Special Performance-Lorin Nicholson

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

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

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?



Mrs. Nelson Says Hello (mp3)

A message from Ms. Lirenman (mp3)

A visit from Ms. Lirenman”s class (mp3)

A message from Miss Ash (mp3)

New Widget

We have a new widget that has been added to our sidebar. It gives us voicemail. You can record something for us and it goes to Mrs. K’s email where she can listen to it and share it with Room 4.

Please feel free to say something to us about our learning. We look forward to hearing what you have to say!

Many thanks to SpeakPipe for creating this tool.

Three Way Conferences

Craigburn’s Three way conferences are going to be happening over the next few weeks. A sheet with the times I am available went home with your child today. Could you get it back to me with your 3 preferences as soon as possible. Those that return promptly usually get their first choice.

If you lose your sheet please click on the following link and print off another one.

3 way conferences

February 29th

Whoo-hoo it’s February 29th. We get an extra day to learn in our classrooms and with our friends around the world!

As we are part of a huge number of schools around the world who will be blogging today, one of our Quadblogging  buddies suggested that we write 29 great things about our schools. 

So room 4 has thought long and hard about this and here are our top 29 terrific things about Craigburn Primary School.

1. Our school is very clean.

2. We have a lovely oval.

3. There are koalas in our trees.

4. We have lots of computers to share.

5. We have lovely playgrounds.

6. We have pets in our classroom.

7. We love to do rubbish pick up because we get to go on the oval. Sometimes we collect lots!

8. Music is fun and we love to play music.

9. P.E. is fun because we get fit.

10. We have friends.

11. We like learning.

12. Our SRC Reps tell us what is going to happen in our school.

13.We all like the school discos.

14. We have big gum trees and lots of bushes.

15.We’ve got lovely classrooms because we put lovely things in them.

16. When we have Play in our room everyone must co-operate.

17. We have nice buildings and they are big.

18.The things we do are fun.

19. Without  Mr.Wait, Mr. Luke,  Mrs. Gillespie and the teachers this school wouldn’t be as good as it is.

20. In German we get to play games.

21. There are smiling faces where ever you go.

22. Mrs. Kolenberg reads good books.

23. Daily 5 is fun.

24. We have lovely bendaroos.

25.We are lucky to have lots of equipment.

26. Play is fantastic because you get to make,relax, do the home corner, construct and do make believe!

27. Mrs. Kolenberg is cool.

28.We love to read books and Craigburn has lots of them.

29. Craigburn is a great place to learn!

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Daily 5-Word Work

During our word work session today we did activities that would help to consolidate our weekly spelling words. We practised Look, Cover, Write , Check on white boards. Some of us then used Bendaroos to make our words. Other people used foam and magnetic letters to make theirs. It was fun and a great way to learn at the same time!

After word work Mrs. Kolenberg read a story and we even found some of our words in the book!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are photos of us very busy with our words!

    

      

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daily 5- Read To Someone

As part of The Daily 5 today we focussed on Read To Someone. 

When you read to someone you:   

 

-Sit EEKK (elbow to elbow, knee to knee)         

 

-Use a soft voice

-Read the whole time

-Check for understanding

-Get started right away

-Put our books away properly.

We have to choose a partner and to do that we look around and make eye contact with someone. We walk over that person and ask them if they would like to be our partner. We are trying to build up our Stamina so that we can stay focussed on reading with someone for a longer period of time.

Here are some photos showing  you how we read to someone today.