Swing into 2K, Bowen Australia

We are a class of 23 Year 2 students in Bowen, Australia. 2K enjoy swinging into a great book and sharing their writing. We have just completed the Premier’s Reading Challenge. It is the first time we have participated in the Global Read Aloud and we are extremely excited to learn from you all.

Bowen is a beautiful town on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.

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The picture of the BIG mango represents the delicious fruit we are well known for.

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Our school is a couple of streets away from the beach. As you can see we are extremely spoilt.

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Year 3C Bowen State School

We are a class 25 Year 3’s from beautiful Bowen. Like 20Somethingkids in Second Grade, most of us were in the same Year 2 class and looped to Year 3.

Our school is very special this year as it is 150 years old. We celebrated this with a fete, reunions and many festivities.

Bowen is on the north-east coast of Queensland, Australia. The fantastic Whitsunday islands and the Great Barrier Reef are just off our shores. 

Although we live in the tropics, it is pretty dry and humid here. January is the hottest month with a maximum average day temperature of 31*C. July is the coldest month with an average day maximum temperature of 25*C

We have seven beautiful beaches to visit in Bowen. Our Front Beach has a soundshell stage, a water park and a skate park and we are famous for our big mango.

We love reading and writing and have read some amazing books this year. We are looking forward to reading and discussing ‘The Year of Billy Miller’ by Kevin Henkes.

We have a class blog at:

http://bowenstate.edublogs.org/

The 4/5s at Yahl Primary School

We are a 4/5 class from Yahl, South Australia. Our rural school counts 88 students at the moment. Yahl is 10kms away from Mount Gambier in South Australia. Mount Gambier is famous for its Blue Lake, and is located on the slope of an extinct volcano. There are many caves and sinkholes in and around the Mount Gambier area. The local industries are farming and timber harvesting.

There are 21 students in our class at the moment. We are looking forward to reading the Year of Billy Miller and to connecting with other classes around the world and within Australia.

 

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3FS Vegemites, Bowen, Australia

 

We are the 3FS Vegemites. We are a Year 3 class at Queens Beach State School in Bowen, Queensland, Australia. Bowen is located at the top of the Whitsundays and usually has lovely warm winters. It has beautiful beaches, the Big Mango and a water park. This is our first time participating in Global Read Aloud and we are looking forward to communicating with other schools and reading The Year of Billy Miller.

 

 

 

Year 6 Edens Landing State School

Hi there,
We are 6C! We are wonderful class full of 22 awesome, amazing and talented kids. Our school is a great school situated in the Logan district of beautiful sunny Queensland, Australia. We are lucky as we live halfway between the bustling Brisbane City and the beautiful Gold Coast beaches. We are also a 20 min drive to the various theme parks located in our region.

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These include Dream World, Wet ‘n ‘Wild, Movie World and Sea World.

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Our school logo is the Rainbow Lorikeet as it is a bird that you can always see in our area.

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This is our first time being part of the Global Reading Aloud Challenge and we look forward to communicating with others schools and reading Fish in A Tree.

Merinda Seniors, Nth Qld, Australia

Greetings from the Tullycrew! We are a multiage class located in a suburb 10 kilometres north of Bowen. We currently have students in years 5/6 in our class. We are situated at the tip of the Whitsundays and are close to the Great Barrier Reef.

Bowen is a coastal town with the primary industry being farming.  There are also a lot of families employed in the mining sector. The population is approximately 10 000 people (in the district).

Bowen is well-known for its scenic coastline, fantastic fishing and delicious mangoes!

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5SK Learning in North QLD

We are a year five class learning in Bowen in sunny North Queensland, Australia. Our town is famous for its yummy mangoes which we eat in the summer months and our beautiful beaches. Bowen is just north of Airlie Beach and approximately 40km from the Great Barrier Reef. Fishing is very popular here! Bowen has its very own Fishing Classic which runs in September each year. Farming is very big in Bowen and we grow tomoatoes, capsicums, beans, pumpkins, chillis, eggplants, watermelons, corn and much more. Mining plays a huge part in our community also as many of our parents work at the local coal mines, railway and coal port.

Our 5SK blog has now been running for almost 3 years and houses all of our class resources, links and student work. This will be the 2nd GRA for Mrs Scharf and the first for the current 5SK students. We are all super excited to read Fish in a Tree.