A Week Of Swimming

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

As part of our Health and Physical Education program, the children are encouraged to attend a week of swimming at our local centre. This year we went to the newly completed Marion Swimming Centre where the recent trials for the Olympics were held. Our lessons were 45 minutes long and all children whether competent swimmers or not were given the opportunity to gain extra skills and learn very important strategies when in water. All children were taught what to do when in danger and how to grab onto ropes or floats when needing to be pulled out of the water. The instructors all did a fantastic job and the children thoroughly enjoyed their lessons and were challenged and encouraged the whole time.

Please watch the slideshow of our time at the pool and see all the great things the children did.

Here is a movie of our last day at the pool. We had such a fun time!
Swimming

March 31st Earth Hour

Posted on March 25, 2012 by

March 31st is Earth Hour. We need to do all we can to care for our planet. Will you turn out your lights for just one hour to show your support for such an important cause?
Participate in the world’s largest single campaign for the planet: Earth Hour. It starts by turning off your lights for an hour at 8:30 pm on March 31, 2012 in a collective display of commitment to a better future for the planet.

We will ask our families to turn off their lights on Saturday night and to look at the stars and remember how lucky we are to live on such a wonderful planet. Thank you to the Blogging Challenge for reminding us of this important date.

Old MacDonald's Vowels

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

We had a Junior Primary Assembly today. We thought it would be fun to show some of our learning using the CAFE strategies. One of the strategies we have been looking at is ‘flip the sound’. This song helped us to remember what sounds the vowels make and therefore how we could use them in our reading.

It was a fun way to learn them!

Old MacDonald’s Vowels from Leanne Kolenberg on Vimeo.

Harmony Day

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

March 21 is Harmony Day. The message for the day is ‘Everyone Belongs’.

It’s about community participation, inclusiveness, respect and a sense of belonging for everyone. The aim of Harmony Day 2012 is to encourage everyone, regardless of background to participate in a sporting activity, increase understanding and to be inspired or inspire others.

At Craigburn we had a special assembly where we talked about including others and respecting everyone. We made balloons with our buddies and a badge to wear.

We also made a ‘friend’ who is wearing a Harmony Day t-shirt.

A Falling Branch

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

We have had some quite strong winds and today a big branch fell down by the parents drop off car park. It was quite big! We went down to have a look at it. In the photo you can see how big it was!

Bloging Challenge 3

Posted on March 19, 2012 by

This week in the blogging challenge we are looking at the widgets we have on our blog. A widget is an application that can be embedded into a site such as a blog or a web page. There are many types of widgets and we have a number on our blog. They can be calendars, weather maps, countdown timers or even pets and other fun activities. They are another way to involve the visitor in discovering new and exciting parts of a blog.
When you visit our blog are there widgets that you like to use?
Please tell us on our poll.

Special Performance-Lorin Nicholson

Posted on March 14, 2012 by

Today we very fortunate to have a remarkable person visit us at Craigburn. His name is Lorin Nicholson.

Lorin is Australia’s pre-eminent youth motivational speaker and one of the nations leading guitarists.
He has a large focus on optimism and resilience
Despite being legally blind since birth, he is one of the country’s most successful independent recording artists and has been a finalist in the Australian Country Music Awards, being runner-up to the legendary Tommy Emmanuel.
In 2009, Lorin was also a nominee for Australian of the year and later went on to win a Queensland community service award for his outstanding contribution to the community.
Lorin has also just recently achieved the seemingly impossible, as he along with brother Dean created Australian history, by becoming the first blind persons to ride pushbikes over 4100 kilometres across Australia from Perth to Sydney.
– Over the past eight years, Lorin Nicholson‘s inspiring school performance, called SEE SHARP has been presented in over 1000 schools throughout Australia, New Zealand and the USA, to over half a million people and has received rave reviews from around the globe, including three awards for Excellence from the New South Wales Education Department.

Lorin incorporates his amazing guitar work and extraordinary life experiences into his award-winning “SEE SHARP” presentation which addresses such issues as:

Choice & Attitude
Overcoming negativity & Peer Pressure
Teasing/Bullying
Respect & Inclusion
Resilience & Perseverance
Confidence and Self Esteem
Setting and Achieving Goals

His website is http://www.lorinnicholson.com/ Please visit his site to find out more about him.

What a wonderful performance he gave us. It was all about never giving up and believing in youself. He talked to us about the importance of friends and including others. He told us about his life and the remarkable things he has done. We loved the assembly. Thank you so much Lorin for coming to Craigburn Primary School.

Blogging Challenge 2

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

This week as part of the Blogging Challenge we have created a quiz that will help you find out a little more about where we live. We hope you have fun trying it out. It’s not too hard! Please tell us what you think of our quiz and did it make you think?

Blogging Challenge

Posted on March 10, 2012 by

We are taking part in a blogging challenge this term.

It is held in March and September each year
It involves 10 weeks of challenges
It aims to improve student commenting and blogging skills
It provides an opportunity to interact with classrooms all over the globe

As this is the first week of the challenge, we visited two classes, one from Victoria and one from the USA. We commented on their blogs. We have also had a look at the page on our blog called “About Room 4” and have made some changes.

We got this idea from the Student Challenge Blog March 2012

Audio Boo messages

Posted on March 10, 2012 by

Since Mrs. K added SpeakPipe to her side-bar we have been fortunate to have four messages left! Two are from our friends in Surrey British Columbia in Canada, one is from our Quadblogging teacher in France and one from Mrs. Nelson in Canada! It’s very exciting to be able to hear the voives of people who are on the other side of the world.
Mrs. K has put the messages into AudioBoo so that you can hear them.
Would you like to leave us a message as well?

listen to ‘A message from the Birds’ on Audioboo

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