I have 1 sister and two step sisters and they are all annoying.I love my life because i have a family who care for me and and i am very lucky.My best food shop is subwayand mc donalds. my friends are georgia murphy mya clarke abby marshall but my best friend out of all of them is georgia murphy she is amazing.
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My edumazing day
On 29/02/12 in Melbourne Australia
I look back and see,
The many things I did today
That represents my life and me.
It began quite early in the morn
In our new house nearly complete,
Going through building requirements & workmanship
With tradesmen we had to meet.
Off I then went to the next scheduled task
A presentation I had to prepare,
To inspire those that seek work in our city
With many ideas I could share.
That allow them to see their value
And realise they can find success,
To develop self-belief and persistence
Find their passion and their best.
This is what I do with young people
I have the pleasure of working with,
Not to mention their teachers and families
To find the gems they hide underneath.
To help them improve their lives and learning
And all they do and can be,
To enjoy learning in many ways
Then eventually they begin to see.
The star they are in all they do
Their potential they finally reach,
The pleasure they find in learning
And for teachers in how they teach.
21st century learning
Is such a must in the work I do,
From using computers, iPads and more
There is so much to learn that is new.
I use these tools with all learners
To motivate them to learn and grow,
Creating new opportunities to learn so well
And deepen what they know.
Then back to our learning studios.
With a team I absolutely adore.
We share the same values and passion,
I cannot ask for more.
As my time continued on
Learning Coaching was next for the day,
I created more unique ways for my students to learn
Including tools that record what they say.
One student I coached reminds me
Of the passion I have to do more,
To seek ways to help learners that need it most
A foundation will do this for sure.
One that supports these learners,
Their families, their teachers & schools,
A holistic approach they need so much
With 21st century tools.
After working with my edumazing students
My commitment to my community progressed,
Meeting my fellow Rotarians
At new apartments that are called Quest.
Then off to dinner to share fellowship
And to hear great stories and say,
We make a difference in all we do
For so many every day.
Then back home to my beautiful family
The loved ones I like to please,
Finding a moment to speak to my daughter on Skype
Learning and living overseas.
My son once again is out and about.
My hubby relaxing at home.
To share the new stories we both have today
And glad he’s no longer alone.
I am grateful for the people around me
And for the great things we share and see.
Today is like every other day.
Thank you for reading my story.
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29th almost over here
The extra day is almost gone here. It is 10.30pm on the east coast of OZ. (which is sometimes called Australia and is just near Middle Earth or New Zealand)
I imagine some are only part way through their day elsewhere and some just about to start .
A whole extra day before some of you .
I wish I thought of it like that a bit earlier today. It went pretty fast here. I am predicting similar speeds over your side. Have as much extra fun as you can .
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A Great Time of Year.
It seems appropriate that I blog today about my program called LEEP – short for Lodgers’ Elearning Extension Program- on LEAP day. It is for Gifted and Talented students at Berwick Lodge Primary School, who need little bit of extension in the classroom.
Today has been the first day for Grade 3s in the program. The students were using our new MacBook Pros and for the first time used ComicLife. We couldn’t believe how easy it was to add photographs and taking balloons to explain what it means to be in LEEP (Lodgers’ Elearning Extension Program).
The Grade 6 students had another live radio show on The Berwick Lodge Student Hour, taking control of their own learning by creating the show with scripts, playlists and riffs as well as managing the technology by working at the control panels.
It’s a great time of year – new programs, excited students and beautiful weather as the summer turns to autumn.
So I hope everyone has a great LEAP day!
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Special once-every-four-year mini issue
After 11 weeks, it’s time for our little special issue. Thanks to every one who read VisionPlus weekly and every one who followed VisionPlus on DianDian. You rock!
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Anything Goes Day
On Anything Goes Day ( 29 th February) I spent the day climbing mountains and free falling! Not literally ….. I am a teacher and feel that describes my day! By climbing mountains I mean trying to make things happen, to get the students to move along with their understanding of their world and what will help them succeed in it. By free falling I mean coping with things that are out of my control and sometimes deflating and debilitating.
Today we were free falling because the education electronic mailing site was “down”! How much we rely on it to communicate, share, inquire and inform! At one point during the day I had to try to communicate by ringing on a land line… no one answered! It’s much easier and time efficient to email and then the respondent can answer in their own time.
I often think if the internet went down ( I know – don’t even think about it!!!) I wouldn’t know how to pay my bills, communicate with family and friends around the globe, research recipes and teaching ideas, get directions, find a replacement for “googling”, do my shopping, find bargains, research movies or books and the list goes on!
Who says people over 50 can’t adapt to change?!?!
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Happy to be back home
I have just come home to Perth after two weeks working away. I am sitting on my balcony looking at the river and the cars speeding down the freeway.
I have just been working in Alice Springs which is a town in the middle of Australia. It was very hot and dry there. I enjoyed a day trip to Uluru – it is the best rock I have ever seen!
I saw loads of lizards but no snakes (fortunately).
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Standard 9-5
Went to boring work and then my pt session. Absolutely rocked my session and improved my cardio circuit by heaps compared to last. Went and celebrated by playing porkies and drinking!!! Very healthy. Playing with my cat now.
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school work
I am in Adelaide, South Australia. I am having to add my post at home and it is almost 10pm. We have had no internet access at school this week. We have managed to learn lots of great things even with out the internet and computers. Today we played with magnets.
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Nearly Over
My Feb 29 is nearly over, and given that it the last day in February, so is summer! Oh well!
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Room 1 Awsome Post!
We are actually from New Zealand
Today in the morning we went to different classes for Mathematics after that we did some R.E (Religious Education) we were doing a very important sheet about what our parents do for us and what Jesus meant when he said God is Abba. After our first recess for the day we did a long and hard spelling test we did some English and then we had our last recess for the day. then we decided to just read our books but if we hadn’t finished our Knowledge Net we had to right the Reflection From our Newspaper Report. Then we did some more R.E and packed up for the day.
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Continuous Challenges
So, the never-come summer’s gone. Literally, Sydneysiders didn’t have summer this year, even the once-every-four-year last day of February is raining. Today is also full of challenges – new challenges, and continuous challenges. I don’t like it, but I like it, at least it means you still got something to do in your life.
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Music, love & peace
Currently new to blogging but why not leave a mark on the internet…
Currently undertaking a teaching degree as my current unit is about ICT so leads me to this post.
20 year old girl living in one of the best cities Melbourne 
well just outside actually on the beach
MUSIC- can determine a mood, bring back a memory, give us all something we can relate to, inspire us. A world without music is an empty place without the background noise
LOVE- my nieces (true love) family, friends, lovers . But at the end of the day it’s what we all want, it’s also impossible to live without.
PEACE- we all need one peaceful place where in that moment, doing that one thing we are completely at peace. If everyone could find their own piece of peace we would have less war.
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Music, love & peace
Currently new to blogging but why not leave a mark on the internet…
Currently undertaking a teaching degree as my current unit is about ICT so leads me to this post.
20 year old girl living in one of the best cities Melbourne well just outside actually on the beach
MUSIC- can determine a mood, bring back a memory, give us all something we can relate to, inspire us. A world without music is an empty place without the background noise
LOVE- my nieces (true love) family, friends, lovers . But at the end of the day it’s what we all want, it’s also impossible to live without.
PEACE- we all need one peaceful place where in that moment, doing that one thing we are completely at peace. If everyone could find their own piece of peace we would have less war.
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On the run
Today was one of the busiest days I’ve had at school all year! Maybe it’s a good job we only get Feb 29 every four years
I’ve had almost non-stop meetings all day. However, our poor year 6/7′s have so been looking forward to their annual 2 dat aquatics program and the weather here in Adelaide has been horrendous. It has poured with rain all day (so they didn’t need to go in the sea to get wet) and it has been very cold and windy. They all had to come back early so only got to do two of their activities instead of three. Hopefully, tomorrow will be better!
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A Great Time of Year.
Today has been the first day for Grade 3s in the ICT extension program. The students were using our new MacBook Pros and for the first time used ComicLife. We couldn’t believe how easy it was to add photographs and with taking balloons to explain what it means to be in LEEP (Lodgers’ Elearning Extension Program). We had another live radio show on The Berwick Lodge Student Hour with students taking control of their own learning by creating the show with scripts, playlists and riffs as well as managing the technology by working at the control panels.
It’s a great time of year – new programs, excited students and beautiful weather as the summer turns to autumn.
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Music, love & peace
Currently new to blogging but why not leave a mark on the internet…
Currently undertaking a teaching degree as my current unit is about ICT so leads me to this post.
20 year old girl living in one of the best cities Melbourne well just outside actually on the beach
MUSIC- can determine a mood, bring back a memory, give us all something we can relate to, inspire us. A world without music is an empty place without the background noise
LOVE- my nieces (true love) family, friends, lovers . But at the end of the day it’s what we all want, it’s also impossible to live without.
PEACE- we all need one peaceful place where in that moment, doing that one thing we are completely at peace. If everyone could find their own piece of peace we would have less war.
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Music, love & peace
Currently new to blogging but why not leave a mark on the internet…
Currently undertaking a teaching degree as my current unit is about ICT so leads me to this post.
20 year old girl living in one of the best cities Melbourne well just outside actually on the beach
MUSIC- can determine a mood, bring back a memory, give us all something we can relate to, inspire us. A world without music is an empty place without the background noise
LOVE- my nieces (true love) family, friends, lovers . But at the end of the day it’s what we all want, it’s also impossible to live without.
PEACE- we all need one peaceful place where in that moment, doing that one thing we are completely at peace. If everyone could find their own piece of peace we would have less war.
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Thankyou Mr P.
I am a teacher. Today, on February 29, 2012, I took the chance to thank a Deputy Principal (and teacher) who had a huge positIve influence on me, and who supported me through some tough times.
You can read the full story at http://mgraffin.edublogs.org.
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My fit girlfriend
Banging out the Party Rocking with my babe on the beach, is boiling!
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My fit girlfriend
Banging out the Party Rocking with my babe on the beach, is boiling!
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Mum’s Day
Today was like any other day, I woke up in anticipation for a great day ahead, weighed myself and was pleasantly surprised that I had lost another 0.4 kg even though I had been on the Dukan diet for close to 2 months already …. I sure had a lot of fat to lose! I was a little worried that my body composition monitor said that I had lost some muscle mass as well …. I need to go and buy those 6 kg dumbbells for my Chalean Extreme workouts … 5 kg ones are getting too easy for me. At least that shows progress!
Got dressed for work, hey, my skirt’s a little loose. Was it loose when I bought it? No time for ruminating …. my son’s shouting, ‘Mum, are you coming down?’ Got to go make his lunch for school. We’ve been bickering about who should make his sandwich (he’s already 10!) We’ll see who wins this morning.
Rainy day, long jam towards his school. Just made it before the bell rang. Now to get to work on time!
Made it with 5 minutes to spare. Today the kids learnt about leap years. Great worksheet with a combination of literacy and numeracy. They had to answer some pretty tricky questions from the passage about leap years. I learnt that a year is actually 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and 16 seconds, and that the extra odd minutes are accounted for when century years not divisible by 400 (eg. the years 1700 and 1900 are non leap years, or common years). Well, you always learn new things on the job! That’s what I like about working in education.
Fetched son home …. ‘Mum, have you downloaded the latest Star Wars – The Clone Wars?’
Okay, out comes my MacBook. Thank goodness for the fast download speed we have nowadays. 3 episodes in half an hour …. that will keep him busy for a while!
Now to do my University homework. We’re going to use Google Sites next week to build a website. Must as well explore it beforehand. Hey, it’s a lot like the Ultranet … has all the important features … and more, a lot like iWeb too. Slideshow, html embedding, calendars, templates, interactive forms, announcements, gadgets, presentations etc. This is going to be fun! Oops, time to cook dinner …. too late to exercise … sigh! Time flies by too quickly!
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So many things
Busy marking, planning and organising activities for my science and IT classes today. Experiments to cover and details to be discussed with year level leaders. I had to cover somebodies senior class for accounting, call some parents to discuss their their child’s progress and host a lunchtime meeting of the Junior Science Club. At various odd moments of the day, I caught up with my email and twitter feeds with my PLN. A quick bite to eat on yard duty then a drive to the city for a meeting of IT teachers at the ICTEV where we will be planning some exciting professional development and conference activities. We also tried out some innovative ideas for online meetings using Elluminate and Google Hangouts. All of what happens in the busy life of an Australian school teacher.
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two bags of sick
One day there were two bags of sick walking along the road.
They turned a corner and then one bag of sick started crying.
The other bag of sick said:” what’s wrong?”And the first bag of sick said:”I was brought up round here.
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A new day
Nearly 8 a.m. on March 1 here in eastern Australia. Heavy rains have been falling overnight with 50mm (2″) falling by 7 a.m. There’s talk of flooding in many areas, including around my area. A local school has closed for the day because the rural children have to travel along sometimes very slipper when wet roads.
As I look out of the window where I’m sitting, it is wet and windy. Our weather chart shows a massive band of cloud over a large area of eastern Australia so more rain will come. It makes me wonder if the sports field across the road will flood for the fourth time in two years. This is the pattern when the La Nina pattern hits the South Pacific. When EL Nino takes hold, we risk drought. Until this last two years’ La Nina, drought was a major problem now dams are overflowing, rivers are rising and the country waits the next El Nino.
One of my favourite Australian poems comes to mind when I see the extremes. Here is a four line extract of “My Country” by Dorothea MacKellar…
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
If you are interested in seeing the full text of the poem, here is a link…
http://www.lancescoular.com/my-country-by-dorothea-mackellar.html
In two years time, the poem will be 100 years old. It is an iconic description of Australia.
@RossMannell
Teacher, NSW, Australia
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my day
Today i had a cuddle in bed with my two wonderful children aged 5 and 3. Normally my 5 year old would have school but as she is just starting prep she gets Wednesday’s off. After a cuddle and a chat we got up and had breakfast, did a jigsaw puzzle and got in the car for a drive to get a couple of birthday presents for her friends parties on the weekend. After spending way too much money we returned home, watched some TV then off to dancing we went. Whilst my 3 year old and i were waiting for my 5 year old to finish her dance lessons, i noticed a huge lump inside my 3 year old’s ear, so off to the doctor we went. Finally after waiting for what seemed an eternity, back home cuddling in bed with my beautiful kids again whilst they fall asleep. All up a pretty good day!
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Down Under
Got up, in the rain. Went to work, in the rain, recess – in the rain, lunch – in the rain, left work early to go to literacy workshop, drove 30 mins in the rain. Left at 6pm to go home, in the rain. Sadly was last day of summer.
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Down Under
Got up, in the rain. Went to work, in the rain, recess – in the rain, lunch – in the rain, left work early to go to literacy workshop, drove 30 mins in the rain. Left at 6pm to go home, in the rain. Sadly was last day of summer.
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A new day
Nearly 8 a.m. on March 1 here in eastern Australia. Heavy rains have been falling overnight with 50mm (2″) falling by 7 a.m. There’s talk of flooding in many areas, including around my area. A local school has closed for the day because the rural children have to travel along sometimes very slipper when wet roads.
As I look out of the window where I’m sitting, it is wet and windy. Our weather chart shows a massive band of cloud over a large area of eastern Australia so more rain will come. It makes me wonder if the sports field across the road will flood for the fourth time in two years. This is the pattern when the La Nina pattern hits the South Pacific. When EL Nino takes hold, we risk drought. Until this last two years’ La Nina, drought was a major problem now dams are overflowing, rivers are rising and the country waits the next El Nino.
One of my favourite Australian poems comes to mind when I see the extremes. Here is a four line extract of “My Country” by Dorothea MacKellar…
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
If you are interested in seeing the full text of the poem, here is a link…
http://www.lancescoular.com/my-country-by-dorothea-mackellar.html
In two years time, the poem will be 100 years old. It is an iconic description of Australia.
@RossMannell
Teacher, NSW, Australia
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A new day
Nearly 8 a.m. on March 1 here in eastern Australia. Heavy rains have been falling overnight with 50mm (2″) falling by 7 a.m. There’s talk of flooding in many areas, including around my area. A local school has closed for the day because the rural children have to travel along sometimes very slipper when wet roads.
As I look out of the window where I’m sitting, it is wet and windy. Our weather chart shows a massive band of cloud over a large area of eastern Australia so more rain will come. It makes me wonder if the sports field across the road will flood for the fourth time in two years. This is the pattern when the La Nina pattern hits the South Pacific. When EL Nino takes hold, we risk drought. Until this last two years’ La Nina, drought was a major problem now dams are overflowing, rivers are rising and the country waits the next El Nino.
One of my favourite Australian poems comes to mind when I see the extremes. Here is a four line extract of “My Country” by Dorothea MacKellar…
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
If you are interested in seeing the full text of the poem, here is a link…
http://www.lancescoular.com/my-country-by-dorothea-mackellar.html
In two years time, the poem will be 100 years old. It is an iconic description of Australia.
@RossMannell
Teacher, NSW, Australia
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A very wintery 29th of February
Today started out very cold and rainy and it marked the end of summer for those of us who live “Down Under” plus it meant that we were in a leap year cycle! The students were all excited because they had a swimming lesson at 10am and the rain hadn’t stopped. We talked about being brave enough to ignore the cold and to get into the ‘swimming’ groove!
Most students had a great time being in the pool while it rained but a couple brought along their books to read.
Back in the class, we talked about this blog and the students were very interested, as they are learning how to be confident users of the internet. We haven’t started class blogs yet but I can see great potential in using this means of communication.
This post has been an excellent idea and the students were fascinated by the 29th of February and the concept of a leap year. Most of my students were 4 last leap year and now, at 8, they can understand the whole extra day business.
We will look at class blogs during the year.
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Our Day
Awesome day for Year 2/3 C here in Aus. We are working on our persuasive writing skills and we learnt how to make a movie, add music to it and save it all in ICT today. We have had so much rain here in Australian recently that we can’t always go outside and play! Luckily we haven’t had floods like some parts of Australia. Hope every one has a great day.
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Time
In Middle S (our grade 3/4 class) we are making discoveries about Time and we realised that if there are 365 days in a year, then there are 366 days in a leap year.
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Today at School
Today in the Library Stage 3 (Years 5 & 6) have been talking and thinking about genre,and how it is useful to know what genre you enjoy when deciding on a type of book to read.
Other years (Year 2,3,4,5 & 6) have been working on what our school rules would look like in the Library. “Be friendly, care for others, and keep calm” are some ideas that students came up with.
Kindergarten listened to the story “The Tiny Seed” by Eric Carle and made beautiful flowers to decorate the Library.
That’s all so far today – but it is only lunchtime
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29 ways to discribe me
My name is Jack
I am 8 years old.
I am a student at Bangkok Patana School, Thailand.
Today is February 29th 2012
Here are 29 ways to describe me:
1. Noisy
2. Annoying
3. Creative
4. Sporty
5. Risk-Taker
6. Brave
7. Smart
8. Tall
9. Friendly
10. Mature
11. Fast
12. Hungry
13. Cheeky
14. Amazing
15. Energetic
16. Grumpy
17. Inquire
18. Independent
19. Reader
20. Cool
21. A bit lazy
22. Double jointed
23. Adventurous
24. Weird
25. Happy
26. Not computer geek
27. Movie geek
28. Dog lover
29. Food lover
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Our Fabulous Day
We have had a great day at Merewether Heights today. It was meant to rain all day but so far it hasn’t dripped a drop!
Today we continued with our Schools Global Photo Challenge.
Max.B had to capture a picture of a bus stop!
http://marvellousmerewetherheights.edublogs.org/2012/02/12/global-schools-photo-challenge/
We are really enjoying our year so far and love blogging!
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Rain + Cat on a comfy cushion = Ability to get Some Work Done!l
Here, in rainy Adelaide, I’ve spent the day snuggled up in my office with Prezi.com. Having successfully persuaded my cat to stop adding his contributions (by walking all over the keyboard), I’m putting together a presentation on why and how teachers need to be using ICT in their HASS lessons.
Blogging will be one of those important tools I shall, of course advocate!
I hope the rain stops soon… I’m meant to be at a Leap Year BBQ Later! It doesn’t look too good for that out there at the moment. Great weather for ducks though I suppose!
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Rain + Cat on a comfy cushion = Ability to get Some Work Done!l
Here, in rainy Adelaide, I’ve spent the day snuggled up in my office with Prezi.com. Having successfully persuaded my cat to stop adding his contributions (by walking all over the keyboard), I’m putting together a presentation on why and how teachers need to be using ICT in their HASS lessons.
Blogging will be one of those important tools I shall, of course advocate!
I hope the rain stops soon… I’m meant to be at a Leap Year BBQ Later! It doesn’t look too good for that out there at the moment. Great weather for ducks though I suppose!
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Leap in for some more fun
We’ve done lots of things today. We went on the computers and went swimming. We had literacy groups and did handwriting, spelling, writing and reading. In Maths we were rolling dice to find which number was the easiest to get and which was the hardest. We haven’t solved that problem yet. We were also thinking about the question of how animals can stay underwater for so long and if mermaids are real. Now we are blogging. We are a class of girls in Sydney. We had a busy day but it was fun.
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Rain + Cat on a comfy cushion = Ability to get Some Work Done!l
Here, in rainy Adelaide, I’ve spent the day snuggled up in my office with Prezi.com. Having successfully persuaded my cat to stop adding his contributions (by walking all over the keyboard), I’m putting together a presentation on why and how teachers need to be using ICT in their HASS lessons.
Blogging will be one of those important tools I shall, of course advocate!
I hope the rain stops soon… I’m meant to be at a Leap Year BBQ Later! It doesn’t look too good for that out there at the moment. Great weather for ducks though I suppose!
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Leapt Lee
Worked with some great kids, doctor’s appointment, dinner on the run then astronomy viewing night- Saturn was beautiful! Happy Leap Day everyone!!
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Valuing Feb 29th!
Today we decided to celebrate February 29 by choosing 29 values that we think are important in making the world a better place. We all took one value and pinned it on our tops. We went outside and made a big circle to celebrate that all the values are connected.
Please see: http://kidsspeak.global2.vic.edu.au for a full post including photos!
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Arts & Adelaide
I am In Adelaide soaking up arts & festival time including adelaide fringe festival, spirit festival, adelaide arts festival, gatden of unearthly delights & Australian performing arts market (APAM) where artists, dancers, filmmakers, theatre companies get 25 mins to pitch their work to producers, festivals, art centre managers from around the world. My head spins with content and maybe just maybe the every night networking drinks. Such talent! Today saw Maori dance company, paul capsis, Japanese dancer and aboriginal play. And it’s only lunch time!!
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Today at School
Today in the Library Stage 3 (Years 5 & 6) have been talking and thinking about genre,and how it is useful to know what genre you enjoy when deciding on a type of book to read.
Other years (Year 2,3,4,5 & 6) have been working on what our school rules would look like in the Library. “Be friendly, care for others, and keep calm” are some ideas that students came up with.
Kindergarten listened to the story “The Tiny Seed” by Eric Carle and made beautiful flowers to decorate the Library.
That’s all so far today – but it is only lunchtime
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Special Birthday!
Celebrating my sons birth 4 years ago on this day. Hooray, he finally has his first birthday! Happy Birthday LENNOX! My little Leap Year”Leapling”! All my classes today are learning about this special day!
Leanne Broadley
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iPads
We have 52 children in a team teaching environment who are all exploring new iPads. Some have iPad2′s and some have the ‘old’ ones! We are loving sorting out all the housekeeping! So much learning can be done with an iPad as out pencil.
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SeniorG – Facts we know about 29
FACTS WE KNOW ABOUT 29
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29 people in our class 28+1=29 40-11 Its between 30 and 28
Er shi jio -Is how to say it in mandarin b and i in the alphabet code
XXIX 129-100 twenty-nine
10+10+9 20+9 58 divided by 2
Day after my sisters birthday -10+39
37-8 116 divided by 4 100 divided by 4+4
2×10+9 49-20 9×6=54/4=14+15
60-40+5+4 Factors are 29 and 1 30-10+9
The sum of its digits = 11 232 divded by 8 Its an odd number
100-71 XL-XI 464 divided by 16
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Inquiry!
Hi everyone
Today at school we unpacked our inquiry about Leaders and their Beliefs and values.
I am excited to learn about leaders and dictators throughout the term.
From Shreya
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After School Activities
After school I am going to go dancing. It is from 4:30 to 7:30 for 3 hours. Then I will go home eat and do a bit of homework.
Stephanie 
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JC ROCKS
We are just at school leaning about our new inquiry and are about to learn some maths.
We are ready to have our incursion as well as ready to eat our lunch which is ham sandwhich and a ham roll!
And we can not wait till we go home and have a break from a big day at school!!!!
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blogging on the 29th 2
caleb
caleb has returned to feb 29th the fish have been catched and i’ve whatched the simpsons and know im stuck in a shark
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the 29th
today i am going to go home and watch my favorite show again
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My 29 favourite foods
1.Strawberries
2.Nockeldy
3.Tacos
4.sour strips
5.burgers on the beach
6.Hot chips
7.Fruit salad
8.Pesto Chicken
9.Pasta
10.Pizza
11.Boccachini
12.Custard tart
13.Fruit tart
14.ice cream
15.Crossants
16.Marrangues
17.Pavlova
18.Cake
19.Vanilla Choc Fudge
20.Chocolate fountain
21.Cherries
22.Mango
23.Apple Pie
24.Apple Crumple
25.Apple Stroodle
26.Bannana Split
27.Lollipops
28.Nerds
29.Fairy Floss
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29 favourite things
these are 29 of my favourite things:
1. art and craft
2. basketball
3.drawing cartoon and well about everything
4. lasagne or any type of pasta
5.wasting my time
6.playing Ipad to be more specific
7.tiny tower
8. cooking my signature cupcakes
9. playing wii
10. mash potato
11.lollies
12.playing the violin
13.playing the piano
14. pretending to play the air guitar
15. cake
16. watching glee
17. sing
18 singing in the shower
19. going to birthday parties
20 when ever I get set a task I try to make in creative as possible to make it fun
21. Ice skating
22. Ben and Jerry’s ice cream
23. skiing
24. marshmellows
25. having ginormous snow ball fight when I’m skiing
26.laughing hard
27.playing around with hairstyles
28.figuring out new tricks in basketball (my 4/5th year)
29. annoying my sister
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29 things I love or Love doing
29 random things about me:
1) I love reading
2) I like writing story’s
3) I’d rather be in cold than hot
4) I love most plane foods
5) I love maths
6) I love Art
7) I find graffiti extremely entertaining
8) I can’t stop working (I love work)
9) I love organization
10) I love my Dog
11) I am good at negotiation
12) I love spaghetti Bolognase
13) I love sushi
14) I love tennis
15) I love softball
16) I love mango
17) I love Wii sports
18) I love hockey
19) I love purple
20) I love monopoly
21) I love the moron test
22) I love Rowan Atkinson
23) I love playing with technology
24) I love the Charlie bone books, the mysterious Benedict society and the book Candymakers
25) I Love Phuket
26) I love playing the piano
27) I love the movie Avatar
28) I love mint chocolate ice cream
29) I love Me!
Tess. W
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My 29 Favourite Things
Today I am at school in Sydney, Australia and it is raining very badly.
Yet, 4 years ago the government spent millions of dollars fixing horrible droughts in Australia because everyone thought that we would all suffer from lack of fluid.
At this very moment the Warringah Dam is overflowing! Who would’ve thought?!
My 29 Favourite Things Are:
1. Jesus
2. Family
3. Friends – love you guys!!
4. Talking
5. Shopping
6. The Beach
7. JUSTIN BIEBER!!!! <3 sorry he wasn’t number 1 – just no match for family and faith!
8. My iPod
9. My phone
10. Cheesecake
11. Chocolate
12. Holidays
13. the colour Red
14. Sushi
15. School
16. Bondi to Bronte Walk
17. Pork Ribs
18. Pino’s Italian Restaurant
19. Decaf Mochas- yuuuuuuuuum!!!!!
20. Betty Crocker Icing
21. Diet Coke
22.. Coke
23. Fairy Floss/Cotton Candy
24. Ben & Jerries
25. Spiders – the drink
26. Chocolate Fountains
27. Chocolate strawberries
28. Colours
29. Tennis
xoxo Jessi
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ME!
Hi,
My name is Natalie. I go to school in Australia and I am currently at school now. I will be writing about my 29 favorite things in the WHOLE WORLD!
1. Going to the beach
2. Drawing
3. Painting
4. Cherry, apple pie
5. Chocolate
6. Lemon meringue pie
7. Running
8. Swimming
9. Reading
10. Cooking
11. Animals
12. Friends
13. Family
14. Playing my trumpet
15. Chocolate fountains
16. Watching movies
17. Macrons
18. Writing
19. Listening to music
20. Skiing
21. dancing
23. Gymnastics
24. Ben and Jerry’s
25. Seeing musicals
26. Cookies
27. Playing
28. Laughing.
29 HAVING FUN!
HAPPY LEAP YEAR DAY!!!!!
XX
Natalie
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Long Day
6am, rise and shine. Ground-hog day perhaps? Not so.
I actually enjoy my Wednesdays. Wednesdays are the day I get to escape from the general routine and compound of my little home and head off to work. Wednesday is the day I get to help other children, other than my own.
At work I enjoy learning about grade nine science subjects – This week the students are looking at electricity. This brings me back to my time in the classroom as a science student. I throughly enjoyed science.
English lessons for the remainder of the day. Topic- Super heros and Super villians. It is enjoyable assisting the students with their characters and formulating some (often funny) personas.
All in all a good day, other than a small ‘hitch’. One of my learning support students was accused of stealing money from our staffroom. This saddened me, as I do trust this boy. I didn’t ever think he was capable of stealing. As it turns out, he is quite capable of more than I thought. My collegues were saddened as it was our ‘beer money’ for friday afternoon drinks with the staff that he had stolen. Yes, I do enjoy friday afternoon drinks, but I’m more dissapointed with the fact that I can no longer trust this young boy.
At last, home by 3.30pm and off to pick up my little boy. He has had a wonderful day in the care of some wonderful people. His teacher tells me that he has spent the day examining his private anatomy amongst his little friends. I laugh and make a mental note to add this to the growing list of 21st birthday stories I have conveniently accumulated thus far. I love the innocence of a 2 & 1/2 year old. Certainly a vast difference between him and my high school students.
Home, dinner and bed. I watch my little man sleeping and reflect about my day.
I hope he retains his innocence for some time to come. It really is so precious.
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1 bar of iPhone service
Today I flew to the Tiwi Islands off the coast of the Northern Territory of Australia to work in their remote schools where English is sometimes a third language and where pencils have never been picked up by a child before age 6. It is remote, dusty, hot, island life and the indigenous kids are awe inspiring. We’re going fishing and turtle hunting Friday. School operates beyond the classroom walls and literacy is built though shared experience and real life. Often for these kids, books have never been read to them and school is the only place where literate behaviors are modeled and celebrated. The indigenous women with little English took me to their arts centre today. A little tin shed filled with women at work on dot paintings. Although speaking, reading and writing in english was foreign to some of them, culture and oral storytelling were important aspects of island life. Kids learning through meaning and in context? We can all champion that!
I’m down on the beach writing this finding one remote spot where my iPhone picked up 1 bar of service!
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A Great Time of Year.
It seems appropriate that I blog today about my program called LEEP – short for Lodgers’ Elearning Extension Program- on LEAP day. It is for Gifted and Talented students at Berwick Lodge Primary School, who need little bit of extension in the classroom.
Today has been the first day for Grade 3s in the program. The students were using our new MacBook Pros and for the first time used ComicLife. We couldn’t believe how easy it was to add photographs and taking balloons to explain what it means to be in LEEP (Lodgers’ Elearning Extension Program).
The Grade 6 students had another live radio show on The Berwick Lodge Student Hour, taking control of their own learning by creating the show with scripts, playlists and riffs as well as managing the technology by working at the control panels.
It’s a great time of year – new programs, excited students and beautiful weather as the summer turns to autumn.
So I hope everyone has a great LEAP day!
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Life
It’s about getting up and getting out there for me every day! Responsibilities, expectations and then a butterfly lands on on the rose out side the front door. That’s what it is about this life I have. Taking notice of the simple things in the chaos that blurs around me.
Today was no different and tomorrow will be the same……. Different. No day like it is the day before, and exactly the way I like it. Learning, exchanging ideas with my peers, my mentors and rushing to my other life. Shopping, washing, cooking dinner and jumping from conversation to conversation with my husband about our day.
Exhausted at the end of the day now and resting with my husband……Life, it’s about engaging, getting involved and taking it ALL in. Tomorrow? What will it bring? Who knows?
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Ny 29 favourite animals!
Hey I’m going to tell you today what my 29 favourite animals are! Please have a look and count for yourself to see if I have 29!
Giraffe, bunny rabbit, dog, pig, turtle, guinea pig, cows, sheep, horse, zebra, wombat, monkey, kitten, duck, goose, butterfly, dolphin, starfish, fish, whale, frogs, sloth, koala, hippo, rhino, platypus, kookaburra, cockatoo, baby leopard.
There you have it….my 29 favourtie animals!
From Liana
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Baby steps
This is my first blog ever! and from what I can gather there is quite an art to it.
Today I was at work, (i’m a tram driver) nice and early which means I finish nice and early, so i picked up my daughter from school and we went shopping for dinner, tended to a friends pets while they are away and then cooked dinner. She tried a new food tonight, Haloumi cheese pan fried, unfortunately not going on the foods she likes but at least she had a try.
I’m currently doing my 1st week of a Uni subject about ICT and am learning all manner of things like Google+. I now have an account which is also a task for the unit. Have found it to be somewhat like fb but better as you can do so much more with it.
Anyway thats my first blog, hope its well recieved
Cheers, Adam
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My favorite things to do………..
1. Playing with my dog
2. Reading
3. Playing my violin
4. Singing
5. Blogging
6. Guides
7. Dancing
8. Eating
9. Cooking
10. Bush walking
11. High ropes
12. Archery
13. Rafting
14. Camping
15. HSIE
16. Computer games
17. Playing outside
18. Art
19. Travelling
20. Praising God
21. Netball
22. Hockey
23. Tennis
24. Basketball
25. Softball
26.Going to parties
27. Reading magazines
28. TV
29. Holidays
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Just one more day
February 29th
A day at home while the car is getting that little bump fixed.
My morning walk – no dolphins in the river today.
The day before rubbish collection so time filling the bin with prunings.
Must make a start on marking essays but all those posts on Google+ are far more interesting.
Answer a few emails.
Mark essays…
Have lunch.
Mark more essays.
Nanny nap
Shower.
More emails.
Call from my mother – she found her neighbour dead in her bed.
Email from mother offering to pay for a joy flight over Perth if I go with her.
Deal done.
Distracted by this blog
More emails.
Will I get back to marking or watch a movie later ?
We will have to see…
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The ways we connect
Today was a day like any other…I slept in, mad rush to get ready for work, arrive at work just in time to a day full of more demands and expectations than I can hope to achieve. I’m so glad for this opportunity to reflect and mark the day. I am a teacher and my role is as an eLearning Coach working with teachers and students to use technology in meaningful and powerful ways in the classroom. I love my job!
Lots of people say that society is less social these days as people spend more and more time in front of screens. I have to disagree. Today I had experienced so many ways to communicate and connect with the people I know…..I met with people f2f and we planned and talked and learnt, I emailed my colleagues with a great web site I had found that I know will help them in their work, I sent a text to my sister to see how she is and she replied in kind, I tweeted this blogging site to spread the word and I skyped a friend. I chatted with kids in the playground and I laughed with a friend over coffee. I rang a colleague on my mobile to get some advice and I answered a request for help on Google Plus and tonight I will share my day with my husband. I am so glad that today was a day like any other and I have so many ways to connect with the people I care about.
Happy Blogging day – Feb 29th, 2012
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Just another day?
What am I doing today? – at the moment – I am getting lost on Twitter (and checking my e-mail and stuff). Spent most of the day at work as usual (getting stuff out for/cleaning up the mess after high school science classes) then came home, had tea … and should go and do what I was/am planning to do for most of the rest of the evening – moving furniture/junk from where it didn’t really work as my sewing room, back to where I had it a few years ago and should work better if I arrange things better this time … sigh … oh – and I need to fit walking the dog into my evening somewhere too (in fact it will probably be “walking the dog in the rain” and then have a shower and put my wet clothing, and the rest of the pile in the laundry, into the washing machine … pity washing and other housework doesn’t do itself).
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My 10 favourite lollies
My 10 favorite lollies are
1. strawberry clouds
2.strawberry lollie pops
3.candy floss
4.strawberry, blueberry,grape and orange fizzers
5.sherbet
6.belly beans
7.killer pithans
8.marsh mellows
9.fruit chews
and lucky last
10.minties
so they are my 10 favourite lollies.
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29 things i love
dogs
chocolate
cats
convers shoes
computres
freinds
lollies
westfeild
my room
my desk
tv
trees
puppys
blogs
puppy pics
paper
grafite
art
craft
boxes
hot chocolate
lasanya
pasta
my bed
tarcos
chocolate moose
tiramasoo
selena gomez
music
from liv
p.s. i have a blog it is http://saphirao.edu.org
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School in Australia
Today in Australia I went to school. I am in Year 6 (the last year of junior school) and have been at the school since Kindergarten. Right now I am doing homework which we get every two weeks. My favourite subjects are Drama, Art, Library, Music and Science.
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Rain on the 29th
The Last day of summer and it is only this day That it is the 29/2 every four years. And on this day it has to Rain Rain And Rain even more when it could be sun sun and even more sun. I could spend the day at the beach but I have to spend it inside. (Boring) (BTW I am in Sydney) The 29th is a special day. (well mabey not for those eho have thier birthdays on it)
I know someone who has thier birthday today and she turned 16 but in fact it is only her 5th birthday
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A bit of everything in the WA Wheatbelt
Today on the farm, we have taken delivery of some lime and fertilizer. In the office I have responded to posts in an online forum as an OUA tutor. On the community front, I have distributed a newsletter and collated uniform orders. For the family I have sent two children to school, kept one sick child home and picked up the youngest from Kindy. On a personal level, I have placed 5 passport applications at the local PO only to discover 4 of them need to be amended! Might even hang out some washing and cook dinner Phew! And it’s a horribly windy day…
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Honouring the gentlemen in my life
I was just staring at the lime green wall behind my laptop wondering what to write and I saw the photograph of my partner and I standing under a tree. He has his arms around me protectively and is snuggling into my ear. This reminded me of how much I am loved in my family home. I am a doctoral candidate studying relationships between spiritual health and well-being and Home Economics. My long-term goal is to challenge negative public perceptions about Home Economics. I believe my chosen field is an exceptional discipline that teaches me the importance of knowing who I am, appreciating my family and participating actively in my world. We live by our house rules of honour, trust, respect, integrity and courage.
I am in my study alcove in the corner of my bedroom. My partner is working behind me at his workstation filled with postcards of our world travels and photos of our kids and grand-daughter. I live with my partner, my son and my father. Ron, my partner, is an Actor and is an extraordinarily gifted and talented man. Hartley, my son, is ten years old and one of the most generous and loving people I know. My father, Brian, is an Artist and another brilliant man, who has just finished painting two amazingly beautiful (and enormous) landscapes. I am very proud of my gentlemen – they inspire me every day. I have a very privileged life. I turn 40 this year and I am grateful for the 29th of February because I get to stay 39 for an extra day. My Home Economics education has given me a powerful and unique perspective of my family life. I appreciate the importance and value of my role as mother and I know the gentlemen in my life appreciate me. This 29thFeb project has also reminded me that I am an important part of something much bigger… humanity.
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eLearning Leader
Today I am working to bring change to the education system. I am testing a 4G phone to see how we can utilise personal data connections in a school environment. I am fleshing out a BYOD model for increasing the ratio of students to devices in class. I am eating sprout bread with grated carrot and beetroot. I will dine with the neighbours this evening and then have a stroll on the beach with my wife and daughter.
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chilling
Today I’m just chilling with my friends at school. Waiting for it to finish so we can play all day and laugh as-well.
From Noah
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the 29th
today i am going to go home then I’m going to eat pizza and watch my favorite show which is glee
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Feb 29 in Paradise
Today is a busy day. I have just got back from preparing fresh pizza bases for our business “CJ’s Island Pizza”. Had some brekky which consisted of a boiled egg on toast and probably be looking for a coffee very soon. My wife Michele has just left to pick up our friends Di and Eric Hartman at the jetty. By the way, we live on North Stradbroke Island. We will be talking about renovations to our house and our 2013 tour of Europe. Di and Eric will leave us today to continue their return home in Sawtell, New South Wales.
Michele and I will probably have a bit of a break before doing some work on our business and also our preparations for our business holiday in Thailand. We fly out this Saturday 3rd March 2012. We will be visiting Phi Phi Island and Phuket. We are travelling with our friends Tina and Geoff Monroe for 2 weeks.
Solomon our son will be managing CJ’s Island Pizza in our absence.
The weather today is beautiful. Nice and sunny and probably a good reason to head to the beach or the lake. for a swim if we have time. No should really make time.
We open the shop at 4pm until 8pm. We don’t do much after work but sleep ready for another day in paradise.
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Blogging on the 29th of feb
Today we will be posting things on our blog and enjoying the day. We will be talking about leaders and important people. At 12 we will have a incursion and later lunch.
From Clare and Daniel.
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Leadership
Im in school doing work for six hours. I am in grade 6RC our inquiry is leadership so now we are researching leadership in various ways.
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sleep&play
I’m wake up at 7:40 and I sleep more so I sleep again and wake up too,I went to school at 8:30 I came school around 8:40 and I ate snack and play.
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after school
Today after school,
I will go home and do my homework and then take my sisters to dancing
and then hang around till me lesson.
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blogging on the 29th
caleb
today i will go to the beach and catch fish and get eaten by sharks
then i will kfc o’yeah then i will watch the simpsons o’yeah
p.s o’yeah
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Blogging on the 29th
Today Room 4 at Craigburn Primary School in Adelaide , South Australia is going to put a post on their blog about 29 of their favaourite things about our school. The children will work in groups to come up with reasons why they love coming to our school. We will share these with our Quad Blogging buddies. Have a great day everyone!
From Mrs. K and Room 4 at Craigburn. P.S.
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My 29 Favourite Foods…
My 29 favourite foods are…..
1. Sushi
2. Spaghetti
3. Chocolate
4. Udon
5. Dumplings
6. Asian Food
7. Pizza
8. Roasts
9. Mango
10. Tacos
11. Meatballs
12. Steak
13. Apple Pie
14. Meat
15. Lasanga
16. Custard Tarts
17. Nachos
18. Cheesecake
19. Hot Chips with Chicken Salt and Gravy
20. Burgers
21. Gravy
22. Salad
23. Hot Dogs
24. Chicken Wraps
25. Macaroni and Cheese
26. Snails form France
27. Tuna
28. Mushrooms
29. Phish Phood flavoured Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
Thank You
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My day and 29 favourite colours
Well i am at school and i am writing this post. It is raining outside and we are also doing alot of blogging and i am going to tell you 29 favourite colours
Green, blue , purple, gold, silver, red, black, fluro green, white, orange, pink, hot pink
yellow, metallic red, rainbow, magenta, brown, lime green, night black, brick red, metallic silver, metallic green, metallic blue,dark green, light green, aqua blue, baby blue, baby pink, lemon lime….
and thats 29 favourite colours seeya
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29 favourite names girls
1.Lily
2.Jane
3.Charlotte
4.Lulu
5.Jess
6.Tess
7.Kira
8.Abbey
9.Lucy
10.Emily
11.Natasha
12.Lara
13.Grace
14.Annabel
15.Katy
16.Amanda
17.Anna
18.Liana
19.Eliose
20.Emma
21.Tracey
22.Paris
23.Sophie
24.Lynn
25.Catlin
26.Poppy
27.Molly
28.Helen
29.Riley
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29 Favourite Food
1.Coke Bottles
2.Salmon
3.Wizz Fizz
4.Nerds
5.Sour Straps
6.Sour Snakes
7.Gummie Worms
8.Gummie Bears
9.Gobstoppers
10.Fantail
11.Caramelo Koalas
12.Red licorice
13.Toffee
14.Cheese
15.Cookies
16.Pavolova
17.Cupcakes
18.Chocolate Cake
19.Ice Cream
20.Tomatoes
21.Brownies
22.Twisties
23.Zappoes
24.Salt and Viniger Chips
25.BBQ Chicken
26.Redskins
27.Mars Bar
28.Twix
29.Chuba Chub
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Another day another number!!
I’ll be at school today! Doing work! I would be running around, playing but its pouring down rain here! Its horrible weather for February 29th! I wish it was hot and sunny! I am sure I will have fun anyway! Here’s my 29 favourite things!
1) Swimming
2) Hockey
3) Listening to music
4) Softball
5) Basketball
6) Netball
7) Tennis
8) Drawing
9) Athletics
10) Chocolate
11) family
12) friends
13) Fruit
14) Ballet
15) Sherbet
16) Lollipops
17) Reading
18) Animals
19) Ice-cream
20) Jesus
21) God
22) Chips
23) Red skins
24) Nerds
25) Salad
26) Carrot
27) Toffee
28) Chocolate fountain
29) Making cookies
So there you have it! My favourite 29 things! Have an awesome say everyone! I look forward to next year!
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29 things I love or Love doing
29 random things about me:
1) I love reading
2) I like writing story’s
3) I’d rather be in cold than hot
4) I love most plane foods
5) I love maths
6) I love Art
7) I find graffiti extremely entertaining
8) I can’t stop working (I love work)
9) I love organization
10) I love my Dog
11) I am good at negotiation
12) I love spaghetti Bolognase
13) I love sushi
14) I love tennis
15) I love softball
16) I love mango
17) I love Wii sports
18) I love hockey
19) I love purple
20) I love monopoly
21) I love the moron test
22) I love Rowan Atkinson
23) I love playing with technology
24) I love the Charlie bone books, the mysterious Benedict society and the book Candymakers
25) I Love Phuket
26) I love playing the piano
27) I love the movie Avatar
28) I love mint chocolate ice cream
29) I love Me!
Tess. W
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29 Things About me
Here are 29 things about me
1) I love playing netball
2) I love reading
3) I love playing most video games
4) I would rather be more hot than be more cold.
5) I like spelling
6) I like art.
7) My favourite food is sushi
8) I have a dog named Cassie
9) I have two sisters
10) My favourite movie series is Pirates of the Caribbean
11) I love swimming
12) I like most songs
13) I like playing on my IPod
14) I love playing tennis
15) I have lots of friends
16) My two favourite ice cream flavours are cookies and cream and Ben and Jerry’s choc-chip cookie dough
17) I don’t like mango
18) My favourite colour is light blue
19) I love sleeping
20) My favourite author is Michael Morpurgo
21) My two favourite actors are Johnny Depp and Jim Carrey
22) I like watching movies
23) I like travelling
24) My favourite game is Mario Kart Wii
25) I love chocolate
26) My favourite books are Singing for Mrs Pettigrew, Running wild and The Butterfly lion. (All by Michael Morpurgo)
27) I play the French Horn.
28) My favourite book series is Narnia
29) I like shopping
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At School…
Hi everyone!
My name is Lucy and I’m at school today. My favourite days of the week are Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday because we do a lot of Writing, and I actually don’t know why I like Wednesday. I do Speech and Drama on Wednesdays too. In Australia, February 29 is on a Wednesday. I’m quite excited about doing Drama on a day that only comes every four years! I’ll be 15 next time I have a leap year, and my 6 year old brother will be 10. As for me, all I want today to be is a good day at school (I probably will, because I have Lasagna for lunch) and after that, some quality time with my family. I hope all of the other people in the world are finding the time to have time with someone special to them, just as I hope I will tonight. Happy February 29th!
Lollies, Love and Leopards,
Lucy
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My 29 Favourite Things
My 29 favourite things are…
1. Friends/Family
2. Food
3. Beach
4. Sport
5. Swimming
6. Travelling
7. Books
8. School
9. Trying new things
10. Hanging with my friends 
11. Seeing my family as much as I can
12. Netball
13. Snowboarding
14. Skiing
15. Cheesecake
16. Green
17. Listening to music
18. Monkeys
19. Elephants
20. Kneeboarding
21. Tubing
22. Long Reef
23. Bondi to Bronte
24. Sherbet
25. Pie
26. Hockey
27. Going on the boat
28. Bike Riding
29. ME!!!!!
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Just another ordinary day
Today is an ordinary – it’s a sunny Brisbane summer though I’m happy it’s not too hot. Today I will take my sons to school as they slept through their alarms and have missed their bus. Then I’ll come back home to my office, do some invoicing and hopefully write a few blog posts for my blog. I’ve written two posts this week (for Tuesday & today) for my blog that has laid dormant for nearly three months. Later in the day, I’ll be thinking about dinner and waiting for everyone to come home from school. After that, I start preparing for tomorrow. Just another ordinary day …
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8+ hours after my first post to Feb29th.net
February 29 is the first full day in around five months I haven’t any work to do on DVDs and CDs I make for schools and community groups. It’s a time to catch up on some writing.
After a very brief post just after midnight my time, the first post to Feb29th.net I think, I thought I would add the two stories I had mentioned before I start my normal routine of commenting on school/class/child blogs for the day. They were completed just before my midnight post.
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Story 1 was written for the UK based “100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups”
100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – Wk#32 – Prompt: …Take a leap of faith… – 100 words – “Against All Odds”
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Born premature, so small, every breath was a struggle. Walking took longer, cerebral palsy the doctors had explained.
As she grew, school was sometimes made hard by staring eyes blind to what was inside. In sport, she always tried but never won other than the hearts of many.
As an adult, she turned to writing. Success followed success.
Interviewer, “You were never afraid to take a leap of faith?”
Faith replied, “With my name, how could I not? I always knew those I loved would be there to help me if I fell.”
Her autobiography, “Faith, a Leap of Me.”
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This is a link to my post…
http://rossmannell.com/2012/02/28/100-word-challenge-for-grown-ups-wk32-prompt-take-a-leap-of-faith-100-words-against-all-odds/
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Story 2 was written for the US based “Saturday Centus”
Saturday Centus Wk 95 – Prompt: “The chair dominated the small room.” in 106 words – “Gangy”
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The family had gathered, grandfather in a large chair. The chair dominated the small room.
Once strong, grandfather was frail, worn by years of toil and care. He saw his youngest grandson, just three.
“Come to your grandad,” he smiled with his hands held out.
The child approached, eyes bright for one he loved, not able to say granddad, “Gangy.”
Grandad sat his grandson on his lap, “How’s my big man?”
“Good, Gangy” he replied.
Grandad slipped a sweet to the boy, “Don’t tell mummy.”
“Hanks,” replied the grandson with a smile.
Gangy now long gone, the memory remains, the child grown to tell the tale.
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This is the link to my post…
http://rossmannell.com/2012/02/28/saturday-centus-wk-95-prompt-the-chair-dominated-the-small-room-in-106-words-gangy/
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One of my daily joys comes from writing, whether it is one of my unpublished short stories and novels, entries for one of the above or comments for students ranging from 4 to 18. I haven’t attempted to quantify the average number of words I write in a day but the emphasis is always on being supportive and positive in what is written.
To sum up the philosophy of my time on line, I go back to one of the shortest entries to Saturday Centus where we were required to write our autobiography in just 6 words…
Seeking ways to make a difference.
@RossMannell
Teacher, NSW, Australia
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29th February 2012
Our brand new Preps (5/6 year olds) have made the shape of number 29 to mark the occasion! Here is a photo!
http://justjuniors.blogspot.com.au/
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Techie Brekkie on the 29th
It is 8:15am and the Staff of St Lukes are meeting, as we do each Wednesday, to explore and challenge ourselves with technology.
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Happiness
Wish for the time to come ,there will be happiness around the world .
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Happy everyday!
I wish I will enjoy my life with everyone in everyday. Cheers!
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100 Word Stories
It’s midnight, 11 hours ahead of London. I’ve been commenting on blogs around the world and working on challenge entries for the “100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups” (UK based) and “Saturday Centus” (US based). The challenges provide participants with a prompt and require the entrant to use the prompt within a words limit.
@RossMannell
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