As one way to increase our steps for the Global Children’s Walking Challenge we decided to do Play outside today. We had beautiful Spring weather and we all loved being outside.

We planned a list of activities to choose from before we started. Some of the activities we had were playing on the Playground equipment, chalk drawing, playing elastics, playing 4 square on the courts, playing Passport, soccer, using the dress ups and lots of others.

We had to plan our activity, work out where were going to play, what equipment we would need and who was in our groups.

This free digital collage personalized with Smilebox

When we came back inside we reflected on our activities. We had lots of co-operation, sharing, different ideas and most importantly lots of FUN!
What activities do you like to do in Play?
How often do you do Play?

Will started working on our class blog today. He was really keen to start blogging and he was so excited!
Here Will is creating a Photo Peach presentation about our Garden Buddy activities. He has also made a Smilebox presentation about our Outdoor Play session.
Will really enjoyed his work and shared his ideas with Harry.

On Thursday we went out to garden with our buddy class. Our jobs were to weed the garden and mulch the garden beds.We worked near the front of our school, near the paths.
Garden Buddies on PhotoPeach

Do you garden at your school? What do you think of gardening?

Today we started our Global Walking Challenge. Everyone in our class is wearing a pedometer and we count the steps we make everyday. We are trying to walk our way around the world. Out team’s name is Sporny’s Super Stars!!
Each night we record our steps for the day in our log book. In the morning we log onto the website and enter our steps. The website then works out an average distance for our class and we move around the world.
We are starting in Palm Island – off the coast of Queensland, then move up the Great Barrier Reef and then will board a sea plane to continue our travels.
Everyone was SO excited this morning and we did lots of exercise during the day. We started with Footsteps dance, then worked outdoors with our Garden Buddies Project and then had Play outdoors.

Check out the website for the Global Walking Challenge for Juniors.
We’d love to hear how you are exercising.
What do you think of our Global Challenge?

Last Thursday, at Footsteps, we learnt a dance called The Military Twostep.

It is a dance that is over 100 years old but we danced to modern music. It is a partner dance and the girls moved around the circle so we had lots of different dance partners.

It was lots of fun!

This slideshow design made with Smilebox

What do you think of our moves? Have you ever danced the Military Twostep?

For Science Week we each prepared a simple science experiment to demonstrate to the class. We had lots of FUN and were really excited by our scientific discoveries.

Check out our photos here and the videos on Tumblr – there’s lots to see!

Science Sharing Time on PhotoPeach

What did you do to celebrate Science Week?

On Tuesday night we held Open Night at Craigburn Primary School. This means we open up our classrooms for the families and friends of our school. Our families could visit from 6pm – 7.30pm and tour around the whole school. As a part of our tours we made bangles for our wrists and collected coloured dots from each area of the school. Then families names were entered into a raffle to win a prize.

Here are some of our visitors to our classroom.
Open Night on PhotoPeach

Sarah – On Father’s Day we celebrated at the Belair National Park and had lunch there. After lunch we played games and then we went home.

Emma – In the morning we ate pancakes piled in a stack with ice-cream , maple syrup and strawberries.

Paul – My mum, my sister Joanie and I woke up early and then I told my mum we need to give Dad his Father’s Day presents. We surprised Dad with his presents. For breakfast we had pancakes.

Katie –  On Father’s Day we went bowling and we had 2 games. I won one  game. We took my Dad out for dinner.

Hannah – On Father’s Day we went out for dinner in the afternoon. We went with our friends Nat, Graham, Georgina and Kath. After we had dinner we went to the beach for a long long walk. After the walk we bought an ice-cream each.

Harry- On Father’s Day Dad woke up really late because  he had a sleep in. It was also my brother, Will’s birthday – he turned 5. We gave Dad a Crows t-shirt, a Crows jacket and a barbecue cleaner.

Ella –  On Sunday we made bacon and eggs for Dad. After we went out the front of our house we planted some new plants by the letterbox. Then we went inside and cleaned up . Dad was sitting on the couch watching TV.  We went to see our Poppa and our cousins were there too. We had a barbecue for tea with mashed potato.

Amelia – On Father’s Day I snuck into Dad’s room while he was asleep and we shouted SURPRISE!!! Dad got a big fright and my brother did his present first ( a block of chocolate ) and then I gave mine ( an itunes voucher). Later on we went to school and played on the playground. For breakfast we had eggs and bacon. Then we all watched a movie together.

Thomas – On Father’s Day I woke up early and when Dad woke up we went into his room and shouted Happy Father’s Day. He got a Superman t-shirt, an itunes card and a kit-kat packet and a recipe book. We went to our Grandpas to see our family.

Jayde – On Father’s Day we went camping with Katie’s family. In the morning our family made a fire and we gave Dad his presents. Then we packed up our equipment and then we went home.

Layla – On Father’s Day we had dinner with my Grandpa. At the end we played card games.

Jordan – On Father’s Day we went out for lunch with Dad and had the lunch special. Then we went home and gave Dad his presents – he liked the tattoo I gave him.

Cooper – On Father’s Day my Dad was up really early and I had a sleep in. Then when I got up we gave him our presents. We watched a movie that night called Hercules.

Louis– My Dad works away in Moomba so we celebrated with my mum’s Dad. We had lasagne with garlic bread. At the end my Grandpa had a coffee.

Amy – On Father’s Day mum, Kasey and I woke up early so we went upstairs and gave Dad our presents.

Kasey – On Father’s Day my mum woke Dad up. Then my mum cooked Dad some breakfast and we went upstairs. Dad like the tape measure that I got him. I made him a card at home and he liked that as well.

Mitchell –  On Father’s Day I woke up a bit early and didn’t notice. I went into my Dad’s room and said Happy Fathers’s Day but it was a bit early. We celebrated with our Grandad too. When they first came we made a pavlova and then we had dinner.  I did funny pictures of everyone. Then we did the dishes and we watched some of the footy, then Nanna and Grandad went home.

Matthew – On Father’s Day we didn’t do a lot. Dad downloaded lots of apps for his iPhone and we used them.

Sam – On Father’s Day I woke up and woke Dad up. Mum reminded me that it was Father’s Day so I snuck back downstairs and got his presents. I gave a necklace which had beads and leather on it and a card. I helped him build a wall around the pool for the decking and I helped my Dad mix mortar and cement.

Aiden – On Father’s Day I woke up at 6 o’clock and Dad was dropping Nikita at gym. He came back at 6.30am. Then my Jordan woke up and at 6.45am Dad opened his presents. I got him a necklace with keys on it and Dad said, “These keys are the keys to my fortune.” We went to the park for lunch and we had chips, chicken and fish.

Will – On Father’s Day I woke up at the right time. When Dad woke up and I gave him his  card and Ollie did a big card with a chocolate and Hugh gave him a car picture frame, Daniel also gave him a car model.

On Sunday it is Father’s Day.
All of the children in our class would like to say

to all of our wonderful Dads.

What are you doing to celebrate Father’s Day?
Tell us why you love your Dad so much.
Check our blog on Monday and see what we’ve written about our Fathers’ Day celebrations.

Today we started our dance programme with the Footsteps instructor Erin. Footsteps is a fun way to learn different dances. We started with an individual dance and by the end of the 5 week programme we will learn a partner dance. We learnt how to ask partners to dance in a polite way.

Check out the Tumblr link to see us!!
It was great fun.