http://ourspace.edublogs.org Year 6 Online in 2009 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:12:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two thirds of Australian native birds in the victorian bush are endangered and most of them are common ones like Kookaburas Most of the birds are endangered because of land clearing which takes up alot of bushland and sometimes the land is not even used and also weather patterns are making it dryer so ... http://ourspace.edublogs.org/2009/11/25/endangered-birds-2/        If you went to see some teenagers perform for you you would think it was a bit strange if they started talking to their imaginary friends! Well thats what they are doing at Hawker College in Camberra. They are making up a play about Imaginary Friends and what happens to ... http://ourspace.edublogs.org/2009/11/25/imaginary-friends/ Recently in New South Wales there have been some bushfires and schools closing down. A new fire warning has been developed. Schools have been closing down from the bushfires because they are getting a little bit worried. Now there is a new fire rating system. These rates from low to moderate, ... http://ourspace.edublogs.org/2009/11/25/code-red-5/ Last week there was a special ceremony in Canberra, where PM Kevin Rudd apologized to hundreds of   Australians that were treated awfully by teachers, nuns and caretakers at orphanages in Australia from the 1920’s to the 1960’s. It was a huge moment and made a lot of people pretty emotional ... http://ourspace.edublogs.org/2009/11/25/saying-sorry-to-the-forgotten-australians/ Sport is a big part of Australian culture. It follows our tradition and lots of people do it. Some people play for fun, others train for seroious events like the olympics. Since the 1796 olympics when Australia won no gold medals, the Australian government has spent  lots of  money on sporting. They have built ... http://ourspace.edublogs.org/2009/11/24/sport-funding-2/ In Australia 2/3rds of the birds are becoming extinct why you ask well I am here to tell you. Birds are becoming because of the lack of water and the lack of food. this is all happening because of the drought. The berries can't grow because the trees don't have ... http://ourspace.edublogs.org/2009/11/24/endangered-birds/   Today on BTN they were talking about sport funding. They said that 80% of sport money goes to Olympic sport. So people that do Olympic sport get a lot more money the people that do sport like football, tennis, golf, cricket football and basketball don’t get as much money but ... http://ourspace.edublogs.org/2009/11/24/sport-funding/ Australians are thinking about code red. But some people aren’t getting the message. Code red is when Australian bush fires get out of hand; when you can’t control the fire. People aren’t getting the message about code red because no one has informed them about it. Some people even arrived at ... http://ourspace.edublogs.org/2009/11/24/code-red-3/ There is a group of people that are called the forgotten Australian’s. What happened to these people when they were young was they were put in orphanages, some of the time the kids weren’t orphans their parents didn’t want to or couldn’t look after the kids so they were just ... http://ourspace.edublogs.org/2009/11/24/forgotten-australians/ On Saturday 7th of February, Victoria was hit with terrible bushfires. Saturday was classified as an Extreme Fire Danger Day, It wasn't an Extreme Fire Danger Day it was a Catastrophic Fire Danger Day. This why they have put a new fire system in place. The new system is managed by ... http://ourspace.edublogs.org/2009/11/24/code-red-2/