Congratulations to these people for getting an Assembly Award. We are very proud of you.
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Yearly Archives: 2012
Party on Wednesday 22nd August
Please find attached details of our class party next week. Room 3 will also be celebrating with us! It is sure to be great fun!
Junior Master Chef
This week our topic for Show and Tell was… Junior Master Chef.
Here are the things the children had to consider:
Do you like to cook? Talk about something you’ve made in the kitchen. You may like to bring some photos of you cooking or even a mini taste test for our class judges! Make sure you are able to discuss the steps involved in your recipe.
Well, what a fantastic success it was! We have sampled absolutely delicious food ALL week! There was such a variety of tastes and sensations. As judges we gave our thoughts on taste, texture, sweetness, crunchiness, preparation etc. Then we had the very hard task of giving a score. Everyone got a 10 because the creations were all fabulous! Many thanks to the great parents who were chef assistants!
Junior Primary Assembly
We had our assembly today and it was just lovely! All the Reception and Year One classes sang songs to the parents and children. Everyone did such a great job. I am sure the parents that were able to attend loved it. If you couldn’t make it, here is a movie of us performing. We sang a happy song called ‘Wombat Wobble’. We hope you enjoy it too.
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i-Pads and i-Pods
We are lucky enough to now have access to 5 i-pods and 5 i-pads across the early years team. Together with Mrs. Kolenberg’s i-pad, i-pod and her phone we have one moblie device between two children. After the excitement of getting them we had to decide what apps to put on for the Reception and Year One classes. Mrs. Kolenberg knew that her teacher friend Ms. Lirenman in Canada had spent a lot of time looking at apps and then shared them with her colleagues around the world via her blog called Learning and Sharing with Ms. Lirenman Thankyou Ms. Lirenman for sharing with us!
So we had a look at those apps and have started to put some of them onto our own devices. Some of my children in Year One helped me find the apps at the App store and together we made folders to put the new apps into. They were a great help. Many thanks to those boys!
We are very keen use these devices and learn from each other.
Here are some photos of the class using all the devices for the first time.
Do you have i-pads and i-pods?
What apps to you like to use?
What are your favourite books to read on the devices?
In Our Classroom
At Craigburn we try very hard to build a culture of respect, optimism and resilience among the students,parents and staff. In fact our values of Caring, Self-worth and Respect are proudly displayed on the students jumpers and t-shirts as well as around the school.
Here is a fantastic poster that reflects these values and is one that is displayed in Room 4.
Many thanks to Krissy Venosdale for creating and providing this poster through creative commons.
What values do you have at your school?
We've had 10,000 Visitors!
LED Text Scroller
We are very excited by this milestone and we are going to have a class party to celebrate!
We are sure you will continue to visit our blog to follow the learning in Room 4.
Tic-Tac-Toe Reading
Every now and then we like to play this game. It’s really good for learning our sight words. The game is called Tic Tac Toe and we play it with a magic wand that helps us to remember our words. Sometimes we say the word and then put it into a sentence.
Here are the words to Tic Tac Toe and you can watch the movie to see how it’s done.
Tic Tac Toe around I go where I stop I do not know.
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Week 2 Show And Tell-Let's Chat
Room 4 don’t forget that next week your Show and Tell is to interview a family member about what life was like when they were young. I am sure they have some great stories about their childhood!
Here is a list of possible questions you could ask them:
When and where were you born?
How many brothers and sisters did you have?
What sort of house did you live in when you were a child?
What types of games did you like playing?
Did you like going to school?
What is the best thing you remember about your childhood?
Did you go on many holidays? Where did you usually go?
Arthropods
Our Inquiry Unit this term is about Arthropods. We are investigating the features and functions of Arthropods, the role Arthropods have in a diverse environment and peoples impact on the environment of Arthropods.
Here is what we know so far.
Click on the link below to view our Glogster.
What do you know about Arthropods?