Archive for April, 2008

ANZAC Day

April 30th, 2008

The year 6 students were invited to write their thoughts about ANZAC day. The topics were
MY THOUGHTS ON ANZAC DAY
WHAT ANZAC DAY MEANS TO ME
Below are some of the beautiful responses from the students.
Army corps
Nineteen fifteen
Zoning
Australia
Convicts
Ashley
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Just a thought…..

April 30th, 2008

Hey Jess and Anne, I hear you talking about other bloggers following you around. Does that equate to stalking? Is that an arrestable offence? Just another blogging term which is becoming familiar.

Bush Heart

April 30th, 2008

I wrote this poem for a competition. The task was to write in the vein of Banjo Patterson. When I saw the winning entries, I realised I was way off beam, but here it is - my summary of life in a small country community.
I’m just home from the city, where the action is a [...]

NOT MUCH TO TELL

April 30th, 2008

I wrote this poem in 2006. I wrote is as part of an application for the ANZAC chaperone competition run every year by the education dept. Dad was a Rat of Tobruk, who never spoke of his experiences in the war, until I pestered him enough one day and he broke down in front of [...]

Rotational Stories

April 30th, 2008

One of our student teachers this morning, presented a lesson on creative writing. She presented the students with the story starter “A long time ago and a far away land, lived a….” The students wrote for 3 minutes, then passed their books to the person on their left. A Timer was used to indicate [...]

My faltering steps

April 29th, 2008

Just when I think I have a handle on things, I overhear our technoheads (Anne and Jess) discussing things like squidoo, flickr, voicethread, avatars, ning and the very latest, live blogging. My comment is that just when I think I am getting a grip, I hear conversations between these two, and I feel the whole [...]