Jan 30 2008
Let’s Get Started
Our school started yesterday, with teachers returning and planning lessons for our first term. We have 5 weeks holiday over summer then 4 terms, with a two week break between each of the terms. How many terms and holidays do you have?
It was with great interest that I read your comments and my class will love looking at them as well, so thank you. Now to answer some of them and the class will answer others when we get settled in.
We live in a temperate climate which means that we do not have snow, live 30mins drive from the Southern Ocean and have had temperatures of 40-42 degrees this summer. (I think that is about 105deg Fahrenheit).
Our students live mostly on farms, so they have lots of pets, especially pet lambs. Sometimes we see kangaroos and there are quite a few snakes on our farms. We do not have any dingoes near us but we have lots of possums who come out at night and eat all our fruit, some garden plants and roses.
Hawkesdale is a very small town of 150 people so most of our students come in on buses. Our school goes from prep to year 12 so we have 5 year old through to 18 year old students. The closest city is Warrnambool which is on the Great Ocean Road.
As it is summer here now, bushfires are always a danger. We had a powerpole near us catch on fire on Monday, so volunteer firefighters and 8 fire trucks had to go and fight the blaze. The power people had to switch our electricity off for 1 ½ hours to make sure that the pole was dead. Police closed our road. Lucky the wind was not blowing so we were able to put the fire out quite quickly. Below are some photos taken.
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I’m so sorry about the fire. But it seems very interesting living in Victoria,Australia.
E.G.G
Wow, that is some fire, we had some tornadoes here recently and they caused a massive gas fire a while away. Last summer we got up to about 104 degress farenheit or 40 degrees celcius.
We had a fire a couple of days a go. The tornadoes caused it. They caused a lot of damage. It is about 44F.. And more than 50 people died. And a lot of homes were destoyed.
Did any body get hurt? Did you get out of school? Did any body get scared when your electricity went out? Or did every body knew that it was going out?
Hi I’m T.G. I’m posting a comment from TN. I’m so sorry that it’s so hot there. Here it is winter. It went down to about 19 degrees out in TN. I probably couldn’t stand the heat over here. Anyway, it was so sad that you guys had a fire. I hope nobody got hurt. Can you guys post another post? I’m really looking forward to learning more about Australia. Here’s some of our state stuff ( bird, tree,etc.)
State Bird: Mockingbird
State Tree: Tulip Poplar
State Reptile: Eastern Box Turtle
State Amphibian:Cave Salamander
State Horse: Walking Horse
State Wildflower: Passion Flower (Regular flower is the Iris)
State Wild Animal: Raccoon
State Fruit: Tomato
That’s all I have. If you want more just post for T.G.
You guys must love warm weather if I were in Austraila I would burn up. Today in Murfreesboro it is 38 degrees farenhight. In tennessee Memphis had a tornado a lot of people were killed. Are vacations are fall Break, Winter Break,Summer Break,Thanksgiving Break,and Spring Break. So we have 6 vacations I did not want to move to our state nickname is the Vouleenter state. In Indiana it is Snowing our state crop is soy Beans. I read your blog and I hope you are okay. I have never heard of a bush fire until now,and the pole going on fire must have been scaried and I am so happy that you are happy.
First, we have 6 weeks for summer vacation, 3 weeks for christmas, 2 weeks for spring and fall vacation, and 3 days for thanksgiving for a total of 13 weeks and 3 days. I love swimming in the ocean, but I’ve never lived 30 minutes away from one. At our school we only have grades K-6.
We have 4 terms of 9 weeks and 4 vacations (holiday). 3 weeks for Winter Break, 1 week for Spring Break. 6 weeks for Summer Break and 2 weeks for Fall Break. Right now the climate is like about 35 degrees F. In U.S.A there are Elementary School (Kindergarten - 6 or 5) Middle School (6 -
High Schools (9 - 12) then we go to collage. That is 3 different schools. In our school in 4 - 6 grade we have apple laptops. Do you watch the Australian Open? My dad is crazy about it. We live in Murfreesboro. There is A LOT of people there. It used to be the captial of the state a long time ago but the new captial now is Nashville. We don’t have much fires. Sometimes in the summer there is fires in the south.
I am real sorry about the fire thing. That must of been a lot of fire trucks. I’m guessing that it was kind of scarey to have your electricity off for an hour and a half. I would like to learn more about the snakes up there. Like what percentage of snakes are up there, or how venomous the snakes are. Oh I almost forgot I would like to know if the most poisionous snake in the world is there and what is it.
That is really bad how that pole caught on fire. It must be really hot over there! Its pretty cold over hear. We are having to wear coats every day to school. It must have been really fun making pancakes all day yesterday! I love pancakes. We have been in school ever since winter break which was before Christmas. Did you guys have a good Christmas? I did. Are Christmas over here is very cold.
Sincerely
J.M
Wow those fires look really big. Oh, we have 4 terms of 9 weeks and 4 vacations( holidays).
You guys look really cool. what other stuff do you celebrate?
Those bush fires you guys get can get really big you guys got really lucky that the winds weren’t blowing or you guys could of gotten burned Well, got to go I have to work on my personal blogs, BYE
These are our breaks or vacations, summer vacation is 6 weeks, our winter vacation is 3 weeks, fall break which is 2 weeks, Thanksgiving break which is 3 days, and spring vacation which is 2 weeks. Tennessee and some other states had a bad tornado the other day. We live in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. What’s the weather like where you live? We call our grade 4th Grade.
I can’t believe that you guys get to make pancakes all day! Did they turn out ok? Here in T.N. We do not get many bushfires that I know about. You said a pole caught on fire Mon. I hope everyone is all right. Was it really scary? I would be freaked out if that happened near my house! Do you guys see snakes all the time if you live on a farm? It is not everyday we walk outside and see a snake! I we did see a snake my family would scream like crazy, and you would probably find us on top of many chairs and stuff like that!!!Did you have a good Christmas? I did! It was really cold for our Christmas!
Sincerely,
E.W.
P.S. do you guys have to wear uniforms at your school?
P.P.S. My name is not E.W.!
WOW amazing and the power was out I would be scared. Well it could have been worse. Has that happened be for?
Hello from Texas! We can definitely relate your wildfire facts as the area where we are has been greatly affected by wildfires as well. It is not uncommon to drive past a scorched piece of land among our state highways. The weather in Texas is always changing! This weekend it was in the seventies and eighties and then on Friday of this week, they say their might be snow! There’s a saying in Texas: “If you don’t like the weather in Texas, wait a minute and it will probably change!”
Hello,
I’m Lisa and i have just started blogging with my class this year, and really enjoying it so far.
At our school we have three terms, eight weeks holidays over christmas, then first term, have an Easter break, and two weeks between each other term! I will keep checking up on your blog to see if you have any new posts.
Lisa
sorry about the fire. How long ago was the fire?