t be too shabby. I love the look on this little guy’s face and I can imagine that every day he pops his head out, he would be wondering where he was. Imagine what he might be thinking. Maybe you can leave a comment about what you think he might be thinking today. 
Well techno6’s, we are nearly there. As I write this on Sunday morning, there are 3 sleeps to go till we jump on our bus and head to Victoria’s beautiful capital city, Melbourne. Our visit will have a bit of a different focus now that we have entered the world of blogging. I imagine that most of you will be bringing a camera and that most of you will be looking for opportunities about which you will be able to “blog” on our return. We need to have a sensory focus on our trip. What do we see, hear, smell, taste and feel? We need to notice things and people and we need to enjoy every second of our trip! Our homework this week, will be to obseve, record your thoughts and to take photos. I know we will have a ball.
Hi Tecno6s!! Here are the latest updates:
I was thinking that is would be great if I could get pictures at school while the storm was going on…but we are being told not to get out on the roads. By the time we get back, there will probably just be tree limbs down all over, but you may not actually get to see the rain and winds in the photos. We are expecting sustained winds of about 60 miles per hour. So far there are already gusts above 40. It is possible that the storm may intensify when it hits the warm water between Cuba and Florida (the Florida Straits). If so, it would become a category 1 hurricane and have winds at least 75 mph. We are under a flood warning from Monday morning until Tuesday night and expected to get in excess of 8 inches of rain during that time. The storm has already claimed 35 lives in the Caribbean Islands. Most of those were due to the flooding situation. The pressure in the storm has begun to drop slightly. This is an indicator of storm strengthening. (They just announced on tv that it may be a cat 1 by 11:00 am.) It also took a slight turn over night and is now headed more toward us then was expected. We will not experience the main core of the storm however (at least that is how it looks now). I will keep you updated!!
This is an email I received from Ms Johnson at lunch time today. Ms Johnson is from our partnership school in Hollywood, which is in Florida, USA. Leave a comment about her email.
Our photos will be delayed for a few days. We have just heard that school will be closed on Monday for sure and probably on Tuesday as well, due to Tropical Storm Fay. We are currently under a Tropical storm watch, while the west coast of Florida is under a hurricane watch. We will keep you updated as to when we can return to school. I had to go in today (Sunday) to help cover the computers with plastic and protect our Promethian board and laptop carts. Tomorrow morning I will put up shutters on the windows of my house. Hope your students are enjoying starting the project.
Remember that not getting what you want, is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
What do you think this means?
This week’s frogs will go to the techno6’s who post a perfectly correct sentence. You know the deal: capital letter, full stop, one conjunction, adjectives and correct spelling. This means that you have to re read your work BEFORE you post it. Good luck.
We begin our Room With A View, online project this week. Our partner school is Oakridge Elementary School in Hollywood. On this voicethread, I would like you to send messages to Ms Johnson and her students as they anxiously await the arrival of Cyclone Fay. You might like to ask them questions about how they prepare their homes, what the sky looks like?, how loud is it?, what sort of damage they incurred etc. Remember that we have never experienced a cyclone in Hawkesdale so this is an amazing experience for us to share.
Brought to you by Paul Bogush from Connecticut (you can hear him on our “Say G’day to Us” page. Maybe you would like say g’day to him on his blog pbogush.edublogs.org
What do you call a pig who knows how to do karate?
A pork chop:)
