The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup. It is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the culmination of a qualification process that began in August 2007 and involved 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams. [...]
Archives for Class Work
Multicultural Speech Rubric
You have, hopefully, already started your Multicultural Speech, I am sure some have even finished. Finishing your speech though is only half the job, you also need to be able to present it well. This takes a lot of PRACTICE. The Rubric below shows how your speech will be marked. The maximum amount of points is [...]
Narnia: Why is there a magical wardrobe in the professor’s house?
For decades the professor worked on developing the perfect spell to enter other worlds and dimensions. One day in his basement he used the wood from a special ellowberry tree, the only one in the world, to construct three fancy wardrobes. He poured the juice of hodgeberries, frogs’ legs, mystical muir worms and tickle toad [...]
Bound for Botany Bay
We were dissecting the lyrics to the song Bound for Botany Bay as an introduction to our HSIE unit on British Colonisation. We then played the song a couple of times and had a sing-along. Everyone did such a fantastic job we decided to record it straight away. You can find the song in our Podcast or [...]
What causes a rainbow?
One of the most important experiments on light was made by Isaac Newton. He was the greatest of all English men of science. He discovered that sunshine (white light) is made up of many colours. Over 300 years ago, Sir Isaac Newton passed a beam of white light through a prism. A prism is a [...]
Back to School
Welcome back to school everyone. I hope you enjoyed your holidays and had a great Christmas. For class this year you will need to make sure you have the following supplies:
A4 document folder x2 (plastic)
A4 homework book (not glued – ring bound)
pens – blue and red
pencils
coloured pencils
pencil sharpener
highlighter
eraser
ruler (clear plastic)
glue
tissues (optional)
textas (optional)
paint shirt (optional)
no liquid [...]
School Begins: 28th January 2010
School will begin for students on Thursday 28th January 2010.
New classes will not be formed until late on Friday, at the latest Monday. You will spend the first two days with your teacher from last year and then there will be school/grade assemblies and you will find out who your new teacher is.
[UPDATE]: You will go [...]
