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!

It’s going to be a fabulous year with lots of exciting things happening! We are on holidays until the end of January. Room 4 will have a brand new class of Year One children. 

Please visit our Blog often to catch up on things that are happening. We look forward to reading your comments when we come back to school.

Stay tuned to find out details of our upcoming Quadblogging Project.

At Craigburn we are so lucky to have lots of teachers who have taken up blogging.
Room 4 would like to welcome Mrs. Rayner who is our Music teacher. She has recently started her own blog and it will keep you up to date with all the fantastic things our students do in Music.
Please have a look at her blog and add a comment. 

Click on the music at craigburn picture to take you to her blog.

Have a look at our TUMBLR post for some cute footage of two of our hopping mice.They love crisp vegetables!

At Last…… we can now announce the result of the vote to determine where we will be going for our excursion.

We are going to the Toy Factory at Gumeracha and Melba’s Chocolate Factory!

The excursion has been booked for Wednesday 23rd November.

Please take some time to watch the following  presentations. I am sure you will be very impressed and perhaps you could go to these places as a family!

Adelaide Goal

Untitled from Leanne Kolenberg on Vimeo.

 Monarto Zoo

Monarto Zoo from Leanne Kolenberg on Vimeo.

The Tramway Museum and St. Kilda Playground

Tramway Museum from Leanne Kolenberg on Vimeo.

The Toy Factory and Melba’s Chocolate Factory

As you would be aware, the children in rooms 3 and 4 had to decide on an excursion that would be suitable for us to go on. There were many factors that had to be taken into consideration and lots of research using I-pads was undertaken. They then had to give a presentation putting their points of view across so that we might vote for their excursion. Once they had presented, we then asked the group members questions for clarification. The following photos show you what it looked like when each group was presenting to the unit. If you hover over the photo it will explain what was happening. Please talk to your child about the process. They will be happy to explain!

We were so proud of the presentations that the children prepared and in our next post we will announce the decision and share the presentations with you.