Welcome to Our Blog!
Welcome to your brand new blog ‘Australia We’re Standing In It’. This is a really exciting place to visit because you will be networking with a class of Year 4 students from the United Kingdom. Mr Abad who works in London is currently teaching Year 4. Shortly he will be inviting his students to visit this blog to find out everything you know about significant sites around Australia. I am sure his students will have lots of interesting questions. They are learning to create electronic storybooks about Australia so you will have to share lots of information with them.
To help them get started I have placed a Vodpod on our sidebar with some short videoclips about some significant sites around Australia. Welcome Mr Abad and Year 4!!!
May 30th, 2008 at 3:01 am
It’s going to be fun to talk to other people in the world!!!!!!!!!
May 31st, 2008 at 4:35 am
Hello Year 3 and Miss Cunningham. I am very excited to be talking to you via this website and I know my Year 4 London students will also be very excited. At the moment, we are on holidays (lucky us). However, we are back to school on Tuesday, so I will let them all know about this fantastic website and how to talk to you guys!
They will be asking you a lot about what you do in Australia, what there is to visit, the weather, interesting sites etc… So make sure you give them lots of details.
Looking forward to connecting you guys! Speak soon
June 1st, 2008 at 9:49 pm
This new blog is really cool. I’m looking forward to talking with Mr Abad and his class. It will be great to connect with people around the world. We will get to learn about London and they will learn about Australia. We will have a wonderful time. We will learn new things we didn’t know and we can just keep on having fun while we learn.
June 1st, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Hello everyone, I would like to learn about some significant sites in London. I already know about the Eiffel Tower in France. I’d also like to make some new friends. What do you guys enjoy doing the most? I know that you have beaches but it’s usually too cold I guess.
June 1st, 2008 at 9:52 pm
At school in Year Three we are learning about significant sites in Australia and I would love to hear about some of London’s significant sites. I know that you guys are learning how to make electronic story books. That must be very exciting for you!!! I would also like to make friends with some of you just by blogging! My teacher Miss Cunningham told us that it was very cold over there and people over there rarely go to the beach because it’s too cold! I am looking forward to talking to you and I hope you had a lovely holiday!!!
June 1st, 2008 at 9:55 pm
It’s so great and amazing that we can start to connect with you and you guys are over the other side of the world!! Now that is amazing isn’t it. I am already loving it and we havent even started yet!
Thanks
Your new friend Caitlyn
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:40 am
Hello guys, It is so great to communicate with you in London. I am looking forward to speaking to you so much. It’s so cool to be speaking to people in England. I hope you enjoy the blog guys! I hpoe you are also enjoying your holiday!
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 am
Hi Year 4, We have heard that you are learning about Australia. Over here Year 3 is also learning about Australia and the significant sites we have in our country like the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Opera House, Bondi Beach, Uluru and others too. It will be very nice when we get to tell you about these places.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
It is going to be so fun talking to you guys. Talk to you all soon.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Hello Year 3,
We are back at school and ready to chat to you. I showed Year 4 the website and they are really excited to make moving books about Australia. Unfortunately our computer suite is out of action at the moment due to a possible leak, however it will be running (fingers crossed) by Thursday. After that, you guys can start communicating.
Year 4 are really looking forward to speak to you.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:02 am
Hi Year 4, I can’t wait to tell you about signifcant sites in Australia. It must be very exciting making electronic books.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Hi Year 4. I can’t wait to chat to you and I hope you find my information handy. I can’t wait for you to start blogging.
June 6th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Hi year 3,
I am looking foward to be learning about Australia. I will tell you some things about london: we have lots of shops we have a lot of parks they are really huge.Tell me some things about Australia.
I will love to meet some friends back in Sydney
Regards
Sophie (from year 4)
June 6th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Hi year 3, it is going to be very exciting talking to you.You must know a lot about Australia.
I CAN’T WAIT!
June 7th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Hi year 3,
I have some info for you:
In London we have lots of sites such as Big ben, the houses of parliament and the London eye. I can’t wait to find some more about Australia.
Regards
Joe (from year 4)
June 7th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Hi Sophie and Joe, it’s nice to see that you have commented on the blog. In Australia I go to Nippers at the beach every Sunday in Summer. It is really good and I swim in the surf and run on the beach in races.
My team is called the ‘pinkets’ and we swim for Wanda Surf Club.
June 7th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Hi everyone, Hope you enjoy the Queen’s birthday.
June 8th, 2008 at 4:19 am
Hi Sophie what is you favourite park? What are the names of some of them? It’s going to be fun to talk to other people on the other side of the world!!!!!!!
June 8th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Hi Year 4’s
What’s your favourite park? Here are some of the significent sites in Australia for you: There’s Uluru, Wave Rock, Parliament House, Kakadu National Park, The Three sisters, The Devil’s Marbles and The Ulgus. I’m happy you are interested in Australia. Could you please tell me more about London. My mum has been to London and she said there is alot of double decker buses there.
Regards
caitlyn
June 9th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Hi Jennifer
In London there is Buckingham palace , London Eye and Big ben.
Whats your favorite sight in Australia?
June 10th, 2008 at 5:18 am
Hi Sophie and Joe,
My name is Emily I just wanted to know what is the most dangerous animal in London and Joe what is your favourite park?
Regards
Emily
June 10th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
hello year 3 and miss cunningham ,
i thought one of your classmates ryan had an overwelming story !!!!
I am just so excited to talk to some children all the way on the other side of the world and for you to teach me some facts about your country!
We have just finished learning about narratives with chapters.
talk to you soon,
from Ethan
p.s have a lovely day!!!
June 10th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Hi Emily,
we do not have any really dangerous animals in london except foxes and badgers but they are not very dangerous.Emily, my favourite park is morden park. As you can tell its in morden.I ride my bike over there sometimes.
regards
Joe
June 10th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Hi year 3!, my name is chloe.
i can`t wait to learn about austrailia!!!!!!!!!!
i am in year 5 and found out about this website from my brother ( Ethan year 4 )
tell your teacher Miss Cunningham i said hi!!!
from Chloe (y5)
June 10th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
I am really embarrassed about what my mum wrote about me. Everything that she wrote was the opposite. I don’t like swimming in the surf because I fear big waves. Also I don’t like getting dumped. Please accept this Sophie and Joe
June 11th, 2008 at 1:45 am
Hello Year 4, Joe, Sophie and Alice, I hope you can email us a picture of your class
June 11th, 2008 at 3:00 am
Hi Sophie and Joe my name is saada .I just wanted to know what is the most dangerous animal in London and Joe and Sophie what is your most favourite book.
June 11th, 2008 at 5:07 am
Hi nice to meet you Sophie and Joe. You are very interesting and have great words in your language. I love talking to you and Alice and I we have a great relationship so far. I love this so much! Communicating with Year 4’s over the other side of the world!! Well I wasn’t part of it but our teachers have the great idea’s. I don’t know how they do it! Can I ask you one question? Well what is your favourite park in London and what is the most dangerous animal there?
Regards
Caitlyn Year 3
June 11th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Hey guys,
I heard that the London Bridge is in Londen. Is it a significent site! I would love to get some info from someone in Year 4 on how to make electronic books! Please can you tell me!
Regards
Caitlyn
June 11th, 2008 at 6:27 am
hi Alice,Joe and sophie
I’m Amy it looks like you use this blog more often. Its nice to talk to Yr 4 [purple class] in londen.
Regards:
Amy
June 11th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Hi everyone, Tasfiyah my favourite site is Wave Rock.
June 11th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Hi,
I just wanted to know what is you favourite site.
Regards:
Emily
June 11th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Hi Ethan, My name is Odette. What do you do in London. Do you have fun and what is your favorite book? I hope you enjoy the blog.
June 11th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Hi Sophie,Joe,Chole,Alice,Ethan and Tasfiyah.Talk more often to me.
June 12th, 2008 at 5:40 am
Hi Sophie,
The most dangerous animal in Australia is the Box Jelly fish
Regards:
Emily
June 12th, 2008 at 7:08 am
Hi Joe, i hope that Ethan told you that i would like to make friends with you and Ethan.
June 12th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Hi Ethan, i play the guitar and i dance and i swim. What do you do for a sport?
June 12th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Hi, My is name Luisa. I like writing narratives. Also I am crazy about horses. My favourite horse is Molly. Molly has a white coat and brown spots. My mums favourite horse is Tic-Tac.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Emily,
I think that too. I would just like to ask “Where do you get the information?”
From Felicity
June 12th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
In London we do alot of things.
But some parts of London are just houses and shops!!
June 12th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Hi Luisa
What is the safest animal in Australia?
Want to be friends?
June 12th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Hi everyone
How many beaches are there in Australia?
June 13th, 2008 at 3:52 am
Hi Luisa i like horses aswell but my family can’t afford one.
June 13th, 2008 at 3:58 am
Hi guys I love writing narratives and right now I am writing one called ‘The Treasure Hunt’ and I really like it so far and I think it’s about 14 paragraphs.
Again Ryan my favourite part in your story was when Annabelle was ok again which was at the end of the story. Fabulous Week! Keep it up.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:04 am
To Tasfiyah,
My favourite site in Australia would be The Great Barrier Reef because i like swimming and because a beautiful natural site. I also like it because of it’s natural beauty and because of all the fish. Tasfiyah what is Big Ben Buckingham palace and London Eye?
From Jennifer
June 13th, 2008 at 6:20 am
Hi Alice My name is Odette. What kind of sport do you play? I do netball.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Hi Tasfiyah,
That is a very good question. But I can find out but right now there is heaps that I know about like: Bondi Beach, The Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and more becaches but that was a very good question.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Hi Tasfiyah,
My name is Felicity. We wouldn’t really know how many beaches there are all together in the whole of Australia.So I would guess about 14 beaches.
Also Tasfiyah, do you know any other sites the Big Ben, London Eye and Buckingham palace?
From Felicity
June 13th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Hi year 3
I just whanted to know, what is the smallesst animal in Australia?
bye have a good day.
regards
Laksiya
June 13th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Hi Ryan
Ryan, i loved your story it had a wonderful problem. I will like a next story to come.Also we will give you lots of wonderful storys to read.So let’s see.
regerds
laksiya
we will give it asp.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Hi my name is Julian and my favourite site in Australia is The Great Barrier Reef. My favourite animal is Cheetah because they run very fast. What I enjoy doing in my spare time is hip hop dancing – it is really cool. We have a concert coming up in August – can’t wait.
June 14th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Yes,Tasfiyah. I would like to be your friend. A bilby is very safe and cute.
June 15th, 2008 at 1:48 am
hi Felicity ,
I get the information from http://www.yesaustralia.com/Curiosidades-animaising.htm
From emily
June 15th, 2008 at 5:18 am
Hi Tasfiyah how are ya? Well there is lots of safe animals in Australia like the: Bilby, the Dolphin, only some ants, and a fly.
Believe me
Regards
Caitlyn
June 15th, 2008 at 5:52 am
My name is Odette. What book do you like? What kind of sport do you play?
June 15th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Hi Odette
We play Little Ozzy alot.
June 16th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Hi Year 4, My name is Leah. I am in 3DF. Do you have different types of games? What we play is duck duck goose, tips, hide and seek. How about you?
June 16th, 2008 at 4:46 am
Hi Alice I just want to tell you that we have that game to.
June 16th, 2008 at 5:28 am
Hi Laksiya
The smallesst animal in Australia is the Nanobei and I found this out on this web site if you want to check. http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallest_animal#Microorganisms
Regards
emily
June 16th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Alice what is the most kindess animal in London? Do you have fun at school?
June 16th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Hi Alice how are you? me? well i’m good. I do swimming and soccer. But as it’s been raining soo much I can’t do soccer anymore because the grounds have been put closed.
Regards
Caitlyn
June 17th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Hi Year 4, My name is Adam. Do you play any soccer games?
June 17th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Hi year 3
what is your favorite game in Austraia mine is little ozzy. I will tell you some places in England there is, The London Eye that is a huge wheel that people ride on and goes round in circles, there is Buuckingham palace which isone of the places the QUEEN stays and we are also going on a school trip to Hampton court in Hampton court there is a maze and also Henry the 8th Lived. Bye
June 17th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Odette
the most kiddess animal maybe is a rabbit or hamster.I don`t know.
regards Alice McGoRRY
June 17th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Hi Caitlyn
you sound very nice and really kind.The Londen eye is a huge circle that you can pay to go in and theres a cage where you stand and sit.I have never been on it but I can tell you ITS VERY BIG.Big Ben is a clock tower thats neary the size of the Big Apple(maybe)well thats all I have to say.
From your new mate Alice
p.s I really want to see you
June 18th, 2008 at 6:48 am
Hi Alice
What is your favourite site? Alice do you know any other sites in London? In Sydney my favourite site is The Three Sisters.
June 18th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Tasfiyah and Laksiay, I am sort of a Tomboy because I like boy stuff, games, hobbies and thats it. Talk to soon
June 18th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Hi Maria, My name is Odette and my best one is going swimming with year three. I will tell you why because you get to play all the these kinds of games and they teach you how to swim really good and thats why I love going swimming. Odette.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Hi year 3, My name is Hariny I just want to ask what common animal are in autralia?
I’m hoping to make lot’s of friends with you and I hope you have a nice day at school.
And I’am hearing for lot’s of fantastic story’s and now I heared fantastic two story,s
that had lots of adverb,and great spelling,full stops,and other things.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Hi year 3, My name is Hariny,We have doing a story about once I did a bad thing
my story was about a boy that tooked his mum’s money in her hanbag that no
won didn’t see IT!!!
June 19th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
To Amy ,Hi my name is Hariny you want to no about london and you want to talk to
year 4 well you got a friend in london and that’s me and I’am going to vist Autralia
on the summer days so I can learn about significant sites in Autralia.
June 20th, 2008 at 4:59 am
To Kristen, Hi my name is Hariny and you are looking for people in london to
talk with you on the blog well you already have a friend ans thats me and
what kind of significant sites in Autralia.
June 20th, 2008 at 5:08 am
To Emily,Hi my name is Hariny, now you have been learning about Autralia and
we are learning about Autralia too. I’am looking for whay significant sites in
Autralia?
June 20th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
To Luisa, Hi my name is Hariny well you are looking for lot’s of people in london
to talk with you on the blog well you have a friend and thats me and it’s nice
to talk with you!!!
June 20th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
To Jennifer, Hi my name is Hariny and you are excited to tell about the significant
sites in Autralia you can tell me soon and I like to be friend with you and you
sound kind to me.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
To Felicity, Hi my name is Hariny and I wanted to ask what tall neck animal are
in Autralia can you answer this soon.you sound kind to me and I like to be a friend
to you. I will talk to you on the blog SOON!!!
June 20th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
To Julian, Hi my name is Hariny and you have said on the blog about the significant
sites in Autralia and my dad nows about The Great Barrier Reef.
I like to be friend with you and you sound kind and I made 7 friend in Autralia you
can read on the blog what things have I writen and I soon looking for if you can write
me a blog.
June 20th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
To Leah, Hi my name is Hariny and the games we play alot is little Ozzy and
I no you have been playing this game alot to and we play duck duck goose
and hide and seek.
I’am going to vist Autralia on August so I can learn about the significant sites
in Autralia and I like to be friend with you cam you read my blog that I’ve
writen and I have 8 friends and you sound kind to me
June 21st, 2008 at 5:56 am
To year 3, you can see that on the blog that I have writen 11 blogs and if you
read them that I have made 8 friend in Autralia and I hope that I can make more
friends I wanted to ask what is the most kindest animal?
June 21st, 2008 at 6:10 am
To year 3, my name is Hariny I have been doing lots of blogs and I have did 12 blogs now.
I wanted to ask what is the tallest animal in Autralia and my dad told about
The barrier Reef in Autralia and I have 6 books about the significant sites
in Autralia but I cant bring it to my school because my dad is still reading it.
June 21st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
To Timothy, Hi my name is Hariny and I would like to make more friends. I wanted to ask what is the smallest animal in Australia and you sound kind and I would like to be your friend. I have made 9 friends already.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:49 am
Hi Hariny, how are you? Me? well i’m good thanks. My name is Caitlyn and I would like to make friends with you and i have made lots of friends so far in your class. If you would like to know I have met around about 6 or 7. I like talking walking typeing and stuff like that.
Regards
Caitlyn
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:53 am
Hi Hariny,
These are some of the significant sites in Australia. The Twelve Apostles, Sydney Harbour Bridge and Great Barrier Reef.
Kristen
June 24th, 2008 at 5:03 am
Hi Hariny
thanks for being my friend.I’m glad your coming to our country, AUSTRALIA!!!!!!!!
it’s great to see you trying to see our sighnificant sites in Australia.
Regards
Amy
June 25th, 2008 at 4:02 am
Hi Year 4
You’ve been using this blog very often.
I like making new friends from different countries from all over the world. Well especially LONDON.
regards
Amy
June 25th, 2008 at 8:02 am
hi Hariny
you would like australia because in Sydney we have the opera house
June 25th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Hi Caitlyn,My name is Hariny you know me because I seen on the blog that
you want to be friend with me you see that I’m going to Australia on August thats
when we have school off and thank you for reading my blog and being my best
kind friend and I’am going to learn about the significant sites in Australia soon.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Hi Ryan, My name is Hariny and I’ve enjoyed reading your story It
was a fantastic and I like being your friend and know I made 10 friends
I will talk with you on the blog soon.
June 29th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Hi Hariny,I know it’s hard to make friends but I’ll be your Australian friend for now
July 1st, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Hi everyone,
In London we have some amazing sights such as, Big Ben which is Londons largest clock tower, the London eye which is a large circle,
that goes round so you can see the whole of London!(Don’t worry it goes round extra slowly.) Also, there’s Bukingham palace which is where Queen Elizebeth 2th lives.
July 1st, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Hi year 3
I think it has been sooooo much fun communicating with you so far.
Regards
Lewy