5/6C’s Class Blog 2008

Today, August 8, 2008 is an interesting date, as it can be written 08/08/08. When was the last time such a pattern occurred? When will be the next?

We’ve lost another student. Zack has moved to another school, and we will miss him. Our class discussions will be a lot quieter now, without Zack’s insights and comments.

Zack, we hope you have a great time at your new school. Don’t forget you can send us comments on our blog, or email us, so we can keep in touch.

Picture Credit: Suitcase II, Carl Street, Originally uploaded by heather

There really is such a thing as a four leafed clover – here’s the evidence (this came up for discussion in class recently). There are lots of lucky charms and traditions for wishes – we read about some of them in Felice Arena’s book, Wish.

Some people think it’s lucky to carry a rabbit’s foot. I don’t think that’s very lucky for the rabbit, though!

What do you think is lucky?

Picture from SuperFantastic

The most popular books being read at our school so far are The Potato People, by Pamela Allen for the juniors and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl, for the middle school. In the senior school there is a very wide range of books being read, but the one read by the most students (three!) is Specky Magee by Felice Arena and Garry Lyon.

What’s your favorite book? Why is it your favorite?

Photo credit: Cat Reads, Originally uploaded by Litandmore

It was a very long second term with twelve weeks and lots on. The highlight was our school production, Circus Splendida. What a night! Check out our posts on the production on individual student blogs.

At the end of term, which was also the end of semester one, we reviewed our goals that we had set at the start of the year. Some people had met their goals well, some had not met them but had made some progress, whilst others had forgotten that they had set goals at all! We learned that goals are only useful if they are revisited and reviewed regularly.

So now we are on our two week winter break. Some of our students are travelling, some are staying home, others are visiting friends or relatives. I went on a quiet trip with my husband to the Grampians and Sovereign Hill, which is very different without dozens of children in tow! I also set a goal for July – to clean my desk at work (stop rolling on the floor laughing, grade 5/6C – I mean it this time!). Here’s some proof that mine is not the messiest desk on Earth:   

What are you doing these holidays? Where are you going? Have you goals to achieve? Post a comment!

Picture credits: corner desk from photobucket, picture by melheadzk92; paper pile from www.winona.edu; computer desk from www.macandphoto.com

Mrs C has set up Google Analytics to look at the statistics and information of our site’s visitors. Since April 5, we have had visitors from 33 different countries! If you are a visitor from anywhere other than our school, please post a comment telling us where you are from and how you found us. Here are our visitor stats for the last 11 weeks, according to Google Analytics:

As well as these multiple visits, we had single visits from Malaysia, Philippines, Romania, Dominican Republic, Turkey, Norway, Denmark, United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, Pakistan, Thailand, Bangladesh, Slovakia, Poland and Israel.

We have a class blog. We have a class wiki. We will have individual student blogs linked to the class blog. So now we need to decide what goes on the wiki and what goes in the blogs. Any suggestions anyone?

More thinking required.