This is Fiona Beal from Cape Town writing again. Summer holidays are here for many of you in the northern hemisphere. Lucky you! We are wondering – what sorts of activities do you do in your holidays in your country? Do you find the holidays too long – or not long enough? This is a picture of Grade 4/5 B in Cape Town right at the top of Table Mountain, a very popular tourist site. Here is an idea for something to consider doing in your holidays. Miss Ale in Argentina (http://yearsixale.blogspot.com) directed me to this programme called Etherpad (Etherpad.com) for writing collaborative stories. It is really great. We have had such fun with it in class, writing collaborative stories with four in a group. Do you think it would be a useful tool to use to write stories with others in the holidays?

How much do we know about the early lives of our senior citizens? What can we learn from them? Our Gr4&5B class at Fish Hoek Primary found that we can learn to blog creatively by getting to know our senior citizens better. We also found that we could introduce our senior citizens to the wonderful world of blogging for themselves. But most of all we learned that we can bond through blogging. Please visit our classroom blog at http://fionabeal.edublogs.org and view our Senior citizen’s project. (Don’t forget to leave a comment). We have loved doing this project. We are very excited about finding a great way of being in contact with classes around the world. Could you let us know something about the senior citizens in your lives? What do they mean to you? Did they have any particularly interesting experiences in their youth? What words of wisdom can they pass on to you? Perhaps you could even try a similar project to ours and see how it goes.