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See Koala
Lou likes the book that you sent to us, too! I hope she isn't
getting homesick for Australia!
Your American friends, Mrs. Coats's
second graders
NEW!
Read a new
letter from Australia here!
This is the town
pool in which
the children from my class are taking swimming lessons.
Some of the students are learning
the procedure of reach and rescue,
using any item they can locate to throw to a person in trouble to
guide them to the edge of the pool. |
 NEW! Goodbye
from Us!
Visit Sheryl Jamieson - and her class
web site
NEW! See
our Sports Day Presentation
Visit Debbie
Coates from Berlin,Wisconsin and her class web site.
See our connection
in 2001
See another picture of our Aussie class
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Dear Mrs. Coats and our
American Friends,
Thank you so much for your
letter today. This afternoon we sat together to discuss things that
we wanted to put in our next letter so that Mrs. Jamieson could type
it for us at home. We think it would be fun to have snow in our town
but we did not think it would be fun to have to make up snow days at
the end of the year.Are you allowed to make snowmen at play time and
are you allowed to have snowball fights? We have a rule that talks
about throwing inappropriate things and we think it might be the same
for you.
Our weather is cooler today
but it will be hot again by the weekend. Tomorrow the year 2's will
be swimming and you can see our photos up above. |
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What is Clean-up
Day in Australia?
We do not have a
gym but rather an activity room. It is where we can have gym if the
weather is hot or rainy and it is where our assemblies are held or
where we go to watch videos or TV programmes. All of our school can
fit in but it is a little squeezy! |
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We do not
have a music room or a specialist music teacher. We have music with
our own teachers. A few of the students learn musical instruments
with private teachers who come to the school each week. |
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Our specialist
teachers are our Phys. Ed teacher and our German teacher. We have 2
German lessons per week and one with the P.E. teacher. All children
from year 2 to 7 learn German at our school. |
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We have six
lessons per day and they are all 50 minutes long.We have a recess
break for 20 minutes and a lunch break of 40 minutes. We all have to
bring lunches from home as there in no canteen. Some mothers do
special lunch days as a treat and we have about 4 per term of those. |
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Do you have a
student representative council at your school? We do and this
week those that want to be SRC reps have had to make posters and
tomorrow we have to tell the people in our class why they should vote
for us and then Friday we have a secret ballot to vote for 1 boy and
1 girl from each class in the school. We will let you know who our
winners are. |
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We have 4
terms with 11 weeks term 1, 10 weeks in term 2 & 3, and 9 weeks
in term 4.If you add all of that it would be 200 days. We do have
about 6 public holidays during the year bringing back our days at
school to 196. We generally work about 3 weeks longer than
you.....poor us, lucky you. |
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