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Two Aussie kids, Ava and Kalani, give us their perspectives on life down under. Eight-year-old Ava, and Kalani, a nine-year-old boy, live in different Australian cities and have never met. Find out what Aussie kids do for fun and what school is like in the land of koalas and kangaroos.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Kalani

School

My school is awesome! It¹s 10 +10+100 years old. (Figure that one out. I can't do it.) We have normal classes, but we have special classes as well for Art, Music, Sport, and Italian. We also have library session and Mac Lab session on the computers.

My favourite classes are Art and Music. Music because it's awesome and my dad
teaches it (but not my class). Art because it's awesome awesome. Recently in Art we have been making soft toys. I have been making a little ninja hampster and a man with a pumpkin for a head.

Every year the school does a concert. This year it was all about hair--the story of the crazy things that happen in this person¹s crazy hair. My class was the carnival that was happening in the hair and I was the clown in the hair.

Photo: Two clowns
We do this cool thing at my school called VIP Week.

Photo: Kalani in the classroom

This is where one person each week gets to be VIP - (very important person) - you get special things to do for a week like sit on a special chair, be at the front of the line, and you also have to do special projects. One is a project book and the other you get to choose from the list. For one of my special projects I chose to interview my friend named Joe.

Photo: Kalani with microphoneHe works for ABC (Radio Australia). I did the interview from the school playground and it was broadcast (via a radio channel). So the class actually listened to it on the radio. It was cool.

Freddy would like to know about your schools (and where I am hiding the
chocolate)?


2 Comments

Here ABC is a TV station. It has some cool shows. You should watch it.

awsome I am homeschooled now but I used to go to ncs and we had something kinda like that vip thing. But I really love homeschooling .

From,
Chelly from B.C.

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