In today’s Music lesson with Mrs Rayner our class learned a new musical item.
We had students using tuned percussion instruments, like bass metallophones, bass xylophones, xylophones and glockenspiels and unpercussion instruments, like claves and guiros.
This lesson was a part of our wonderful Music programme and will be a part of Mrs Rayner’s ORFF Schulwerk teacher training day this weekend.
Last Friday our school had a whole school fundraiser for our World Vision student, John Sebunya. Our SLEG students organised this day, along with our class SRC Reps. Each student was asked to come to school dressed in their pyjamas and make a gold coin donation towards World Vision. We had a great day, with lots of fun activities.
This term our new Reception class started with 13 new students. Our class has become their buddy class and we just LOVE being big buddies for younger students in our school.
Today we met our buddies for the first time. We worked out our groups and read the Receptions some picture books. We also discussed how we would need to help our mini buddies. Here’s a list of some of our ideas:
be kind and caring with our buddies
play games with them in the yard
show them back to their classroom if they’re lost
be positive role models – show them how to behave and use our best manners
be responsible
do classroom activities with them each week.
Here’s some photos from today’s session where we read picture books with our mini buddies.
Mini Buddies on PhotoPeach
Our class LOVES to read everyday! Our Daily 5 reading sessions start every school day for us. We love to share different books, authors or series of books with each other – especially in our book sales. Our book sales are a time we recommend books to each other and why others may like them.
Here is a list of 50 of the best books for children to read. I know many of the children in our class would’ve read some of them – how many have you read?
Have a look at the list on the link below, take the survey and see how well you score. If there’s some books you haven’t read you might like to have a look in our Library to see what they’re like.
Last week our class was very lucky to receive a new enclosure for our stick insects. We have 3 insects left and Ben’s family kindly donated their old fish aquarium for the insects to live in. Martin, Ben’s Dad, added some mesh so the insects get plenty of fresh air and we can all easily see the insects,
A HUGE thank you to Ben’s family for the new home!
Here’s a couple of photos of the insects in their new home.
Today’s Craigburn’s Got Talent was another show stopper. It’s one of our favourite days of the year because we love to watch so many of Craigburn’s students show their magical, singing, musical or dancing skills. Over the last few weeks Mrs Rayner has been running the try outs for any students who wanted to perform. She has been working very closely with some of the Year 6/7 students to watch and judge their performances.
Today’s final showed just how talented Craigburn children really are!
We saw students perform many different acts. Some were playing the violin, break dancing, magical card tricks, playing the piano, playing the piano and singing, playing the drums, dance items, telling jokes, playing the flute, playing the guitar and singing, playing the saxophone, performing the cup song, dancing to a mash up of songs and singing duets.
A huge thank you to Mrs Rayner for running all the trials and organising today’s performances – it’s a huge effort!
James from our class played the drums and we all loved his performance especially.
We’d like to congratulate everyone who tried out for Craigburn’s Got Talent and especially those who made the finals.
Congratulations to Ashlyn and Jack who came first today! Well done – it was a wonderful duet!!
Check out today’s photos and you’ll see just why we love Craigburn’s Got Talent so much.
Craigburn’s Got Talent 2013 on PhotoPeach
What part of Craigburn’s Got Talent did you enjoy the most?
