On Tuesday afternoon some of the children in Room 4 were lucky enough to attend an Auskick session run by the Adelaide Crows. The Crows are one of our local AFL football teams. The boys had a fantastic time and got to spend time with some of the players learning lots of great football skills.
Maybe one day the boys could be AFL football players! GO THE CROWS!
Mrs. Kolenberg was reading her tweets one day and a teacher mentioned an ‘author’s chair’ as being a way to encourage children to write during Work On Writing time.
So she bought a VERY special chair that people can sit on only when they have shown that they are an author and have done some fantastic writing.
The chair is almost magical and makes you continue to do really great writing. We can’t wait to be the next ‘author’ to sit on the chair!
Here is a Maths game for you to practise this week. It starts off easy and then gets harder.
Good luck!
Click on the screenshot and it will take you to the website.
To all our Mums we wish you a very happy Mother’s Day. Enjoy being spoilt. You deserve it!
Mrs Kolenberg found these really cute books on the Internet. They are “You Read To Me, I’ll Read To You” books. They are fantastic for Reading To Someone because you share the book and take turns to read the sentences.
There are different sorts of share books. Some are nursery rhymes, some are scary tales and some are fairy stories.
The sentences are colour coded so each person knows what to read and some of the sections you read together.
The stories rhyme which make them fun to read!
Perhaps you might like to read some of these books too?
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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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