Yearly Archives: 2012

Junior Primary Assembly

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Room 4 had a very important job to do today. We ran the Assembly for the Reception and Year One classes.

We had to work out what we were going to say and then practice our speeches so that we could speak confidently into the tmicrophone.

The childen were fantastic!! They all did a wonderful job. The audience could hear them and everyone spoke so well.

We watched the other classes share their learning and it was fun to sing some great songs.

   

Congratulations to Frank, Kelton and Clara for receiving an assembly award.

Watch Vimeo to see us dancing to ‘Fruity Samba’

Fruity Samba from Leanne Kolenberg on Vimeo.

SRC

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At Craigburn Primary School each class has a process for electing class Student Representative Council members. The children nominated themselves as wanting to be our class reps. They then had to give a presentation and the rest of the class had to listen very carefully to what each child had to say.

After the presentaions the children had to vote.

What a fantastic job the children did! To stand up in front of the class and talk about why we should vote for them is quite difficult!

They should be very proud of themselves and it was very hard to choose our SRC reps.

Look at Smilebox and you will see who Room 4’s new SRC Representatives are.

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Our Inquiry Unit

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Today Rooms 3 and 4  began their Unit Of Inquiry called “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”. The  Central Idea is that our bodies keep us alive and healthy.

We all went to the library and Mrs. Langham spoke with us about our body systems.

Do you know that we have 600 muscles in our body?

We drew a diagram of our body and we are going to label the important body parts.

 

 

   

  

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Good Fit Books

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Today rooms 3 and 4 talked together about picking books that are a good fit. Mrs. K and Miss C brought along some footwear and they talked about them having a specific purpose and that they  needed to fit to be worn successfully.

It’s the same when we read. We need to make sure the books we read are suitable for us and that we know the words and understand what we are reading.

Here is a sign that will help your child to remember to choose the perfect book!

 

Painting

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On the first day of school we coloured in our names with crayon. Today we painted over them with bright paints. While some of us were painting the rest of the class was busy doing their work. Mrs. Kolenberg will laminate our paintings and put them in our room for the rest of the year. Do you like them? Have you got paintings in your room?

    

 

    

 

Spiny Leaf Insects

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Whoo-hoo, we have Spiny Leaf insects in our room. They are all female. They are strange insects who eat gum leaves. When they feel threatened, they sway just like a leaf. They are hoping a predator doesn’t see them!

We can hold them but we must be very gentle with them. We don’t want to hurt them!

        

   

Our Holidays

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Here we are back with a new class for 2012!

Today we talked about the things we did during the holidays and you will see we did many intersesting things!

We used PrimaryWall to pin the activities we did during the Christmas break.

Did you do any of these things? Where did you go? What was your favourite thing to do?

Follow these links to our PrimaryWall to read what we did.

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Room 4 at Craigburn Primary School

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Welcome to everyone visiting our blog. We are a class of new year ones and our teacher is Mrs. Kolenberg. There are 25 children in our class and we only started back at school from our holidays on Monday. Craigburn is a school in the foothills of Adelaide. We have lots of trees and are lucky enough to have many birds and koalas visiting.This term will be 10 weeks long. It’s summer right now and we have had some hot days around 35 degrees. We are going to learn about our body systems and keeping ourselves healthy as well as working together co-operatively.

Please visit our blog often to catch up with our learning.

Mrs. K has put together a video of our school. There are no children in it because no-one was at school when she made it!

Mrs. K's hopes for the year.

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The beginning of a new year is always filled with excitement, anticipation and sometimes even nerves… for the children, their parents and of course, me! I made this Storybird to share my thoughts and hopes for the 2012 school year. I hope you find time to view it, think about it and provide your feedback via a comment. Thank you. I’m looking forward to a great year.

A New Year ahead for the children in Room 4. (Mrs. K’s vision for the class of 2012) by leannekolenberg on Storybird

Quadblogging Buddies

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We have new Quadblogging Buddies for the start of 2012.

Quadblogging involves a four week cycle with four schools anywhere in the world who blog. Each school’s blog is the focus for one week out of four. Each school in the Quad spends some time visiting the blog of the school for that week, leaving comments etc. After that week, another one of the four schools becomes the focus. Engagement and motivation is raised as children become the teachers and not just learners, teaching others about their culture and school life.

We are very fortunate to have 2 schools from England and one from France!

The details of each Blog is on our Quadblogging Page. Please visit their sites to look at their fabulous learning and leave a positive comment.

 

The week beginning January 9th is the start of our Quadblogging.The first school is Roydon Primary School in England. We are still on holidays so Mrs. K will do her best to visit our new friends and put comments onto their blogs.

http://roydon21classes.blogspot.com/

http://woodpeckers.posterous.com/

http://ouryear2class.blogspot.com/

We are very global!