We have new buddies to share our learning with! We are very excited to know that we will be looking at other blogs, even though we loved our previous quadblogging buddies.
Two of our buddies are classes in the the United Kingdom and one is in New Zealand.
We look forward to learning about what school is like for the children and telling them all about Craigburn Primary School.
If you click on the screenshots you will be able to visit our new friends.
We had Nat and George talk to us about Rugby. In Rugby you are allowed to tackle but we tagged. We had to tag people around the waist.
We played some fun games. They were: Rugby octopus, Rugby disco, toilet tag and turtle tag. It was very important that we warmed up before we did any games. The Rugby ball is shaped like a football. The male Rugby team are called the Wallabies and the female team are called the Wallaroos.
We had fun with Nat and George.
Rugby Clinic on PhotoPeach
Today was Sports Day at Craigburn Primary School. The four house teams of Riley (after Samantha Riley the swimmer), Bradman (after Sir Donald Bradman the cricketer), Woodforde (after Mark Woodforde the tennis player), and Fraser (after Dawn Fraser the swimmer), were all very excited and keen to do their very best.
We used the NED philosophy all day as we moved to each event.
Mr. Wait talked to us about having fun and good sportsmanship. We had a special guest open the Sports Day.His name is Paul Mildren. He played baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates and The Adelaide Bite.
It was a wonderful day and everyone had a fun time. I was so pleased to see everyone playing by the rules and encouraging their team mates. Congratulations to everyone! Please visit our TUMBLR site to see us doing our Dance session.
Watch the Slideshow to see all the fun things we did.
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| This photo slideshow personalized with Smilebox |
What did you think of Sports Day?
What was your favourite event?
Well,here we are at the end of a very excting term. The children in Room 4 and I would like to wish everyone a lovely Easter. I know they are quite tired and looking forward to a break (as I am!)
We will see you all in Term 2 with many more exciting things to do.
In particular we would like to say a very big THANK YOU to our Quadblogging Buddies. We have had such a fun time visiting you all. It had been hard to believe that you all are on the other side of the world! Your positve comments and frequent visits have made our experience a really lovely one. We hope to keep blogging with you!
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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.