Next term, we’re going to be learning all about Australia. We contacted some of our Australian ‘blogging’ friends for some advice.

Mr Upton and the mini Legends  sent us this email.

Hi Everyone

I’m the teacher of the Year 3 miniLegends in South Australia. We go to
Glenelg School which is in probably the most famous beach of Adelaide. I
see you are studying Australia – we brainstormed this morning about
different aspects you might like to research. My class were going to leave
some comments and suggestions – I don’t know if that happened. Probably
most of them just said “your blog is really cool” … because it is 🙂

Might I suggest using a couple of websites as springboards to your learning
Check out this excellent site by Jackie Miers
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/
and the equally wonderful one by Sue Lemmer
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/suel/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page  – and don’t forget to search
Wikipedia

You’re the stars, may your wishes come true

Cheers, Al (sometimes they call me Mr Upton)

Our ’07 AllStars’ friends from Sydney gave us this advice

Hello Carronshore,
How exciting that you are studying Australia. Here are some ideas to get you started – we will have another think later and get back to you!

Settlement – who & when
Landmarks
Australian Aborigines
Aussie slang
Aussie animals
Celebrations

Can’t wait to see your Aboriginal Artworks.

We are studying “Identity” this year too.

What do you know about Australia already?

AllStars

We don’t know vey much yet ….. but all this advice is just great. We’ll be making a start in a couple of weeks and we’ll post regularly about all the things we learn!