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!
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.
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!
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
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.
It’s that time of year when fun Christmas activities are in full swing. Last night Craigburn Primary School had its Celebration Night. All the school community was invited to watch the classes present many great dance items. It was a little chilly and the rain threatened but it was a fantastic night. The classes did an amazing job. It was a wonderful way to celebrate the end of the year.
We performed with Mrs. Nelson and Miss Harry’s classes. Our item called “Every day is a party” was great fun to sing and perform. The children looked very colourful in their Christmas clothes and tinsel.
They did an amazing job at singing and performing. Please visit TUMBLR to watch the dance.
Well done to all the children!
Attribution to oceanwideimages.com
Today I took the Hopping Mice home and put them in my laundry for the holidays. When it got a little dark in there and I put in some seed grass for them, the mice all came awake and had a lovely time running around the cage. If you have a look at the Tumblr you can watch them being very busy.
Girls, look at you on the disco floor. Are you getting ready for Craigburn’s Disco on December 9th?!
Boys, how cool are you!!