This week we celebrate the great SSO’s (School Services Officers) who do a magnificent job at Craigburn Primary School. In particular Room 4 thanks our Bursar Ms. Menere. Handling the finances of a big school like ours must be very difficult and we are very grateful for all her time and effort. Thank you Ms. Menere!

We have begun Resource Based Learning lessons with Mrs. Langham in the Resource Centre. This week we are working out the criteria for a successful excursion for Year 1 students.

Here are some of the ideas we have come up with so far. Our excursion needs to be:

       safe

       a place we may not have been to before

       a place to learn

       fun

       somewhere that doesn’t cost a lot

What do you think of our criteria so far? Here are some photos of us working in the library.

We have found a new way to share our learning with the global community. It’s called Tumblr.

Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog.

We will be able to access media instantly and upload within moments of events happening.

Today Sienna and Hannah filmed us doing Be Active dance and back in the classroom the children gave their thoughts about fitness.

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 After looking at the children’s mind maps again, we typed in their key words about what skills a great working group has. This mind map shows all the fantastic ideas that a group of Year 1’s came up with.

Together we made a wordle. A wordle is a word cloud where the most commonly used words appear larger than the others. The children read their key words and these were typed onto the wordle. In the following photos you can see us looking at the developing wordle on the whiteboard.

We looked at many presentation types for our wordle and this is one that we chose. When you look at it remember the larger words are what we think are important skills to have when working in a group.

What do you think are skills you need to have when you work in a group? Do you agree with the words we came up with? Have you ever made a wordle? Please tell us what you think of our wordle.

Do you know what a mind map is? It’s a way of recording your thoughts. You start with a Central Idea and then link your thoughts about the topic. Your mind map may have lots of links or just a few.

 The children worked on a mind map today. They had to think about what makes a great working group.

There was lots of thinking and writing.

Together the children shared their ideas. I was amazed at what they were able to come up with.

Here are two mind maps. The children shared their thoughts as a whole group.

We are developing an understanding of good group work in preparation for the rest of our Unit of Inquiry, which is planning a trip!! As a small group the children will be investigating the processes involved in organising an excursion. Each group will the present their plans to the whole unit so that we can make a decision on a suitable learning excursion for us all to go on.

STAY TUNED!

Show and Tell this week is about our favourite fiction books. Look at our books and listen to why we love them so much.

 

To listen to some more fabulous comments about our favourite books please visit our new Favourite Books Page.

This week our topic for Show and Tell was… Junior Master Chef.
Here are the things the children had to consider:
Do you like to cook? Talk about something you’ve made in the kitchen. You may like to bring some photos of you cooking or even a mini taste test for our class judges! Make sure you are able to discuss the steps involved in your recipe.
Well, what a fantastic success it was! We have sampled absolutely delicious food ALL week! There was such a variety of tastes and sensations. As judges we gave our thoughts on taste, texture, sweetness, crunchiness, preparation etc. Then we had the very hard task of giving a score. Everyone got a 10 because the creations were all fabulous! Many thanks to the great parents who were chef assistants!

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I was very happy when my tooth came out. The next morning when I woke up I heard a little rattle. I think that was the tooth fairy. She gave me a 2 dollar. I won’t spend it for maybe another week because it’s special to me. It’s my first tooth.

After our Play session today the children completed a writing exercise. They had to give a Recount of the activities they were involved in and who they interacted with. It was important that the children included the correct punctuation (capitals, fullstops, finger spaces). They had to proof read as they went along. Here are some examples of their work.

At the end of our Play session we wrote in our Diaries. We would like to share them with you.

Today Carol from CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research organisation) presented a program called Lab on Legs. We got to be young scientists and through hands on activities the children got to investigate ‘push and pull’. They discovered that these were forces that could be used in many ways. The children investigated magnets, waddling ducks, a balancing bee and moving a car. They were able to make predictions and came to understand that making mistakes was a good thing because it meant you could keep on investigating!

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Children in Room 4, what did you think of our afternoon? What did you learn?
If you are a visitor, have you had Lab on Legs come to your school?